Word: montes
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Joseph Moore Dixon of Missoula, Mont., to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Born of Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a Progressive, dabbled in many an insurgent movement. However he was not sufficiently irregular to defeat Democratic Burton Kendall Wheeler for the U. S. Senate last year...
...many as 60 bars, some as long as the Tiajuana bar, are erected each year for temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest...
Great Falls, Mont...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...
...Underhill Ph.D. '16 will speak on the ascent of the three Courmeyeur ridges of Mont Blanc at a dinner of the Harvard Mountaineering Club at the Harvard Union tomorrow night at 6.30 o'clock. Dr. Underhill is the first American to have climbed these three ascents, notorious for their length and difficulty, and which only one other man has ever surmounted. Other members of the Club will show slides and motion pictures at the dinner, tickets for which may be obtained from the secretary at 57 Westmorly Hall...