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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
3
The World Markets Daily records trading activity across global markets with emphasis on merchant, banking, and capital flows. It highlights notable price movements, exchange rates, and major commodity benchmarks affecting financial centers.
New York stock market closed higher after a day of reduced trading. Gains were led by railroad and western iron sectors with renewed optimism about rail finance and possible treasury steps. Copper and metal prices eased, with tin and copper showing small declines and London markets reacting to lower spot values.
Money on call steady at 3.42 percent with bids and asks reported. Prime commercial paper quoted near 4.4795 percent. Sterling exchange easier with bankers' bills at 5.715 for demand and 4 days, 13.430 for 30 days. Commercial bills around 4.835 to 4.845 percent. Mexican dollars at 1.146. Government bonds strong while state bonds inactive. Railroad bonds firm.
The Commercial Advertiser reports a nervy eve of settlements with reduced U S trading activity. New York liquidation halted local speculators as prices opened near parities and rose on Wall Street buying of securities. Consols and Rio Tinto shares fell amid weak dividend outlook while one year treasury bills saw £1,000,000 allotted at 2 percent.
Heavy buying orders for corn from St. Louis shorts were easily filled as bulls compete to unload at high prices. The scene shows selling pressure driving prices upward amid active trading in Chicago markets.
Fragmented cash quotations list assorted grains and products with prices per unit and bulk shipments totals. Items include wheat corn oats rye barley flaxseed and pork lard and salted meat products with varied pricing and tentative shipment figures.
Receipts and price levels for cattle hogs and sheep at Chicago markets. Steers varied with Western and stocker categories around 4.50 to 4.75 per cwt. hogs show gains with mixed and butchers near 6.75 to 7.15. sheep and lambs steady with natives and western offerings ranging between 2.00 and 5.85 per cwt.
South Omaha on Aug 2 reports cattle receipts at 609 with market steady to higher. Native steers range $4.08 to $5.25. western and Texas cattle $4.05 to $5.00. cows and heifers $2.30 to $4.40. stockers and feeders around $3.50 to $5.00. Hogs receipts 140 with heavier demand and prices around $6.00 to $7.00. sheep receipts 25 with fed muttons about $4.00 and lambs $3.50 to $5.75.
Kansas City market data shows cattle receipts of about 4000 with a mix of Texans and natives. Steers, cows, and stockers priced in the 1 to 5 dollar ranges. hogs priced around 6 to 7.5 dollars with bulk sales near 7.10. Sheep and lambs strong with muttons around 4 to 4.2 dollars and lambs near 5.70 to 5.95, range wethers about 3.10 to 4.75.
London prices show con so ls for money at 947 16 and consols for account at 945 16. Shares listed include Atchison 41 1 2 and preferred 104 1 2, Canadian Pacific 121 4, Southern Pacific 74 1 2, Union Pacific 116 1 2 and preferred 4 1 2, United States Steel 41 1 4 and preferred 92, silver steady around 24 1 2 to 18 1 2 pence per ounce.
Treasury report dated August 22 lists available cash of 204,852,894 dollars and gold holdings at 106,121,559 dollars.
In Mt Jackson near Indianapolis, John Duckworth of Bridgeport fired at his sweetheart Mayme Goodwin as she rode with Sunnifield family children. Duckworth leapt from hiding and challenged her before firing a single shot. Kelley rushed to aid a fainted Mayme amid the commotion sparked by the attack.
Advertise Your Wants in The Standard announces Madame Mazie a clairvoyant and palm reader at 75 W. Park St. Upstairs over the postoffice. English and German spoken. Readings offered with promise of solving love and money troubles and guiding business and marriage prospects.
Ward and Duckworth confronted a man with a cocked revolver asking if he was Charles Ketrow. The man fled into a cornfield while a frightened girl escaped to a house. George Forth chased Duckworth but a jammed pistol kept him from detaining him as police and detectives swarm the case. The woman and Miss Goodwin were taken to a friend's home for safety. Duckworth remains at large.
Police and post office investigators pursue suspects after a parcel addressed to former Governor Pattison contained nitro glycerine packed with gunpowder. Detectives McKenty and Donaghy review evidence while Captain Delano warns nitroglycerin can explode spontaneously under certain conditions. Powder matches old black variety and may be government stock from Fort Mifflin or League Island.
