Homestead Law Reform Aims to Curb Westward Exodus
Washington reports the House Public Lands Committee endorses a three year residence requirement for all homesteads and adds a six month grace period after filing to establish residence. The measure seeks to broaden eligibility for arid western lands and encourage settlers to stay and improve property.
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Washington
Canada
Land Office
House Committee On Public Lands
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
West
Partner Pleads Guilty to Holdup and Gets One Year
Roy Grisscom received one year and ten days in Beaverhead county jail after pleading guilty to gambling. He is linked to a February Lima holdup of three Japanese who were enticed to play poker. Griffin, aged 22, also pleaded guilty to robbery and faces one year at Deer lodge with possible early release for good behavior. Griffin was sent to Deer Lodge with Deputy Erwin.
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Deer Lodge
Roy Grisscom
Beaverhead
J. B. Poindexter
Grisscom
H. G. Rodgers
H. E. Griffin
Lima
Griffin
Erwin
Pocatello
Poindexter
Funeral Held for Charles Thurston in Local Episcopal Church
The funeral of Charles Thurston was held at the local Episcopal church Monday afternoon with Rev. S. D. Hooker officiating. Interment followed at Mountain View Dillon Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Duphorne, brother of Mrs. Thurston, traveled from Missouri for the services. Delays occurred when their train stalled in a snow drift 150 miles from home, delaying them 18 hours. They returned to Missouri on Tuesday accompanied by Mrs. Thurston.
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Charles Thurston
Episcopal Church
S. D. Hooker
Mountain View Dillon Cemetery
F. A. Duphorne
Railroad Pays for Cornell Property Rights
Gilmore and Pittsburg Railroad Company paid 5230.80 to the clerk of court for the right of way through Craig Cornell land south of Dillon. The amount covers the verdict of 4800 and 1225 for the right of way plus 3575 as damages to other land and improvements.
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Gilmore & Pittsburg Railroad Company
Craig Cornell
Dillon
British Star Mary Mannering Headlines Garden of Allah
There is a noticeable English accent in the Domini of the Century theater’s Garden of Allah, explained by Mary Mannering’s British birth and education. She returns to New York this season after marrying Detroit manufacturer Frederick I. Wadsworth. Mannering rose to fame in Trelawney of the Wells and has remained popular for nearly two decades.
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Domini
Century Theater
Detroit
Miss Mannering
Trelawney
The
Wells
Amateurs Shine at Scenic Theater Friday Night Show
Amateur and minstrel programs drew a full Scenic Theater crowd last Friday with six acts plus a five man minstrel segment. Manila Coon won top honors, Caroleen Stoller second, Rita Johnson third, Mabel Melvin fourth, while four acts earned encores.
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Scenic Theater
Miss Manila Coon
Caroleen Stoller
Rita Johnson
Mabel Melvin
Raymond Stratton
Raymond Holmes
St. Patrick
Milch Cows Outpace Range Cattle in Montana Growth
The value of Milch cows in Montana rose by nearly one million dollars in two years. There are 13 473 more milch cows than in 1910 while range cattle fell from 865000 to 732000. Swine numbers increased by 43739. The summary highlights rapid agricultural development in the state.
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Montana
Bureau of Statistics
United States Agricultural Department
Hurricane wreaks havoc in Alabama past week
A mangled line reports that many people were killed and much property destroyed by a hurricane in Alabama during the past week. The fragment hints at severe storm damage and loss.
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Lend
Ala
Melrose Man T. K. Blanchard Dies in Butte Hospital
T. K. Blanchard of Melrose died at a Butte hospital Sunday morning from a liver illness, eighteen hours after admission. He was 38, born in Connecticut, husband of Ida Henderson Lesher, and involved in Melrose hotel business with R. H. Lesher. Funeral held in Butte. burial planned for Connecticut or King's Lot in a Butte cemetery.
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T. K. Blanchard
Melrose
Butte Hospital
Ackley
Blanchard
R. H. Lesher
Ida Henderson Lesher
Connecticut
Donaldson
Silas King
Butte
King's
Bulletin on Montana pests targets native animals and crop damage
Washington March 16. Agriculture department issues a bulletin on western Montana common animals and their relation to farming and spotted fever. It notes rodents especially ground squirrels pocket gophers and rabbits cause crop and young orchard damage and chipmunks and white footed mice threaten seedling forests. The study explains destruction methods and links Rocky Mountain spotted fever to tick bites, with years of investigation behind it.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Western
Montana
Ground Squirrel Control Methods Highlight Bulletin
The report stresses tailored poisoning methods using animals and localities. It lists formulas with strychnine arsenic and phosphorous and urges spring poisoning with community cooperation. Poison traps are seen as highly effective, and carbon disulphide fumigation works well when the ground is damp early in the season.
State not liable for health officer salaries under pure food act
Montana Attorney General Galen ruled that local and county health officers are not paid by the state while performing duties under the pure food and drug act and that their travel costs are not state funded. The state covers only food sample costs and transporting samples to the lab when bought by the state board of health. The opinion narrows an earlier Billings city attorney ruling.
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Helena
Galen
T. D. Tuttle
State Board of Health
Davis
Billings
Montana's shift from range to farm horses and cattle growth
Montana shows a dramatic two year rise in farm demographics with 31,044 more horses and a jump in value from 26,276,480 to 20,189,900 dollars. Settlers flock to Chouteau county as soil tests unlock grain potential and Great Northern routes fuel agricultural expansion across the Treasure State.
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Great Northern Railway
Chouteau County
United States Land Office
Prairies
Great Northern
Montana
Sam
Jap porter slugged at Metlen Hotel by Dittoe in lobby
Tom, a large-boned Japanese porter at the Metlen Hotel in Dillon, was beaten with a revolver butt by W C Dittoe in the hotel lobby. Tom's skull is cracked and his injuries required stitches. Dittoe is jailed and charged with first degree assault. he pleads not guilty. The motive centers on a poisoned dog claim and a damaged Colts revolver is kept as evidence.
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Tom
Metlen
W. C. Dittoe
Dittoe
Sassman
Justice of the Peace
Hirschman
C. W. Robison
Home Comfort Range
Dillon
St. Louis
Anderson
Medlen Hotel
Elk Herd Expansion Planned in Bitter Root Region
A band of 30 elk in the mountains north of the Big Hole country is expected to double by next fall, say Beaverhead National Forest officers. A carload of 34 live elk was unloaded at Hamilton and will be driven east to join local bands, with old elk thought to lead the herd along mountain summits.
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Big Hole
Beaverhead National Forest
Hamilton
Bitter Root
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Congress
Railroad
Cornell
Mary Mannering
America
Settlls
Montana Record
W. G. Dittoe
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