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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
12
Western Montana office of the Standard located at 134 Higgins Avenue Missoula. Telephone 0 118. Advertising rates available upon application.
A Missoula report notes heavy freight movement on the Northern Pacific despite a strike on the Rocky Mountain division. Officials deny block system changes and stress that public support will restore first class conditions. Letters from East Helena and Coeur d Alene shipments praise prompt delivery amid labor tensions.
Report from the telegraph strike states despite some defections pickets have convinced many to desert the company. Freight traffic is paralyzed and divisions from St. Paul to the coast show the strikers have not been replaced. Superintendent Gibson claims Clinton and Bearmouth stations are closed and tickets halted, fueling confidence that the strike will prevail.
J P Menard of the Missoula Mercantile Co installs a large gasoline engine and pump on the Missoula river bank near Higginbotham Avenue bridge. R M Cobban operates the temporary pump to relieve water shortage in Orchard Homes as the river runs low. Water is pumped 70 feet to a ditch and flume feeding the irrigation area. The setup will be adjusted after the irrigation season ends to lower the ditch headgate to river level.
Aug 16 in Missoula reports claim a woman jumped from Higgins avenue bridge and disappeared. Investigators found only a blue checkered skirt floating in the north channel, prompting police to search the river for a possible drowning.
Missoula Aug 16 Judge F C Webster appoints Charles Blair as stenographer of the fourth judicial district court succeeding William Glenny whose resignation was accepted Blair is regarded as one of the state’s most competent stenographers and has prior federal court experience under Judge Knowles He has served as private secretary to Joseph M Dine the past year His friends statewide celebrate the news.
Missoula August 16. The Northern Pacific railroad reports extensive surveying and grading this summer under Chief Engineer Pearson. Projects east of Spokane, Cabinet Idaho, and near Heron and Nixon aim to reduce grades and curves this fall. Surveys also proceed in Egypt country Hawk creek Lewiston Grangeville Riparia Tewiston and Sunnyside with lines planned north of Davenport and a new Granger townsite.
Wallace Idaho reports that the Shamrock group of silver and gold claims on Prospect Creek near Thompson Falls Montana has received its final principal payment. The two-claim group was valued at 20000 dollars with Mike Cooney of Burke owning one claim outright and half of the other. Purchasers are Troy Illinois interests, arranged by Paddy Burke of Mullan.
Rev D B Price head of Stevensville training school arrives in Missoula after a 10 week southern tour to raise funds for a dormitory costing 15000 dollars. The project will be ready for the fall term and Price plans to return to Stevensville Thursday night. Reilly s the home of the big loaf.
Deputy U S Marshal Young brought Antoin Finley and John Graingas to Missoula from the Flathead reservation. Finley is accused of setting fire to the jail and escaping. Graingas faces a horse stealing charge. The pair is held in the county jail for the night. 16 inch green wood delivered costs 2.25 per load, telephone 106.
With the recorder William L Churchill filed notice of location for the Silver Lake Gold Treasury and Churchill quartz mining claims on Rock creek. A deed from the Northern Pacific Railroad to Wallace P Smith for 680 acres in township 13 north range 19 west was filed for 1670 dollars and 50 cents.
City Clerk W L Murphy received lithographed refunding bonds by mail in Missoula on the 16th. The delivery completes another step in the city's debt management program as officials prepare to refinance outstanding obligations and secure favorable terms.
The city sold East to Union Bank and Trust and sent bonds for mayor and city clerk signatures. Old bonds totaling $93,000 will be refunded, and reselling will save about $1.40 per year. The city drops from 6 percent to 4 percent on the new bonds.
Missoula August 16 The small ranger party returned to the city after abandoning the Clinton fire as flames spread widely Wind blew north fanning the fire toward Camas Prairie and Blackfoot country It would take at least 100 men to control the blaze and only heavy rain could stop it Fires in Coeur d Alene Flathead and Bitter Root districts continued burning with smoky horizons.
T A Price of Bonner Price, returning from Waukesha Wisconsin after his brother Roger Price drowned in Horseshoe Lake Minnesota, reports exceptionally good crops along the railroad line. He says farmers in Minnesota and Wisconsin are earning strong prices and some are growing wealthy enough to retire, while Waukesha basks as a health resort but sees slower local commerce.
Missoula Aug 16 George Dougherty reports funds are ready to construct an electric railway from Missoula to Hamilton through Ravalli county. Franchises were granted to Dougherty and partners to secure right of way, with most land already laid out. a few tracts remain. Chicago capitalists backing the project recently visited Western Montana and expressed strong interest.
James A. Innis a middle aged man who moved from Wallace Idaho died of paralysis at his Missoula home on Locust street. He had knee injury treatment and suffered a stroke yesterday and again this morning while taking milk. Survived by sister Mrs Margaret McDonald Leadville Colorado funeral by Undertaker Marsh may occur under Odd Fellows Wallace lodge.
