Eruption on Ambrim Island Destroys Village Killing Hundreds
Terrifying volcanic activity on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides group wipes out a village killing about 500 natives. Craters erupt simultaneously, lava torrents cut off escape, and flames reach a thousand feet while the sea boils and a bay fills with dead turtles. British hospital buildings are leveled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
New South Wales
Ambrim
Rate cases in tangle after Missouri Pacific suit
Kansas City reports a suit for 2 million dollars against the Missouri Pacific railroad by Attorney General John T. Barker overcharges during the 2 cent fare and maximum freight rate era. Judge McPherson in federal court delayed the earlier rate cut until January 10, leaving the cases in a more complex legal tangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kasas City
Jefferson City
Missouri Pacific Railroad
John T. Barker
McPherson
Missouri
Various Western Doings Highlight Mining, Law and Industry
Nevada mine closes temporarily for a larger furnace upgrade while 29 beef cattle shipments depart Reno. Oil reportedly found near Buckskin Nevada. Eugene jury convicts ex town recorder Leaton of embezzling 3080 dollars. Colorado miner Copeland dies in Victor shaft fall. Grant divorce case moves forward in Goldfield. Grand Junction Fruitgrowers ship cranberries to Vernal. A $10000 damage suit over a bedbug bite is filed in Montana against the St Paul railroad. Geddes shoots two aboard a Humboldt voyage crew. Seattle hotel incident hints at insanity. Escaped convict Marlowe captured in Sacramento. Union Pacific Los Angeles Limited collides near Black Buttes. two men killed. Copperfield Ore residents seek state relief over city law and order. Lovelock collision inquiry clears SP and workers. Reno water project to curb river pollution advances after long dispute. Minidoka project 1913 progress shows 91 percent completion. Oregon sorority helps needy children with Christmas gift program. Unidentified man killed in shooting on Muckelshoet Reservation. Wallace post office robbed of about 17000 with no clues. Wyoming Gannett Peak highest. Grand Teton second. Fremont Peak nearby. Capitol marble bids under review by Utah interests.
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Imlay
Nevada
Reno
Nev
Smith Valley
Buckskin
Eugene
Ore
William J. Leaton
East Side
Leaton
W. F. Copeland
Denver
Colo
Northwest
Joe Dandy
Victor
Elizabeth Chapman Grant
Goldfield
Jesse Root Grant
Grand Junction
Colorado
Fruitgrowers’ Association
Vernal
Utah
Montana
St. Paul
Samuel Cohn
Milwaukee
N. W. Geddes
Davenport
Australia
John Blaine
Humboldt
John R
Thomas Moore
Batvins
Wyo
F. C. Kress
Omaha
Copperfield
Baker County
Governor West
Southern Pacific Company
Lovelock
Southern Pacific
P. E B. Shade
Shade
Reno Water Company
Truckee
Floriston Paper
Minidoka
Idaho
Reclamation Service
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
University of Oregon
Muckelshoet Indian Reservation
Seattle
Wallace
Wyoming
Gannett Peak
United States Geological Survey
Grand Teton
Fremont Peak
Beaverhead County Year in Review Highlights Local Achievements
A Dillon yearbook style compilation lists major events from Beaverhead County. It notes unsafe Big Hole bridge concerns, company formations totaling 18.5 million dollars, record wool and cattle sales, school gym bids, fire losses, thefts, flood storms, prize wins at the state fair, and notable accidents and rescues across 1915 activity.
Births and Deaths List Showing Local Families
Birth announcements from January to December list numerous names and locations such as Medicine Lodge Lima Lakeview and Wisdom. The section also records deaths with ages, including Beaverhead county pioneers and residents of Dillon and nearby towns.
Alias Summons in Beaverhead County Court
Orton Bros plaintiff sues Georgia Ross in Montana Beaverhead District Court for unpaid balance of 138 dollars 50 cents on a February 10 1910 goods contract. Defendants must answer within twenty days of service or default judgment will be entered. Clerk C W Conger dated December 2 1913. Pease and Stephenson attorneys for plaintiff.
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Fifth Judicial District
State of
Montana
Beaverhead
Orton Bros
Plaintiti Ve
Georgia Ross
Portsmouth Dockyard Fire Destroys Semaphore Tower
A large fire in Portsmouth England Saturday night caused extensive damage estimated between 1.25 million and 2.5 million dollars. Two people died and the century-old semaphore tower, once the signaling hub between fleet and admiralty, was destroyed.
