Legal Principles on Homesteads and Land Withdrawals
The text outlines how land withdrawals affect homestead entries and the rights of entrants versus government claims. It covers final proof timing, annual expenditure for reclamation, and the impact of withdrawals on entry rights, including timber and stone claims and contest procedures. It also notes mineral land considerations and a 1891 act's limits on patent rights for mineral entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Timber and Stone Acts
Witc
Passing of Major M H Rupley Pioneer Printer Helena
Helena records note Major M H Rupley died at St Johns hospital at 3 pm after a long life as a Civil War veteran, Montana pioneer and early printer. He helped set type for first western issues and spent over half his days in Montana, later turning to mining near the Brooklyn Bridge mine. He was 74.
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Wesey
M. M. ‘Rupley
Helena
M. H. Rupley
St. John’s Hospital
Montana
Faheyne
Major Rupley
Bannack
Fierc
St. Joseph
Missouri
West
Brooklyn Bridge
Pioneer Montana Resident Margaret Wilcox Dies at Home
Mrs. Margaret Wilcox a long time Montana resident since 1865 died Friday at her daughter Mrs J D Bock Jr home in the Central Ruby valley after a long illness She was born September 4 140 in Benbrok Ontario Her maiden name was Duff and she married William Wilcox June 5 1865 In Alder Gulch the couple traveled overland and Mr Wilcox worked as a placer miner and later as a rancher He was an original member of the California Mining Company a group famed in pioneer days.
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Margaret Wilcox
Montana
J. D. Bock
Ruby Valley
Wilcox
Benbrok
Alder Gulch
The
California Mining Company
Belt-Henry William Millard Coal Pioneer Dies at 58
Belt Montana wakes to news of the death of Henry William Millard aged 58 a leading coal and coke pioneer and president of the Millard Mining Company He helped manufacture the first coke in the commonwealth after arriving from Covington England in 1868 and settling in Belt in 1880 with John K Castner.
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Belt
Henry William Millard
Montana
Commonwealth
Mr. Millard
Covington
England
America
John K. Castner
Northwest
Millard Mining Company
Funeral for Mark D Ledbeater Pioneer of Gallatin County
Mark D. Ledbeater, born October 18 1880 in England, died at Deaconess hospital on the 19th. Funeral held in Manhattan with Rev F B Lewis officiating. A Masonic master and Pioneer and Sons Daughters of Pioneers sent floral tributes. Ledbeater moved to America at age 15, worked across the plains, mined at Aldergulch, and settled in Gallatin county in 1868 as a prosperous farmer.
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Bozeman
Mark D. Ledbeater
Gallatin County
Manhattan
F. B. Lewis
Masonic Order
Pioneers and Sons’ and Daughters of Pioneers
Mr. Ledbeater
England
America
Fort Benton
Ledbeater
Aldergulch
William Perks
Utah
Werleys Park
Ontana
Stevensville Businessman’s Longstanding Local Ties
In Stevensville, a businessman has built a career in real estate and insurance, remaining deeply engaged in the community since establishing roots there.
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Stevensville
Helena prospecting pioneer Joe Davis dies at 80
Helena area miner and early Montana settler Joe Davis, aged 80, died in his cabin last Saturday from old age. A pioneer who arrived in Montana fifty years ago, he spent decades mining near Helena and later near Unionville, leaving behind one of the state’s oldest resident explorers.
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Helena
Joe Davis
Montana
Unionville
Understanding the Power and Nature of Lightning
A historic explainer discusses how lightning illuminates two miles squares, the energy it carries, and how flashes form in thunderclouds. It contrasts static electricity with industrial electricity and describes discharges between clouds and the earth, and the role of raindrop formation in producing bolts.
Queen of the West Poem Praises Montana Landscape
Portland writer Robert Vaughn hails Montana as the Queen of the West in a 1911 poem. He extols the land’s rivers plains mountains and natural wealth while praising its people and climate.
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Montana
West
Free
Robert ‘Vaughn
Portland
Ore
Stock Brands Known in Big Hole Basin
Montana cattle brand records list J B Mores of Dillon using a left shoulder quarter circle 0 and a bar on the left high. Range indicated as Big Hole Basin with references to 20-t units.
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J. B. Mores
Dillon
Montana
Big Hole Basin
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Dijion, Mont
Albert Stamm
Dillon : Furniture . CO
G. T. Paul
Montana Auto
Montana Street
Dillon Montana
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Fdison
Interior Department
Henry W. Millard
Geo. W. Dickinson
George “W. Dickinson
Missoula
Queen OF the West
Bright
Berkshire
Eaton, Crane & Pike
Tribune
Dillon, W Mont
European Hotel
Dillon Hotel CO
Kolman
Metropolitan Chop House
Lewis & Walker
Aia
N. A Butte
MO Foe
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