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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
12
Western Montana office of the Standard is at 110 West Main Street Missoula. Telephone number 18. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Missoula promoter H G Houghton says cheap fuel will unlock industrial growth north of Missoula. He notes coal at 24 a ton can drive smelters and manufacturing, with Mond process upgrading low quality coal to gas, and projects a 4 cent per 1000 cubic feet gas cost. He links fuel to a beet sugar plant near Hamilton and Missoula's agricultural resources.
Missoula August reports By West, a warned reliable fan, tells of an excursion to Butte with a baseball game, a night in a tourist sleeper, waking jailed on a side track, and losing a $200 stone before it was recovered. The tale ends with his voice returning as he recalls the game.
In Missoula at about 2 am a supposed death by own action sparked a night shift rush. It proved a false alarm caused by a severe jag from Frankie Belmont distraught over her baby's absence. Dr. Parsons treated her, she calmed, and the scare ended.
A call to the Standard office reveals the offered premiums for a yearly subscription. The incentives are described as surpassing all others in value and appeal.
Missoula August 6 The Ord Nebraska postmaster requests details of Ira D Turner s death seeking particulars for the case His note mentions Turners father is a prominent dual (sic) figure in Ord and state affairs.
In Ord a prominent local man is involved and his family is well known in the region. Copies of the Standard carry the report of the Turner shooting and have been sent to the postmaster.
Bitter Root stock farm will ship 20 young trotters and four to five yearling colts to Kentucky for the trotting Futurity. Dr. Haggard and Joe Rea lead the group, leaving Thursday morning aboard two palace cars. Haggard then goes to New York and England, to fetch Marcus Daly's English stock and related brood mares before sale.
Ravalli county district court heard a China man plead guilty to petit larceny after money was found in a laundry shirt and fined 100 dollars plus costs. J S White of Florence admitted gambling law violation and paid 190 dollars. Hunsaker case continued. Stinson granted divorce from Daniel W. Stinson. Next term to hear Winslow v DeNayer for wages. other business deferred.
Aug 6 Hamilton column records lumber party charity for Insolvent Solms hurt in lath mill. Notables from Missoula Stevensville and Butte visit, including Gen Harris and Sheriff Watts pursing suspected horse thieves. Local campers return from Lake Como and a theater entertainment is planned.
In Missoula on August 6 a marriage license was issued to Captain Herman Hirscher and Pauline F. Schreiber, both local residents. The notice appears amid a local grocer ad for P. M. Reilly & Co and a Golden Rule catalogue plug.
Missoula records show Foreman Campbell urging immediate provision of a proper hook and ladder truck after a string of failed attempts with the old unit. The lapse has left the city exposed to fires on higher structures, as demonstrated at the cold storage blaze where ladders failed and Campbell was tossed to the ground. The article argues the current truck is useless and should be discarded for a capable replacement.
Missoula reports fires on all sides with smoke over the hills. Bitterroot foothills flame fiercely destroying timber while fires north of Lolo Springs threaten extensive timber stands. Sparks from locomotives ignite line-side blazes along the Coeur d'Alene branch and near Marent trestle west of Missoula.
Workers at Fish Creek have spent days preparing the camp for the reception of the club. The Missoula end of the club plans to migrate later in the week, with expectations high that everything will be ready.
Mrs Christie Cyr died at Sisters' hospital at six tonight after a long illness caused by a tumor. A valley pioneer, she endured more than a year of suffering and passed with family at her bedside. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs W C Murphy and Mrs Gaspard Deschamps and son John Cyr. Funeral Wednesday with high mass at 10 at the Church of St Francis Xavier.
President Craig of the university returns from a state tour to recruit new students for fall term. He reports pleasant receptions and expects a large student body, predicting a prosperous year as he visited Missoula and many smaller towns and cities.
In Missoula district court Attorneys Duncan and Draffen filed a suit for A F E Fick claiming 1999 dollars for false imprisonment. Fick was a partner of Freeman who yesterday filed a similar suit against the company. Tomorrow Judge Webster will hear Boehler versus Hanson water right injunction. Boehler arrived to attend the trial.
Missoula residents report a young bear repeatedly near James A. Chapman’s Rattlesnake residence. Chapman has fired at the bear twice, believes shots hit but no vital wound. He intentions to trap the animal rather than kill it to preserve the young culprit.
General Superintendent Kimberley and family plus friends rode in a private car attached to No. 3 as they traveled through Missoula on their way West. A Buffalo and Susquehanna private car followed at the rear containing a party returning from the National park bound for the coast, met by a few friends at the station.
George Gannon, recently back from Porto Rico after years away, left this morning for Newport News Virginia to enter government employment. He had grown restless with civilian life and yearned for the earlier excitement he left behind. At the depot his friends gathered to bid him farewell.
Filed for Record Missoula August 6 shows Stiles and Hoagland Thompson slaughter 17 head of cattle for the quarter ending July 31. Declaration of occupancy lists A Garrison of Lothrop 160 acres near his post office. Deed transfers from T F Burke and wife to Minnie Bricknell for land in a near addition with nominal consideration.
Dr W D Crosby and family checked into Florence in Missoula on Aug 6. The former regimental surgeon of the 25th infantry at Fort Missoula later served as surgeon general in Manila overseeing a 1500 patient general hospital. He contracted fever in the islands and is seriously ill and will stay at Fort Missoula for the summer to recuperate. He was warmly welcomed by old friends.
Seymours F Stoughton and his sister arrived in Missoula from Plains. They have stayed several days due to Mrs Stoughton’s serious illness. An operation was performed on her recently and her improvement allows their return home.
Aug 6 Missoula notes reveal Mrs Henry wife of a local resident arrived with several relatives from Belgium. She has not seen her husband for more than a decade in a heartwarming Happy Reunion. Dr MacGeorge osteopath Missoula.
The Hilarity club from Wallace reached Missoula by train and rode to a camping ground at Rivulet for a day outing. The party began their excursion this morning after arriving on the division line.
The 15th annual Montana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church reports 199 clergy and laity in attendance, up from 87 last year. New enrollees include J. W. Morris and several pastors from Helena Bridger Sidney Philipsburg Butte and Glendive. The day featured a song service and a missionary meeting headlined by Rev. C. L. Bovard on Missions. Bishop Fowler arrives tonight with a reception tomorrow as presiding elder Jacob Mills speaks.
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