Beav er Hides Theft Leads to Fine in Great Falls
Great Falls May L Joseph Theibes Jr fined $100 after pleading guilty to illegally possessing 10 beaver hides at the Pacific Hide and Fur depot. Sheriff’s probe tied to recent robbery of the Pacific Fur depot. furs valued at $500, including beaver skins and a lynx pelt, were stolen.
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Great Falls
May
Joseph Theibes, Jr
Justice of the Peace
C. A. Wilson
Pacific Hide and Fur Depot
Fourth Street
Thetbes
A. D. Roushar
Tom Norton
Pacific Fur Depot
Norton
Steve Cherwond
Browning
Goldberg Hide and Wool Company
Helena
Chernowd
Dave Bright
Helena Fur Company
Cherwond
Bright
Pacific Depot
State Fish and Game Department
Nortor
Pacific
Theibes
Jefferson Co Mine Turns Out Rich Ore
Assays from Washoe smelter and Lewis and Walker of Butte show high gold and bismuth content in Bob Hill ore seven miles west of Bernice in Jefferson county. Owned by Sam McGowan with Butte investors, the mine has yielded little at the surface but recently tapped deep intervals revealing high grade values. A crew is shipping ore as the road nears the site. bismuth quotes were about 1.95 per pound.
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Butte
Tor
Washoe
Anaconda
Lewis and Walker
Bobb Hill
Bernice
Jefferson County
Sam McGowan
Butte Men
Ranger
Bob Hill
Montana
Anaconda Company
Campbell Reports Another Gusher Near Ready to Go
Great Falls May 1 Royal Canadian No 2 26 35 3 w second well in a series drilled by the Royal Canadian syndicate production expected momentarily says Gordon Campbell field manager who arrives in Great Falls for trial opening in federal court today Royal Canadian No 1 came in last Friday tamed down Thursday morning after oil shot over the top the night before Production is estimated at 300 barrels daily oil tests 37 gravity greener lighter no sulphur Campbell says more wells planned as part of an extensive development program in the coming months
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Great Falls
Royal Canadian
Campbell
Road Supervisor Killed by Dynamite Blast
Kaispell May 1 L C Thompson of Swan Lake road above Bigfork was killed by a dynamite blast around noon Wednesday while working with a crew on the Bigfork area road. Details unclear. his body reportedly mangled. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Kaispell
L. C. Thompson
Swan Lake
Bigfork
Sheriff's Office
Thompson
Swede Murphy Shy as Gambling Cases Are Called
In Butte on April 37 reform leader Swede Murphy failed to appear for hearings on four gambling cases led by him with a Citizens' committee. The four defendants A J Darragh George Smith Charles Nelson and Ernest Lester were released on $100 bonds. Judge Buckley dismissed the charges exonerating bonds as prosecutors seek contempt against Murphy for not obeying the subpoena.
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Murphy
Butte
May
A. J. Darragh
George Smith
Charles Nelson
Ernest Lester
T. E. Downey
Mr. Murphy
South
Colorado Street
Joe Kelly
Reform
Buckley
University Radio to Aid Forest Fire Fighting
Missoula May 1 KUOM the University of Montana broadcasting station will help prevent forest fires this summer. In cooperation with the State University School of Forestry it will relay rain wind and humidity conditions to state receivers and 30 stations directing 3000 smoke chasers rangers and firefighters. The new radio rule is expected to reduce fire dangers and losses.
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Missoula
KUOM
University of Montana
School of Forestry
The
State University
Deer Lodge Social Notes Brighten Up May Day Visits
In Deer Lodge on May 1 Mrs. W L Rose and Mrs. Nellie Stagg visited the Stagg home in Butte. Mrs Mollie Mitchell spent the week in Butte. Mr and Mrs Charles A Belk visited relatives in Butte. Mrs Minnie Lindsay of Butte stayed with her sister Mrs Charles A Belk and family. Mrs R K Larabie visited Mrs John Alexander in Butte. Mrs John Lister, who was here last weekend, returned to Missoula. Others from Garrison and Anaconda joined local visits.
