Abandonment Recommended for Kootenai River Improvement
Washington October 16 Senator T J Walsh was informed by the U S engineer’s office that federal improvement projects on the Kootenai River from five miles above Jennings Montana to the international boundary have been recommended for abandonment. The war department notes Congress authorized the report last March and funds were spent in 1898 1899 for rock removal above Jennings. A 1900 report said navigation was limited by a railroad and no future commerce justifies more expenditure. current activity is logs drifting to Bonners Ferry.
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Washington, D. C
T. J. Walsh
United States Engineer
War Department
Seattle
Wash
Kootena River
Jennings
Lincoln County
Montana
Basers Ferry
Dahn
Walsh
Congress
Kootenai
Bonners’ Ferry
Bridge Collapse Over Missoula River Tractor Driver Unhurt
A bridge two miles above Paradise on the Missoula river collapsed under a Caterpillar tractor engine weighing over ten tons. The tractor, part of Sanders county road equipment, was being moved to start work between Terma and Plains. The driver, named uthort, was unharmed. Removal will be difficult and Montana Logging sent teams to Superior fearing the wooden steel bridge would fail.
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Missoula
Missoula River
Paradise
Sanders County
Uthort
Montana
Raninr
Superior
Traveling Man Bumped by Train Near Finlen, Butte
E J Monahan, salesman for George Spillum Co, was injured when Olympian passenger train No W1 collided with his automobile on the Milwaukee Crosstrip near Finlen, a mile west of Gregson. He suffered two broken ribs and a bruised eye, was rescued, rushed to St James hospital, and reported not seriously hurt despite shock and a rapid improvement.
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Butte
E. J. Monahan
Galena Street
George Spillum Company
Olympian
Milwaukee Crosstrip
Finlen
Gregson
Monahan
Ourve
St. James’ Hospital
Wh Ho
Gremson
Tie
Geyser Converts Hotel Into Town Hall Project
The committee in charge of a new town hall at Geyser bought the old Geyser hotel and adjoining structures for a modern community hall. Work to begin in spring, with the hotel’s top floor used for dancing until then. The O'Hara estate sold the landmark, in memory of Pat O'Hara.
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Geyser
Det
Hulding
Rehaitee
O'Hara
Pat O'Hara
Shot Fired Through Window Hits Browning Merchant Home
John F. Pierce of Browning narrowly escaped a shotgun blast fired through a window at his home early Thursday. Edward LeFrance, a Great Northern employee, was arrested and jailed in Cut Bank on $5 bond, with a preliminary hearing set for Monday after an earlier confrontation over a bill.
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Browning
John Fi. Pierce
Edward LeFrance
Great Northern
Cut Bank
Pierce
LeFrance
Wild Geese Begin Annual Flight to Winter Quarters
Great Falls witnesses the southward migration as honking geese stream over Thursday night signaling summer's end. The autumn movement accompanies a storm sweeping from Canada bringing rain and snow to eastern points, while hunters prepare for the spring return and the coming season.
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Great Falls
Canadian
Rockies
Montana
9 Year Old Roan Cow at Brady Produces Ten Calves
Brady resident Hugh A. Rose, a surviving old time cowboy, owns a roan cow now nine years old that has yielded ten calves. Her offspring began with twins, then triplets, followed by two more sets of twins, the last arriving Sunday. All calves were normal and raised to maturity.
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Brady
Hugh A. Rose
Montana
Mr. Rose
Indiana
Herschel Watkins
Im Xual
Filer
Watkins
Fred Abbadusky
Abbadusky
Maxine Watkins
Maxine
Debind
Antonio
Masine Watkins
Well Known Surgeon Takes an Operation
Improvement noted in the condition of Dr. T. C. Witherspoon of Murray hospital after gall bladder surgery. He was stricken suddenly and underwent immediate operation yesterday morning. Although listed as serious, officials expect a rapid recovery.
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Butte
T. C. Witherspoon
The
Murray Hospital
Witherspoon
O Connell Horn Sheep Drive And Forest Guests At Watson
Frank O Connell of Helena led the O Connell Horn herd up Rock Creek after a late season snowstorm and fog delayed the move. Jeff Doggett and his mother Mrs Susan Doggett traveled the range, their car sliding into a ditch before assistance arrived. Cattle from Jeff Doggett moved toward the Missouri valley as the drive passed under Lars Dorheim and Ed McKay supervision with Ranger Thompson hosting Forest Service guests A W Abbott and Bert Goodman. The hunting season opened with deer likely to be slaughtered after salt licks noted at the Wats salt troughs.
