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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway Butte. Telephone 422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
A long list of visitors and residents greets Butte today with names from Helena Anaconda Deer Lodge and Spokane. Notables include G W Stapleton J W Turner J C Hargrave and H R Whitehill. Local commerce features piano tuners Montana Music Co. Aaronson wall paper and east side newsstand promotions. The Dublin Gulch assault case against John Conley remains postponed for a week.
County officials decide the grand larceny charge against P A Gamer should have been brought in civil court. The district court dismissed the criminal case, exonerating his bondsmen after a county attorney led the move citing lack of solvency for criminal conviction. Allegations tie Gamer to defunct Gamer Walker Investment.
A large Montana delegation heads to Los Angeles for the sixth biennial General Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting. Butte women join Denver and Salt Lake City contingents, with plans for formal receptions, parades, and a rich timetable of addresses, reports, and memorial services through May 8.
Spectators learn of an upcoming program with lectures by Mrs Margaret Hamilton Welch on Literature on May 3, Mrs Frederick Schoff on Juvenile Court Laws, and Charles F Lummis on The Highway of the Missions. Foreign club reports from Western Australia Santiago South America London Pioneer club Hawaii India and others also listed for a week of events.
The Great Northern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Minneapolis for 54.50 good going July 4, 5 and 6 with return until September 1. Stopovers allowed on return. For information call at Great Northern office 41 North Main Street Butte. J B Dawson G A
Building Inspector Lane to forward census figures on Butte building from 1899 to 1900 as repairs dominate activity. Recent permits include a $800 protruding platform at the Noyes block, a $2,500 lodging house on West Galena, a $7,000 King’s addition with 24 rooms, a $800 Maryland avenue extension, and a $700 Aluminum street addition.
April 23 to 28 the Short Line sells excursion tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles with a final return limit June 25. Butte-Ogden route saves 230 hours from 100 miles. Reserve berths at City office 105 North Main Street Butte. General Agent H C Wilson. Also mentions accident and health insurance rates and a newly rebuilt hotel opening on Ash Street.
An ad promises twenty dollars in gold to any person needing medicine after hours if the night bell is not answered within five minutes after the electric button is pressed. The offer applies only when the store is closed.
A system uses an electric button to ring a night bell and stamp hour minute and press count on a clock. The bell rings while the clerk activates a sign indicating prompt attention to requests.
Newbro Drug Co of Butte at 109 North Main Street lists James A Keyes as President and General Manager in a concise corporate notice.
Auction sale offers nineteen head of geldings and mares three to seven years old. Sires include Wilkes Bay Bird and Golong with Rysdyk bloodlines. stock gently broken and shown in harness. Trailers and bidders urged to attend for potential bargains.
George Shadwell, after three trials and a brief stay on the brink of death, was sentenced by Judge McClernan to four years at hard labor in Deer Lodge for the killing of Red O Connor more than four years ago. He stood calm as the sentence was read, thanked his attorney, and returned to jail. Mrs. Kate McCloskey, 70, died at 214 West Mercury Street. funeral notice to follow.
In district court Judge Harney heard a motion to strike in the Cannon and Long suit against Enoch Johns. W Frand alleges ownership of 160 acres in South Butte via a placer patent, while the defendant holds a deed from the Northern Pacific railroad and contends the patent was fraudulently obtained. The defendant seeks to declare the plaintiffs trustees and compel a valid deed. Arguments covered jurisdiction to cancel a US patent for fraud, with briefs requested and the matter under advisement.
From Los Angeles and San Francisco between April 23 and 28 inclusive the Northern Pacific railway will sell round trip tickets to listed points at 50 dollars for the round trip. Stopovers allowed both directions. Final limit June 26, 1992. Reserve berths early. W B H Merriman general agent corner Park and Main.
Students from the International Correspondence Schools display at Newbro's Drug Co teach how earning more money comes from learning more. The exhibit showcases study methods and opportunities to increase income through education.
Frank Durand offers 19 well broken geldings and mares at public auction at the Butte race track at 2 o clock on Saturday April 26. The stock is sired by Bay Bird and Gol ng with noted lines including Felfare, 2 10%, Dr Puff, 2 16%.
The excerpt notes a unique hotel feature with a large natural hot water plunge inside the property and urges visitors to use the bathhouse to prevent catching cold. It mentions the death of Colt Murphy aged 18, son of Mr and Mrs J D Murphy, with funeral arrangements from the family residence on Thursday at 2 p m at 35 Clear Grit.
Helena April 22 Charles H Leedars pleaded guilty in district court to forging E L Tucker s name on a money order he cashed at a local store Judge Smith deferred sentence until later this week County attorney seeks Leedars evidence against others Nels Stone pleaded not guilty to robbing T E Shelton of a check from a Missoula bank and faces grand larceny trial next Monday
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