Montana man known as Whitey the Bum arrested in North Dakota
John Kraft alias Whitey the Bom, 32, long sought for two years, is jailed in Minot awaiting investigation as the alleged slayer of Westhope Marshal Carl Peterson. Sheriffs Spicer and Nichol affirm Kraft’s identity, while Kraft denies guilt and claims to have been working near Poplar, Montana. Peterson was shot during a 1922 burglary at Medaugh hardware store.
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Minot
N. D
John Kraft
Whitey the Bom
Carl Peterson
Westhope
Ward
Kraft
Poplar
Mont
A. S. Spicer
Nichol
Bottineau County
Whitey the Bum
Whitey the
Peterson
Kenmare
Marshal Peterson
Medaugh Hardware
Ill Health Drives Farmer to Self Destruction near Billings
William Stapleton aged 65 of Billings killed himself at 8 p m Sunday at Sam Mitchell ranch six miles west of the city by a double barreled 12 gauge shotgun. He had recently moved from Kansas with his family and had been ill. He left a wife and five children two sons Ross Willard Aulden and Cecil and a daughter Julia Laurel. Mitchel ls ranch hands found the body and coroner F M Smith declared it a self inflicted death.
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Billings
William Stapleton
Sam Mitchell
Stapleton
Corral
Kansas
Mitchell Ranch
Mitchell
Morstana
Mr. Stapleton
Addie Stapleton
Julia
Laurel
Ross
Willard
Aulden
Cecil
North Twentieth Street
Billings Gas Company
White Sulphur Springs Felt Seismic Shock
Great Falls reports a heavy earthquake shock in White Sulphur Springs at 7 45 Sunday morning lasting up to a minute. Buildings shook, dishes broke and residents rushed outside as a west to east tremor with accompanying rumbling terrified onlookers from surrounding ranches and mines. News noted felt reports from Roundup and Lewistown were lighter with no rumbling.
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Great Falls
White Sulphur Springs
Here
Lewistown
House Burns Down After Gasoline Stove Ignites
Columbus June 2 A longtime valley ranch home burned after a gasoline stove exploded near the chimney. Firefighters battled the flames from 7 30 pm until after midnight, saving the bunkhouse and milk house but the nine room residence was destroyed. The Samuel Graff family occupied the home and water buckets and extinugishers were used to combat the blaze.
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Columbus
Samuel Graff
Wat
Townsend News highlights and visits around Townsend
Towns people and visitors from Helena Missoula Radersburg and other nearby towns are listed with brief updates. Attitudes toward local sports show East Helena second team defeating Townsend 15 to 5. Personal movements include returns from Iron Mountain Pasadena and Spokane and many were in Helena for business or family events. Two men die in a car accident near Columbia Falls, a separate note from Whitefish.
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Townsend
John E. Connors
Helena
J. S. Connors
Ben Kates
Harold Allen
Troutman
Henry Guechman
Butte
James Gill
James Job
Dan Mahonen
Missoula
Bert Bentry
Toston
John Doughty
Radersburg
Henry
Ted Schreiner
Margaret Connors
Harold Livermore
Taston
East Helena
Delbert Brisbin
Iron Mountain
Mich
Godfrey Sullivan
Pasadena
Cal
W. E. Britton
Ray Williams
George Spoonamore
Spokane
Wash
Ralph
Marjory Gravely
James Perkins
Merl
James Marks
Gladys
Necklaces Urge Backward Trend Among Debs
The new necklaces trend toward backward wear, delaying progress. A curious mix of faux pearls and synthetic emeralds reaches to the wearer’s waist from the back, described as bold by observers. The smart debutantes are embracing the look despite mixed signals.
Gas Thief Sparks Panic At Dance In Columbus
After a thief left a gas cock open beneath Homer Hansén’s Ford at a Saturday dance, gasoline pooled and ignited when the owner struck a match. Flames shot toward a nearby schoolhouse as the crowd fled. Quick action moved cars away, sand was spread to smother the blaze, and only Hanson’s car and the owner’s burned hand suffered harm.
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Columbus
Homer Hansén
Hanson
Boy Drowns While Fishing in Slough
In Billings on June 12 11 or 12 year old Clarence Horsley nephew of Alvin Nelson died after falling from a log into a Sheridan Wyoming slough. He inhaled mud and water and died hours later at Sheridan county hospital. His elder brother Laverne and two Boy Scouts aided in recovering the body. burial planned at Mountview cemetery beside a relative who died in the influenza epidemic.
