One of Beaverhead County Pioneers Passes Away
William Roe longtime Beaverhead County pioneer dies at his South Washington street home Friday afternoon after months of declining health. He came to Bannack in 1862 and helped found local business and banking ventures. He was 74, wife and son present. services held Monday with large funeral cortege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Roe
Beaverhead County
Washington Street
Mr. Roe
Edward
Martin Barrett
A. D. Young
A. F. Graeter
John F. Bishop
D. E. Metlen
Craig Cornell
James Mansfield
J. B. Poindexter
A. L. Stone
Goodwin T. Paul
Thomas J. Mulaney
T. D. Olmsted
W. A. Graeter
Colorado
Jefferson Territory
Roe
Denver
Gregory
Salmon River Country
Idaho Territory
Montana
Salmon City
Idaho
Timothy Goddell
Deer Lodge
Bannack
Old City
Grasshopper Creek
Salt Lake City
Isaac
Iowa
Feed Lots in Big Hole Filling Rapidly for Winter Cattle
Jacob A. Louk of Wisdom in the Big Hole basin reports a rapid fill of feed lots with fat cattle across Idaho Oregon and Washington. He notes Anaconda buyers shipping large eastern Montana herds to supply Big Hole buyers and predicts four thousand head remain to fill the basin as pastures are excellent. Louk plans a trip to Buenos Aires to seek foreman work in cattle raising.
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Jacob A. Lonk
Wisdom
Big Hole Basin
Dillon
Northwest Pacific Coast
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Mr. Louk
Anaconda
J. E. Shaw
Bristow
Bozeman
Gallatin County
Wenger and Montgomery
Montana
Yellowstone
Mr. Look
Louk
Buenos Aires
Beaverhead County
United States
Walsh
the Tribune
Miller Gets Eighteen Months For Forgery In Dillon
Robert Miller pleaded guilty to forgery in district court last Saturday. Judge J B Poindexter sentenced him to eighteen months in the state prison. Miller, afflicted with tuberculosis, had just completed a sentence at Leavenworth federal prison and was brought back to Dillon by Sheriff D W Irwin. He was then sent to Deer Lodge the same day.
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Robert Miller
Dillon
J. B. Poindexter
Miller
Poindexter
Leavenworth
Kansas
D. W. Irwin
Irwin
Deer Lodge
Lovell Families Return From Salmon City Trip
Two motorist parties finished a trip from Dillon to Salmon City and through the Lemhi valley. The Lovell group included John Lovell and wife and Mrs. Harry Geer of Salt Lake, while the other party carried William Lovell his wife and daughter Agatha and Mrs. Phillip Lovell. They left Dillon Friday evening and returned Sunday. The Lovell brothers bought sheep during the journey.
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Salmon City
Lemhi Valley
John Lovell
Harry Geer
Salt Lake
William Lovell
Agatha
Phillip Lovell
Dillon
Lovell Brothers
Bank mourns loss of founding vice president Mr Roe
The bank announces the death of its longtime vice president and acting head, a founder of the institution. It notes fourteen years of partnership, praises his prudent leadership and kind heart, and resolves to close for his funeral while recording the resolution.
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Roe
M.baznett
Dry farming hailed as success by Montana official
J B Nelson Montana state dry farming superintendent arrived from Spokane to report on the season at the station. He cites alfalfa 1640 pounds per acre and 2100 for drilled alfalfa as well as oats flax and wheat yields, asserting dry farming proves successful in the valley and predicting Spokane will exceed state station averages.
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J.B. Nelson
Montana
Spokane
Mr. Nelson
Nelson
Helena Indepen
ER Murray Delbert Longtin and WW Hayward Motored to Pate
ER Murray Delbert Longtin and WW Hayward were reported to have traveled to Pate in a postwar era locale. The item notes their participation in a local motor trip with no further details provided.
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ER Murray
Delbert Longtin
Hayward
Pate
Wyoming Outlaw Whitney Linked to Arrest in Salt Lake City
Irwin reports sheriff Ed Hansen of Lincoln County Wyoming offered a large reward for the capture of the Whitney brothers the Wyoming outlaws. A circular with a goat photo and descriptions circulated to police in Salt Lake City and Provo. A man calling himself Joseph Gabriel 28 was arrested in Salt Lake City matching the Whitney photo but claims to be Gabriel and denies being Whitney.
