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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1924
Page
7
Uriel Sexton, 22, armed with a 303 Savage rifle and another weapon, held a posse of county and city peace officers at bay for four hours in Missoula. Police used tear gas from Fort Missoula to end the standoff, after the mother intervened and knocked the gun from his hands. He was taken to the county jail.
Petroleum county formed from eastern Fergus county will be a county in fact February 23, with its officers other than county commissioners and clerk already sworn in under the new county law. The February 22 date marks the 90 day period after the secretary of state filed the resolution declaring a new county.
October 1924 on the Great Northern system in Montana shows the highest October business since 1916 per division superintendent F Wear of Great Falls. Positive general recovery noted across the system with parcel post stations now shipping large freight. Oil traffic on the Butte division and a bumper wheat crop push shipments to new highs.
John Vanden Wall, 28, farm hand on Andrew Erickson ranch southwest of Conrad, was instantly killed when Allen Erickson, 16, accidentally shot him in the fields. The body was brought to Conrad. County Attorney I. M. Huattersly and Coroner W. E. Starr investigated and ruled the death purely accidental with no charges to be filed against Allen Erickson.
Steps move to create a game preserve covering Bull mountain country southeast of Roundup. Deer have been hunted freely for years, decimating numbers. The wild county offers turge and winter storm protection, and officials will consider the proposal soon.
Sheriff Brannin of Sweet Grass county brings Kenneth Brambler on grand larceny charges for taking four head of cattle from John Wiersma of 18 miles southeast of Rapelje Stillwater county. Six more head were found in a corral at Mr Wilson’s farm. In total 36 head are alleged stolen.
Walter Hessman was arrested by the local sheriff near Bonnacord creek close to Bannack and brought to Dillon to answer charges of illicit liquor manufacture. A 10 gallon still and finished product were found in his possession as he claimed Grasshopper creek water and Elkhorn Hot springs polluted the supply.
Sweet Grass County tax payments total 45000 from 800 of 2300 taxpayers by Nov 26. Rancher M S Dexter kills a 325 pound mountain lion at Gold Creek and displays it in Missoula. Marion Morrison, 15, drowns skating on Whitefish Lake Nov 30. body recovered. father a Great Northern traveling engineer. Grand jury indicts Christ Lindsty for murder in July shooting of Elmer Miner. self defense claim noted. Holland district electric line deal to power Amsterdam and Rotterdam proceeds. poles ordered. construction to start. Vander Doebeus elected Montana State College Bobcats captain for 1925. Harry Brenthall as manager. Twenty-one 1924 football squad members awarded M sweaters. N T Ortega convicted narcotics peddler sent to Leavenworth. Masset tied to Mann Act case. Gambie Robinson Fruit expands in Northwest due to Great Northern and Northern Pacific jobbing rates. second new firm addition. Norris Brooks, 10, stoops from 40-foot Yellowstone cliff. recovering in Forsyth Deaconess Hospital. Company M musters out. troops transferred to Harlem and Co K remains strongest infantry unit in state. Poplar voters approve franchise for 24-hour electric service. service improvements denied by current firm. Bert Cason at Ingomar astonished by listening to European broadcasting London program. crowd gathers. station ends Salt Lake City transmission. he faints.
Readers tackle a multi section crossword with horizontal and vertical clues across numbers and letters. The note promises a solution in the next issue and hints at interlocking words, cuss word humor, and a range of definitions from musical instruments to geological terms.
Instructions explain filling white spaces with dictionary words, using numbers to mark starting letters for horizontal and vertical clues. Black squares separate words. no letters go in black spaces. Abbreviations initials and obsolete forms are noted in definitions for a compact puzzle guide.
Don W. Rei presents a fantastical creature named the Red-Eyed Camelette a lanky metal beast with a shiny kettle nose a burnished hump and silver-buckle tail. It makes rattling sounds runs on raw gasoline and delights in rainy weather while performing clever capers.
Engineer E. F. Kitt, returning to Missoula from a location survey in Glacier Park, says building a 20 mile highway from Lake McDonald to Lake St Marys would cost between 800000 and 1000000 dollars. The route would enter the core of the Rocky Mountains and provide park access.
The annual census of religious preference among University of Minnesota students shows Lutherans as the most numerous, with Methodists second, followed by Catholics Presbyterians Congregationalists Episcopalians Jews and Baptists. After Baptists, Christian Scientists, Christian Church members, Unitarians, and Universalists are listed in order. 176 men and 46 women expressed no preference. In all groups except Christian Scientists, men outnumbered women.
The hairy stapelia is hailed as one of the most amazing tropical plants. Its bloom resembles an artificial star with yellow and purple petals and a gold center. When fully open it releases a fetid odor to attract scavenging insects, though the insect larvae often perish before feasting.
In 1769 Ebenezer Zane settled at a bluff above the Ohio River and later helped establish Port Fincastle, renamed Fort Henry in 1777. The fort withstood frontier attacks including the 1782 siege aided by British rangers, becoming a symbol of pioneer expansion and the precursor to Wheeling, West Virginia.
A historical account tracing how Fort Pitt grew from Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt to become the key outpost guarding the Ohio valley. It details Washington’s strategic vision, Braddock’s failure, Forbes and Stanwix’s actions, Pontiac’s War, Boquet’s victory at Bushy Run, and Pittsburgh’s emergence as a frontier hub.
Mrs. Rose Goersdorf of 27 Furman Avenue credits Resinol for curing her baby's severe eczema. She says doctors diagnosed eczema, sleep was impossible, and after using Resinol Ointment the child now sleeps through the night. All druggists carry Resinol Soap and Ointment.
Historical account notes the last Assyrian monarch Sardana palus dressed and painted like his women. A visiting general discovered him applying cosmetics and stabbed him, ending his reign due to his vanity.
A fifty eight year household remedy, Boschee's Syrup, claims to heal throat and lung irritation from coughing. It is advertised as easing bronchitis and lung troubles, aiding rest and easy morning expectoration, available wherever medicines are sold.
The governor of French Indo China gave Premier Herriot a pet elephant. The eleven year old animal weighed 2644 pounds and ate 400 bunches of bananas on the journey home, costing the premier the fruit. He sent the elephant to the Lyons zoo in frustration.
A brief remark turns on its head the idea that praise can hide harm as a sharp line exposes how flattery may shade truth and invite misinterpretation. The edgy one sentence sharpens wit while warning against misused compliments.
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