Senate Committee Deliberates Montana Senate Fight
Washington February 15 The senate privileges and elections committee held a full session examining Republican claimants W F Sanders T C Power and Democratic claimants W A Clark and Martin Maginnis The case traced Montana election certificates and the authority of state officers with Col Payne for the Republicans and ex Solicitor General Jenks for the Democrats The panel adjourned to March 1 for further hearings
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Washington
Committee of Privileges and Elections
Montana
W. F. Sanders
T. C. Power
W. A. Clark
Martin Maginnis
A. J. Seligman
Republican State Committee
Carter
Charles Power
Col
Halbert E. Payne
Jenks
Payne
Col. Payne
Senate
Silver Bow County
Sanders
Power
Maginnis and Clark
State Board
United States
Silver Bow
United States Senate
Maginnis and
Clark
Hoar
Teller
Ile
Montana Supreme Court rules state salaries are fixed by constitution
Helena reports that the Montana Supreme Court in Rotwit v Hickman declares salaries for state officers are constituted by law when the constitution fixes the amount. The decision emphasizes that the officer shall receive the specified pay and that this constitutes an appropriation by law, enabling payment from the treasury.
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Helena
Montana
Supreme Court
Rotwit
Hickman
Helena Journal
Secretary of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Treasury
Thompson
Owens
Maryland
Blake
Union
Tragic Mine Accidents in Aspen and Homestake
Early yesterday morning in Aspen two brothers Martin and Hugh Brainard died when a scaffold collapsed in the Mollie Gibson mine sending them 150 feet to the shaft bottom. Around the same time at the Homestake mine James Lyons was killed by a rock fall that struck him from over 400 feet.
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Aspen
Colo
Martin
Hugh Brainard
Mollie Gibson
Homestake
James Lyons
Montana News in Brief from Local Papers
The Livingston Enterprise is discontinued per an exchange. Glasgow seeks a first class tailor and a good blacksmith per the Herald. The Missoula Publishing company launches an evening daily. Helena Scandinavians begin a $5,000 church, cornerstone laid Sunday. Marcus Daly et al granted a franchise to build and operate an electric railway in Anaconda. Helena journalists form a permanent mutual improvement organization. U S Marshal Irvin asks Gov Toole to relieve him of Deer Lodge prisoners by March 1 as his term ends and no successor is appointed. Pony branch of the N P railroad reaches Harrison Post Office with trains twice weekly. depot and stockyards planned at Willow Creek. Missoula lots sold as escheat, once owned by Thos H Pomeroy and Peter Hanton, deceased. $15,500 realized, heirs to claim funds if proven.
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Livingston
Glasgow
Dawson County
Herald
Missoula
Gazette
Helena
U.S
Irvin
Toole
Deer Lodge
N. P
Harrison P. O
Willow Creek
Thos. H. Pomeroy
Peter Hanton
Wyoming Fair Association Plans Annual Meeting in September
The Wyom ing Fair Association schedules its next annual meeting for September 16 17 18 and 19 1890. Other items note Spain may become a republic, a U S district court session opening in Helena in April, a Great Falls to Billings stage robbery, and widespread frontier news from Sioux Reservation land openings to wolf attacks on cattle and starving Indians in North Dakota and Montana.
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Wyoming Fair Association
Spain
United States District Court
Helena
Great Falls
Billings
Mont
South Dakota
Pierre
Devil’s Lake
North Dakota
Northern Pacific to survey Madison county branch line
Madison county residents urged Northern Pacific to study a Madison county branch. Henry Elling delivered a signed petition in New York and secured approval for immediate cost surveys and route investigation. The plan would connect with the Butte and Gallatin line, lowering freight costs and cutting transit times if built.
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Butte and Gallatin
Madison County
Burglary ends with two wounded suspects in Crestling
Farmer John Frengel faced two armed intruders at his Crestling Ohio home after they claimed to deliver a telegram. He fired at the assailants wounding one. the next morning one burglar lay dead in the yard and the other was found wounded in the woods. Both men were strangers.
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Crestling
Ohio
John Frengel
Frengel
Frengal
Booming Dom Pedro and Brazil Monarchy Talk
A Paris cable reports Dom Pedro’s supporters move to place the ex-emperor as Brazil’s president or restore monarchy. Dom Pedro consents in principle, desiring to die among his people. exiles’ views vary as conservatives accept irreversible republic, while some urge restraint on radical monarchist backers. Empire post office in Lewis and Clarke county has been discontinued.
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New York
Paris
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Senor Sares de Souza
Senate
Senor de Sariva
Defonsca
Senor Saliva
Empire
Lewis and Clarke County
A Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life
A dying woman with consumption found hope in a scrap of writing about Dr King s New Discovery. After sampling and purchasing the remedy she recovered from under 70 pounds to 140, growing strong and healthy. Send a stamp to W H Cole for trial bottles at N M White s Drug Store.
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Dr. King
Fuller
W. H. Cole
Fort Smith
N. M. White
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Hastings, Minn
Louis Sommers
Marie Dietzen
San Francisco
Tudge Wallace
Sugar Trust
Caicaco
Cronin
Jacksonville
Fla
Louise
Mayport
Hunter's Mill
St. John’s River
Newark
N. J
Monsigneur
Dyane
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Dallas
Texas
Guicaco
Carrie M. Sawyer
Frank Burke
Kittie
Rainger
Mrs. Sawyer
Burke
Sawyer
Nebraska
Marcus Daly
Thomas James
Brainah
Congress
Carlisle
Secretary of the Interior
Northwestern Live Stock Journal
Northwestern Cattle Company
Horse Creek
Northern Pacific
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