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Portsmouth
England
Fleet
Admiralty
Death of Major Amos B. Shattuck at Camp Gregg
Major Amos B. Shattuck of the Fifteenth Infantry died Saturday at Camp Gregg in Bayambang. Officials think his death resulted indirectly from a fall from his horse. Shattuck was born in New Hampshire and graduated from West Point in 1881.
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Manila
Amos B. Shattuck
Fifteenth Infantry
Camp Gregg
Bayambang
Shattuck
New Hampshire
Military Academy
West Point
Mrs Wilder Dies in Local Hospital At 35
The death of Mrs. Marshall P. Wilder wife of the author and entertainer occurred in the local hospital on Saturday announced Sunday She collaborated with her husband on many of his writings She was 35 years old.
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New York
Marshall P. Wilder
Snow Baby to Enter Society in January Reception
Washington Miss Marie Peary daughter of the discoverer of the North Pole and Mrs Peary will make her society bow at a reception on January 2.
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Washington
Marie Peary
North Pole
Peary
Marriages In Montana Towns Details
Marriages listed include Chris Christensen to Ellen Peterson of Wisdom in Missoula. Davis of Great Falls with Ethel Thomas of Lima wed in Lima. Carltonton Innes and Margaret McLean married in Butte.
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Chris Christensen
Ellen Peterson
Wisdom
Missoula
Mr. Davis
Great Galls
Ethel Thomas
Lima
Carltonton Innes
Margaret McLean
Butte
Dr Hobson's Ointment Heals Itchy Eczema
An 1880s reader from Mendota NL touts Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment for relief from eczema and skin eruptions after wars and many doctors, claiming a box cured long standing symptoms. The Pfeiffer Chemical Co markets the product at 50 cents via druggists or mail order.
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Hobson
Geo. W. Fitch
Mendota
Notice on Sollie’s claimed partnership with Roode
Carl M Roode advices that O B Sollie who was arrested for grand larceny in Gallatin county and once listed as Roode and Sollie in Dillon is not and has never been his partner or business associate, clarifying the architect connection for the new high school.
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O. B. Sollie
Gallatin County
Dillon
Roode and Sollie
Carl M. Roode
Carl. M. Roode
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Island of
Utah Marble & Construction Company
Manufacturers’ Association of Utah
Capitol Commission
Capitol
Salt Lake
Mon City
Frank B. Birrer
Big Hole
Boston & Montana Development Company
Butte, Wisdom & Pacific Railroad Company
Big Hole Basin
Beaverhead High School
W. G. Reed
In & Joie
C. M. Roode
Butte Butcher’s Union
Olmsted-Stevenson
Dart Hardware
Martin Sorenson
Eph Stoller
Leslie Dodds
Self
Hughes & McCaleb
Gilmore & Pittsburg
Sheriff Erwin
Frank Knotts
Culver Lake
Lakeview
Tower Residence
Carter Edinger
A. F. Waldorf
D Dillon
Beaverhead County
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Dillon Masons
Charles Maringlo
Guy Pearson
Dell
Elizabeth Curry
Spokane
J. W. Ws
Normal College
Dawson
Y. T
August Carlson
George R. Metlen
Harry Hungate
Melrose
A. Pierce
Manuel Liciaza
Livingston
Apex
Will Chapman
Deer Lodge
Board of Inquiry
Monida
George Gleed
Beaverhead ‘County
Sherif Kitthorn
Medicine Lodge
International Dry Farmer's Congress
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Harry T. Poindexter
Justice Court
Fred Rife
A. L. Anderson
Jack Kelly
Dana Tritt
W. Armstrong
Weldon Else
Gibbons
Carl Hansen
Ben Miller
Bob Tebbles
A. S. Johnson
George Shelley
Paul Stahl
Harry Martin