Dr. R Gwinn notes the case in Missoula on Aug 16 Bob the farm hand who vanished from William Alts ranch near Lolo on Aug 4 has turned up in Stevensville He asks Mr Alts to send eight days pay due and gives no explanation for his disappearance
A 60 man crew dug trenches and laid conduits for Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone in Missoula. Expert F. W. Jennings led the effort with trenches 3% feet deep and manholes 6 to 8 feet deep. Work aims to finish within two weeks as Division Engineer Hurley reviews improvements with Local Manager Hall.
In Missoula on August 16 Henry R. Markeell submitted final proof for 160 acres of Quartz area homestead land. George L Steinbrenner Minnie Steinbrenner and William Steinbrenner filed entries for 160 acres of timber land west of the city along the Missoula river.
News of the death of Erick Johnson's eight month old daughter in Bonner was received in Missoula. The cause is stomach trouble. Funeral services will be held in Bonner at 11 o clock tomorrow morning and burial will be in the Missoula cemetery.
Minneapolis August 14 President J J Hill of the Great Northern says a Chinese boycott could push about 20 000 bushels of wheat into other markets, mainly Europe, if flour exports to the Orient are halted. He notes Northwest crops should meet or exceed average and remains cautious as Chinese trade tensions loom.
Flood and Albert Howe faced a preliminary examination before Justice Fraser in Billings and were held to the district court in bonds of 750 dollars each, a sum they have not yet furnished.
Missoula reports a striking operator was arrested at Avon by Justice Glover for threatening to shoot the Watchman at the station. The man is to be taken to Deer Lodge for a hearing. further details were not received.
Ambassador Reid has secured a release of the late Earl Cowper’s country seat West Park near Ampthill Bedfordshire and will move his family there for the winter within a few months.
The Toole family returns from Flathead lake outing. Robert Shelton of Blandville Ky visits Col. Thomas Marshall and family. Lizzie Schilling and Mrs Reitz depart for Portland Seattle Spokane and other western points for about two weeks. Mary Replogle Myrtle Edith Germantown Ohio and Henry Kern depart for the Portland exposition.
Henry Young, a Black man who shot and killed Edward E. Perry on the Base plantation near Lake Cormorant, was seized from Sheriff Withers and a deputy and hanged by an armed mob at the scene of the crime.
A northbound Santa Fe train crashed into a freight train between Santa Ana and Riverside. Six people were killed and the wounded were brought to Santa Ana for treatment.
Berlin gazettes that Emperor William awarded the Order of the Red Eagle fourth class to Waldemar Von Nostelz editor of the Louisville Anzeiger and the Order of the Crown to Dr Juan of Washington.
Berlin Aug 16 a plan backed by England for Prince Charles of Denmark to ascend the Norwegian throne has failed according to information from Copenhagen. The expectation now is that Norway will establish a republic.
Private reports from Byelostok indicate anti Semitic rioting began when a bomb was thrown from a house, triggering a disturbance in Russian Poland city yesterday.
Governor General of Hongkong invites Secretary Taft and party to banquet. The party will spend one day in Hongkong and one night in Canton before continuing their visit.
A Baltimore & Ohio through express from New York to Cincinnati crashed into a Winton Place trolley at Mitchell avenue, injuring ten. Dead are Robert J. Smith William Tustinger and an unidentified man. Serious injuries include A H Newton and S P Spaulding with others aided by witnesses blaming gate tender John Driscoll for signaling the crossing.
St Paul Aug 16 About 50 privates quietly deserted Fort Snelling without permission amid reports they refused to work on the new rifle range. The departure represents a wholesale desertion and reflects dissatisfaction over duties at the post.
A Teintsin city patch reports an assassination attempt on the Chinese empress as she rode to her summer palace through the northwest gate. The attacker, dressed as a soldier, was bayonetted by the guard.
Coroner Siegel Stein determines the June 23 wreck of the Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore road at Mentor Ohio killed 13. Walter Miner the Mentor telegraph operator is found to have opened the switch, but the coroner cannot say if he acted on orders or of his own accord.
Assistant State Examiner F. H. Ray filed a Fergus county report noting Aug 13 cash on hand at 78 411 dollars and fees earned: clerk and recorder 3710.05, sheriff civil 1003.28, district court clerk 2103.85. Condition of all offices is excellent.
The Bozeman fire department names delegates to the state association meeting including Chief W G Alexander Assistant Chief Charles Lundwall and members Henry O Connell John Robertson Henry Benepe D E Moser and M Langohr The state meeting will be held at Lewistown on September 4.
Bozeman officials report the county tax levy remains at 12 mills this year. The total tax on real and personal property in Bozeman stands at 32 mills, unchanged from last year.
An official account from St. Petersburg dated Aug 16 confirms 40 persons killed in Bielostok Poland where Jews opened fire on troops and the soldiers answered with volleys.
London reports via the Standard that the order for the departure of the infantry mobilized in the south western provinces has been countermanded. The correspondent notes the reversal affects troops prepared for deployment and relief efforts.
Attendance and interest in the civics conference at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland Oregon are rising with each day's session.
A case begun in 1517 between the Marquis de Viana and Count Torres de Cabrera remains pending in Spain. Law Notes calls it possibly the longest suit in history, with a pension dispute valued at millions and repeatedly postponed. Judges fear it could run into a fifth century, prompting a spur to speed a ruling within a set period.
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