admin | May 31, 2012
The Anaconda Company announced it had quit the newspaper business in Montana on the first day of June in 1959. The company, one of the largest producers of non-ferrous metals in the world, sold its eight dailies in six cities to Lee Newspapers of Iowa for a reported $6 million. “Hello, Missoula!” began Lee’s greeting [...]
admin | March 21, 2011
A reader thought others might be interested to hear the story about the bodies that were found when the city was digging to lay the foundation for Rattlesnake School. On Oct. 14, 1992, a story written by Donna Syvertson appeared in the Missoulian. It was about a memorial at Rattlesnake School dedicated to the dead [...]
admin | February 21, 2011
Feb. 21, 1882 This was the day the first telephone exchange in Montana was installed in Butte by the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company. The event came exactly four years after the first genuine experiment with telephones in Helena. There were 14 subscribers to the Butte system, most of them businesses. Service was not immediately [...]
admin | January 24, 2011
This was in the Jan. 24, 1924, Missoulian, under the headline “1,000 At Missoula’s First Ice Carnival: Exceptional Weather Brings Out Large Crowd to Initial Rink Event” Missoula’s first skating carnival was a success. Any doubt in the matter will be settled affirmatively by the crowd of nearly one thousand that lined the circumference of [...]
admin | January 24, 2011
From the New York Times on Jan. 22, 1911, under the headline “Last Buffalo Hunt Now On: Michel Pablo Killing Off His Herd in Spite of Montana Authorities” CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21 – The last act of a spectacular deal is now being enacted on the plains of the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Michel [...]
admin | October 15, 2010
Oct. 15, 1864 Four Sisters of Providence arrive at Frenchtown, the first white settlement they’ve seen since leaving Walla Walla, Wash., some 400 miles ago. Mother Mary of the Infant Jesus and Sisters Mary Edward, Paul Miki and Remi have been called by Jesuit priests to open a boarding school for Indian girls at the [...]
admin | October 8, 2010
Oct. 8, 1921 Whiskey, moonshine, gin, wines, sherry and home brew are among the booty displayed in the automobile of Lloyd Wallace, assistant county attorney of Missoula. A truck is called in later to haul several other cases of liquors to county attorney Campbell’s cache in the courthouse during raids on illicit bootlegging operations in [...]
admin | October 6, 2010
Oct. 6, 1885 Fifty French-Canadian loggers hired by Bill Thompson, the future mayor of Butte, hike up a wooded canyon above the Hell Gate River and start felling trees. It sparks the bloodless Cramer Gulch war. The Hammond brothers, who operate mills in the vicinity, have already established a camp in the gulch near Beavertail [...]
admin | August 26, 2010
At 2:22 p.m. on Aug. 26, 1862, C.W. Spillman, horse thief, became the first man executed in what’s now Montana. Spillman was strung up from a tree near Gold Creek, which appeared on maps as Hangtown for years after. James Stuart, one of the town’s founders, described Spillman as “a rather quiet reserved pleasant young [...]
admin | June 8, 2010
We were in Milltown at the end of our last post. In just a few hundred yards, before you get to the churches and school at Bonner, turn right off Highway 200 onto Highway 210 through Piltzville. The Mullan Road tended to hug the base of the mountain tighter than the today’s highway does because [...]
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