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Deer Lodge
Mont
W. L Rose
Nellie Stagg
Frank Stagg
Butte
Mollie Mitchell
Charles A. Belk
Buttte
Minnie Lindsay
R. K. Larabie
John Alexander
John Lister
Missoula
Forest Risken
Langdon Rivers
Howard Denton
Anaconda
Otto Gherdts
Mattie Anderson
Arthur Wardell
Lorene Speer
Garrison
Locomotive Engineer Emil Morin Found Dead in Anaconda
Anaconda May 1 Emil Morin a former locomotive engineer aged 64 was found dead in his room at the Leland hotel by landlady Mrs F Butler after he failed to rise by 10 this morning Coroner Barney McGreevey decided no inquest was needed death believed natural Morin a Canadian native had lived in Anaconda 38 years and worked in the B A and P shops He suffered a recent attack of the flu and friends fear he did not fully recover.
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Anaconda
Emil Morin
F. Butler
Leland Hotel
Morin
Canada
B. A
Park County Pioneer to Write Book on State History
Park county pioneer George A. Bruffey, in his eighties, has agreed to write a book detailing early Montana history. Friends urged him to preserve memories of Treasure State growth from after Jim Bridger era, noting his firsthand recollections of early arrivals and state development.
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Livingston
Treasure State
George A. Bruffey
Park County
Montana
Jim Bridger
Mr. Bruffey
Fort Peck Indians to Receive 1.8 Million in Land Purchases
The Interior Department announces 1,879 purchasers on the Fort Peck Indian reservation in Montana owe a total of 1,796,349.23 dollars for lands opened to white settlers. Under a new act, half may be paid by November 1925 and the rest by November 1926 plus five percent interest. If payments lag, land reverts to the reservation and funds go to the tribal account.
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Washington
Fort Peck
Montana
Interior Department
Congress
General Land Office
Glasgow
Inian Reservation
Dry Agents Capture Large Beaverhead County Still Near Dillon
Sheriff Dan Mooney and two federal agents seized a 75 gallon moonshine kettle on the Enoch Young ranch north of Dillon. Oscar Garner and Young were arrested and arraigned on ownership and manufacture charges, pled not guilty and were bound over to district court on $500 bonds. About 350 gallons of mash destroyed. no finished product found. The still was hidden in a cellar, with a large sewer coil weighing nearly 60 pounds.
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Dillon
Dan Mooney
Butte
Beaverhead County
Enoch Young
Young
Oscar Garner
Justice Court
Judith Basin Gets Highway Equipment
Judith Basin county is rapidly accumulating a complete outfit for building gravel surfaced roads. The latest addition is a rock crusher to be used in road work once contractors finishing the courthouse project have finished crushing rock for concrete. The Utica to Hobson road will be graveled this year and plans for next year include graveling the Custer Battlefield Hiway through the county.
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Stanford
Judith Basin
Court House
Utica
Hobson
Custer Battlefield
County funds repaid after bank suspension by surety
Townsend May 1 a county settlement on the First National bank depository bond ended with Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland and U S Fidelity and Guaranty Company paying nearly 31 000 to cover the county’s deposit and interest. The two bonding firms were sureties on a 33 000 bank bond. County Attorney Frank T Hooks and County Treasurer John Doherty oversaw the settlement at a board of commissioners meeting with state managers C A Drummond and G B Eccles.
Mondak State Bank Moves to Fairview in Montana
Mondak State Bank seeks relocation to Fairview in Richland county, with operation to begin June 1 after banking department approval. Director meeting May 22 approves final formalities before the move. The bank, long led by Bert Newcomb, shifts from Mondak to Fort Union heritage and becomes a ghost town memory.
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Sidney
Mondak State Bank
L. W. Thompson
Fairview
Lower Yellowstone
Richland County
Thompson
State Bank
Bert Newcomb
Mondak
Fort Union
Fur
Basin News: May 1 local notes from Basin Idaho and beyond
Tom Parker and Frank Aiken head to Macey for Ford camps. Art Connors returns from Butte. families travel between Basin and Boulder Springs. August Freeburg returns from Minnesota stay. Adeline Loiselle visits for the summer. Various residents visit Butte for work or errands as flu concerns spread. Yale president Hadley condemns the eighteenth amendment as infringement on liberty. A Scot wills $500 for a monument to his cat.
