Treasure State Briefs From Montana News
Montana notes report a pistol accident kills 16 year old Rus sell Hulsey at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. Park board names Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park east of Columbus hospital. Prisoners build a chapel and assembly hall at Deer Lodge state penitentiary. A.J. Cummings irrigation project for 640 acres in Custer county eyed with $8 per acre install and $1 annual maintenance. Federal aid eyed to remove a hairpin turn on Marshall grade near Missoula. Gravel surfacing for 47 miles Billings to Pompeys Pillar seeks $75,000 federal aid. Deslauriers monument planned for Anaconda pioneer forge site. Dr William Pendy alias Sam Lee recaptured after escape. Butte without a military guard as Captain Wilson’s company moves to Vancouver Barracks. Hearing set May 15 for restoration of Northern Pacific train to Ndiddy Noxon Heron. Anna Gould Hough, Jay Gould kin, dies in Los Angeles at 59. Automobile licenses delayed. 12–14 day grace period to obtain plates. Primary law referendum and boxing bill prep for September 2 election. Missoula annual city appropriation $97,160 for 1919–20. 25 linemen complete wire from Great Falls to Helena for Western Union.
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State Highway Commission
Marshall Grade
Missoula
Yellowstone County
Billings
Pompeys Pith
Sedition Law Reaches Montana Supreme Court
Helena. The first case on the sedition act passed by the Fifteenth Assembly reaches the Montana Supreme Court. Ben Kahn, a traveling salesman convicted in Carbon County, appeals after a series of trials arguing the act conflicts with US and Montana constitutions and with federal war powers. The court has the case under advisement.
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United States
Red Lodge
Lusitania
Montana
Kaln
Havre Branded Outlaw By State Health Chief Cogswell
Dr. W P F Cogswell secretary of the state board of health charges Havre with years of sewage disposal violations and urges the attorney general to remove the city from the outlaw class in public health matters. The board ordered a sewage plant by May 1 1919 but no plans or work have been presented or begun.
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Helena
Havre
W. PF. Cogswell
State Board of Health
CO. Mord
Cogswell
Health
Arrested for Killing Horses to Feed Dogs
Sweet Grass Newton Morgan a black man with a white wife living 15 miles west of here was arraigned before Justice Roberts at Coutts. He is charged with stealing and killing horses and feeding the flesh to his dogs and has about 20 dogs on his ranch. Mrs Morgan testified he threatened to kill her if she spoke and forced her to help butcher the animals.
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Sweet Grass
Newton Morgan
Here
Justice of the Peace
Roberts
Coutts
Lethbridge
Morgan
Giant blast shatters Wolf Creek quarry granite bank
Great Falls Great Northern construction crews exploded 800 kegs of blasting powder in a Wolf Creek quarry tunnel used for riprap granite. About 30,000 yards of granite were fractured into workable sizes, the largest charge at the site and yielding roughly double the normal breakup. The event is expected to affect quarry output for about two years.
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Great Falls
Great Northern
Wolf Creek
Lady Reading Leaves Washington After Ambassador’s Return
Lady Reading has departed from Washington with her husband, the British ambassador, who completed the special work that brought him here and has now gone home. This is a new photograph of Lady Reading.
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Lady Reading
Washington
Caught at Last in a Campyard Comedy
A father questions his daughter about sending a young Simpson home late. The girl insists it was not very late. The father realizes she was in bed when he arrived, having heard him coming in, and jokes about nearly burning his hands on a hot chimney while lighting the lamp.
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Simpson
Plot to Slay Officials With Hazardous Devices Revealed
US startled by a radical plot to kill leading Americans using hazardous devices mailed to prominent targets including Judge Landis of Chicago. The plan aimed at officials and deportation opponents tied to I W W and other groups.
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United States
Wisconsin Farmers Campaign to Eliminate Scrub Bulls
Wisconsin dairymen push a state wide drive to use purebred sires only. Brown County Cow Testing shows 12 cows on register, all daughters of purebred sires. Five best herds are led by purebreds, while five poorest are graded or scrub herds. Purebred usage added about 85 pounds more fat per cow. Eight members bought purebred sires last year.
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Wisconsin
United States Department of Agriculture
Brown County
Keeping Dairy Cows on Farm
Louisiana State University dairy specialist H Staples argues dairy cows counter three drawbacks of single crop farming. They provide family food if markets are weak, consume waste seeds, and require minimal upkeep. In strong markets, dairying offers steady cash, weather resilience, soil building, and year round employment.
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H. Staples
Louisiana State University
Mr. Staples
Better Farm Butter Through Careful Milk Handling
Dairy specialists say improved methods in handling milk and creaming reduce trouble in home butter production. They expect a superior product that can be sold more easily and at a higher price than average farm butter.
Dairy Herd Is Foundation for Stock Farmers
The dairy herd supports both the stock farmer and general farmer who keeps several kinds of stock. Skimmed milk eases raising calves pigs and lambs but without it substitutes are costly and unsatisfactory. Maintain dairy cows and other stock can be added.
Outline for feeding dairy cows roughage with grain rations
The outline states two grain rations to feed with clover or alfalfa hay for dairy cows. One option uses 200 pounds corn and cob meal with 100 pounds ground oats and 100 pounds gluten feed. The alternative uses 250 pounds corn and cob meal with 100 pounds wheat bran and 100 pounds gluten feed.
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News of Montana
Russell Hulsey
Bozenin
State
Deer Lodge
State Board of Examiners
A. J. Cummings
Sadie Bottom
Custer County
Anaconda
August Deslauriers
Pioneer Forge
Deslauriers
William Pendy
Sam Lee
Butte
Wilson
44Th Regiment of Regulars
School of Nines
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
State Railroad Commission
Thompson Alls
Nddy
Noxon and
Heron
Northern Pacific
Spokane
Paradise
Kootenai
Anna Gould Hough
Jay Gould
A. M. Hough
Los Angeles
Hough
Charles T. Stewart
C. T. Stewart
Western Union Telegraph Company
Montana Supreme Court
Ben Kahn
Outlaw
Coutts Negro
Pontanezen
Brest
France
KE. P. Raynham
Captain Morgan
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Franklin D Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
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