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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1903
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 2 East Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Visitors will find an appealing range of keepsakes from 25 cents to 5 dollars. Specialties include a copper paper knife and a mining souvenir spoon, with regular jewelry store goods also on offer.
J C Dawkins travels to Helena and Keeley care at Boulder Springs. Many visitors pass through Butte from Helena Missoula Pony and Two Dot with notes on Oak Street Doctors and shops. The Sunday school picnic at Walkerville and a plan for a Western Australia mine plant accompany local business ads for Orton Bros piano sales.
A column surveys urban life in Butte with vignettes on a underutilized clerk seeking meaningful work, Love’s fish dinner ruse, a pair of stylish hats, and a sharp look at domestic service shortages. It notes poolrooms steady yet unprofitable, theater habits, and high fruit and produce prices at local markets.
On Sunday August 2 the Short Line runs a special eight coach train leaving Butte at 7 30 p m for Dillon with stops along the Big Hole river for fishermen. The return from Dillon departs at 6 00 p m making a round trip ticket cost 1 00. H O Avilson is general agent.
The Northern Pacific offers round trip tickets from Montana points to Seattle for the Trans Missippi Commercial Congress and National Irrigation Association meeting in Seattle. Fares are 1 1/3 for the round trip with a 10 day transit limit and 30 day final return. From Butte or Anaconda to Seattle and Tacoma the rate is 29.20. Tickets on sale August 14 15 and 16. For details contact W. H. Merriman General Agent.
William Winters of Spokane sues A T Morgan administrator and Carlton Norcross in United States court to recover possession of lots 5 and 6, block 48, and $2000 damages. He claims ownership since 1892 and that defendants trespassed Jan 1900. A separate equity bill alleges a 1900 contract for sale of the lots for 4500 with an 8 percent loan. issues of rent, note, and interests are raised with several claimants.
Burglars forced entry at J. J. Hemphill’s restaurant on East Galena street stealing aprons jackets blankets and other items. Police arrested John Foley Charles Hanson Julia McIntyre Rose Burns Ella Robinson and Sally Johnson while Frank Cash Doc Chalro and Nellie Hazelton pled not guilty in separate cases. John Johnson freed after innocence proven. Other suspects jailed awaiting hearings while Flurry Sullivan’s case is dismissed for helmet impersonation.
From August 2 to 15 the Northern Pacific By. Co. sells special excursion tickets to San Francisco and return for 50 dollars and to Los Angeles and return for 60 dollars. Tickets valid for return through October 15 with 10 day stopovers allowed. John Finnegan has purchased the Owl Pharmacy and all accounts due the old firm payable to him at 56 East Broadway.
A district court suit by Northern Pacific Railway, via attorney William Wallace Jr., seeks $5,683.64 for freight transportation and $3,585.36 for coal sold to Rocky Fork Coal, with payment due July 23. The Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Co. of Wisconsin is named as defendant.
In Butte a series of divorce actions are reported. Hattie Opie wins a divorce from Peter Opie for desertion and non support amid seven children aged five to fourteen. William McManus also obtains a divorce from May McManus after her desertion in 1901. The docket includes a default in Priscilla Wilson vs Mervbray Wilson and a civil suit by Boston & Montana Mining Co. against Domenic Bertoglio and Antonio Gross for damages and possession.
The Police Department chief reports 173 arrests in July 139 male 34 female with categories including drunk 36 disturbance 26 and grand larceny 5. Dispositions total 160 with jail commitments fines dismissals and suspensions. Expenses listed total 6044.40 including salaries and vendor payments.
Northern Pacific will run a special train from Butte to Hamilton for the M. W. a. log rolling from Aug 1 to 15. The train leaves Butte Aug 13 at 7 a.m and returns Hamilton Aug 15 at 6 p.m. Round trip fare from Butte Bonner points is one fare. Montana wide rate one and a third fare for regular trains. Tickets on sale Aug 12 to 15 with return limit Aug 2.
Disease contends a retreat with few cases in Montana and Salt Lake City. Butte reports no contagious disease now while urging removal of filth in alleys and yards. Dr Sullivan leads vigilance, noting sanitation as a key public health goal. Chinatown alleys cited as cleaner than some districts.
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