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Anderson
Butte
J. F. Mercer
Helena
Frank Lydig Wen
MacAfee
Ed Johnson
Vera Jackson
Mike Antonovich
Art Moran
Hallie Comeau
Boulder
Charlie Griswald
Joseph Mott
Matt Kasola
Oscar Carlson
Lou Boyer
John Brutte
Great Northern
August Grunert
F. L. Melcher
Jesse C. Gibson
Methodist Aid Society
Gloria and Dick Begin Married Life With Luxury Dreams
Gloria Gordon, intent on wealth through marriage to Dick Gregory, enjoys a lavish honeymoon with fine restaurants, travel, and shopping. Dick reads and yearns for quiet, while Gloria pursues status, pressing for an expensive Siberian squirrel fur coat. He agrees to buy it after a tense moment.
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Gloria Gordon
Dick Gregory
Gloria
Richard Gregory
Patterson Street
Fed Board Deliberates Settlers Relief for Huntley Project
Billings May 1 The federal board of survey and adjustment led by Dr. John Widtsoe resumed a hearing on Huntley project settlers plea for relief from construction and maintenance charges on about 10,000 acres of land unlikely to yield under current conditions. They seek exemption from $82,000 in charges and government funding to complete irrigation on the Eastern and Fly Creek divisions.
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Billings
Federal Board of Survey and Adjustment
John Widtsoe
Utah Agricultural College
Huntley Project
Ballanting
Fly Creek
Arrest a Rancher on Charge He Shot Neighbor's Cattle
Big Timber May 1 Gust Myer stal a Boulder rancher was arrested Tuesday on complaint of Ralph Wagner a neighbor. It is alleged Myerstal shot certain of Wagner s cattle with a shotgun. He was arraigned before Justice T G Shipton yesterday afternoon and furnished bonds in the sum of 750 to appear in court May 16. He is charged with a misdemeanor.
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Big Timber
Gust Myerstal
Boulder
Ralph Wagner
Myerstal
Wagner
T. G. Shipton
Mrs Scanlon Dies In Superior Wisconsin
Word arrives that Mrs D Scanlon mother of 3 D Scanlon publisher of Miles City Daily Star died in Superior Wisconsin. Mr Scanlon was at her bedside when she passed away.
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Scanlon
Miles City
Superior
Wis
D. Scanlon
Officers Lose Track of Escaped Prisoner Billings
May 1 no trace of Joe Enright who escaped from Under sheriff J A Braught of Sheridan Wyoming by jumping from a car window at Corinth Monday night has been found by local officers Braught with Deputy Sheriff Art Balyean spent the day Tuesday in the vicinity of Corinth visiting sheep camps as well as farms in that locality but no one had seen or heard of anyone answering his description It is possible according to local officers that he may have run ahead and got on the train again near the engine or caught some train passing later Enright was being taken back to Sheridan from Great Falls to answer to a charge of stealing a car
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Enright
Sheridan
Great Falls
Montana Birth Rate Among Lowest In Nation
Washington May 1 census bureau data show 1924 births rising from 21.3 to 22.5 per 1000 while deaths fell from 12.4 to 11.9 per 1000. Montana rural birth rate 14.9 per 1000, Montana rural death rate 8.0 per 1000. National marriages 1923 1,224,373. divorces 165,226. marriage rate 16.22 per 1000. divorces per 1,000 married 3.60.
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Washington
Census Bureau
North Carolina
Montana
United States
More Bananas and a Cook Dominoed by Love
In a domestic comedy set amid fashion and quarrels, Gloria demands a cook as Dick Gregory defends finances and pride. A confrontation over money and status ends with a kitchen helper arriving, sparking renewed affection and playful reconciliation, then cliffhanger tease.
Will Contract for Seed Pea Acreage in Fergus County
May 1 Fergus County Lewistown The Chamber of Commerce reports Great Western Seed company will plant seed peas and beans near Lewistown this season. Field men will seek growers to contract and distribute seed. locals may leave names at the chamber. If successful, the project could boost this region and spur related industries.
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Fergus County
Lewistown
Chamber of Commerce
Great Western Seed Company
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