Explanations of New 640 Acre Law For Grazing Entry
The Interior Department outlines a 640 acre grazing homestead act allowing qualified entrymen to claim land suited to stock raising in designated areas mainly in the Rocky Mountains and West. Applicants must reside three years, invest at least $1.25 per acre in improvements, and entry rules bar multiple homesteads. Awaited Ferris Bill restoration efforts and district suspensions noted.
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Interior Department
Rocky Mountain States
House
United States Senate
Congress
Eighth Grade Graduation Draws Large Crowd
A full Public School auditorium witnessed the eighth grade graduation with fifteen diplomas awarded. Notable students include Margaret Ryburn Marie Swartz Vanita Kohl La Vaughn Lyons Marie Boger Catherine Guidici Opal Scott Montana Murray Dagmar Nelson Augusta Teers May Hoerning Maynard Lovell Wilford Tessier Ralph Patrick and Carl Kupfer. Rev H G Humphrey spoke and the junior band performed as Dr Finch presented certificates and summarized the Training school work. Most graduates plan to enter the high school next Monday with two students having started school in 1908 and twenty leaving town since then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Ryburn
Marie * Swartz
Vanita Kohl
la Vaughn Lyons
Marie Boger
Catherine Guidici
Opal Scott
Montana Murray
Dagmar Nelson
Augusta Teers
May Hoerning
Maynard Lovell
Wilford Tessier
Ralph Patrick
Carl Kupfer
H. G. Humphrey
Martha Stone
Bernice Wilson
Montana Senate tackles oil and gas bills
Montana now a gas and oil producer with three senate bills by Senator Oliver of Fallon county. Legislation covers labor and material liens for leases, regulate easing of wells, and release of oil and gas leases as Elk Basin in Carbor county shows large deposits. Gas found near Baker Glendive and Havre supports new industry growth.
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Helena
Montana
Senate
Elk Basin
Carbor County
Montana- Wyoming
Baker
Glendive
Havre
Oliver
Fallon County
Dillon engineers publish first comprehensive Montana map
The Daily Missoulian praises the George Engineering company of Dillon for releasing Montana’s first real map. It highlights the colored, mounted map showing forest reserves, railroads, Indian reservations, land districts, and township range surveys, noting its value for schools libraries and offices and urging a popular home edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Engineering Company
Missoulian
Montana
Dillon
Dillon”engineers
Baxter-Tonrey Orchestra Plays At Sheridan Show
The Baxter Tonrey orchestra traveled to Sheridan Wednesday to provide music for a home talent play in the evening. A well staged dance followed the performance and received favorable reports.
Good Roads Bill Seeks Low Prisoner Transport Rate
Helena Jan 23 Special Senator H Williams of Powell proposed a bill directing the state railroad commission to set a one cent per mile rate for transporting prisoners to road work sites. The measure passed the senate and awaits house action with Republican support and railroad cooperation. Prisoner road work has aided counties in Deer Lodge Park Powell Beaverhead Sanders and others, improving health and employment. Williams a noted good roads booster.
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Helena
Montana
H. Williams
Powell County
State Railroad Commission
Senate
House
Deer Lodge
Park
Powell
Beaverhead
Sanders
Missoula
Flathead
Lewis and Clark
Williams
Montana Geography Supplement Planned by Normal College
Dr G E Finch of the Normal College has contracted with an eastern publisher to prepare a Montana geography supplement for use in the state for several years. Drawings for maps and cuts will be produced by George Engineering Co of this city.
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G. E. Finch
the Normal College
Eastern
Montana
The
George Engineering Co
Tragic Bannack Fire Kills Two Children
A Bannack fire claimed the lives of two young siblings Clifford and Jessie Coziah ages 2 and 4 after a cottage fire started while their mother was visiting a neighbor. John Thompson first spotted the blaze and the children were found dead despite rescue efforts. The couple had lived in Bannack about 18 months while the father worked in the mines. The funeral occurred the following day and the mother collapsed from shock.
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Joe Coziah
John Thompson
Clifford
Jessie
Bannack
Coziah
Eclipse Argo mine sold to Furnace Creek Copper firm
The Eclipse Argo mine changed hands in Helena on Friday with a $300,000 sale to the Furnace Creek Oxide Copper company and Eugene B Milburn of Butte.
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Helena
Eclipse-Argo
Furnace Creek Oxide Copper Company
Eugene B. Milburn
Butte
State Commission Visits Dillon For Water Rate Inquiry
The state public utilities commission examined Dillon’s water system on Monday, ordering adoption of the commission prescribed bookkeeping and sending an auditor to the city. Present were Commissioner J E McCormick and three others as the inquiry targets standard rates in cities with similar conditions. The visit followed a failure to file complete financial statements and meter charges with the commission.
