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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
6
Record of important events from around the globe condensed into brief items. The week’s highlights cover politics, economics, science, culture, and notable incidents, presented in compact notes for quick reading.
Breckenridge Long, third assistant secretary of state, resigns and President Wilson accepts. Long plans to run for United States senator from Missouri.
In Duluth a mob of about 4000 overpowered police at the city station and lynched three Black men accused in an assault on a white girl. Fire hoses were turned on officers as bricks and stones shattered windows. three men were found guilty while three others were acquitted.
Washington reports the government considered an export embargo to relieve coal shortages hit New England and other regions. Officials cite railway congestion and marine worker strikes as causes while Attorney General Palmer and the Interstate Commerce Commission discuss solutions to restore transport.
Kansas City reports a sharp fall in wholesale potato values with prices sliding nearly two dollars per hundredweight. Southern new potatoes sold from 1.75 to 8.25 per hundred, as dealers cite higher supplies and early season harvests.
London reports that Soviet Russia refuses to recognize debts contracted by Russia before November 1917 and would seek offsets if forced to pay. Bolshevik Trade Minister Gregory Krossin allegedly indicated that acceptance of liability would entitle Russia to inherit former treaty rights and privileges.
Cheyenne June 14 Leslie A Miller Wyoming internal revenue collector and Kinney Oil and Refining stockholder says extensive losses hit Wyoming as promotion companies fail and stock values shrink. He cites over capitalization and rapid new oil field ventures flooding the market with shares that have little chance of real value. He warns 1917 spending on stocks yielded few, if any, recoveries and that many paper fortunes evaporated in a persistent oil glut.
Minneapolis grain market reports show No 1 dark northern wheat around 2.95 to 3.10, No 1 northern near 2.90, No 1 red spring 1.80 to 2.85, corn No 3 yellow about 1.71, No 4 yellow 1.68 to 1.70, oats No 2 white 1.06 to 1.14, barley choice to fancy 1.47 to 1.42, rye No 2 2.20 to 2.14, flax No 1 around 8.87 to 9.2.
Cattle receipts 12 000 with steady to higher demand for choicest beef steers and prime heavy loads at 17 25. Prime yearlings 17, bulk 14 15 85 best grades cows and heifers steady to unevenly lower. canners and cutters very dull. Hogs receipts 40 000 mostly lower. top 15 20, bulk light and light butchers 15 25, 20 pounders and over 14 20 to 16 75. Sheep market strong with best native springs 17 75, other lambs 15 50 to 17 50, ewes 8 48 50, canners down to 2.
Receipts totaled 11 hogs, markets steady to lower with top hog price at 14.85 and bulk around 14 to 14.50. Cattle receipts reached 4,500 with good to choice beef steers steady and top heavies at 16. Bulls steady, veals around 5 to 14.50, stockers and feeders mostly lower. Sheep receipts about 909 with lambs and sheep mostly 25 cents lower. spring lambs at 15.4 to 17.25, clipped 14.75 to 16, feeders steady.
Hogs receipts 7,700 mostly lower 10 to Die range 14.14 to 14.35 bulk 14.15 to 14.20. Cattle receipts 3,690 killers steady. fat steers 16.75 to 17.50. cows and heifers 24.75 to 13.75. calves steady 6.25 to 13.75. stockers slow 5 to 14. Sheep receipts 199 market 40 cents higher lambs 16.00 to 16.25 wethers 5.50 to 8.25 ewes 2.47 to 2.50.
Topeka Kansas June 14 Governor Henry J Allen directed Attorney General Hopkins to investigate charges by Joseph Stevie state manager of the Nonpartisan league and Walter Mills of North Dakota a league lecturer that they were not afforded protection when a crowd prevented them from speaking at Ellinwood and were escorted from town. The governor was not in the state at the time of the incident.
Helena reports no deaths from Rocky Mountain spotted tick fever with mild eastern cases. The weekly health report notes two new cases in Helena and Roundup, totaling seven Montana cases this year. The Boise Idaho strain is mild on the east side, while virulent cases risk death. no Bitter Root virulent cases yet.
Butte district case recalls a neighbor smoke dispute under ordinance 118. The Blees at 315 Kemper Ave argued Roberts stove smoke intruded their home and rental rooms. Judge Grimes ruled no action against the newer builder as no interference with draft was proven.
Great Falls reports wool merchants and prominent sheepmen estimate Montana’s wool clip for 18200 will total between 15 million and 16 million pounds. The projected clip implies about 2 million sheep in the state, with fleeces representing a steady but recent decline in flock numbers over the past decade.
Rudolph Ledum, 16, son of Mr and Mrs QC Ledum, was gored against a fence by a bull thought tame. He was taken to a Billings hospital with internal injuries after the animal charged when driven to water without feeding. His father freed him by stepping on the strap hanging from the bull’s nose ring.
W K Dwyer superintendent of schools refutes claim that Anaconda high students were intoxicated causing absence. He cites a 99.7 percent attendance rate and punctuality measures as proof of orderly conduct amid council discussion.
Clay Tallman of the General Land Office says Carey Act tracts are subject to oil exploration. Montana notes strong public school gains in attendance and expenditures but lags in teacher pay and high school metrics. Auto ownership soars with 60 to 70 percent jitneys, costing Montanans millions. labor offices close as veterans welfare funding ends. A mill belt accident at Hot Springs tears a forearm. compensation runs 160 weeks.
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