Great Northern extension pushes toward Spokane Falls
The Great Northern works extend main line toward the Pacific from Fort H to Spokane Falls, with grading and surfacing moving rapidly. Contractors expect completion by September 1, opening an open route to the sea and boosting northern Montana railroad facilities and regional development.
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Hart
Forth
Pacific
Bank Creek
Flathead Country
Marias Pass
Spokane Falls
Great Northern
Montana
Sahara
Gras
Garden of Eden
Eve
Sanders Indian policy viewed as radical shift for plains supporters
The piece argues Republican candidate Sanders would replace current Indian policy with daily rations, farmland for tribes, and gun restrictions to curb violence, claiming it would cost time but save lives and long-term funds. It notes court disputes over Helena Street Railroad injunctions and Bozeman’s bid to remain the state capital, reflecting regional political debates.
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Republican War Horse
West
Republican Party
Sanders
Missouri
Columbia
Colorado
Acats
State Supreme Court
Tue Messexare
Galbraith
Helena Street Railroad Company
Main Street
Hunt
Frank Lankford
Lankford
Supreme Court
Jalbraith
Townsend Messenger Debuts From Judge J C Kerley
The Townsenp Messenger, edited by J C Kerley, begins in Townsend Meagher County as an independent conservative paper. Readers hear praise for Kerley’s journalism and local knowledge, with notes on circulation offers and strong local support from Montana press.
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J. C. Kerley
Townsend
Meagher County
Kerley
The
Independent
Frank Kenyon
Kerley, McQuade & Hathaway
West Side
Montana
McQuid
Hathaway
North-West
Capt. Mills
New North- West
Townsenp Messenger
Missouri Valley
Messencer
Tax Townsexp Messencer
Colum
J.C. Kerley
Messexcen
Richmond
River Press
Tz Messexcer
Glendive
Millions of Stray Letters Prompt Post Office Notice
The Washington post office announces that over 6 million pieces of mail reached the dead letter office in the past year due to incorrect or illegible addresses, insufficient postage, or insecure gumming. Daily about 20,000 pieces are lost, causing major inconvenience.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Treasury
Militia supply issues and county line talk in Montana
Montana notes report militia companies lacking required supplies since May. Livingston reports mass temperance pledges while a fatal Granite mine accident is recorded. J. Myers dies after a fall, and a bizarre passenger lamp anecdote ends with a whimpering line after a train door mishap.
Twilight on the Alleghany Express and Fifty Years Ago Notes
A Pittsburg Dispatch fragment recalls a midnight excursion with couples in a dim car and flickering lamps. It also surveys fifty years of progress from daguerreotypes to steam engines, rail spike machines, and abolitionist milestones across the United States.
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Pittsburg
Ohio
Sle
Adam
Eve
Alleghany
France
Massachusetts
Missouri
Nauvoo
United States
John C. Freemont
Jessie Benton
David L. Child
Northampton
Mais
John Baily
Central America
John Ericsson
Goodyear
India
Comer Commercial College of
Boston
Georgia
Mississippi River
Washington Society
District of Columbia
Cilley-Graves
Sirus
Great Western
New York Harbor
New York
Chicago
Buffalo
Joseph A. Adams
E. B. Bigelow
Whig Party
Harrisburg
William Henry Harrison
Henry Burden
Troy
N. Y
Maine
Vermont
Wisconsin
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Helena Land Office Warns Owners to Claim Old Patents
The Helena land office holds at least a thousand patents ready for owners, some long unclaimed. Owners should retrieve and file them to prevent loss. November cash receipts at Helena land office exceeded nineteen thousand dollars with agricultural lands selling ten thousand five hundred acres and four hundred eighty seven mineral. The piece notes Hooper’s Cape Horn diving feat with seven descents to two hundred feet and forty two minutes underwater, claiming the known depth record at two hundred ten feet.
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John Anderson
Register of the
United States Land Office
Missoula
Ile
Urban Masur
Fritz Bullinger
Cokedale
Livingston
William Brennen
Bitter Root
New Northwest
A. G. Staton
Anaconda
Deer Lodge
Jefferson County
Eugene Riley
Elliston
Quigley
Hamilton
Riley
Warm Springs
T.C. Power & Bro
Benton
River Press
Irm
The
Chateau County
Power
Helena Land Office
Helena
Cape Horn
South America
Hooper
Remembering an Aged Prophet in Sunday School
A Chicago Tribune Sunday school scene recalls a lesson on reverence for the elderly. A small boy and an elder discuss the fate of youths who mocked a prophet, the punchline focusing on the remark I must forget and the boys asking where the prophet got his hat.
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Chicago Tribune
Tommy
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Bozeman
Messencen
the Messenger
Tae Towxsixp
Northweet Tribune
Northwest News
New States
Butte
Granite Star
Granite
John Myers
Meyers
W. H. Biewett
Losheim
Besirk Trier
Merzig
Germany
Granite Miners’ Union
Philipsburg
George
London
Prince of Wales
Messenger
Townsend, Mont
Bill Heads
W.e.tierney & CO
Baxter
Establishment For Sale
Berg Brothers
AND
Lion Coffee
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