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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1901
Page
12
An inquest into the death of Mrs. Totman is resumed with hearings examining the circumstances surrounding her demise and the factors contributing to the fatal outcome. Officials present testimonies to determine the cause of death and any related negligence or misadventure.
Missoula April 2 inquest into Mrs. J. E. Totman’s death resumed with witnesses detailing dinner, soup, and alleged kitchen use of photographic chemicals. Nurses and cook Cesarilla Canavan described nervous behavior while a chemist’s findings awaited, citing a patent developer as a deadly poison.
Crawford bicycles offered at 25 dollars at McBride's. Rhodes' advertised latest wallpaper designs with low prices.
The Missoula post office advertises unclaimed letters for the week ending April 2 1901. Names include Anslyn Brown Benson Bis von Cooper Coughlin Ellertson Everett Francis Fancher Fulford Greenman Gee Hand Jiroux Kissman Labranchard Lynch Miles Morrison Murray Martin McGath McDowell Niarella Onan Ouilette Southard Soley Tennysn Wiberg Anderson White Williams and others. Rhodes promotes wall paper and Imperial bicycles priced at McBride's.
Residents anticipate a lively election for new trustees next Saturday as a dispute over the schoolhouse site, decided at a prior vote, prompts objections from locals who have consulted lawyers and urged trustees favoring the chosen ground.
At the University of Missoula on April 2 the campus shows renewed athletic activity with baseball practice and class matches. A women’s basketball team trains for field day during commencement week, while baseball and basketball uniforms are being purchased. The gymnasium is slated for completion this year on the west of the bicycle track, with baths and dressing rooms for teams. The athletic park is upgraded, the bicycle track prepared, and trees ordered for Arbor Day planting, including Carolina poplar and Norway maple specimens.
A Missoula firm known as the leading drug house dominates local medicine supply. The note highlights its prominence in the market and calls for patronage to its extensive selection and reliable service.
Watson Boyle of Bozeman on a Missoula visit praises Gallatin Valley as prosperous. He notes a mild winter, 14 inches of snow last week benefiting farmers, and predicts a large fall grain crop. He praises nearby coal mines for quality and shipping to Montana and other states.
Missoula notes report residents visiting from Helena Victor Plains Corvallis and St Regis. A patent for land west of Missoula awarded to Philip Hogan. Local weather, road, and transit updates plus committee meetings for Maccabees and Gentlemen's driving club. Election events include a large Northern Pacific wagon car procession and a four corner Clinton townsite land contest with lawyers from several firms.
In Missoula on April a pair of hop joint defendants Butler and Harvey pleaded guilty before Judge Hayes after a stalled trial due to a legal dispute. Attorneys Duncan and Draffen abstained, and the men paid $25 fines plus costs, while witnesses gasped at the sight of their cash rolls. The judge also ruled on the Burrill Lynch demurrer, sustaining it before the election.
Parsons reports in Missoula that the Burpee family at Bonner are all ill with varioloid, with a brother in law and his family affected as well. Four adults and seven children are affected and several children are very sick.
A Missoula notice invites visitors to view a fine Easter flower display at the old post office stand, touting Missoula Nursery’s premier collection. The display promises the finest blooms in town for the holiday season.
Monthly report of the Northern Pacific Beneficial association lists hospital cases in Missoula. At month end surgical patients total 10, sick 13. March admissions 26 surgical and 23 sick. six patients treated at homes with four discharged. in-hospital office 79 surgical and 86 sick cases.
William Lewis, a Dayton creek cattle man, purchases 300 Bitter Root cattle and plans to drive them at once to his ranch on the reservation with help from An toine Demers, Alphonse Courville, Levi Ayotte and Bert Edsall. Rhodes offers wallpaper at lowest prices ever quoted in Missoula.
Missoula April 2 The school troubles on the Big Flat are not at an end but it is expected that they will be resolved soon by papering the house as a solution to the dispute.
A local dining spot, Model restaurant, earns praise for its Fine beef specialty at Union Market. The piece highlights quality and market context, noting notable offerings and market ambiance.
Missoula reports in the United States land office today plats of fractional townships were received from Washington. Township 15 north range 25 west township 15 north range 24 west township 15 north.
Plats for ranges in townships 16 and 17 north west of nine mile and west of the town will be filed May 20. Home stead entries allowed for those on the land before that date. Timber and stone entries not accepted. After sixty days the state gains first choice for timber and stone land. David F. Wanpler Wisdom filed 40 acres. Oliver J. McConnell Butte 320 acres. Owen Ellis Wisdom 160 acres. All in Beaverhead county.
Missoula voters prepare for a Saturday school election at the Central school building to fill two trustees for the vacant terms of A A Taylor and J M Evans. Candidates listed include Fred C Stoddard Charles F E Hollingsworth J M Evans T A Price and A A Taylor. Premium offers for a year's Standard subscription advertised.
Frankie Belmont narrowly escaped injury after a man struck her with a cane at 2:30 in the morning. A deep scalp wound required four stitches, and a warrant was issued after she filed complaint. The suspect is jailed. Mail orders to Golden Rule, Missoula.
A westbound fast freight collided with a work train east of Garrison at Bradley siding. Both engines were smashed and five cars piled on the track. No injuries reported. Freight 53 under Conductor Marks, engine 155 piloted by Engineer Phelps. work train led by Conductor Smith with Engineer Brunker on 157. Details unavailable.
J O Read will erect a story and a half frame dwelling on the Read ranch near Hamilton in Bitter Root valley this year. The building will be among the largest in the area with several rooms 16 feet square and modern conveniences. Read left for the ranch to supervise garden work and ranch supply lines.
Pay Parent of Bonita visits the city after believing his sister Mrs Thomas Muckler of Bonner died of smallpox. The rumor spread widely though Mrs Muckler is alive, confined at the Burpee home in Bonner and improving under the circumstances. The origins of the report remain unclear.
April 2 Missoula expresses gratitude to all who cared for the wife during illness and to others for kindness and courtesies shown before her death.
Joyce and Mulroney advertise legal services from the First National Bank Building in Missoula Montana seeking clients and legal assistance from the practice.
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