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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1912
Page
13
The report notes La Follette alleging his mail has been opened. Tor counters that he has faced nearly universal scrutiny and targeted reporting. This exchange highlights tensions over privacy and press access during the era.
Washington reports a five hour session on the post office appropriation bill ending with a plan to vote tomorrow. Senator La Follette charged post office officials with mail tampering while pursuing an investigation into the postal service. He cited cases of suspensions tied to labor organizing and read letters he claimed showed espionage. Officials denied the charges. Other provisions debated included a Bourne Bristow parcelless plan and a new newspaper ownership disclosure requirement. A Panama canal conference weighed free passage provisions and rail company exclusions amid international notes and potential arbitration talk. Boise is handling a separate bloodhound request in the Barclay case.
Five people injured and one killed as the westbound Olympian of the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound failed through a bridge west of Keechelus, 67 miles east of Seattle. Locomotives, mail car, and baggage car plunged into a creek. survivors rushed to Salem and Tacoma. authorities dispatched wrecking trains to clear the line.
Fort Benton hosts the sixth Annual Session of the North Montana conference of the Methodist church from Wednesday to Sunday. Bishop Luccock of Helena presides. Rev. Philo W. Haynes of Great Falls is conference secretary. About 50 ministers and guests, including their wives, are expected, with extensive anniversary events for the Woman’s Home Missionary Society and a temperance address by Rev. Wilton of Topeka.
Senator Stone of Missouri criticizes President Taft in a Senate speech over the wool tariff veto. He praises Taft’s motives but argues political environment and party interests push him toward special interests, portraying Taft as a “shining” man misled by circumstances. He questions the tariff board and notes Wilson’s progressive push as a rival political frame.
In Hot Springs Arkansas Sam Schepps, held for complicity in Herman Rosenthal’s killing, tells reporters he will reveal his story to New York District Attorney Whitman. Rumors swirl as police move to bring witnesses, with Becker named in a possible complicity plot.
A chaotic incident leaves pleas ignored as authorities report a violent confrontation causing casualties. Names and exact locations remain uncertain amid sparse details. Further information is awaited from local officials and witnesses.
John Garasevich of St. Clumis dies from injuries sustained in the riot on Suns Days Aero. The fatality follows another death in the same incident, marking a second victim in the disturbance.
A violent attack in a canyon near Ticuman, 110 miles southeast of Mexico City, left 36 soldiers and over 20 passengers dead. Zapatista rebels ambushed a southbound passenger train, looting and mutilating victims while shots felled the guard detail. Conductor Domingues and others escaped, reaching Yautepech wounded, as details filter in about the brutal assault and subsequent inquiries.
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