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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
6
Dillon residents and visitors are reported in a flurry of short items. Dozens of names appear with brief mentions of shopping, travel, health, and home life including J. H. Truax Dell trip updates and Henry Thompson Kidd business, plus insurance, loans, and local ads.
A second Bannack Gold Mining Company shipment sent four bricks valued at about 15000 to Salt Lake City. C W Stallings delivered the cargo from the Bannack mill, following the first shipment a month earlier. The article notes rich untapped deposits near Bannack and expects continued returns from the old mining camp.
A two year old black mare with four white feet and a figure 4 brand on the left shoulder is described as an estray at A L Daviss ranch ten miles south east of Dillon. Owner should call, pay expenses, and claim the horse.
The Madison National Forrest Sheep Growers' association offers a reward of 500 dollars for the conviction of any sheep thief and 250 dollars for the conviction of any camp robber.
Captain Edward I. Tinkham, a Broad and served with the American ambulance corps, returned to Christia last winter, completed his studies, and rejoined the Cornell contingent. He is twenty five years old.
Washington welcomed the Russian diplomatic mission led by Ambassador Boris Bakhmedoff with warmth. Secretary Lansing and officials greeted them as crowds cheered through the streets. They dined at a state residence and will meet President Wilson to deliver a message from the new Russian government.
Two vessels of the Shipping Board fleet were chartered to Russia to move part of 300 000 tons of Russian supplies from New York to Archangel. Additional ships will follow as available. The Archangel port will be icebound again by October 1. The two ships, taken from the enemy fleet at war’s outbreak, are about 7000 tons each.
Wheat July opens 2.07 high 92.09 low 2.03 close 2.05 September opens 1.81 high 1.93 low 1.78 close 1.81. Corn July opens 1.54 high 1.051 low 1.54 close 1.549 September opens 1. relative figures show mixed directions. Oats July opens 4.14 high 6.3 low 6.24 close 63. September opens 6. bee high 2b ee low ble close 41 Ke.
Minneapolis grain notes June 19 show July wheat opening 2.20 high 2.20 low 2.12 close 2.19 and September 1.72 to 1.75 to 1.6814 close 1.76. Cash quotes list No 1 hard 2.03 to 2.68, No 1 northern 2.58, No 2 northern 2.43, No 3 wheat 2.28, flax 32.05, flour patents 14.26, first clears 12.50, shipments 43 997 barrels, barley 1.03 to 1.48, rye 2.46 to 2.48, bran 28 to 29.
June market update shows 8,000 receipts with 18,000 forecast. Native beef cattle range 6.76 to 7.16 per hundredweight, stockers and feeders 10.10 to 10.36, cows and heifers 5.16 to 11.70, calves up to 19.66. Sheep receipts 4,000 with wether lambs around 11.60, ewes 8.10 to 10.40, rammed up to 16.28, lambs 13.75 to 18. Prices reflect a strong sheep market and a weak cattle market.
Hogs receipts 4,200 market 19 cents higher range 14.75 to 15.50, bulk 15.00 to 16.26. Cattle receipts 2,000 killers steady, steers 7.12 to 12.60, cows and heifers 7.50 to 11, calves 6 to 13.75, stockers and feeders 5 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 50 market steady, lambs 7 to 12.60, wethers 7 to 12, ewes 5 to 9.50.
Omaha market notes for June 15 show hog receipts at 18,000 with gains of about ten cents. Cattle receipts 3,500 with steady prices across natives and westerns, fat cattle and cows listed. Sheep receipts 4,000 with higher market and lambs near sixteen dollars.
A secret session in Petrograd on June 18 passed a resolution calling for immediate offensive by Russian forces. The motion urges either a separate peace with Germany or intensified operations on the front, arguing that prolonging the war is treacherous and ignoble.
London June 1 report says the Pan-Russian congress ratified expulsion of Swiss socialist Robert Grimm. Grimm allegedly acted as intermediary for Germany to seek a separate peace with Russia, affecting both international and domestic policy.
A Swiss socialist Robert Grimm toured Russia’s allies in May and Stockholm in June as a mediator in German aims for peace. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung notes Germany would not seek territory or economic gains, while German officials privately pivot to possible negotiations.
The cabinet announced last week a suggested conference of the entente allies to examine treaties. Today a note to other governments outlines a conference to revise allied war aims agreements, except for the London pact forbidding separate peaces.
Copenhagen reports Berlin seeks a separate peace or armistice with Russia through semi official channels and messages from Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg and Field Marshal von Hindenburg. A proposal is floated to suspend hostilities during the period of the Russian constitutional convention elections.
Emba Root, head of the American mission to Russia, told the council of ministers in Petrograd that America will fight for Russia’s freedom as it fights for its own. He stressed American disinterestedness beyond democracy and said the United States sees no party or class but great Russia striving as a democracy.
The Northern Pacific railroad urges Montana farmers to store a large portion of their crops on farms to guard against losses from anticipated car shortages. The measure aims to protect farmers as railroads expect heavy government business and strained facilities next year.
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