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Watson
Frank O'Connell
Helena
Rock Creek
O’connell-Horn
Jeff Doggett
Susan Doggett
Benton Hill
James Doggett
Grandma
Jeff
Port Logan
Missouri Valley
Lars Dorheim
Ed. McKay
Whin
Thompson
Wats
Fergus Association of Poultry Growers Formed at Lewistown
Ferguson County poultry business grows into a real industry with eastbound carload shipments. The Fergus County Poultry Growers association formed in Lewistown with Mrs. Charles Baird as president and Mrs. John Marshall as secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Baird will attend a Great Falls meeting Saturday. another Fergus County meeting will follow in Lewistown.
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Lewistown
Fergus County Poultry Growers Association
Charles Baird
John Marshall
Danvers
Baird
Great Falls
Fergus County
Section H and Killed by Freight at Half Moon Station
Kalispell Oct 16 Gilbert Pa Fingsbo 51 known as Gilbert Paulson was killed Tuesday afternoon by a westbound freight train just west of Half Moon station He was a section laborer for Great Northern with a crew of five cleaning cinders from the track when a westbound and an eastbound freight passed simultaneously The whistle was drowned by the other train and Paulson failed to step back before the engine struck him His body was mangled
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Kalispell
Gilbert Pa Fingsbo
Gilbert Paulson
Half Moon Station
Paulson
Great Northern
Parlson
Prospector Found in Cabin Stricken by Paralytic Stroke
Townsemi resident Patrick A. Komer, a prospector near Hassel, was brought to Townsend on Wednesday evening after suffering a paralytic stroke. He is in his sixties, with the entire left side affected and believed to have been incapacitated for several days.
Jordan Denied Daily Winter Mail Service
Miles City. Qet. 16 The application by residents of Nrndau Garfield county 19 miles north of Utis city with no railroad facilities for a daily winter mail sail service has been rejected by the post office department at Washington. The denial cites insufficient business or patronage to justify the added service. The department says when the four year contract is let in March 1926 the winter daily service will be reconsidered.
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Miles City
Qet
Nnrdau
Garfield County
Utis City
Post Office Department
Washington
Marcel
Dodson Potato Cellar Construction Started
R L Bailey of Wagner started work on a new potato warehouse in Dodson on the Great Northern right of way. Built by McGilvra & Larsen, the 10 carload capacity shed supports their first large beet shipment to Chinook. P M Wilson delivered the first beet load to the new dump. Edgar Tee is weighmaster for the sugar company.
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Dodson
R. L. Bailey
Wagner
McGilvra & Larsen
Great Northern Railway
P. M. Wilson
Edgar Tee
Sugar Company
Townsend News highlights and visitors visit town
Town visitors include Mr and Mrs Floyd Johnson of White Sulphur Springs and Billy Mitchell of Hassel. Ben Bembrich and George Van Fleate from Bozeman and Helena stop by on business. Hooth ranch accident injures rider when horse fell. Catholic ladies host second card party. Mrs James F E Ward and Attorney Frank Hooks win. John Schmit injures toe at Meyers ranch. physician attends. Glenn McPherson from Helena makes a business call.
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Townsend
Floyd Johnson
White Sulphur Springs
Billy Mitchell
Hassel
C Hargrave
Helena
Ben Bembrich
Hooth Boys
George van Fleate
Bozensan
Falls From Box Car With Steel Injures Belgrade Farmer
Belgrade October 16 Charles Jordan a farmer near Belgrade escaped death last Saturday while unloading railroad steel from a boxcar at Deer Park. He fell onto a pile of steel injuring his arm and a leg. He was taken to Thedford Forks hospital where surgeons operated placing a steel piece in the leg. Jordan worked for the railroad company only a few days and his condition is serious but not critical. his face was bruised from the fall.
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Belgrade
Charles Jordan
Deer Park
Theed Forks
Jordan
First Butte Victim of 1925 Hunting Season
In Butte on October 16 John Burke 18 of 2210 Walnut Street became the area’s first 1925 hunting season casualty. While small game hunting in the Eighteen Mile district he dropped a buckshot loaded gun, causing a discharge that struck his leg. Two companions aided him to the road. a passing motorist took him to St James hospital where Dr Kane removed several buckshot pellets. The leg sustained severe burns and additional pellets may remain.
