Frontier News

I read one newspaper in class today. It was from Butte, MT in 1880. The paper was very interesting. It did not give any specific news, but gave lots of interesting advertisement and real estate claims. In the Butte newspaper there were the different train stations in the area, all of the cities that these trains traveled to, and the date and time that they departed. This shows me that train was they only quick way of travel in this area at the time and how important it was to advertise the train. I then saw 15 "Applications for Patents", which were claims made by different miners, about the location and descriptions of their gold mines. There was up to 20 mines in the area, so this led me to believe that Butte was a large mining town, and that was their source of income. Finally, I saw an add for an old bar in the down town "Deer Lodge" district of Butte, the add claimed that they had fresh ale and liquor made in Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee. The add made it seem like everyone needs to drink there, specifically because the booze came from the big cities to the east. This showed me that people in the frontier still relied on the East U.S, to supply them with everything that they need to survive, and that people still favored eastern goods.

https://bhpioneer.newspapers.com/image/34887386/?terms=Montana

Miners in the Deer Lodge district.

First ever bar in Butte

Mining Town

Organ Trafficking in China

• Organ Trade has become more popular, despite the laws against it, being legalized in Australia and Iran.
• Organ Trade is most common in Europe and lower Asia. In China, the Organ Trade has become so popular that it nets 1 billion U.S dollars annually.
• The practice murders innocent people, with the goal of harvesting organs. tens of thousands of people die every year.
• an estimated 90,000 people were on an organ waiting list as of 2011, with the numbers growing.
• 10,000 organs are transplanted in China every year.
• The large group in china, that is believed to be the ones being killed for organs is the people of the Falun Gong- a religious group banned by Chinese Gov.
• Attorney David Matas and David Kilgoure, a member of Canadian parliment, set out to research the sudden deaths of these people and they found hard evidence.
• The people harvesting the organs on the other hand, were hard to find and stop, so this is an ongoing fight today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3031784/Inside-illegal-hospitals-performing-thousands-black-market-organ-transplants-year-200-000-time.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027088/A-Human-Harvest-Chinas-organ-trafficking-exposed-shocking-documentary-alleges-illegal-trade-worth-staggering-1-billion-year.html