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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1894
Page
2
The April issue of The Townsend Messenger exposes county issues in Meagher county Montana. A letter to Commissioners accuses bias in road bid award and calls for reform while detailing costs, fire safety needs, and public accountability.
Opinion argues the salary law burdens taxpayers and yields no benefit. It urges retrenchment by cutting all county officer salaries first and calls for voter pledges from candidates to support such a measure.
The week witnesses widespread unrest as Coxey’s division seeks passage out of Butte. Union Pacific and Northern Pacific refuse transport, a captured N S train carries about 500 toward Washington before Marshals intervene at Billings. President orders militia. clashes injure three as army is redirected to Forsyth. James J Hill resists wage demands, threatening replacements if dollars do not meet costs. Montanans side with strikers over lodging and clothing burdens.
A school event is announced for Saturday April 6 at the Lower Duck Creek School with a basket social to follow. Miss Cora Brewer teaches there and the gathering invites teachers, parents, and townspeople to enjoy a friendly evening, with tickets for baskets drawn by number and no sales.
Crossed the Styx and died, Dr. Andrew Jackson Hunter, pioneer in Virginia City Helena and Diamond, Montana, a physician with mining and farming interests, once homebuyer in Bozeman. Also announced are the deaths of Bledse Austin near Bozeman after long residence in Kadersburg Bedford Philipsburg and Gallatin valley, aged 85, leaving a large family. Community sympathy pours in for Mrs Frank Rich and Mrs Leslie Wilcox among others.
Beginning March 25 the Union Pacific sells daily excursion tickets to California with return options. San Francisco round trip $75 with six month limit, Los Angeles round trip $80, six month limit, stopover privileges. Thirty day San Francisco round trip $2. Also continuous passage option. Ticket office No 28 North Main Street Helena Montana.
Co owner Oscar Spara warns T J Holeberg and J Reehtnitz and all interested parties to contribute their share of labor and improvements on four quartz lode mining claims in Jefferson County. If no further work and payment is made within ninety days after service, the undersigned will own all rights to the Queen Bee May Flower Rose Bed and Justice Quartz lodes by operation of law. First publication 25 1894.
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