Night Riders of the McCanns in a Western Vendetta
A web of feuds and violence unfolds as Wilson McCann battles Jasper Stark and rivals. Matthew Stark is killed by ambush, Wilson is shot, and Ann Gifford confesses to Nora Gifford’s betrayer while Jasper schemes to force a marriage. An anonymous sheriff’s tip targets Ann for McArdle’s murder.
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Wilson-McCann
Arizona
Jim Yerby
Julia Stark
Matthew Stark
McCanns
Jasper
Julia
Wilson
Ann Gifford
Ethel
McCann
Peter McCann
Wilson McCann
Nora
Jasper Stark
Carl Gitner
Stark
Tom McArdle
Starks
Nora Gifford
Shim
Phil
Dave Stone
Stark Rider
McArdle
Gifford Sister in McArdle Shooting Sparks Town Turmoil
In the Sierra foothills Julia and Phil learn rumors that Ann Gifford may have shot Tom McArdle. Stone confesses he killed McArdle and faces the sheriff, while Jas Stark and Gitner plot to frame Stone for a lynching in Mesa with Bud and others drawn into the town’s growing fever.
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Stone
Sierras
Phil
Julia
Sis
Mesa
Ann Gifford
Tom McArdle
Nora
Tom
Jle
Dominick Rafferty
Jas
Tas
Gitner
Hank’ le Page
Miss Gifford
Tucson
Ethel
Ann
Dave
Circle Cross
Round Top
Jason
Miss Ann
Dave Stone
Gifford
Ile
California
Jas Stark
Jasper
Bud
Caldwell
Pedro
Carl
Hank le Page
Stark
Manzanita Gulch
Genesis
Explosion of Krakatoa Record They Call Greatest Explosion
An 1883 Krakatoa eruption in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra created a massive crater, 2 600 feet high rim, and hurled rock, pumice, and dust. The blast was heard 3 000 miles away and caused 50 foot tides to Cape Horn. Thirty six thousand people perished.
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Krakatoa
Sunda Strait
Java
Sumatra
Charles Baker, Jr
Boys’ Life
Boy Scouts of America
Mr. Baker
Earth
Cape Horn
South America
Curragh Race Course Named From Gaelic Currrech
The Curragh of Kildare near Dublin, beside the River Liffey, becomes famed as a race course. The name derives from Gaelic cuirrech meaning race course and marshy ground, reflecting its flat landscape and its role in hosting the Irish Derby and other renowned races.
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Curragh
Kildare
Liffey
Dublin
Texas killer on the loose sparks Mesa town fury
In a dusty Mesa saloon Jim Yerby overhears townsfolk whispering about a Texas killer named Stone who allegedly shot Tom. Jasper Stark sharpens the talk, urging quick revenge while Yerby defends Stone and Miss Ann Gifford as new details surface in the tension filled gathering.
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Jim Yerby
Yerby
Jasper Stark
Carl Gitner
Yerby's
Nester
Jasper
Tom
Texas
Stone
Car
Gifford
Carl
Ann Gifford
Ann
Menanin
Stark
Mesa
Record Parts: Congress Enacts Vast Bill Crop in Session
The session ended with about five hundred laws enacted from 18,000 introduced bills. The House logged 13,000 proposals and the Senate 5,000, with many simple resolutions. Crail of California set a record by introducing 538 bills, across his Los Angeles district share of 1.8 million people.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Crail
California
Wiliam J. McDermott
Los Angeles
Busby
Mississippi
Drewery
Virginia
Bulisey
Granata
Illinois
Sullivan
New York
Wood
Georgia
Briggs
Texas
Leavitt
Montana
Coal lands opened to entry near Colstrip
President Hoover signed an order revoking 1910 1911 1912 coal land withdrawals in Custer and Rosebud counties restoring thousands of acres to public entry. The lands border Northern Pacific railroad operations at Colstrip, originally set aside for coal deposits.
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Helena
Custer
Rosebud
Hoover
Northern Pacific Railroad
Colstrip
Montana State Notes Mix Weather Loss and Growth
Lashed by late Monday storm in the upper Gallatin valley, crops suffered heavy damage along a 12 by seven mile belt near Bozeman. Montana reports large hatchery egg totals with 36 118 840 trout eggs and 2 250 000 grayling eggs collected for statewide distribution and hatchery use.
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Gallatin
Bozeman
Georgetown Lake
Anaconda
Montana
Highway Commission
Arthur Mills
Fourth Street West
Sixth Avenue
Mills
Robert J. Bulkey
United States
Senator Bulkey
Lakeside Hospital
Cleveland
Ohio
Bulkley
Helena
Katherine ‘Pope
Lena
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William Macleod Raine al
Josh
Tie
Ginner
le Page
Old Gifford
Santone
Prescott
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