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State Public Utilities Commission
J. E. McCormick
Dan Boyle
W. B. Rhodes
W. B. Saunders
A. B. Winters
Ex Sheriff Erwin Recaptures Two Escaped Convicts
Former Sheriff D W Erwin tracked and captured convicts Jon Ryan and Frank Kruger after their December escape from a Dewey road camp. Ryan led a street chase before Erwin nabbed him outside a post office. Kruger was found at a Pocatello YMCA and jailed. Kruger, held on burglary charges, had only two months left to serve.
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D. W. Erwin
Erwin
Jon
Ryan
Frank Kruger
Dewey
State Penitentiary
Conley
Butte
Pocatello
Kruger
Havre
Court power to suspend sentence urged by Scott
Washington reports that Rep. John R K Scott proposes giving US judges authority to suspend sentences when warranted by case facts after the Supreme Court ruling that judges lack such power. He argues the bill would advance substantial justice and spare hardship to many deserving men. The note also mentions discontent with War Department Adjutant General's office funding in the legislative appropriations bill.
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Washington
Supreme Court
John R. K. Scott
Pensylvania
United States
Scott
Adjutant General's Office
War Department
Senator Kinney Seeks Broadening of Reserve Agent Rules
Helena January 23 Senator J C Kinney introduces a bill to amend Montana banking act enabling any solvent bank of good repute operating in Montana or other states to be designated by the superintendent of banks as a reserve agent for Montana state banks. Current law restricts to first and second class cities, locking out many solid Montana banks.
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Helena
J. C. Kinney
Wibaux County
Senate
Montana
United States
He Outsmarts Hold Up Men at Centennial Saloon
Al Moorehead faced two strong arm robbers behind the Centennial saloon. They demanded his money and patted his pockets but his hands stayed raised with $15 as they searched him. The assailants fled, Moorehead reported to police, and George Kelly and Jake West were later jailed. They face a hearing tomorrow. A son was born Thursday to Mr and Mrs W H Jonas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Moorehead
Moorehead
George Kelly
Jake West
City Flag Flown at Half Mast for Washington Funeral
City flag was run up to half mast last Saturday in honor of the funeral of Admiral Dewey held in Washington that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tha. Data
Dewey
Washington
Nelsons Visit Friends in Horst Prairie Snow Spurs Road Block
Mr and Mrs Nels Nelson visited friends on Horst Prairie last Saturday. Snow slowed their drive only near the Henneberry ranch in Ryans canyon.
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Nels Nelson
Horst Prairie
Henneberry Ranch
Ryan's Canyon
The New 640 acre Homestead Act in Montana
Secretary Lane warns that rapid land take will push all vacant land into private hands while Congress enacts the Stockman 640 acre Homestead law. The piece argues the bill favors capitalists and land speculators over genuine settlers and harms Montana’s agricultural growth in the arid West.
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Lane
Congress
United States
Montana
Table
Rocky Mountains
Bills of quality not quantity dominate Montana session
Helena January 23 special report notes the fifteenth Montana legislature aims for quality in lawmaking. By week four 149 bills and 8 joint resolutions have been introduced. 85 originate in the house and 54 in the senate. The tax investigation probe leads as a major effort with a joint committee hearing from utilities and energy firms including Anaconda Copper Mining Co and Montana Power Co. The senate discusses a Constitutional Convention and a primary election law overhaul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana
House
Senate
J. EB. Edwards
Kane
Morgan
Dwight
Fould
McMahon
Beldon
Rasmussen
Spain
Don Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining, Co
Anaconda Company
F. M. Kerr
Montana Power Co
L. O. Evans
J. Bruce Kremer
Butte and Superior Co
Charles H. Williams
Powell County
Williams
Milling of Wheat Proves Low Grade Wheat Can Make Quality Flour
John McVay reports a talk by E P Ladd of North Dakota Agricultural College at the Co-operators congress in Great Falls. Ladd shows milling tests and bread tests indicating low grade wheat yields flour of nearly the same quality and price as top grades, saving Montana farmers ten to thirty cents per bushel and reducing consumer costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McVay
Co-Operators Congress
Great Falls
E. PF. Ladd
North Dakota Agricultural College
Montana
Nor
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Sheridan
Greene
New York Evening Telegram
State Commission
Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania
W. H. Jonas
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