A Bear as Is a Bear While the local ramrods are talking about hunting bear they should go to the store of the Tuttle Manufacturing company and see there displayed the hide of the king of all. Ursus Majoris it is in fact as well as name, and Read More
The defendant was convicted and fined in Missoula county for keeping open and maintaining a theater on Sunday, contrary to provisions of section 8369 of the Revised Codes. That section reads as follows: “Every person who on Sunday, or the first day of the week, keeps open or maintains or Read More
He Had a Gay Time Alex. Harley, a lumberman from Kendall’s saw mill, near Bonita, this morning filed a complaint before Justice Hayes charging a box-rustler in a resort of the city with robbing him of $35 in gold last night while he was under the influence of Read More
This office is in receipt of an interesting library of three volumes entitled “Report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate Relating to the Right and Title of William A. Clark to a Seat as Senator from the State of Montana.” Aside from Read More
An Unusual Amount of Wickedness – Yellowstone to Missoula 1883 by Col. John C. Tidball One of Missoula’s most famous visitors, ever, was Civil War General William T. Sherman, who came in 1883. On the trip of a lifetime, he was finishing his military career with a Read More
The two notices below, from April 2, 1900, signaled the beginning of Orchard Homes Ditch in Missoula. Notice to Contractors Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the undersigned until 5 o’clock p.m., April 4, 1900, for furnishing the materials and labor of all Read More
A SMALL TYPHOID EPIDEMIC By CAPTAIN LOUIS C. DUNCAN ASSISTANT SURGEON IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. The County of Missoula (Montana) is situated in the north-western portion of the state. The whole area is mountainous, the narrow valleys and canyons alone being inhabited. This Read More
TYPHOID SCOURGE CONTINUES Sister’s Hospital Has Received More Than Seventy Cases Typhoid patients continue to arrive at the local hospitals in increasing numbers, on some days as many as half a dozen being reported. The county generally has been unusually free from the sickness with the exception Read More
NO MORE VAUDEVILLE AT MISSOULA GRAND Beginning Sunday, June 4, the Grand theater will discontinue vaudeville and in its stead will present the very latest and best motion pictures, illustrated songs and travelogues. It is to be hoped that, under the new arrangement, the little theater will continue Read More
Below is the link to an article about Eugene Ely’s flights at Fort Missoula in 1911 – research by Don Spritzer: http://www.nrhc.org/history/Ely.html