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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
16
The eastern market opened strong but failed to hold gains with copper shares retreating. Butte & Superior dipped to 44 after Boston reports of Hayden Stone & Co selling. Analysts warn of a narrow market and urge selling on any bulge while noting cautious sentiment and mixed overseas prices.
In Los Angeles on August 8 nine witnesses including five streetcar contractors testified to impeach Frank E Wolfe and C O Hawley in Clarence Darrow’s bribery case. The proceedings featured cross examinations, legal maneuvering, and clashes between Darrow and the prosecutor. Hawley’s move to place Darrow at the scene of Franklin’s arrest was explained, while Wolfe’s arrival time with Darrow remained contested. Judge Hutton ruled Cantrell’s cross examination improper, then Darrow pressed Cantrell’s testimony amid disputes with the prosecution. The day yielded heated exchanges but few fresh facts.
Special correspondence notes G. Scott has been appointed Northern Pacific agent at Whitehall replacing Miles who resigned. Scott arrives from Townsend and Bozeman cashiers post. Manager Wolverton organizes two games with Butte Independent team on the local diamond next Sunday. Montana division superintendent B O Johnson and colleagues visited the city to review company interests.
Special Dispatch reports in Kalispell that three boys, aged small, fell about 20 feet from a tree nest after a branch broke. Two boys likely have broken backs and may not survive, while the third is badly bruised and may lose sight in one eye. Names unavailable. In a separate account near the reservation interior, two farmer sons were killed by a rattlesnake and an infant drowned within an hour, a tale told by a motorist observer.
Julius Kovacs a Hungarian Parliament deputy fired three times at Speaker Gounty Tisza on June 7 then killed himself. A police magistrate discharged Kovacs from custody on the grounds of insanity.
Deer Lodge Gun club expects a large crowd for the Irvine lake shoot next Sunday. Visitors may trout fish before the 2 o'clock start. morning anglers will be fed lunch by Frank Conley, president, who also hosts the fish dinner at 6. Shooters from across the state are expected and all members are invited for a royal good time.
Helen Clark, administrator of the estate of George J. Clark, sues William Le Hawes Winthrop Teewksbury Mann Lewin and Jere Coleman of Tewksbury Co for 941,165 alleging losses from stock transactions between 1900 and 1912. An attachment of 60 is placed on defendants' property.
American boxer Kid McCoy also known as Norman Selby was brought before Bow Street magistrates on a theft charge alleged in Ostend. The judge remanded him for a week as extradition papers from Belgium arrived. his attorney sought more time to study the papers while McCoy proclaimed his innocence.
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