Butte Hosts First Montana Elks Meeting Amid Decorated Streets
Butte welcomes visiting Elks for the Montana Association of Elks Lodges inaugural gathering. City displays purple and white decor, Elks heads and emblems adorn storefronts, with prizes for best decorations. Events include a parade, ball game with Helena, minstrel show, and state association meetings at Broadway theater. Proceedings open with welcome by ex Mayor Mueller and a response by Secretary Hayes. Others, including Anaconda, arrive to join the celebrations.
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Montana Association of Elks
Butte
Elks
Broadway
Main
Park
Schatzlein Company
Hennessy Company
Pufahl
West Park Street
Clark Building
William McKinley
Symons Company
Alexander Mackel
Dr. Schwartz
City Hall
Helena
Columbia Gardens
Broadway Theater
State Association
Mueller
Hayes
Anaconda
Woodmen Picnic Trains Planned From Butte to Helena
Woodmen of the World plan excursion trains Sunday August 16 from the Northern Pacific depot in Butte at 7 and 8 am to Helena with stops at Central Park and Helena depot. Return trains depart Helena at 6 and 7 pm. round trip price 2 dollars, children 5 to 11 one dollar. Special streetcar service to the capital city and Broadwater plunge arranged. W H Merriman, general agent.
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Woodmen of the World
Northern Pacific
Butte
Central Park
Helena
Broadwater
Sharp
Montana
Park
W. H. Merriman
Travel tickets to multiple cities on sale August 14 16
To Seattle and return 20 To Tacoma and return 29 20 To Portland and return 10 30 To Vancouver and return 33 45 To Victoria and return 32 20 On sale Aug 14 15 and 16 Returning good 30 days For information and tickets call at or address city ticket office 41 North Main street W R MEECH CP F A Ladies Auxiliary A H Division No 3 will meet at Pioneer Hall 17 West Broadway Friday evening Aug 14 By order MRS GIBBONS Pres MARY KEATING Vice Pres
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Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Vancouver
Victoria
City Ticket Office
North Main Street
W. R. Meech
F. A
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Pioneer Hall
West Broadway
Gibbons
Mary Keating
Oregon Short Line Announces Summer Ticket Sale
From Aug 2 through Aug 15 the Oregon Short Line sells round trip tickets from Butte and Anaconda to San Francisco and return at 50 dollars to Los Angeles 60 dollars with a return by Oct 15 Tickets valid via Ogden or Portland Ogden route saves 500 miles and 24 hours Only two nights out Berths reserved at Short Line city ticket office 105 North Main Street Butte Mont H WILSON
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Oregon Short Line
Butte
Anaconda
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Ogden
Portland
Short Line City Ticket Office
North Main Street
Mont
H. ©. Wilson
Dedication of Holy Cross Church at Townsend
Helena dispatch reports the dedication of the new Church of the Holy Cross at Townsend next Sunday evening at 7 30 led by Bishop John J Brandel of Helena with several diocese priests. After the service a class of 50 members will be confirmed.
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Helena
Social Order of Buffaloes Debating Debts in Butte
Attorney Lingenfelter seized a beak of membership from the so called Social Order of Buffaloes and started debt suits against about a dozen prominent men. Many listed members apparently never heard of the society. A log rolling event at Hamilton prompted a Northern Pacific special train for August 13 to 15 with round trip rates and tickets on sale.
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Justice Danger of
Meaderville
Butte
Social Order of Buffaloes
Fred Warde
West Broadway
Pennsylvania
Lingenfelter
Kennedy Purniture Company
Stromberg-Mullins Company
Social Order of Huffaloes
Buffaloes
Hamilton
Northern Pacific
Bonner
Montana
W. H. Merriman
Defendants Named in Suit Include Bray Weimen eary Lambrecht
The complaint lists several defendants including A. F. Bray J. F. Weimen eary Harry Lambrecht Dan Tewey J. G. Noble Morris Binnard and Dave Dickman among others as part of the active civil action.
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A. F. Bray
J. F. Weimeneary
Harry Lambrecht
Dan Tewey
J. G. Noble
Morris Binnard
Dave Dickman
Wild chase reports flee from Silver Bow county jail break
Sheriff and police pursued Lennox Felker and Patrick Rogers after a Sunday break from Silver Bow county jail. Three credible tips led to searches around Brown's gulch Williamsboro Centerville and Bigbutte but all ended without arrests. Officers concluded fugitives remain near Butte with Rogers seen near Minah street and aided by local friends.
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Police Department
Lennox
Felker
Patrick Rogers
Silver Bow
Oneunnday
Butte
Brown's Gulch
Haggerty
Dolan
McGarvey
Williamsbore
Burke
Merkle
Rogers
Main Street
Bigbutte
Jerry Murphy
Buchanan
Wyman
Centerville
Minah Street
Reverend Dr Babbitt Addresses Lynchings at Chautauqua
Rev Dr Dean Richmond Babbitt rector of the Church of the Epiphany Brooklyn argues lynchers are murderers and should be treated as such by authorities and citizens. He calls for more morality less prejudice stricter law and fairer play for black and white to ease race tensions.
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Chautauqua, N
Dean Richmond Babbitt
Church of the Epiphany
Brooklyn
John Temple Graves
Georgia
Chautauqua Assembly
Dr. Babbitt
Relic from Andre Expedition Brought to Vancouver
A Vancouver arrival brings a fragment of the Gill used to build Andre's balloon from the ill fated north pole expedition. The prospector spent four years in the Mackenzie basin before returning with the relic.
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St. Pau
Vancouver
B. C
Andre
North Pole
MacKenzie Basin
Corner Stone laid for county high school building ceremony
Special dispatch reports the corner stone of the new county high school to be laid under Masonic auspices on Friday Aug 14. Grand Master Frank E. Smith invites top state officers to attend and participate in the ceremonies and several have indicated they will come.
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Symons
Lewistown
New County
Masonic Order
Frank E. Smith
Order
Habeas corpus filed for Thomas Saesick by Mrs Saesick
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Helena reports habeas corpus proceedings in Judge Smith's court for Thomas Saesick a Scandinavian jailed six months for beating his wife. The petition by Charles J Geter counsel for Mrs Saesick says she does not want to be separated from her husband.
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Standard
Helena
Smith
Thomas Saesick
Justice of the Peace
F. L. Reece
Charles J. Geter
St Louis Wins Typographical Union Meet 1904
International Typographical Union selects St Louis as next meeting site after all other candidates withdraw. Montreal and Ottawa announce candidacies for 1905. Regularizing rules on apprenticeships substitutions and bonding debated. some measures defeated. Woman's auxiliary declines to hear a suffrage address.
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Washington
International Typographical Union
Ladey
St. Louis
Gilmore
Montreal
Powell
Ottawa
Committee On Laws
Bacon
Hartford
Fidelity Insurance Fund
Harris
Philippines
Hma-Waiian Islands
Woman's Auxiliary
B. A. Lockwood
Burials Continue After Paria Tunnel Disaster
In Paria on August 12 fifty eight victims were buried as the condition of the bodies allowed no delay. The remaining victims will be interred tomorrow with a formal ceremony to follow led by Premier Combes for the government and the municipal council president speaking for the city.
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Paria
Lieben Von Levitsow Dies in Berlin
Berlin reports Herr von Levitsow former reichstag president is dead with one casualty noted in the incident.
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Lieve von Levitsow
Berlin
Herr von Levitsow
The
Reichstag
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Stériers
Batiste
Bette Social Organization
Hamilon
Carlyle
Gladiator
W. B. and
la Grecque
McCall Patterns
Yaeger Underwear
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