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Butte
John Burke
Walnut Street
Eighteen Mile
Young Burke
St. James’ Hospital
Kane
Burke
Miles Area Ships Out 100000 Bu of Wheat
Miles City report notes over 302000 bushels of wheat delivered to the local market in the Miles City district. Average price this season is 128 per bushel versus 120 last year, with growers earning about 180% more so far. About one third of the crop has reached market as farmers wait for higher prices.
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Miles City
Mairket
Leading Negro Church in Chicago Bombed
The Bethesda Baptist church, the southside Negro district’s largest community center, was wrecked by a dynamite blast early today. Estimated damage runs to $100,000 with no injuries or fire reported. The church, bought by the Negro congregation after vacating a former synagogue, had been bombed two years earlier amid racial prejudice accusations.
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Chicago
Bethesda Baptist Church
Southside
Tte
Gorilla of Note Settling in United States
Paris reports Africa's gorilla immigration quota may be filed as Mister Conn plans to settle in New York near Meux aboard the Homeric after being captured by Benjamin Burbridge of Jacksonville. Congo, a four year old male, is one of few outside his native forests. another youngster went to Antwerp zoo. Also notes Father Moreux's autumn forecasts and seismic predictions, Swiss waiters speed service in Paris, and Hubert de Wiart’s voyage to Johns Hopkins Page School with Belgian diplomatic ties and ancestry.
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Paris
Africa
Mister Conn
Mreux
New York
United States
Mister Congo
Benjamin Burbridge
Jacksonville
Florida
Mr. Burbridge
Antwerp Zoo
Abbe Moreux
Father Moreux
Boulveard Des Traiiens
Walter Hines Page
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
Hubert Garton de Wiart
Henri Garton de Wiart
Belguing
Page School
Wilson
Hubert de Wiart
Baron de Wiart
Leopold Tladd
Societe General
Belgium
Martians Find Home Brew Gas Station Modern
Pasadena reports from Dr Charles St John Mount Wilson Observatory that home brew is a necessity on Mars if life requires moisture. Mars water is about one twentieth that of Southern California mountains. oxygen is around one percent of Earth's at Everest. Mars may have heat similar to Earth thanks to sun exposure. Nashville notes gasoline stations replace toll gates, charging motorists three cents a gallon. tolls funded highway construction as Tennessee builds modern roads. Population center shifts cited: 1900 six miles SE of Columbus, 1910 Bloomington, 1920 53 miles SE of Spencer.
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Tennessee
Pasadena
Cal
Associated Press
Mars
Charles
John
Mount Wilson Observatory
St. John
California
Mount Everest
Wimalayas
Nashville
Tenn
Illine Station
The
United States
Columbus
Bloomington
Spencer
Gains in business show broad improvement across sectors
New York reports a Dun's survey predicting continued fall season progress. Gains are widespread with steel industry strength, higher output, and rising markets. Metal trades rise with steel, New England shoe factories book more contracts, colder weather boosts retail dry goods and clothing sales, and dealers increase purchases to meet growing demand. Bank clearings reach 8,102,913.
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New York
Dun's
New England
Bankc
Fair Wool Trade Shows Rising Prices in Week's Market
The Commercial Bulletin notes softer overall volume in wool transactions this past week but reports a fair level of business with rising prices. Reading by Fingland in Melbourne signals stronger demand. Bradford, Australia influences a firmer tone. Domestic and international fleece quot es show mixed firmness across Merino and other lines with modest declines in some Texan and Californian lots.
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Rosten
Australia
Bradford
Fingland
Melbourne
Mabalo
Texas
Gregan
Mohal
Roberts Sees Long Prosperity For United States
Columbus Ohio October 8 API George J Roberts vice president National City Bank New York said a long period of good business and restoration of normal price relations will continue in the United States He spoke before the Financial Advertisers convention noting improved agricultural conditions and the absence of a crisis if European industry regains momentum He was absent as I G Medina of National City Bank read the paper indicating Roberts believes the nation will not falter while Europe recovers
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Columbus
Ohio
George J. Roberts
National City Bank of New York
United States
I. G. Medann
Wlao
National City Bank
National City Bank. In Mr. Roberts
Br. Roberts
Dynamite near Kalispell accident ends with no injuries
In Kalispell on October 16 M. Knapp collided near the courthouse with Louis Fehlberg driving a runabout carrying two dynamite boxes and dynamite tags. Both cars were wrecked but no one was hurt. The incident followed a trip from Big Fork where Knapp left G. Marken. A separate item notes a Minnesota divorce suit over excessive radio use.
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Kalispell
Knapp
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