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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
12
In a special session officials approve a contract for street improvement work. The move aims to repair and upgrade road surfaces while outlining funding and project timelines. Public works officials and council members discuss scope and oversight during the session.
The August special session failed to settle bids for Front and Main streets. Stinger & Campbell and Dave Graham led the options for gutters and sewer work and excavation, with a split vote delaying final award until the next meeting. The council also moved to suspend the Main Adams electric line and approved small claims and a liquor license transfer. The tax levy for the upcoming year was adopted: general fund seven mills, road fund two mills, sinking fund one mill, library fund one mill.
The Orchard Homes plat has been sold. Cobban and Dinsmore purchased 240 acres adjoining the Orchard Homes addition, platted into five and ten acre tracts for sale on the same terms as the first tract. Ideal for a comfortable farm home. Write for terms and pamphlet, Cobban & Dinsmore, Missoula, Mont.
Morris Wood, a lumber camp employee near Bonner, was riding a wheel downhill toward Missoula when it ran away. He was thrown against a tree sustaining a severe forehead cut needing stitches. He rode to a Northern Pacific station and then to Missoula for treatment.
Stock herder Lo Ran of Missoula was injured when his horse stepped into a gopher hole at Rankin's sawmill on Grant Creek. He broke his knee and was confined to a Rankin house room for two to three months, missing the city council gathering.
Missoula August 10 Charles Clark a wood hauler and threshing machine owner suffered a severe accident while testing the machine. His glove was caught in a cogwheel tearing off the thumb at the first joint. A surgeon sewed it back but the thumb may require amputation in a few weeks.
Missoula Aug 20 Mrs Atkinson boards the Copper City Limited for Hamilton to make her future home. Officials report her departure was not voluntary and note she was recently arrested amid disturbances and sentenced to several months in the county jail.
A woman, previously warned to avoid further disturbances, promised to stay away but caused a scene when her child was taken. Officers warned that the suspended sentence would be enforced if she did not leave at once, so she chose to depart to avoid reimprisonment.
In Missoula on August 10 the Myrtle Leach trial began in district court for allegedly relieving a sheepherder of 510 dollars. Witnesses tied Leach to the theft that night near West Front Street and Desmet train station as defense argues witness bias amid morphine withdrawal facts. The jury was seated. arguments to be resumed in the morning.
Sunday notices list Methodist services under Epworth league care with 11th anniversary program and special music, class meeting at 10 a.m., Sunday school at 12 20 p.m., league devotional at 7 p.m., no evening preaching. Congregational and Episcopal services broadcast morning and evening as usual.
A Missoula letter reports the death of Carl Pittman Brayton age year, son of Howard and Blanche Brayton. The parents, now residing in New York, are saddened by the loss and have many friends in Missoula. Brayton is brother to Will Brayton, currently in Alaska.
The funeral for Tillman Nesmith son of B T Nesmith will be Saturday afternoon from the family residence in Missoula. The Nesmith family expresses deep gratitude for the community and newspe er fraternity support, of which Mr Nesmith was a respected member.
Rev A A Power of Emporia Kansas credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with curing a severe bilious attack in two doses He recounts helping a neighbor who found no relief with doctors and a baby who improved after four drops in water He cites multiple local users including O P M Holliday Deming J H Doak Williams Oregon and notes the standard drugstores stocking the product
Missoula Notes covers visits by Marion and local officials, court motions in two city cases, and social concerns. It lists residents from Frenchtown Philipsburg and Ireland becoming a citizen, plus regional weather, blackberry harvests, and a rain storm. It notes a King’s Daughters meeting and searches for a thief who absconded with washing.
Mrs. Lizzie Adams returns from a visit with Butte friends. Finley Burke, a Chicago attorney, in the city for a few days. McDonald J. visits Bitter Root valley for a week. Professor James House returns from Saltese district where he studied mines. Fire insurance. Smith Higgine bik.
Alderman Sid J Coffee toured Anaconda fire hall with Chief Mentrum and praised the department as highly complete. He urged Missoula to adopt an electric alarm system, aiming to improve firefighting readiness. Fixtures for the Brunswick restaurant and bar room have arrived and will be installed, with a grand opening planned by Smith & Christy.
Missoula promoters led by Benjamin Searight and Fred Crain plan a new independent football team to challenge the state and specifically the university. The university squad, with Hechler Ward McAllister and others returning from vacation, will still field a strong team and pose a tough rival.
A hearing is set for August 18 on final proof offered by Edward B. Wiles for a homestead at Wiles Hot Springs. George B. Lord protests the claim, alleging the land used for trade and business cannot be homesteaded and noting a $5,000 hotel on the grounds. Lord, who has retained Attorney Robert Fisher, fears the government grant would affect his investment.
At the Poor Farm Missoula on Aug 10 Manager Mix spent the day in town on business. He reports 12 patients at the farm and one being discharged yesterday. Peter Rouchette, once injured with a broken leg in a lumber camp, departed entirely well. The remaining patients are doing well and enjoying home comforts.
Missoula August 10 Peter Cyr Bonner sawmill employee suffered a painful accident yesterday while at work. He was...
A worker encountered a buzz saw and his fingers were badly lacerated, requiring surgical attention. Medical staff treated the injuries and stabilized the patient following the incident.
Deering Binders at J. W. Wilson Missoula reports growing interest in the August 26 races. Owners have been seen testing road horses on surrounding roads as daily practice begins for the event.
A seven car train carrying horses from the reservation passed Missoula today en route to St Paul markets. G Jamieson, who has led prior shipments, again supervised the morning movement.
The Bonner band instruments sent a month ago have arrived in Missoula. The players practice daily and have spent several evenings serenading their married friends in Bonner.
The article notes lightning hitting the Chippewa Falls courthouse for the third time, while also mentioning Peirce's Proof fishing tackle featured there. The event underscores the dome's repeated damage amid local coverage.
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