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Billings
Clarence Horsley
Alvin Nelson
Sheridan
Wyo
Mountview Cemetery
Wotker
H. R. Horstey
Burlington
Sheridan County Hospital
Laverne
Clarence
Martinsdale News Briefs From Meagher County Area
Meagher County notes Helena visitors F P Ed wards and son Gerald from White Sulphur Springs. F H Mayn clerk of the court seriously ill with flu. J W Potter in charge. Summers guests include S W Hess Corwin Springs, Dexter of Livingston, at W E Adams ranch near Ringling. White Sulphur Springs seniors earn 99 from class play Come Out of the Kitchen. Wool growers meeting attended after weekend travels by Sanford Holliday family and Mrs Chris Orness Delpine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsdale
F. P. Edwards
Gerald
White Sulphur Springs
Helena
F. H. Mayn
J. W. Potter
Mayn
W. Hess
Corwin Springs
Dexter
Livingston
W. E. Adams
Ringling
Sanford Holliday
Chris Orness
Delpine
Harlowton
Sam Chris tie of Gold Creek and region visitors noted
The Deer Lodge column records a string of visits and social activity on Decoration Day and during the weekend. Names include Sam Chris, Ray Wood, Arthur Wardall, A E Robinson, Miss Selah Bryant, Garnet Bryant, Selma and Alice Israel, Warren E Evans, Miss Ella Peterson, Sol Genzberger, Bert Mannix, Lou Boedecker, Sam Bignell, the Taylor children, Thomas Aspling, I S Eldred, Will Harris, Joseph Miller, and others from Mis soula Helena Butte Tacoma and Helmville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Lodge
Sam Christie
Gold Creek
Ray Wood
Missoula
Theoty
Arthur Wardall
Garrison
A. E. Robinson
Harry McMahon
Barbara
Warren E. Evans
Tacoma
Wash
Selah Bryant
Garnet Bryant
Selma and
Alice Israel
Lou C. Boedecker
Sam Bignell
Ella Peterson
Helmville
Taylor
Brown's Lake
Thomas Aspling
I. S. Eldred
Will Harris
Joseph Miller
Arthur
Pygmy Elephant Arrives in London From Congo Zoo
A full grown pygmy elephant, standing three feet eight inches, has arrived in London from the African Congo. The animal comes from the same region where pygmy men, hippopotami, and buffaloes are found.
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London
Congo
Africa
Youth helped by Woman's Club has criminal record
Arthur Carlson a 21 year old with a long California crime record is in Cascade county jail serving six months for burglary. California officials plan to detain him as a parole violator from San Quentin. Carlson gained clemency last summer after intervention by a Woman's club.
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Woman's Club
Great Falls
Arthur Carlson
Cascade County
R. K. West
California
Ray Gaunt
Carlson
San Quentin
Tom Norton
Norton
Gaunt
Young Carlson
Great Falls Commercial College
Bob Gordon
Montana
Los Angeles
State Motor Vehicle Department
Fresno
C. S. Morill
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Sacramento
Yegg Gang
Horse Falls on Him Breaking His Leg in Garncifl
Lewistown June 2 John L. Johnson a Garncifl farmer was brought to town Monday with a broken leg after a horse slipped and fell pinning his left limb. The bone split in two places above the ankle and the injury is described as serious. Dr E M Gans set the broken limb with Hilliard McDonald assisting.
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Lewistown
John L. Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Hilliard McDonald
E. M. Gans
Hubby Has Right to Punch My Eyes in Court
In Butte a police court scene featured Mrs. Dan Romanio claiming her husband may beat her. Her mother-in-law testified to insults and a punch that blackened the wife’s eye. The defendant spoke little as the wife acted as her own counsel. Judge Shea discharged the defendant, citing excessive influence from the mother-in-law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lsife
J. Schieff
Romania
Shea
Fish Poachers Fined $35 Each In Flint Creek Case
In a crowded court, Jack Kelly Ed Kelly Homer Hanson and Sam Brand were found guilty of taking fish from Flint creek above the state spawning station. Each defendant fined $35, released on $50 bond, ordered to pay in court. Deputy Warden McCaffery seized fish and cars. case follows another recent conviction. Washington dispatch notes oil and gas leases in Wyoming and Montana granted by the Interior Secretary after discovery, including a 1648 foot well producing 40 barrels daily and a 3967 foot well with 21 million cubic feet gas per day on a 1900 acre Wyoming lease to Hatfield Oil Co. Royalty 5-33 1/3 percent on gas and oil.
