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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1909
Page
8
A fragment lists breakfast cereals including Shedded Wheat Biscuit Tree Pettijohn's Breakfast Fand Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes and Quaker Toasted Corn, appearing as a clipped item on a local advertising card.
An old Beavertead observer recalls the 1877 massacre near Camas Meadows and Birch Creek as the Virginia volunteers left their territorial capital. Buffalo Horn led a Perce force that attacked Green and wagon crew, killing several and looting can goods. Nichols narrowly escaped down Horse Prairie creek, prompting a salvage attempt by Salmon City volunteers who arrived too late to save many.
Fragmentary report recounts captives being tortured by warlike groups. Details describe scalping while alive, pitch torches, and slow burning, with references to volunteers and a retreat as vanguard forces advance. A gruesome scene near Painted Rocks includes severed bodies and a hanging figure, hinting at vengeance for earlier acts.
The column covers multiple society items in Butte including August weddings at the Murray home in West Broadway with Justice Henry Foley officiating, and a Menderville ceremony at St John’s Episcopal church. It lists attendees, wedding gowns, home celebrations, and upcoming home visits by families, plus social gatherings and local notes about residents and visitors.
Rev. A By Baleheine preaches on Matthew 16 18 at Mount View stressing the church is built on rock men not Peter as foundation. He defines rock men as sincere candid courageous believers with steadfast conviction, candor, and readiness to contend for truth and righteousness. He cites Daniel and Washington to illustrate backbone and courage, urging moderns to imitate their integrity.
The death of Father Charles G B McGlynn, longtime priest of St Hutte parish, prompts mourning across Montana. News from Libby and Whitefish reports his sudden illness and death from stomach trouble, his planned church and parsonage projects, and big crowds at his funeral in Whitefish with services led by Father Day of Helena and Father O'Farrell of Ipspell. He was born in County Armagh in 1863, studied at St Anan’s and Maynooth, served in Philadelphia then Butte, and spent a decade in Whitefish. He leaves a large family of Irish relatives and friends.
An Aug 22 letter to the Standard disputes a claim Crabtree was named from a crab tree. The writer says Crabtree derives from Dink Crabtree who ran an eating house there in 1687, then a junction, and claims he was brother of Lott Crawtree of Virginia City. He asserts there was never a crab tree there.
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