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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1903
Page
12
Public notice from the Western Montana office at 310 West Main Street invites applications for furnished advertising taxes. Mrs. Wowie Swernoane listed as contact for inquiries.
County School Superintendent Miss Kate Shelley and Miss Susie Riley escaped a hay rake runaway between Plains and Paradise with minor injuries. Bert Johnson and Lester Brooks suffered wounds while Johnson fainted from blood loss. The group reached the Brooks ranch where wounds were dressed. Shelley and Riley continued home toward Quinn Hot Springs.
The Missoula Camping club advances to Flathead Lake for August. The group includes Zoe Bellew Lulu Rathburn Hattie Reed Elsie Reinhard Perle Schmalthausen and guest Polly Lewis of Bozeman with Ed Burke Ben Hord and chaperon Mrs Henry Worden. More campers plan to join later.
Missoula welcomed a San Francisco league team which beat the Giants 10 to 1 in a brisk exhibition. Andrews hit a two base and home run in the last inning as Frisco mixed professionals and a fast amateur lineup, then left for Spokane.
Northern Pacific adjusts its Wallace Missoula freight schedule. Crew from Wallace now travels to Missoula and returns next day, with Saltese crews following the same pattern. The shift equalizes earnings after Saltese paid less than Wallace, previously the best Rocky Mountain division run.
John L. Sloane left for Columbia Falls to join directors of the state soldiers home. He will meet Major Maginnis at Kalispell and then travel to the home. The board's business will take four or five days.
J 8 Gordon and H Moran, strangers in town, remain for several days. They used a 25 dollar draft on the American Harrow company of Detroit and were advanced 10. Detroit says Gordon not authorized and Moran arrested. Gordon had three tank drafts and a Booze Fighters club card. Moran carried a Salt Lake line pass as a fortune teller. Trial set for Aug 14 on petty larceny charges.
Fred Copeland was arraigned in police court after a street brawl in which George Graham reported a bitten finger. Copeland asked 24 hours to plead to second degree assault. John Fay pled guilty to third degree assault for helping Robert Jones break in through a Woody street window. Fay paid a $25 fine.
James McKenna was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Justice Phillips for vagrancy. Zoe Bellew returned from the University of Chicago summer school. Willis, White, and Smith named apraisers of Ek M Ratcliffe’s estate. Vincent White travels to Kalispell for vacation. Himmelbauer of Montana Liquor resumes work after illness. Perle Schmalhausen visits Bozeman with Polly Lewis staying in August. H W Berry returns from Fast trip and Balde Creek sanitarium treatment.
Travelers, including T W W White and wife and Miss Myrtle Mahoney, return from Loto Hot Springs to report improvements at Springs hotel by landlord Jack Hayes. After a set date irrigation water hours are posted for areas north of Main and along Main Street with penalties for violations including shutting off water. July 27, 1908.
A Wallace Press report says Larson and Greenough opened a new vein at Mullan that rivals Hercules, paralleling Morning about 60 feet south. The 20 foot wide, clean ore body is shipped to smelters, worked by two men, and has produced rich assays from No 8 and No 4 levels.
W M Ewing of the Bitter Root valley and Bonner saloonkeeper Hert Thibodeau are under care at Parsons Hospital. Ewing broke two ribs after a fall from a wagon and Thibodeau suffers a finger injury with threatened blood poisoning.
Johnn Rourke once on the Missouri State Labor Council executive board and active in state labor councils is in very ill condition at Bisters hospital with slim prospects of recovery.
H W McLachlan and Petr F Pederssohn who bought the Smith livery barn Saturday own a house and lot west of the stable and announce they will remove the house to erect a large barn addition.
Missoula, Aug. 3. Rellers Largey's bio automobile broke down yesterday afternoon about eight miles from the city. The party tied the car to a drag and walked back to town, arriving last evening.
A blaze at the Butte Brewing plant on Wyoming street near Granite in Butte threatens total destruction. Firemen battled flames from the roof and top floor after a 3 am alarm from Policeman Thomas Hynes. Damage and losses to barley, malt, hops, and beer vats are feared while surrounding homes and Dorothy block residents flee. Firefighters continued efforts at 3:20 am as roof and top floor were gutted.
An Ohio village Mozadore dominates US stone pipe production. A 25 year old plant employs 50 workers including finishers and young helpers. Clay from nearby hills is molded into two inch bars, dried, kiln fired, and polished. Stems from the south are cut and bent, completing the stone pipe and stem.
In the freight depots a cargo of watermelons arrives and is rushed to dealers. The melons pass from hand to hand with crowds gathered to snatch cracked pieces. A melon tester says to lay the melon on its back and scratch the skin to judge ripeness and firmness.
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