Forest Bayerd
Twin Bridges
Stefanich
L. Dixon Brown
Ray Eliot
Harvey
George Izatt
Hugh Bates
Armstead
Joy Foster
Loomont
Vananthorp
Fritz Wenge
Norman E. Holden
Robert Kemp
Fred Chapman
Gus Herzog
Hole Basin
Guy Gray
Mill Point
John Nelson
Herb Wheat
Thomas Hawkins
Richard Nolan
Adolf Reichle
Cecil Wetmore
John W. Neil
Guy Stratton
Danny Tovey
Bristow
Carl B. Taylor
Polson
Oscar McVay
Hiram Brundage
Hans Christiansen
Nicholas Birrer
Otis Lee Hand
Red Rock
Raymond A. Richardson
Charles Lupens
Warren A. Flager
Patrick H. Mayer
Henry Floyd Downing
Gilbert V. Anderson
Richard Schwab
John R. Bidstrup
Wm. J. Pendergast
Jean H. Younken
Reeze Armitage
Roscoe Kimbell
Charles W. Eismann
Donald Wilson
Neil V. Tracey
Bannack
Frank Bryan
Lew Pelot
Ida Sanders
Victor Grace
Evelyn Parkinson
Carl F.jones
Nelliz Stevenson
Otto Christenson
Brynhild Laurentzen
Joe Merribella
Santa Corianna
John Willameir
Sallie Irwin
W.R. Stone
Bertha Clark
McPherson Pyeatt
Martha Sprinkle
Levert. G. Price
Della Wilson
Charles Brothers
Annie Martinell
Warren Lowery
Edith Remley
M. Murdock
Helen Olsen
Thomas Orr
Myrtle E. Ellis
William Leonard Widdowson
Catherine Purcell
Ernest Brewer
McKiddon
W. G. Gutherie
Adelaide Heller
Hecla
Hans Peterson
Selma Nelson
Christopher Peterson
Annie Hansen
E. F.C. Green
Maude R. Joy
Carl Sauerbier
Eva Trennery
Oscar Kimball
Cora Firth
Hilary D. Tate
Sylvia Smith
C. E. Franks
Hazel Gleed
Frank A. Edwards
Gene B. Honsa
Chicago
Albin N. Larson
Anna Devine
Ronan
Mont
John Beadle
Hazel Dell
John Anthony Nolan
Hortense Marie Paul
Earl Smith
Lora DeLong
Wilbur Gilbert
Flora Haire
Frank Johnson
Bessie Williams
Edward Welsar
Martha Broughton
Carl Webster
Francis Jones
Centennial Valley
Frank Delbert Willis
Catherine Paxton
G. C. Bullard
Hattie Musgrove
Lama
James W. Lockes
Elizabeth C. Thurston
Troy MelKinney
Etta Allen Bradley
Connor
Cochran
Nettie Mc Ninch
A. S. Widdowson
E. A. Thompson
Jesse Ditty
Alma Ogren
Earl C. Simmon
Edna Ambre
Chas
W. Lyman
Kathryn Poindexter
Jos. F. Ryan
San Francisco
Bernice Ryan
Howard II. Smith
Bertha F. Laskie
Will Noble
Gilmore
Maggie Neville
Moses Smyth
Carrie Telin
Chas. V. Ranson
Leadore
Mabel Bohannon
Jengs Christensen
Elizabeth Wan- Sct
KE. Barry
Mary Elizabeth Barry
Malone
Gee
F. Rankin
Rhoda McGrew
Chas. Hussey
Aberdeen
Nora Nelson
Sterling
Jas
McGlinch
Evelyn Marshall
Griffiths Alexander Williams
Charlotte Adelnia Wold
Wis
C. SS. Patrick
Lulu Dahle
Hugh M. Fleming
Orca M. Bonney
Harry Sanderz
Eva Yount
Fred Haneen
Fern DD
Hoffman
Ellsworth
Wisconsin
Richard Stanley
Ellen Young
Frank Chandler
Shelley
Mark Amendsen
A. F. Jones
Long Creek
Daw. Randolph
Chas. S. Ballenger
Mariette West
Lorenza Mae Hopkins
John Wendel
Frederick Finsley
Robert Bain
Don Hailey
Jennie Metlen
Los Angeles
Calif
Doyle Montgomery
Nare Lakeview
H. G. Sheriff
Charles Hirschman
Samuel Bell
Jackson
Hariet A. Crow
Genevieve Forsgren
Thomas Worthington
Joseph Rich
Sawtelle
California
S. J. Short
W. S. Barbour
Boise
Emily R. Brown
Pasadena
Bernard Grant
Pocatello
Winfield S. Pearson
William Burdick
Fred Dickie
Big Hole B&sin
Tom Haw
John Evans
Josiah Brownlee
Samuel J. Freeman
L. Munser
William Henry Truesdale
W. S. Bayerd
James Kelly
Babetta Moohr
George Todd
Dewey
Duellen
Minnie Smith
William Roe
Nancy Hack
George E. Howard
Lena Lovell
Rhoda J. Brown
Wm. Thos, Myers
Thos. McIntyre
George R. Wilson
Stephen Guy Pearson
Yuan Quong
Charlie Kim
Lucile E. Johnson
Martha J. Arnold
John Hernandez
Joe Gauthier
Harriet A. Anderson
Charles Warren
Cora M. McCaffery
Jake Swingman
Byron Cunnard
C. W. Conger
Pease & Stephenson
Philippines
Duchess OF Marlborough
Sunderianc
London
Dr. Hobson
Tribune Office
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