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Anaconda
Justice Henrold
Jack Kelly
Ed. Kelly
Homer Hanson
Sam Brand
Flint Creek
McCaffery
State Fish and Game Commission
J. R. C Keight
TF. P. Stewart
Washington
Associated Press
Wyoming
Montana
Secretary of the Interior
George Wilson
W. H. George
John G. Noren
Toole County
Kevin-Sunburst
Hatfield Oil Company
Carbon County
Crossword Puzzle From a Page of Short Word Clues
A compact crossword puzzle featuring short words with occasional longer terms. Horizontal clues include to deny enliven grief strange one of the Greek people ich yoke horses old fashioned chin covering special list of food what all boys wish to become wily warm within etc. Vertical clues list keeps metal in rock street car preposition of place beak frosts a cake unsubstantial thick shrub half an em etc. The grid references many clues: to deny, to enliven, to exist, to wager, to eat, and other common terms, with several numbered entries and mixed directions.
Governor General favors natives for public service posts
Manila May 7 Governor General Wood directs that natives of non Christian provinces such as Mindanao Moros and Igorotes be preferred for public service positions. He cites a trend to hire non natives and aims to raise contentment and benefits for these communities in a new policy.
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Manila
Associated Press
Wood
Mindanao
Bureau of
non-Christian Tribes
Ludurico Hidrosolle
United States
Highways Planned for Constriction This Year
Twenty five thousand miles of highways are scheduled for constriction this year. The plan highlights broad expansion and the aim to better connect regions, reflecting ongoing infrastructure efforts.
There Was a Reason Wife Have You Told the Cook
The exchange reveals a tired husband upset that the cook and her sweetheart dine with them, questioning propriety and fairness as the couple share the best food. The line comes from Vikingen in Christiania, illustrating domestic humor and social conflict.
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Vikingen
Christiania
Butte Auto Strikes Pedestrian Then Hits Streetcar
A speeding automobile struck a man crossing Park Street and hurled him onto the tracks at Park and Oklahoma, then continued east striking a streetcar. Gas Back, 453 East Broadway, about 28, was rushed to Murray hospital unconscious with a possible head fracture and mangled hand. Police and railway officials searched for the auto, and witnesses described a curtained touring car fleeing the scene.
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Ted Gerard
Murray, Hospital
Des, Anderson and Routledge
Alexander Pesenty
East Park Streets
Butte Electric Railway
Buck
Murray Hospital
Back
The
Badger Ming
New York
Jiggers Beat Dams In Craig Sunday Ball Clash
Craig's Jiggers defeated the Wolf Creek Dams 12 to 7 in a close fastball matchup. S Tacnettie started for Craig, Long finished, and Croft pitched well for Wolf Creek. The Jiggers, now five wins no losses, plan more games with Helena league teams and will host Helena Lindsay Fruit Co. on June 7 in Craig.
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Craig
Wolf Creek
Holter Dam
S. Tacnettie
Long
Croft
Dearborn Indians
Helena
Helena-Lindsay Fruit Company
Maw
Dillon
L. H. Smith
Morse Reed
Archie Craig
D. Marena
Naismith
Mont
Pullen
L. Routzhan
Great Falls
J. Stephenson
Nampa
Ida
H. F. Cochrane
Charles Evans
Cascade
Russell Smith
Beartooth
McGregor
F. du Sterling
Dismantling of Lehigh Coal Camp Begins
A crew removes tipples and buildings at Lehigh No 1 and No 2 mines as power lines are torn out and Great Northern removes tracks from Windham to Lehigh. The once thriving camp employing hundreds of miners will be abandoned, signaling the loss of several million dollars in investment. The decision was received at Lehigh last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford
Tipples and Company
Lehigh
Power Company
Great Northern
Windham
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Irgtire
Townsend News
Whitehsh
Thomas Hannigan
Jol McCloud
Columbia Falls
Slough
Meagher County News
H. Foster Bain
Bureau of Mines
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Sovenrs
Cleft
Philippines
Penn State
Ethel
Rite Care
James
WSL
GYUNG
CAMS
House of Commons
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