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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1905
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard announces subscription rates and office contacts. Lists daily and Sunday prices, branch offices in Butte and foreten advertising, and circulation in multiple cities with newsstand partners.
The Roosevelt era official at the helm of agriculture, Wilson, faces sharp questions as alleged mismanagement and gossip about the department surface. Critics say his claims of clean operations clash with admitted scandals and unsettled investigations.
The press argues the current setup lets senators like Mitchell and Burton keep seats while others call for amending the law to allow governors to remove convicted criminals from senate membership. Kaifa and Oregon face criticism as each is linked to recent crimes, with appeals and technical evasions cited. Both senators supposedly should resign for national honor but instead linger, discrediting the chamber.
Aged dispatches claim a run of about a million dollars a day funds the war aims against Japan and Russia. Reports from St. Petersburg allege czar, wife, and mother involved in timber ventures, driving a multi‑million stake in the conflict. The overall financial figure reaches near eight hundred sixty million with Japan absorbing about seven hundred million in fighting costs.
The text notes Russia faces costly war, citing four major engagements including Lian yang and Port Arthur with heavy Russian losses. It argues tens of thousands may have perished elsewhere, and calls the Portsmouth deliberations pivotal due to the immense human and financial stakes involved.
The article notes President Roosevelt resolved precedence among European leaders on a chronological basis for a high diplomatic function. Baron Komura led the procession, followed by M. Witte, with Japanese and Russian contingents traveling by car and train. The scene is praised as tactful, delicate, and historically memorable.
The Butte city council plans a next Wednesday special election on issuing 400000 in refunding bonds at 4 percent. The city currently carries 41000 in sewer and library bonds and about 300000 in floating warrants at 6 percent. The plan is pitched as a sound business move to cut interest costs and align with western trends toward lower rates. Other Montana cities show varying past rates from 4 to 6 percent on bonds for projects including sewers city halls water works and dumps.
A survey shows Montana towns issuing water works and sewer bonds at rates from 4 to 6 percent, with cities like Helena Kalispell Missoula and Missoula adopting 4 to 6 percent funding and refunding bonds. The trend favors reductions from earlier 6 percent rates, and cities anticipate savings from refunding premiums. Butte’s credit cited as strong to support refunding bonds at lower interest.
A long extract from Novoe Vremya reprints 1850 Hertzen essay praising Russo American alliance and American democracy. It contrasts European systems with the United States, noting America's constitution and elections as models while warning Europe means war and poverty. The piece discusses Hertzen's exile and liberal journalism.
In Livingston a jury acquitted Al Lee and Harry Rowan of running a concert hall in violation of the inn law. They managed the Columbia venue selling liquor and employing women on stage. City Attorney Smith filed under city ordinance and they were convicted before the police magistrate. County Attorney Stark filed under state law, and the men were tried and acquitted on that count.
Herbert J. Reese, in Bozeman, resigns from the agricultural college faculty to join mining tasks in the Little Rockies. He will be assayed at a property owned by IE. Weing of Bozeman, a Bozeman College graduate praised as a very capable young man.
In a defiant interview Santa Clara governor Gomez says he will not allow provincial inspections by nonlocal authorities. He claims moderates and rural guards back him while military officers deny his statements as the government seeks to influence the presidential contest.
In Livingston Aug 6 a Chinese woman named On Guin became the first Chinese wife in the area to win a divorce. She testified through an interpreter, saying her husband deserted her after a prior arrest with a man aiding in smuggling Chinese into the country. She seeks alimony and a new life, and plans to remarry in the near future.
A dated exhortation argues that cigarette smokers are capable, alert men who soon decline and fail to progress. The author advises employers to avoid promotions or pay raises for smokers, keep productive ones briefly, and eventually lay them off, never rehiring them. He cautions that smoking marks a decline and poor future performance.
A Chicago donor, Dr Pearson, provides a $100000 endowment gift to the Montana college and school of manual arts in Deer Lodge. The college will raise an additional $100000 for permanent endowment, marking the largest educational endowment in the state. Deer Lodge lauds the gift as key to future academic growth and regional development.
Livingston Aug. city Attorney Jona T. Smith has resigned and fled his post leaving Acting Mayor Colpitts to prepare a resignation. The council may act at the next meeting. Smith cites heavy workload and meager $6000 annual pay as reasons. He served over two years under a Republican administration and stayed recently at Mayor Garnier’s urging. Potential successors include O. M. Harvey, the city clerk, or H. J. Miller.
Bucharest reports Noumania faces total grain crop loss due to persistent drought. Rome notes a Catholic pilgrimage departing for Florence. Chanute Kansas sheds light on the death of Dudley F. Chambers, head of Southwestern Oil and Gas, found in an oil tank. Sitatize Manchuria dispatches reveal messages to the Russian front amid talks of a ceasefire and peace hopes fading in St. Petersburg.
In district court yesterday Sandager was granted a divorce from Mamie Sandager on grounds of desertion and unfaithfulness. The complaint alleged Mamie Sandager had been intimate with Walter Graf and had left the city with him, while M. F. Sandager served as a conductor on the Northern Pacific.
Jefferson City Mo Aug 6 State Senator Frank H Farris was acquitted by a circuit court jury of bribery tied to a 1901 alum in baking powder bill. The panel returned eight to four for acquittal after a week of testimony led by Lieut Gov John A Lee. The Smith case, once linked, will be taken up later before Judge Martin.
Bozeman August 6 the reorganized Gallatin Valley Club opened its new apartment in the Story building. Out of town visitors attended the festivity including Montana National Guard companies. Music by the Finland Orchestra of Red Lodge. Senator Thomas H. Carter of Helena gave a humorous speech. Col A F Bray of Butte and local judges delivered eulogies and remarks on Bozeman.
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