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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1902
Page
7
Butte readers are informed that the Standard's Principal Branch Office is at 271 East Broadway and telephone 422. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
A flood of visitors and locals populate Butte as officials, businessmen, and relatives from Helena Kalispell Townsend and Lewistown move through town. Dentists surgeons dentists and bankers are listed alongside arrivals at the Finlen and Robert Vickers hotels with multiple mentions of moves and registrations. A birth is recorded and railway and park trip notices appear among the city chatter.
Social Dispatch reports Catherine Lombar, a domestic at the Springs Hotel in Boulder, wandered away in a demented state. A search by townsfolk tracked her to a clump of willows in a meadow before her sister from Butte took her home. She had recently arrived from Findland and reportedly has a history of mental illness and an asylum stay.
The Butte Socialist party caucused in the Owsley block last night with about 150 members and chose a full county and legislative ticket for the primaries tonight. The county convention is set for Aug 28, with a list including J. F. Smith A. Holst J. F. Fox Joseph Shafer Clarence E. Smith and others. Also notes GN rail tickets on sale at 41 North Main for Anaconda and intermediate stations.
Mrs. A. B. Colton at 317 Kemper avenue accuses a neighbor named John Doe of attacking her peace and fighting dogs in her yard. No arrest warrant issued. hearing expected before Judge Boyle after she claimed she was grabbed at the wrists and arms by the neighbor amid a dog attack involving witnesses. Florence Sullivan at 545 East Park street reports a large child attacked yesterday in police court proceedings.
A child was bitten in the groin by a vicious dog. Mr. Sullivan claimed other children had been injured by the same canine. Poundmaster Mahoney was notified and the dog was captured and impounded.
Jerry McCarthy and Cal Hawkins arrived from training camps for a 10 round bout at Suttons Grand Opera House in Butte tonight. They weighed about 145 pounds and Hawkins lighter by a few pounds, both in good condition and confident. Referee selection to be agreed by principals or, if needed, by the Silver Bow Athletic club manager. Seat sales opened last night and drew strong demand for a large crowd.
The Hotel committee of the Business Men's association asks locals with extra rooms to notify the Standard Office. Comprised of J. J. Hammill, Dan Tewey, J. W. Passmore, Hugh I. Wilson, R. A. Taylor, and W. D. Thornton, the group plans for lodging during the International Mining congress September 1 to 6. They note hotels cannot supply enough space and request details on available rooms, occupancy, prices, and location.
A week of filings under the desert land law lists Frank J. Johnson and others for 160 acres, plus 320 acres for John W. Humphrey. Homestead entries include Cora B. Gray and Minnie M. Fritz among others. Water rights notices claim irrigation across various creeks with volumes from 25 to 500 miners inches.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports in Belt Aug. 18 that Just Kungas’s boarding house in the Anaconda addition and Johnson’s nearby shack burned after a lamp burst into a curtain. Most residents were miners at the mine. about 2000 dollars hidden in the rooms was found with 205 dollars remaining. Losses include over 1200 dollars in clothing and more than 1000 dollars in watches, with Kangas and Johnson each facing about 1000 dollars in property loss. Kangas had no insurance while Johnson’s policy had lapsed three months ago.
Jacob Grannis aged 12 and two sons of Mr Sedewick left home last night and boarded an eastbound freight. Telegrams went to Billings and Big Timber to trace them. Parents, Deputy Clerk Grannis and Mr Sedewick, are greatly worried as the boys had good homes and their actions are unaccounted for.
Will Sweet and Warren Shephard biked four miles from Boulder to fish on Little Boulder creek when a bear approached. With no weapons they fled on bikes, making a remarkable dash back to town as the bear closed in.
Prof. W. K. Chesnut of the U S department of agriculture, in charge of poisonous plant investigations, has been in Bozeman for several days. He will use Bozeman as headquarters for three months and will extend work into Idaho Wyoming and other Montana areas, cooperating with experiment station staffs.
Bishops Brondel and Cunningham visited Butte on Saturday, then went to Anaconda at Father Coopman’s invitation to advise on the new parish school construction and rectory improvements in Anaconda. They planned brief stops at Deer Lodge and Philipsburg while moving on.
Louis Lafeldt of Lake Basin tops the Chicago market with four Montana steers weighing 1,740 pounds each at 7.50 a pound, totaling about 130.50 per animal. J M Partridge loaded a Minneapolis firm car of pelts from Billings after an $14,000 deal begun August 8 with Butte's J F Hemple. Sheep sales by John Seehinder reach 1,200 mixed ewes and lambs at 2.25 to 2.50, plus 1,500 yearlings at 1.80 average, with prices lagging last year due to scarce forage across Carbon and western Yellowstone counties.
Detroit reports Gen. R A Alger may defer announcing a U S Senate bid to fill the McMillan seat. He will decide later this week after mature consideration. The News notes Duffield and Duffield's son Millan are potential rivals with unclear campaigns.
The body of an Indian man was found floating in the Arlington River yesterday in Everett Washington. Another Indian man has been arrested and charged with his murder.
The New York Times profiles Senator Pettus of Alabama as one of the most genial and popular lawmakers in the body, noting his influential role and widespread esteem among colleagues.
A Towanda matron in Philadelphia society faces caustic talk for flirtatious behavior since marriage. At a May party she lingered amid admirers and, when a man found her knotted handkerchief, she mused about its meaning while her aunt humorously pressed the idea of wedlock.
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