Local Montana notes on farms mines and school life
A weekly Montana correspondence reports fence building by Waldherr and timber work for Joe Harper, miners tapping Providence lode, Carl Sarchett’s Yellow Jacket visit, W. A Clark’s spring plans, and a January 1991 dance at Burgess. It covers weather, cattle, new students, a women’s suffrage debate won by the ladies, and local officials’ movements.
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Eugene Fox
New York
James Raser
Monumental
Salt Lake Company
John Wells
Carl Sarchett
Dr. Sarchett
Butte
Yellow Jacket
Carl
W. A Clark
Burgess
Wm. Collins
Johnny Knock
Bill
A Mourful Trophy General Miles on Rain-in-the-Face Relic
General Miles discusses owning Rain-in-the-Face surrenders rifle once used by the Sioux chief after the Little Bighorn massacre. He prizes the weapon for its historic associations rather than value. Also mentions Chinook Montana Sioux raids and European cold spell reports with medicinal advertisements about Ballard remedies.
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General Miles
Custer
Chicago News
United States
Rain-in- the-Face
Big Horn
Rain-in-the- Face
Rain-in the
Cooper
Parnell Defends Home Rule Amid Limerick Rally
Parnell addressed about 20000 in Limerick last Sunday blasting Gladstone for bad faith over the land issue and a secret plot to undermine him. He accused Liberal leaders of abandoning peasant proprietorship and rent reductions, signaling potential retirement if negotiations fail.
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Gladstone
Parnell
McCarthy
Hisses
Liberal Party
O’brien
Gladstone Exultant Over Irish Party Vindication
Gladstone declares the Irish parliamentary party vindicated by ending Parnell’s leadership and uniting Britain and Ireland against coercive laws. He urges constituents to show Ireland may trust Britain to correct harsh governance and unjust statutes. Spokane Falls dispatch recounts a dramatic cattle thieves raid ending in Miles’s death, Mathews wounded and at large, with Sheriff Pugh leading the capture effort. Syrup of Figs ad promotes a gentle laxative and diuretic.
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Parnell
Gladstone
Furness
Hartlepool
Thomas Richardson
Ireland
Great Britain
Spokane Falls
Wash
Pugh
Miles
John Miles
John Mathews
Mathews
T. C. Griffith
Avenge Parnell said to plan assassination club
A Sheffield Telegraph report claims the secret service warned that if Parnell loses leadership the extremists will form an assassination club to strike down his enemies including Gladstone and Tim Healy. Parnell reportedly clings to the role to avert violence. O Brien also seeks amicable settlement based on this.
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Sheffield
Telegraph
Secret Service
Parnell
Gladstone
Tim Healy
O’brien
Indians Surrender Arms and Camp Relocated Near Agency
At Princeipox January 14, a second delegation of chiefs met General Miles and agreed hostiles would abandon their camp west of White Clay creek and surrender arms to chiefs to be turned over to Agent Pierce. Miles grants days to honor promises while orders go out to guard settlers and seal contracts. Local reports warn of rising danger as troops move in and killings occur. a Pine Ridge dispatch notes peace talks and a council with Bannack and Shoshone leaders ending in a pledge to pursue farming and avoid disturbance.
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Princeipox
Miles
White Clay Creek
Pierce
Coulee City
Spokane Falls
Laughlin
Buffalo Bill
England
Pine Ridge
Poccatella
Fort Hall
United States Army
United States
Fred W. Wheeler
Fourth United Cavalry
Boise Barracks
Noyes
Curtis
Idaho Militia
Wheeler
Bowman
Axtell
Ross Fork
Survivor of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry Laid to Rest
A surviving member recalls Blakamith Gustav Korn of Troop I, Seventh Cavalry, killed at the Porcupine fight. Korn rode a cribber horse, dismounted to rebranch, then urged forward into Reno’s column and a deadly Indian village. He died bravely, known as Yankee Korn, a German and dead game.
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Wasumoron
Seventh Cavalry
Porcupine
Blakamith Gustave Korn
Seventh Regiment
Little Big Horn
Curley
Custer
Reno
Bereten
Korn
Keogh
Gus
Mrshowe
Yankee Korn
Looking for the Messiah Apache chief visits Rawlins on tour
A tone chief from Indian Territory named A-pe-a-tone travels through Rawlins to study the Messiah craze but says he does not believe. He waits for Sioux Shoshone and Arapahoe delegates who will travel to Fort Hall to meet Bannacks. He criticizes Sitting Bull and urges ending ghost dancer trouble.
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Indian Territory
Rawlins
Arapahoe
Idaho Herald
Twenty Years Coughing Cured by Bosanko Syrup
Mrs. M Pilcher of Springfield Illinois credits Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup with curing twenty years of coughing after trying many physicians and medicines. She reports using about 1200 worth of the remedy and recommends it for chronic coughs and colds. Sold at 50 cents by N A Stiles and promoted by her Indianapolis druggist E R Sayler.
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Bosanko
N. A. Stiles
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the Tribune
Corpu
Montana
Mr. Waldherr
George Romain
First National Bank of Dillon
Charlie Herman
Frances Bros
Joe Harper
Ed, Brown
Fred Myers
Providence Lode
Mamie Liprell
J. A. Riley
C. W. Birchard
Dillon
the Bridges
John Owsley
Waterloo
Mary Williams
T. U. Dewy
Fort Lemhi
Idaho
Nate Rosenbaum
Kohn Broa
Thomas Pyeatt
Lembi
Tom
John H. Clark
Junction
John Snooks
Gomer Phillips
17 Mile House
Copper Queen Canyon
Horse Prairie
Miss Spooney
Chinook
Helena Journal
Mont
Snake Creek
Lonpoy
Hamburg
Cologne
Berlin
Vienna
Europe
Ballard
N. M. Warr
Paris
John Dillon
One
Pneumon
N. M. Wurre
Charles Stuart Parnell
Gladstone Exultant
Father Craft
The
Freeman's Journal
Father Crafts
Wounded Knee
Calishen
Pocatella
Tahee
Elk
Mia Death
Porcupine Creek
Messiah
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