Backward Glance 1885 Miners, Canal Talks, and Local News
Items from July 25 1885 include Apache rumors near Nogales Ariz and guards at Cananea camps. Paris Panama Canal meeting with De Lesseps and Monroe Doctrine dispute, lottery loan approved. Local notes on opium joints, Phil Thorpe injures from a mowing machine, Butte Grand opera opening, Glendale water wheel replacement, Dillon church crowded, rising divorce suits, and quirky marriage remarks in the mountains.
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the Tribune
Canonea’ Mountains
Nogales
Ariz
Panama Canal Company
Paris
France
DeLesseps
United States
Dillon Furniture Receives Chicago Chair Shipment Fast
Dillon Furniture announced a carload of chairs arrived in six and a half days from Chicago, marking an extraordinary fast delivery.
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Dillon Furniture Company
Chicago
Indian War Escalates in Bannack. Floods Hit Eastern Town
The Tribune reports rising Indian conflict with Bannack Indians killing a settler, his wife, and child in Salt River valley. In Dillon Montana, three ball teams win as Jack Rabbits beat Sheridan 12 to 11 in 10 innings, Juniors take 22 to 2 at Dell, and a Rambler car changes hands locally. Park Scott visits Dillon after returning from southern California.
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Pocatello, Ida
Bannack Indians
Salt River Valley
Dillon
Idaho Falls
Jackrabbits
Sheridan
Dell
LaCroix
Frank Gosman
Clark Yoe
Frontier tensions rise in Bannack and Dillon area
Reports describe escalating Bannack Indian outbreak with Sixth cavalry like action and looming danger for settlers. Dillon militia may face renewed encounters as the frontier story unfolds, while a local phonograph event and guard mounts mark daily life amid unrest. Bill Gay in Helena jail writes a frontier autobiography detailing Indian fights and Mackay case. A July law declares all roads county property if commonly used by the public.
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Bill Gay
Helena
James Mackay
Black Hills
Rader
Mackay
Needles
Cal
Roads
Christian sermon themes at local Methodist church service
The 11 o clock sermon asks Is Christianity in Danger and the 8 o clock evening session explores Seeing the World in 2026. A questionnaire period repeats debates from last Sunday on dancing Eucharistic Congress Sunday study. Rev R C Edgington address noted. Sunday school at 10 and Epworth league at 7 led by Belle Caswell.
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Roy B. Herndon
Epworth League
Belle Caswell
Normal College
Noted Writers Visit Vigilante Day Scenes
Mr and Mrs Arthur Chapman of New York spent several days in Virginia City visiting Vigilante Day scenes. He is a special writer for the New York Herald Tribune and contributes to magazines. She, Kathleen Caesar, is assistant editor of the Sunday magazine section. They are joined by their youngest son Neil Chapman. elder son John A is on the New York Daily News staff and Arthur Jr. is a ranger at Old Faithful Yellowstone.
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Arthur Chapman
New York
Virginia City
Herald-Tribune
Neil Chapman
John A
New York Daily News
Arthur Jr
Yellowstone National Park
Old Faithful
Graves named administrator of F L Graves estate
Harry C. Graves was appointed administrator of the estate of F L Graves Saturday by Judge Rodgers. Maltan City plans to gravel Front Street and Fifth and Sixth Avenues to improve local streets.
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Harry C. Graves
F. L. Graves
Rodgers
Maltan City
Front Street
Always Tired At Night Prompts Foley Pills Trial
A Danville Illinois man John R Gordon reports constant nighttime tiredness and backache improving after taking Foley Pills a diuretic stimulant for kidneys He says after a few doses he could work with more ease became stronger and slept better The ad guarantees satisfaction and urges readers to ask for Foley Pills at Potts the Druggist.
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John R. Gordon
Danville
Ill
Foley
Potts
Fishermen Brave Lake Disaster to Keep Fishing
Clarence Corrin and L. E. Peterson faced a violent capsize at Miners Lake near Jackson after Peterson’s crabbed take on rowing. Both swimmers reached shore after an icy scare. they resumed fishing, denying reports that the lake had vanished due to a quake.
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Clarence Corrin
L. E. Peterson
Corrin
Peterson
Miner’s Lake
Jackson
Stans
Pap Corder Dies in Washington at 80
W P Corder known as Pap Corder dies in Longview Washington age about eighty. Civil War veteran from Virginia lived eleven years on a Lavon homestead west of McCarty Mountain on the Big Hole river. Survived by three children Ben Corder Day Pearson and Mary Mann and one grandchild. Funeral held in Spokane with burial beside first wife.
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Lavon Station
W. P. Corder
Longview
Washington
Corder
Pap” Corder
Lavon
Madison County
McCarty Mountain
Big Hole River
Virginia
Indian Territory
Kansas
Texas
Ben Corder
Mount Vernon
Day Pearson
Kansas City
Mary Mann
Ellen Wellington
Butte
Spokane
Fifteen Montana 1889 Constitutional Delegates Remain Alive
Beaudette Minnesota death of Charles R Middleton leaves 15 surviving members of the 1889 Montana constitutional convention. The list includes Allen R Joy Portland C H Loud Miles City W R Ramsdell Tucson J E Richards Berkeley F E Sargeant Washington D C Joseph K Toole San Francisco D M Durfee Phillipsburg George Eaton New York William T Field Cleveland O F Goddard Billings R E Hammond Yakima Charles Hartman Great Falls George B Winston Anaconda J E Kanouse Townsend and W M Bickford Missoula.
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Beaudette
Minn
Charles R. Middleton
Montana
Allen R. Joy
Portland
C. H. Loud
Miles City
W. R. Ramsdell
Tucson
Ariz
J. E. Richards
Berkeley
F. E. Sargeant
Washington, D. C
Joseph K. Toole
San Francisco
D. M. Durfee
Phillips
Tested Recipes from Dillon Ladies Aid
A tested recipes cookbook titled Tested Recipes by the Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist Church Dillon is for sale for one dollar at the Tribune Book Store.
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Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist Church
Dillon
Tribune Book Store
Beamer and Duke Wed at Methodist Parsonage
Hobart N. Beamer and Lila K. Duke married last Sunday afternoon at five o clock in the Methodist parsonage with Rev. Carl Knudson officiating. Corliss Fairchild attended the ceremony while the couple traveled to Hailey where the groom works as an electrician at the power plant.
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Hobart N. Beamer
Lila K. Duke
Methodist
Carl Knudson
Corliss Fairchild
Annual Presbyterian meetings in Bozeman attended by local delegation
Mrs. Fred Crouse Miss Jean Bishop Rev. E E Loft and Frederick Crouse attended the Synodical Missionary Society Synod of Montana and the Young Peoples conference of the Presbyterian denomination during a motor trip to Bozeman.
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Fred Crouse
Jean Bishop
E. E. Loft
Frederick Crouse
Bozeman
Synodical Missionary Society
Synod of Montana
Young Peoples Conference
Presbyterian Denomination
Emily Meine Sues Charles Meine for Divorce
Mrs. Emily Meine filed suit for divorce against Charles Meine last Saturday.
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Emily Meine
Charles Meine
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Butte Grand Opera House
Glendale
Trapper Gulch
J. H. Hall
Arthur Graeter
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Park Scott
Armstead
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Lima
Company E
Methodist Church
Carl Knudsen
Safety Plus
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SEST
Sue Mama
Genevieve O'Leary
Beaverhead County
G. V. Elder
Malcom Fleming
Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
Bank OF Strength and Service
Land Office
Pearl. I. Smith
Waicioen
Uke
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