City Council Holds Regular Session with Committees Appointed
The regular meeting at City Hall organized the new council with five bidders for contracts and several committee assignments. Mayor White presided as Leonard Eliel was elected president, with allowed saloon licenses issued and sewer and street projects discussed including extending the main outlet and alley sewer work.
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White
Melton
J. E. Monroe
John Lenkersdorfer
M. E. Barry
Leonard Eliel
E. T. Brock
Wm. Phillips
Barry
Phillips
Monroe
Eliel
Lenkersdorfer
Brock
Laura Kress
Frank Ebiel
Wm. Kohl
Abe Savacool
Blacktail
Metlen
John Kent
Pacific Street
Medlen
Rumors of Railroad Work Move Toward Dillon
The paper notes signals work on a new Gilmore and Pittsburg railroad line may start soon. Reports place crews in Dillon Armstead and Salmon with steel rails and ties unloaded at Twin Bridges while attorney John R. Wheeler made a land payment for a Dillon terminal site.
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Dillon
Gilmore & Pittsburg
Chicago
Armstead
Salmon
City
Trinitte
John R. Wheeler
Pittsburg
Messrs
Morse
Bishop
Thompson Killer in Big Hole Basin Recalled in Anaconda Tale
The Anaconda Standard recounts James Thompson known as Deary who killed Fred Heagy in the Big Hole basin. It notes past violence including the killing of Dutch Gus about nine years earlier and details coroner I. Cashmore's inquiry while snowbound.
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Big Hole Basin
Anaconda Standard
James Thompson
Fred Heagy
Dillon
Thompson
Dutch Gus
Big Hole
Deafy
I. Cashmore
Gus
Helena Witnessed Spring Nuptials Of Waldorf Tooley
Miss Harriet Waldorf married Sen. Clarence Tooley of Two-Dot in a Helena hotel ceremony with green and white decor. The reception featured a cake fortune and speeches as the couple embarked on a five week honeymoon before settling at Mr. Tooley’s Montana ranch and banking interests.
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Helena
Harriet E. Waldorf
Clarence Tooley
Grandon Hotel
Two-Dot
Baxter
Morse Waldorf
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Mr. Tooley
Montana
Tooley
Meagher County
Waldorf
Dillon
Lincoln School
H. R. Cunninham
Hensley
Moore
M. Morse
Ed. Donlan
Missoula
Farlo
New York
Major Edwards
Forsyth
Robertson
Two- Dot
Beaverhead County apportions record school funds total
County Treasurer Cashmore distributes a historic extra sum among Beaverhead County school districts totaling 11,161 dollars sourced from unspecified funds. The allocation marks the largest apportioned amount outside the annual general school tax.
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Beaverhead County
Cashmore
Centennial Telephone declares dividend and plans new line
Pearl I Smith reports Centennial Telephone stockholders approved a five percent dividend the first since formation. They plan to build a double wired toll and local line from Lakeview to Dillon across Blacktail valley about 60 miles at an estimated eight thousand dollars funded by treasury stock. Officers elected include Robert Boatman president Bert Paul secretary treasurer and directors C B Miller and Pearl I Smith. Wm Roe and his wife returned from Butte hospital.
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Pearl I. Smith
Dillon
Monida
Centennial Telephone Company
Robert Boatman
Bert Paul
Bert Paul C. B. Miller
Centennial Valley
Treasury
Smith
Trial Jury Drawn for May 11 in Dillon District Court
Judge Poindexter orders a fifty jurors panel to report at 9 00 a m May 11 in district court. Clerk Hazelbaker lists jurors from Dillon Wisdom Lima Bristow Grant Jackson Polaris Armstead Gibbon Dell Dewey Bannack Argenta and more. Thompson murder case of Frederick Heagy is continued after not guilty plea and $10000 bail.
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J. B. Poindexter
F. A. Hazelbaker
George Banks
Clyde Bennington
Jen H. Christensen
Thomas E. Chandier
S. S. Carruthers
Byron Cunnard
Frank Caldwell
Jackson
J. R. Abrams
Polaris
Glen A Decker
Armstead
Fred A. Else
Gibbon
E. M. Martinell
Dell
A. C. Soper
Dewey
W. R. Wright
Bannack
A. E. Graeter
James H. Mackay
Argenta
Thompson
James Thompson
Frederick Heagy
W. S. Barbour
Montana Amendment 10 Bi Proposal Seeks Tax Levy Cut
A proposed Montana constitutional amendment would cap state property tax at two and a half mills until state assessed valuation reaches six hundred million dollars, then drop to two mills. It notes current revenue would fall from about 750 thousand to 450 thousand yearly if valuation exceeds three hundred million, and argues the change is essential for state operations.
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Montana
State Board of Equalization
Rev Father Foley Ill in Butte Hospital After Threats
Reverend Father Foley was hospitalized in Butte last week with pneumonia after receiving threats.
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Father Foley
Butte
Swith
Also Mentioned on This Page
City Hall
Dillon Volunteer Fire Department
Fitzharris
A. L. Badcon
Clifford Knapp
Earl Wheat
Miracle-Trapp Concrete Company
Eph Stoller
Tlacioat
Gilmore
Fréd ‘Heagy
Ajax Mine
Wadore-Tooley
Jas
NAT
State Sch'l Lands
Snsee
Esate
Hella Company
Centennial Valley Telephone Line
Lakeview
Wm. Roe
Mrs. Roe
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