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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1912
Page
21
Meager OCR listing shows on sale items including tin bread raisers, long handled mop sticks, and roasters. Describes value and sale status with scattered fragments implying a clearance or value sale event.
The Montana federation of labor discusses House Bill 220, urging scrutiny of conscription provisions and exemptions, while listing committee appointments. Delegates report favorable weather and a social recess with 107 delegates at the springs, plus an evening lawn party.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Livingston reports George W. Ricketts was found guilty of manslaughter for his role in the killing of Deputy Sheriff Jo Hrannin at Melville last summer. Judge J. Miller Smith sentenced him to 10 years at hard labor in the state prison, with an appeal filed by his attorney. The case alleges Ricketts aided convict Mel Jowell in the murder of Sheriff Jack Killhorn. Jowell received a 22-year sentence.
Fifty settlers from Pend d'Oreille and Stevens counties Washington queue at the land office in Spokane to file tomorrow on lands they occupy. Among the hopefuls are twenty five in line since yesterday including five women as fear grows railroad claims under land grants. Most of the 23 508 acres remain unsettled with some homesteads dating back to the 1860s.
Reno Aug 1. Warden George W. Cowing seeks five men to act as executioners for Andre Michovich of Tonopah under a new Nevada law allowing the condemned to choose rope or shooting. Five willing men have yet to be found. The process involves blindfolds, a chair, heart target, five riflemen with one blank cartridge, and concealed shooters to identify the gun with the blank. The August 2 execution date remains set as authorities search for volunteers.
The Jefferson county fair drew a large crowd including Mrs D and two nieces Misses Lake of Higginsville Missouri and Mr Bon flues and family with Mr and Mrs May visiting Morrison cave near the city. Mrs Harry Huber traveling in the north coast country recited Mr Hanscomb at Northern Packie hospital in Tacoma reporting his very low condition. The road between Whitehall and Cardwell is in poor condition after heavy rains with several accidents noted. A large gang will be employed to repair the damage. Miss Gladys Brown returned from Lewistown after visiting friends there.
Illinois suffragettes designate August 1 as petition day to collect 106000 signatures from registered voters to place the women's suffrage question on the November general election ballot. Mrs Helen O'Connor leads the drive, enlisting prominent attorneys and doctors to sign, while noting working men in unions often oppose suffrage.
Sem Hess a Wichita merchant dropped dead while touring Norris Hill in Yellowstone Park with fiancée Miss Dennis and her mother Mrs J J Dennis. Cause reported apoplexy. Hess was to marry Miss Dennis. The party was en route to Wichita. A separate note mentions A Holmes planning a survey of the Bering River coal field in Alaska for potential wartime coal use.
Attorney Appel compared Iscariot to Franklin and John R. Harrington while addressing the jury, saying Judas repented before hanging. He argued Franklin was introduced to Darrow by a letter from US District Attorney A T McCormick and later acted as a spy and trapper, attempting to bribe jurors for county district interests.
Plymouth Aug 1 A hydro aeroplane accident halted a proposed Marblehead to Hartford flight by United States Army lieutenants Kiruand and Arnold. Their craft landed in shallow water on the Housatonic River and sustained damaged propeller and pontoon. Washington Aug 1 A House committee report backs Bowman over McLean in a Pennsylvania race for the Eleventh district citing large election expenditures. Livingston Aug 18 Charles Reynolds pled guilty to burglary and received hard labor in Deer Lodge prison for stealing clothes from a lodging house.
The Anaconda & Pacific railway runs a daily special train departing Butte at 8 p m for Gregson S40 p m and Anaconda 8 p m with return from Anaconda at 9 15 p m and Gregson 10 30 p m arriving Butte at 1 10 p m.
The Stinson funeral for William Stin gon is set for this morning at 11 o'clock at Sherman Teed chapel. Jerry D Shen’s funeral, postponed from today, will be held tomorrow at 9 o'clock at Mrs Bullvan’s residence, then proceed to St Mary’s church for a 10 30 service and Catholic cemetery burial.
Belton reports the cub presented to Robert Taft, son of the president, was found tethered to a tree. A mother bear, hearing the cub’s wails, entered the Taft camp on Ted Basle mountain, gnawed the tether rope, and carried the cub away, growling at campers. Taft urged restraint, noting there is no room in the White House for a bear.
In New Westminster two youths were jailed after a failed safe robbery, the blast causing fear and a costly mess as money lay behind the shattered lock. In another case three youths tied to a plot to assassinate Viscount Kitchener were found guilty, one given 15 years hard labor and two sentenced to 19 years each for treasonous readings that incited the scheme.
After the scegs on rot s prings, 40 minutes by Fall or out from Bute, Bute, Anaconda & Pacife depot at's p.m. Catz and plunge open all night.
Funeral notices report Emily Brown and William Neils buried or to be buried with services at local churches. Fred Hocking and Fred Lockerson died recently, their bodies at Richards Parlor with funeral notices to follow. Jack Jay, 59, died last evening with body arriving this evening and funeral notice pending.
Wednesday morning service planned at the Holy Savior school hall Doelock for Charles Harper who died yesterday. funeral arrangements to be announced by Fema le Walsi'a undertaking partners.
The funeral of the late Alexander Gray will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Masonic temple on West Park street under the auspices of Butte Lodge No. 82 A F and AM.
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