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Irwin
Ed Hansen
Lincoln County
Wyoming
Winey Brothers
Rothers
Garley Whitney
Salt Lake City
Utah
Hugh Whitney Orsted
Salt Lake Tribune
Hugh Whitney
Salt Lake
Notoriis
Joseph Gabriel
Continent
First
South and West Temple
Richard Beynon
Whitney
William Kidd
Oregon
Spencer
Dubo
Idaho
Cokevie
Galerie
Witney
San Antonio
Tex
Althugh
Beynon
Kate Gabriel
Pat Worth
Texas
Carl A. Carism
Gabriel
Jaby
Kate
Frisco
Prisco
Whitney Ith
Geater
Beaverhead Rabble Shipping 18000 Lambs to Eastern Market
Beaverhead sheep raisers move 21 carloads of lambs in a week headed for Chicago and other eastern markets. O M Best loaded 42 cast lambs for Chicago with 1000 head in the shipment at $2.50 to $3.00 per animal. Bithwell of Boise bought the entire lot. N S Ring of Beaverhead Ranch Co will ship 7000 lambs to Billings then on to Chicago.
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Best
Monida
Chicago
Selway Sheep Company
Best and
Irvine
Bithwell
Boise
Idaho
John Ewing
Barretts
N. S. Ring
Beaverhead Ranch Company
Charles McDaniels
Billings
McDaniels
Ring
Fourteen Pound Trout Caught in Beaverhead County
Frank Knotts nabbed a 14 pound 2.5 ounce cut throat native trout at Mrs Hansen's lake in the upper Centennial valley. The 31 inch long fish weighed 18 inch around and was landed on a 3.5 ounce bam boo rod with a number four royal coachman. Charley Price also landed a 10 pound steel head trout on a spinner as part of a party including Adolph Ellit Frank Ellit C R Price and Albert Featherly. The catch will be exhibited at the state fair in Helena for Montana to see.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Knotts
Beaverhead
Fred Oliver
Helena
Montana
Boston firm maps Elkhorn and French Gulch development
The Boston and Montana Development Co of Butte aims to develop Elkhorn and French Gulch southwest of Butte with engineers making surveys and mappings while surveyors chart the Butte Wisdom and Pacific railroad to reach the districts. Mining inspector William Walsh finds the districts promising, likening them to early Butte prospects. Davison Co of Boston serves as eastern representative.
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Boston and Montana Development Company
Butte
Elkhorn
French Gulch
Butte, Wisdom and Pacific
Silverbow
Deer Lodge
Beaverhead
Big Hole Basin
William Walsh
Montana
Davison Co
State Street
Boston
Contractor Reed Accelerates Training School Construction
Construction on the new training school building moves quickly with recitation rooms and the auditorium on the ground floor partitioned off. Electricians and plumbers have worked for a week, and last Tuesday a worker narrowly escaped serious injury when the elevator he rode dropped about forty feet while a brick wheelbarrow was moved off it.
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Reed
Geer On Semiannual Trip
Martin Innis a popular salesman for Bliel Brothers left last Friday on his semiannual district trip through the region. He is expected to visit several towns and meet with customers along the route before returning home.
Beaverhead County Board in Sept 1913 Session
Beaverhead County Commissioners met September 2 1913 with H C Patterson C W Francis Theodore Nelson and Jay S Baker present. They approved June and August minutes audited claims and set bids for county printing medical attendance coal and jail services.
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Board of County Commissioners
Beaverhead County
Montana
H. C. Patterson
C. W. Francis
Theodore Nelson
Jay S. Baker
Board of Equalization
Board of
County Commissioners
Campbell
Murray's Hospital
Chas. Martin
Martin
John Toomey
Poor Farm
Idaho Bridge Company
Bedrock Bridge
W. T. George
John Sorenson
Horse Prairie Creek
Desmond's
John Stefanich
C. C. Barnett
William Ellis
Distret No. 2
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Margaret Shineberger
Philadelphia
Miss Shineberger
Joseph Shineberger
Edward B. Roe
Pacific Coast
Bey
Donnell
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nan AS. Whitney
Joseph Gabiel
Elkhorn and
Butte Company
County ‘Board
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