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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1905
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard prints daily and Sunday editions with subscription options and rates. It lists main and business offices in Standard Block Anaconda and provides editorial and telephone contact information.
The notice lists multiple branch offices including Butte 28 East Broadway with telephone 422 and East Main street with manager W. J. Morton. It notes foreign advertising contacts and official offices in New York Chicago Nassau Street and Washington Street.
The Standard is on sale at venues in New York at Brentano's Union Square Chicago at Auditorium Annex Minneapolis at Kavanaugh's 30 South Third Street San Francisco at Palace Hotel and Hotel St Francis news stand Denver Seventeenth Street Salt Lake City Salt Lake News Co Ogden Kind's 114 25th Street Spokane 8 North Howard Street Tacoma 1121 Pacific Avenue Seattle Hotel Seattle news stand and 210 Columbia Street Portland Hotel and Rickiscker's Ninth and Walnut Streets All general business letters and correspondence should be addressed to the Anaconda Mont.
James E Callaway, longtime Montana official and statesman, died yesterday at his Virginia City home. He served as secretary of the Montana territory starting in 1871 and helped frame the state constitution, leaving a lasting imprint on Montana’s development and governance.
An English traveler in Pall Mall Gazette recounts Sakhalin as a brutal prison colony under Russia. Prisoners arrive chained from ship to jail in damp fungus-covered cells with meager rations while wives and children accompany some exiles.
An English author denounces Sakhalin prison condition abuses comparing them to salt mine tortures. Prisoners endure menial tasks under flogging with a wire bodiga instrument and tin ends. Gags muffled cries as tortures and other horrific punishments unfold.
Portsmouth correspondents question if Russia would have been harsher than Japan, citing Russia's 1878 San Stefano gains and the Berlin settlement. They note Russia stripped Turkey of European lands, claimed a hundred million dollar indemnity, and set up zones around Constantinople before Berlin tempered those terms.
The piece cites Missouri penitentiary graft where a state employee profits by selling groceries to the prison, plus cases of two convicts living outside walls with warden favor. It laments the difficulty of prosecuting crooks and the hardship of securing just sentences while prisoners enjoy idle liberty beyond walls.
The text notes two proposals to improve Butte including laying out a park around the new Northern Pacific station. While station completion is months away, officials should keep the idea in mind. It references visiting editors favorably admiring local greenery and counters external criticisms of Butte as barren.
An eastern style park near the station and a Main street extension to the flat south of Butte are proposed to improve traffic flow. Current routes via Arizona street or Montana Street congest due to streetcars, railcars, and funeral processions. Extending Main street could provide an unobstructed drive from the business center to the boulevard.
The article extols an Indian gait flatfooted and balanced with whole foot contact. It notes steady center of gravity, forward toe alignment, and smooth movement enabling snowshoeing and silent travel. The description contrasts with heel and toe walking and emphasizes economy of force and poised motion.
Dispatch from Portsmouth reports little hope for a late change in the Russo Japanese Peace Conference. Emperor Nicholas refuses major concessions, M. Witte may receive new instructions, and Japanese leaders express confidence in Roosevelt while signaling continued resistance. Britain declines to pressure Japan, to avoid upsetting the alliance.
The sepa rate statehood constitutional convention in Muskogee I T opens with nearly 200 delegates from five civilized tribes. Pleasant Porter elected permanent chairman. chiefs maintain control and favor negative stance, drafting a constitution with 51 member committee while restraining popular expression. organization to be completed tomorrow.
Narragansett Pier Rhode Island August 21 The commissioners on uniform legislation after a session since Friday reviewed plans for standardizing marriage and divorce laws. A special committee noted several states were acting on a proposal from the conference and the group decided to wait another year before proceeding.
The isthmian canal commission has adopted a shield as the coat of arms for the Panama canal zone and for the commission's use. The design features symbols representing the canal project and its governing authority.
Description describes a Spanish galleon relief from the seventeenth century under full sail between two banks as the sky glows yellow at sunset. The shield bears colors matching the United States arms and the line Land divided, world united is inscribed beneath.
Police in St Petersburg arrested 10 leaders at a central committee meeting of the League and Confederation of Professional Reform Organizations. The arrested include professionals from medicine engineering and law amid concerns the group planned action against the Douma. Paul Milukoff, once a St Petersburg University professor, was detained at his home.
Mrs. I. J. Fondeh, mother of Indeh Fondeh, returns from Nebraska to take her daughter from McMullen whom police had in custody. McMullen proclaims love and seeks marriage despite refusal. Detective Melinnery monitors to prevent trouble as the mother and daughter prepare to travel to Portland for the fair.
Bishop T. H. Moore of the Methodist Episcopal church, touring from the Dillon conference, notes growing Christian fervor nationwide including Montana. He says evangelizing progresses as public morals rise, but church membership lags. Moore, once based in the Far East, recalls the Boxer period and later Japanese influences.
Fire crews answered a small blaze at the rear of the White Front saloon on Galena and Wyoming streets shortly before 1 am. A man on a back room lounge struck a match, flames caught the lounge and were thrown from the window. the fire was quickly extinguished.
Mrs James of Portland Oregon was deserted in Billings by a man she fled with and has been forgiven by her husband. Money and railroad tickets were sent to her, and she plans to return home. She attempted to throw herself from a hotel window after being abandoned but was restrained.
Governor Beckham wired Adjutant General Healey to dispatch troops from Camp Visera Paducah to Russellville to protect William Fletcher and Roy Winne, accused of criminal assault on a German girl, as tensions rose among a mob.
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