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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
12
The Western Montana Standard lists its Missoula address at 134 Fins Avenue and notes advertising rates for placements. The notice references Te i o 138 and directs inquiries to the publication for pricing details.
Missoula August 2 The Northern Pacific operators strike disrupts schedules with trains delayed several hours. Passenger trains fail to regain timetables. Train No 4 expected 5 55 but arrived after 2 30 pm and another at 11 40 am. Officials doubt any progress toward settlement today.
Superintendent Gibson returns from the west and notes better candle line conditions than expected from Trout Creek to Helena. Outside substitutes occupy five striking operator posts while company auditors verify bonds and post operations. Dispatchers and linemen work to restore wires. Gibson and Glenny remain west of Helena.
A terse, garbled notice from a New Jersey business hub hints at a company advertisement about capital reaping from a source labeled N00 to Khe. The fragmentary text provides little verifiable detail beyond the location and a basic outline of financial activity.
Mining regions west of Missoula and the Coeur d Alene branch face serious water shortages. Rex mill and other properties have curtailed operations as streams shrink due to drought. The Wallace district reports low water delaying power and reducing output, with the Washington Water Power Company diverting more water from Spokane. If rain does not return soon, mills in the Coeur d Alene and Wallace areas will stay hampered.
A. M. Stevens and Joseph Feadorowitz report a new lead on a May-located mining claim near Eddy. The vein runs 14 feet wide with mineralite, near a waterfall over 2 feet high, on a creek about a thousand feet above the ledge. Prospectors anticipate regional impact if confirmed.
The annual Methodist lay school picnic was held today with a successful outing. Children enjoyed a fine dinner prepared by accompanying ladies at the Williams place camp near Rattlesnake valley. The afternoon featured games and playful activities, ending around five due to an approaching storm.
A force of men are busy today on improvements in a local drug store on Hic king avenue. The whole front of the building was torn down and a new frame being put in with curved plate glass windows, making a very agreeable and attractive change.
An Amador nines team hosts eastern visitors who spent a day exploring Amador and Cedar Creek area. They toured the mine stake at the ten mile trip, admired development work, and enjoyed leisure time before returning.
Missoula entertainment committee approves repeating the minstrel show staged at the Union last week. J A Meats, committee head, says not financially successful but artistically strong. New music and a rearranged program planned for two performances during fair week to attract a larger audience and aim for a credit balance.
The Missoula battalion, about 200 men, leaves the fort for a multi day march to Hagland ranch near Missoula and on toward the Flathead lake. The parade band plays as they weather a sudden storm and plan stops at Mission Creek and Polson before returning, with officers and medical staff on the expedition.
A new publication planned in Missoula by Western Homeseeker Publishing showed a dummy form and copy to journalists yesterday. Eastern advertising agent Clague arrived from Chicago and praised Missoula, saying he will assist editors in preparing the first issue due midmonth.
A semiannual session of the Bar association is scheduled in Hamilton tomorrow. Members from Missoula have left or will depart by train, aiming to arrive in time for the Ravalli hotel banquet. The turnout is expected to be light due to many attorneys being away on important business.
Lieutenant and Mrs Herring return to Fort Missoula after a wedding trip that included Salt Lake City Denver and Yellowstone National Park. They will reside at Fort Missoula. Phone 1958.
SOR visited Missoula as the Aug Quaerie returned to his usual post after recent interruptions. The journey was eased by a pause in the long waits caused by the Northern Pacific operators strike, ending travel hardship of the last few days.
A promising new quartz lode mining claim named June quartz lode was located on Cedar Creek. Oliver Pritchett reported the notice to the county clerk and recorder this afternoon, confirming the claim's official location.
Fort Ellis encampment under clear skies and passing showers opens with Company A Bozeman ready but short of mess tents while Company L Glendive arrives first. Glendive decorates car with Montana National Guard sign as regimental staff, officers and signal corps meet the encampment start amid crowding tents and town visitors.
Missoula August reports that Sheriff Graham in Spokane has Nelson in custody and will return him Friday morning. Nelson formerly served as treasurer of the Toets eaters union and vanished last winter, leaving an empty treasury of 123 dollars. The union had pursued him across three states since then.
Telegraph wires between Butte and Helena were reported cut around 10 oclock. Striker activity was suspected as the cause though confirmation was unavailable. News routing from Helena and Missoula to Portland and San Francisco is noted, with mail orders to the Golden Rule in Missoula.
A brief, garbled report notes Perea at the hospital for several days after an operation on Monday. The account hints at a discharge plan to return to Up City but lacks clear details.
Missoula reports four operators active as strike pressure grows. Local headquarters lists Arlee Dixon Front Creek Drummond Bearmouth Garrison Elliston with Drummond and Bearmouth using long distance lines. The company moved six westbound freight and eight westbound freight, plus six eastbound, plus regular passenger trains and an extra section, to every station, and on the Coeur d Alene area all stations except Frenchtown are supplied.
Great Falls dispatch reports Montana Central Chief Dispatcher Flood cut off from communications at Clancy as strike actions spread. Wires out of service then restored amid confusion. Conductors and operators idle. Basin concentrator workers pressed the agent to quit in line with strike orders.
Missoula on August 3 reports the Missoula Mercantile Company plans major store improvements. A large new window will run along Higgins avenue adding a prominent display from the front corner to the end of the men’s furnishing department. The grocery department will receive modern fixtures and reforms to match eastern company standards.
Secretary M F Lewis of the Idaho Intermountain road commission calls for bids to build two roads and a trail in Shoshone county. One road runs from Placer creek to St Joe range. the other from Nine Mile creek over Nine Mile pass to Raven. The project spans about 22 miles in total. plans are by county surveyor George Ro Trask. Bids due Sept 1 at the Ryan hotel Wallace with 5 percent bid bond. successful bidder deposits 20 percent bond.
Helena Aug 3 The Fort Harrigan troops began their annual practice march into the Blackfoot country covering about 150 miles with an expected return around AWE. The expedition includes Col Borden Capt Laws Lieuts Sweeney and McDonald Capt Skinner Company A officers and 46 men Company B one officer and Company C two officers and 36 enlisted men of the hospital corps plus four enlisted staff and band members.
Amistaven Aug Wilttam Clough of Dorsey Idaho arrived this afternoon on freight No 2 on the Coeur d Alene branch with a crushed foot from building work. He was taken to hospital in a cab where the foot was dressed. The injured man is a member of the local company carpenters.
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