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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
23
Mrs. Walter Garrison, wife of a confidence man, says authorities should send her home to South Dakota. In interview she claims ignorance of her husband's alleged crimes, while caring for two children in Windsor hotel. Garrison held in county jail for pre trial hearing. $76 in city custody available via his order.
F.C. Webster and B. E. Palmer arrive from Missoula while A. Sargent comes from Great Falls. L. C. Hayes visits from Fort Belknap and H. P. Brown from Great Falls in town with Major A. L. Duncan. Father Murphy from Salt Lake City and Mrs. J. H. Miller from Twin Bridges are in Butte. Alex D. Leaming relocates from Great Falls to Butte as W. F. Sanders registers from Helena. T. H. Carson hails from Great Falls. Miss H. M. Parkins comes from Twin Bridges. Harry Bush and J. E. Stuart, Jardine miners, are in town. Mrs. Louis Stadler and Mrs. E. Aldrich arrive from Helena. Helena pitcher Gibson is due to face Butte this week. Marysville cricket team will play Walkerville at Columbia Gardens next week. Packard Sullivan enters a mechanical role at the Billings Gazette. Mrs. Carrie C. Day arrives from the coast after her husband’s death. The old Catherine divorce case is referenced.
In district court yesterday Bohan against Barney Bohan was dismissed. Montana Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents president Morgan named J T O'Brien of Butte F W Peckover of Anaconda and H J Skinner of Great Falls as delegates to the national meeting in Milwaukee August 20 31 and September. Charlies J McArthur administrator of the EF I McArthur estate told the court that the administrator had left the jurisdiction but no estate had passed to him. He was appointed to press a damage suit against Basin Mining and Concentrating company now insolvent and the suit remains in Jefferson county court.
Boston market reports a generally quiet wool trade with some old wool sold at sacrifice not typical for new wool profits. Sellers hold large consignments above market awaiting higher bids after elections. Territory wools stay active, Montana scoured at 6 to 6 1/2 cents, Yexus demand rising, California and Oregon offerings mixed. Receipts total 4,611 packages today. weekly receipts 17,699 domestic and 753 foreign. San Francisco notes spring wools and mountain lambs in narrow ranges.
Army Order lists Hospital Steward R H McComyn to lead a hospital corps detachment from Jefferson Barracks Missouri to Fort McDowell California and to accompany Major John J Hoff on a China mission. Major Hoff will be chief surgeon on General Chaffee’s staff. Major George Ruhlin is relieved from Honolulu duties and will go to Seattle to relieve Major F W Robinson Jr who departs to Honolulu as depot quartermaster.
A Wyoming forest fire near Encampment has burned about ten miles of territory and threatens Battle and Ramber. Two thousand sheep owned by Frederick Getdes of Saratoga have died and a Mexican herder is missing and believed killed in the flames.
Heavy statewide rainfall raises Des Moines River by ten feet, flooding lowlands and washing away bridges. In Columbus, Ohio three leading hotels owned by Columbus Hotel company go to receivers amid $150,000 in debts. Seattle records $2.5 million gold receipts in a day at the assay office, including a $1.5 million single deposit from the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
The steamship Argyle, once a British vessel, was issued an American register at the Portland customs today. James Jerome of San Francisco received the transfer. The Argyle has been chartered by the United States to haul supplies from Portland to army forces in China. The Salmon Pack reports Puget Sound salmon estimated at 199,000 cases for 1900, compared with 528,000 last year.
A well known theatrical manager, plagued by a begging con man for an order, finally acquiesced and gave him a written pass. The mantelpiece note read Pass two in gallery evening dress indispensable, and the beggar's joy turned to dismay upon reading the requirement.
A letter from the treasury department to Senator Carter promises that foundations for the new federal building will be begun and completed this fall and that the superstructure will start as soon as weather allows. After two years of discussion and a year since site selection, this assurance moves completion and occupancy forward within two to three years. The letter will be shared at the next Business Men's Association meeting Tuesday evening for further plans.
England faces sharp criticism over the Shanghai troop landing episode as British prestige in the East and Europe is questioned. The piece follows a complex sequence of formal announcements, delays, and foreign reactions, highlighting shifts in policy and the looming recall of Lord Roberts and Wolseley.
The article notes the lengthy tenures of Lord Mowbray and Segrave, with Mowbray heading five of England’s oldest families, one dating back to 1338, highlighting historic lineage and continuity in noble houses.
An aging circus veteran recalls the showman who outdid all rivals with clever advertising. He describes how the giant would seemingly lift townsfolk over a stream using a staged bridge trick, drawing crowds and delighting women and children while showcasing the circus’s ingenuity. The tale ends praising the man’s lasting influence.
Albert C. Searles of Oakland a diploma winner at the Chicago world’s fair seven years ago has lived 27 years with a broken neck. Despite doctors’ dire warnings he has grown strong, walks with a cane, and assists his father in patent work. He shows robust health, no deformity, and remains active as a designer and draughtsman while pursuing scientific interests.
A butcher argues with a housewife about calf liver freshness, insisting only calves with fresh livers qualify for slaughter in a satirical snippet from the Meggensdorfer Blaetter.
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