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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1890
Page
2
J C Kerwey declares Townsend Messenger will be independent and critical of public servants, promote state resources and progress, and seek public support to sustain a financially non profitable venture. He promises to expose misdeeds, praise the faithful, and navigate challenges with experience and a steady effort.
Town residents near Helena sit on coal copper and metal ore prospects with Park and Beaver Creek districts nearby. Officials urge Missouri River canal to tap water for irrigation and boost Townsend as a grain producing valley while mobilizing business leaders to push two key projects. The Montana supreme court ruling on county tax fees could cut treasurer revenue and shift costs to the state.
The supreme court decided Messrs McBride Haldarn and Peter M Banum may continue to practice law in Montana despite earlier disbarment proceedings. The action contrasts with some medical disbarments and hints at future litigation over land titles tied to a new eastern entrant.
The November election produced a political shock as voters ousted the party in power. The piece credits public sentiment against bossism and tariff disputes, noting the McKinley tariff and silver coinage debates helped swing opinion. Carter’s previous majority is linked to the current surprise, with a capable successor named.
Kansas City reports Secretary Bair of the Cherokee Strip Live Stock association says within 30 days of ranchers leaving the strip, thieves from Oklahoma and Kansas will seize improvements valued at about half a million dollars unless rent troops are sent. The association’s suit against tenant J R Stoller ends with a jury for the plaintiff, upholding the lease and the Indians as owners, and the group plans to sue the United States for damages in the millions.
Joseph Nimmo Jr of the agricultural bureau at Washington D C visited Bozeman to study resources and irrigation in the arid region west of the hundredth parallel. He met Gen L S Wilson Peter Koch Caldwell Edwards J W Bogert and W W Alderson at the Bozeman National Bank for a two hour conference and gathered data on irrigation crops and land disposal policy.
Hannibal Mayhew a disabled Northern Pacific locomotive engineer is a candidate for sergeant-at-arms of the Montana house of representatives. He should receive Billy Field s influence and is likely to win the election.
The Butte Press campaigns against boxing in the Smoky City while reporting on a new Merchants Bank in Great Falls and a White Sulphur Springs electric plant franchise. It also discusses Yellowstone weather forecasts, cattle shipments, and a disputed Boulder forgery case, plus North Dakota and Montana population notes from the census and related commentary.
The Farmers Mutual Benefit National association met at Springfield Illinois on the twentieth instant and passed resolutions calling for patent law revision abolishing the national banking system and currency confined to gold silver copper and Treasury notes. It endorses government loans up to 1000 dollars per person on secured property at four percent interest and issues of U S bonds at par with two percent interest redeemable at holder option. The group also urged regulation of corporations by law.
Helena officials state the August 30 act caps land acquisitions at 320 acres across mineral desert and agricultural lands. The ruling settles a belief that desert land and timber acts allowed larger claims, a point earlier thought to be unchanged. Applications for more than 320 acres have already been received since the act took effect.
Hearing ordered at Lewistown on Ed ward M Jenizen’s homestead application for land Fergus county disputed as withdrawn or prewithdrawal entry. Also suit in Silver Bow Deer Lodge and Lewis and Clark counties vs Columbia Building and Loan for unlicensed business and back license payments totaling 45666.07 per county. Potatoes imagined as world’s seed. one tuber could repopulate Earth with tenfold growth in ten years.
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