F H Scofield of Bridgeport son of H G Scofield city engineer found to have tuberculosis while starting studies in bacteriology at Yale. After faculty suspicions confirmed by Scofield and a physician tests, he left Yale for Denver seeking health. His father traveled to Denver.
In Lima Ohio Rosa Hartzoz 15 accidentally mortally wounded William McCown 40 with a paring knife on the Mint restaurant back porch. McCown a former Lima High School graduate was hit by a knife blade after an exchange, died en route to hospital. Rosa is jailed awaiting coroner’s finding.
A Washington dispatch describes Captain Bob Evans riding an automobile with a friend in New York's Central Park and being cured of his desire to drive. The tale emphasizes a sudden change in his interest toward automobiling after the spin.
Classified notices advertise real estate and fire insurance references, barber positions, and licensed examination prep. Listings note multiple Montan a locations and firms such as Wal deck Investment, Charles Alden, F M Nowak, and Hart & Scott seeking agents and skilled workers. The ads indicate pay per word and minimum charges for classified placement.
Classified offers list furnished rooms flats and houses for rent in Butte and Anaconda. Various options include single and en suite rooms modern amenities, housekeeping units, and a miners boarding house. Also noted are offices and sales items like furniture and pianos for sale or rent.
Real estate notices advertise 16 acres with house orchard water right and stock facilities near Missoula for 2000 cash and balance on time. Stevensville agents offer hay grain fruit and stock ranch price lists. Mis soula property also notes cheap home with trees. Mayflower additions two lots 75 dollars each. Anaconda 5 room house and lot 612 E Sixth St. Also patent services offer free consultation for ideas.
Multiple Butte assay offices advertise mail and express sample services for gold and silver bullion. Firms include M. E. Mayer, McClure Bros Reliable Assay, George H. Lee, Fitzpatrick & Lewis, John R. Bapty, and Thos. Puggy, with addresses on Montana and Main areas.
A reader seeks an inexpensive 3 4 or 5 room house in the east end. Contact J. E Wilmott of Anaconda for inquiries and offers. Pound a place where you can get first class work done, Strand Shoe Snap under Standard office, Butte.
Multiple ads offer buying selling and exchanging second-hand furniture and household goods in Butte Montana. Stores at Park Street Broadways areas advertise high prices, large stock and cash or exchange options. Contact numbers and addresses include 237 KE Park St 238 237 KE and 219 E Park St Butte.
W George & Co of 401 E Mercury offers prompt scavenger services. The firm advertises efficient pickups and reliable trash removal for residential and commercial customers.
Pacific Coast Iron and Metal Co advertises purchase of iron metals rubber and hides at 228 Kk Platinum St Butte with phone 7 percent of value.
An odd conversation at 128 N. Idaho Butte reveals a captain eager to buy a flying machine and seeking expert advice from a talkative chauffeur who boasts knowledge of all engines. the cabby jokes that he would buy a boss instead, leaving the captain still without an automobile.
Butte Exchange Furniture Co announces five story brick storage space on W Broadway formerly Kennedy Furniture. Three floors offer exclusive storage with packing shipping and moving services. Largest household furniture dealers in the West invite customers to buy sell exchange and bargain daily.
L Dube, the French expert cleaner of 13 West Park Butte, and M Paumie at 66 West Galena Butte advertise French dyeing and cleaning with satisfaction guaranteed. Contacts include phone S31P.
In Fort Scott Kansas Mrs W R Tanyior an elderly woman could not positively identify Jasper Scott a Black boy accused of assault. The mob failed to Lynch him last night. public sentiment against the accused is strong and he is returned to jail for safe keeping while Mrs Taylor remains in dangerous condition.
LOST ONE BAY HORSE Brandeu Pp. 8 on left shoulder and a scar on the right hind leg last seen head of Browns Gulch. Reward for recovery. Leave at Deer Lodge livery stable.
A fragment from the Standard Office at 21 E Broadway Butte shows a mining notice blank section. The readable line lists quartz and placer mining with an address truncated to Butte Montana.
An old notice advertises Dr. T. A. Grigg offering nose throat and lungs services with moderate prices and cash terms. It provides contact as 41 Harbour blog and phone number 4A.
An anonymous classified-style notice markets Ergo-Kolo Compound to cure delayed periods within days and offers a reward. It also promises discreet divorces and free advice, listing a mail address in Butte and a Kansas City route.
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