Great Falls tribune., 1922-01-27
Yesterdays Questions Answered.

1.-Whisky was first introduced in
to what is now Montana in 1892 by
Pierre Chouteau. Congress shortly
before had enacted legislation forbid
ding the transporting of alcoholic bev-
erages to Indiana. Historians tell us
that Chouteau distributed the first
cargo of whisky in Ignorance of the
law.
2.-When the fur traders first came
to what is now Montana, the homes
and haunts of the various Indian
tribes We're:
The Assinniboines were to be found
in the Missouri valley from below the
mouth Of the Yellowstone (near the
present town of Mondak, Roosevelt
county, to the mouth of the Milk river
(near the present town of Nashua, Val
ley county,.
The Blackfeet proper were in the
Milk river valley from the present
| town of Nashua to northeast of Havre.
in Hill county); the Gros Ventres of
| the Prairie, the most hostile of the
| BIackfeet tribe were in the judith riy-
er valley (from northwestern corner OF
| Fergus county to present site OF Lew
| istown) and the Musselshell valley
| (from northeastern corner of Fergus
| county, south to Milestone in Mussel-
| shell county, west to northwestern cor
| ner of Wheatland county,. On the
western streams of the Missouri river
| above the Marias river were the Pie
gaps. another tribe of the Blackfeet,
| whose favorite valley was that of the
| Sun river (from west of Great Falls
| to the Rocky mountains in northern
Lewis and Clark county and southern
/ Teton county,. while the Bloods. also
hostile tribe of Blackfeet were usu-
ally found at the foot of the Rockies,
at the head of the Milk and Marias
rivers lin what is now Glacier county,.
On the western side of the noun
! tains was the home of the Flatheads
| COR Salish) and of their allied tribes,
| the Pend dOreilles or the kalspells
andn the kootenais. The Flatheads
lived in Bitter Root valley (Which
comprises n greater part of the pres
| ent Rayalli county, while the Others
were in the Flathead valley near Flat
head lake.
On the headwaters of the three forks
Of the Missouri were often to be found
villages of the Shoshones and Ban
nacks. whose real home was IN the
Snake river country ia what is now
Idaho.
small tribe of Indians known as
Sheepeaters lived in what is now Vel
lowstone National park.
( All along the valley Of the Yellow
stone river were the Crows, but the
part of it that they loved best was III
along the stream called the Big Horn
lin what is now Big Horn county,
They called this Absaraka.
3.-Edwin r.. Norris, senior member
of the law firm, Norris. Hurd ane
Rhoades of Great Falls, was governor
of the state of Montana from April l
1908. until January l. 1913, retiring
with q creditable record as chief ex
ecutive of the state. Governor Norfl:
was born in Cumberland county, Ken
lucky. August 15, 1860. He was edu
Gated in the Western Kentucky Norma
school at Bowling Green. He came Il
Montana and located in Dllon. bea
verhead county, in December, 1888, ans
he continued his study of law in thu
office of former Governor r. Il. Smith
He was admitted to the Montana bar
about the same time that Montan'
was admitted to statehood. lie rep
resented Beaverhead county in tn
state senate from 1896 to 1900, ant
from January IA, 1899. until March IL
Of that year was acting governor o
the state, being president of the sen
ate at time when both the goyerno
and lieutenant governor were out o
the state. He was elected lieutenan
governor Of the state in 1904. Josepl
. X. Toole being governor; Governo
Toole. being in poor health and havin
served three terms, resigned in March
, 1908. Governor Norris succeeded MIN
and was reelected in the following
. November
4.-Billngs, the third city of Mon
| tana in size Of population, is located i
Yellowstone county in the valley OF tn
historic Yellowstone river. The CIT
was named in honor of Frederick Bill
lings. former president Of the North
ern Pacific railway. Billings is in IN
; heart of large acreage of irrigabl
lands and is noted principally for tn
factory of the Great Western Suga
: company, one of the largest in tn
, world. which manufacturers approx
:, mately 100000 pounds of sugar ar
nually from sugar beets. The city.
. an important railway center and dis
tributing point and the center of muc
oil activity. 1t now has natural gus.