Lima optimistic on irrigation and growth prospects
Our regular Lima correspondent forecasts a regional boom driven by the Red Rock and Spring Hill irrigation project, new stone quarry discoveries, and strong water power. The writeup highlights anticipated land development, dairy and farming expansion, and civic efforts to organize a local lyceum and improve education and industry in the Red Rock valley.
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Lima
Spring Hill and
Red Rock Irrigation Company
Tomas Douglas
W. F. Gardner
Montana
Red Rock
Spring Hill
Birch Creek
McGee
Red Rock Valley
Chas. T. Stewart
Read It to Me Sirrah A Drama Plot Turn
Luquet in early days played the bearer of a crucial dispatch for a drama when a blank paper caused a misstep. The mimicking, unprepared, asked to read it aloud. Luquet then declared, I have never learned to read, in a witty exchange cited by the San Francisco Argonaut.
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Luquet
Luguet
San Francisco
Dr King’s New Discovery Promised Safe, Guaranteed Relief
A guaranteed safe investment offers relief or purchase price return. The ad promotes Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption and lung ailments. Trial bottles are free at N M White’s Drug Store.
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Dr. King
N. M. White
Ground broken in Sacramento for federal building
A broad report lists diverse items from Sacramento where a federal building project begins, to a long string of incidents and notable events from across the nation. It notes deaths, strikes, political moves, a gold strike near Saratoga Wyoming, and other sundry news items with dates and figures.
State News In Brief Gleaned From Ex Changes and Elsewhere
Missoula endured the season’s heaviest rain storm last week. Montana counties levy 2 mills state 2 mills county 23 mills school 64 mills total. Helena's rate is 121 mills. A Boulder movement aims to establish a custom concentrator to profit from neighboring mines. Max Behrens 36, formerly with H M Parden Co Helena, died of apoplexy in his room. Helena’s Miss Helena P Clark appointed special agent to allocate lands in severalty to Indians under the Feb 8 1887 act. Dave Kenedy’s mare Dainty won a half mile in 50 seconds at Miles City on a $200 bet, Kennedy netting about $2,000. Rocky Fork Coal ships 1000 tons daily, soon 2000 tons as cold weather sets in. Demand for Montana coal grows. Lewiston Fergus county reports a shooting affray. saloonkeeper W Bennet shot Wade Blake through the lungs. Deputy Shoals wounded. Quarrel stems from a gambling dispute. Blake’s brother was fined for assault with a deadly weapon.
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Missoula
Lewis & Clarke
County
Helena
Boulder
Max Behrens
H. M. Parden & Co
Helena P. Clark
Montana
Dave Kenedy
Dainty
Miles City
Kennedy
Rocky Fork Coal Company
Livingston
Lewiston
Fergus County
W. Bennet
Wade Blake
Shoals
Bennet
Blake
Grand Junction Eyes 50000 Smelter Amid Busy Week
Grand Junction shows excitement over a proposed 50000 dollar smelter while the board of trade plans to settle details next Saturday night. Colorado Coal and Iron runs mines in Canyon Walse Robinson Cameron and Santa Clara. Angus W Shaw of the Union Pacific round house in Trinidad sustains a fractured skull from a falling chain but is expected to recover. Four horse thieves are convicted at Custer City with two and a half years each. Lehman the murder faces a hanging on November 1. Darby Feely dies in a Missouri Pacific train crash near Palmer Lake close to the site of a Denver man’s recent death. The Pueblo state fair features a first public exhibition of Colorado petroleum by United Oil of Florence with crude oil naptha residuum and coke samples. Acting Governor Meldrum pardons Thomas E White from Joliet prison for forgery worth 25 dollars. White is about 22 and had a six year sentence.
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Colorado Coal and Iron Company
Canyon
Walse, Robinson,Cameron
Santa Clara
Angus W. Shaw
Union Pacific Round House
Trinidad
Custer City
Lehman
Darby Feely
Missouri Pacific
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David Moore
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Colorado Petroleum
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Pueblo State Fair
Florence Petroleum
Meldrum
Thos. E. White
Joliet Penitentiary
Saufiey
Buffalo
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup for Consumption Relief
A vintage advertisement extols Ballard’s Horehound Syrup as a remedy for consumption also called tuberculosis. It warns early symptoms resemble a cold and urges timely use for permanent cure or relief, endorsing N. M. Warrs as agent and stressing soothing healing virtues.
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Ballard
N. M. Warrs
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