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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
17
Readable fragments show multiple daily times for Anaconda services including 10 40 a m 2 00 p m 6 00 p m 12 15 a m and 8 00 a m with unclear context or destinations. The item lists assorted schedule points or service windows without full dates or destinations.
A Livingston Special reports the opening of a Montana blacksmiths convention in the Gateway City with parades, speeches by Mayor Goughnour and Judge Henry, and a day of races at the island track drawing 2,000 spectators. Evening events include a dance and an upcoming shooting contest and ball game as visiting smiths seek prizes and a medal.
A Salt Lake City based bank with 1.6 million dollars in capital is planned behind the Silver King Coalition, with backers including F. Augustus Heinze, ex senator Thomas Kearns, David Keith, R. Kerens, N. S. Nefilsen, and F. C. Jensen. Incorporation as a trust company with general banking is expected within days, though a bank name remains undisclosed.
Rome dispatch reports Cardinal Merry del Val papal secretary of state was attacked in Marino on the way to Castel Gandolfo. A mob shouted Kill him and pursued the cardinal until police arrived, aiding his safe escort to the villa amid anti clerical demonstrations. One officer was injured in the melee.
Press dispatches from Boise say Gould funds and guides a project to build a line from Butte Montana to Winnemucca Nevada. Rights of way are secured for the San Francisco Idaho and Montana company and grading progresses with piers and abutments for Snake River bridges. The route would link Western Pacific with Canadian Pacific, giving Gould an entry into Montana and near direct communication between San Francisco and the Canadian Pacific.
Helena reports a second conference between railroad officials and machinists. Railroads reportedly offer a nine hour day under a five year pact, while the workers demand all their concessions. Twenty delegates were ordered to seek a definite 48 hour response, with a strike vote already cast.
Three Chinese residents in a two story building at China Alley and Mercury Street were robbed between midnight and daylight. A thief stole a revolver, $70, three diamond stud earrings, money and clothing, leaving through an open window. Police search ongoing with low expectation of capturing the burglar. One victim identified as Mah Hunguhen in Chinese society.
Nels Carlson, 28, of 739 South Idaho Street, working at Montana garage at Montana and Galesana Streets, suffered fractures of both bones in his right forearm when a crank started unexpectedly while he was under a car. He was hospitalized at St. James hospital yesterday morning. He is single and employed at the Montana garage.
John Pryor, long sought by friends as possibly a foul play case, is found alive at St James Hospital where he has been a patient for several days with a sore throat. He explains he did not notify anyone because he never thought of it.
Two young men and a frisky horse elude a West Park Street policeman after speeding past Dakota to Montana. The officer pursued, drew his gun, and shouted halts, but the buggy vanished in a dust cloud, and no arrest or report was filed.
Sheriff officers seek a bay gelding about 1100 pounds attached to an open runabout stolen from the hitching fence at Columbia Gardens yesterday afternoon. The Langlois livery stable owns the rig hired out to Fred Garvey, who searched the resort and courthouse after the loss and was at the ball game when the theft occurred.
Ogden August 16 The Utah Federation of Labor through recording secretary D I Elton issues a circular to affiliated bodies and friends. Fred Paine chair of the local grievance committee denies a newspaper report that the strike has been settled. He says the strike has just fairly gotten started.
A Life magazine traveler in a Georgia railroad dining car orders fried eggs. The waiter says the road is too rough, so the cook claims the eggs will scramble each time they are fried. The exchange highlights a humorous regional dialect story.
Dialogue from a Detroit Free Press theatrical column shows a minstrel manager and a minstrel man trading jests about inherited jokes. The exchange implies a family lineage of minstrel show involvement.
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