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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
2
Readable excerpts recount a deadly lynching of Frank Little in Butte linked to Industrial Workers of the World agitators. The piece details union fear, siege atmosphere, coroner actions, and threats of broader labor action amid WWI era repression. Mentions Governor Campbell and federal attention, with background on Little’s speeches and the union’s call for direct action.
The Tanks at the Battle of the Ancre opens at Risite, hailed as a remarkable wartime picture. Government supervised, with much shot during ongoing fighting, it omits the gruesome pond scene and aims to show real military life, feeding, and transport. Sixty-five percent of receipts go to war relief. show runs through Sunday. Jere J. Cohan, famed stage star, dies at 69 in Monroe New York. He is survived by wife Helen F. Cohan and son George M. Cohan. Also on bill at the Good Show is six vaudeville acts led by Tom Brown's Backface Revue plus Forbidden Paths and Pathe News.
Helena August 1 Governor Scewart said he had nothing to say regarding the pinching of Frank Little Attorney General Ford indicated possible interest but would not outline plans until consulting with J R Jackson county attorney of Silver Bow County
Chicago Aug 1 Frank Little long associated with the Industrial Workers of the World since 1908 and a miner from Fresno California died after an accident in Globe Arizona on a trip from Phoenix. Haywood secretary of the IWW praised him as a devoted advocate for workers and expressed deep regret at his death.
Articles detail I W W organizer Frank Little lynching in Butte and calls from Arizona LW W members to repeat deportations. Governor Campbell defends rights amid federal troops, while Fresno reports Little’s alleged leadership of a yearlong free speech drive and violent clashes with police and mobs.
A mob gathered around the jail as the sheriff addressed them to restore order. Responding to the disturbance, the fire department sprayed water into cells, flooding prisoners, while city authorities halted the attempted intrusion and secured the jail.
A report from Columbus New Mexico states that Frank Little’s hanging in Butte will cement loyalty to the I W W across the nation. Fred J. Moore, attorney for the I W W, declined to answer how the Butte case would affect the labor movement in Arizona. The article notes I W W activity in Arizona and New Mexico, including organizing strikes and deportations of workers.
In Spokane a late August report notes Frank H. Little was lynched in Butte after weeks of tension tied to the I W W free speech conflict in 1918. The incident reflects wartime repression and labor movement clashes across the region.
The piece recounts Hessian mercenaries in the American War of Independence, noting enlistment promises of liberty to plunder, Kant and Goethe's protests, and the scale of German involvement. It cites 29,000 German mercenaries, costs to King George, and the delayed Hessian arrival after a year, with Napoleon later abolishing the Hesse Cassel line following the Christmas Delaware crossing.
The article contrasts peonies with hydrangeas and chrysanthemums as regal early summer garden treasures. Karl Schrieber, welfare board chief, describes a conservation plan to fund a community plant with public subscription, aiming to place it for this summer and illuminate it with color-changing electric lights.
The Omaha News reports a municipal evaporation drying plant to let residents dry garden produce at nominal cost. The welfare board approves at least one plant, aiming to serve the public interest and provide a practical community facility.
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