Slump in Chicago cattle prices hits Montana shipments
Miles City reports a Chicago price drop as L. W. Stacy’s 17 carloads average 1,176 pounds at $4.80 per hundred, down from recent highs. Analysts note packer control and grasser quality as causes, warn of potential winter losses from overgrazed ranges and roaming sheep bands across eastern Montana.
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Standard
Miles City
L. W. Stacy
Strewell
Chicago
Stacy
Montana
Yellowstone River
Missouri River
Dakota Line
Custer
Dawson
Valley
Resigns the Rectorship of St Luke’s Church in Billings
The Rev A H Gesner announced his resignation as rector of St Luke’s Episcopal church Billings to become assistant rector at Shattuck military school Faribault Minnesota. He cited lack of a rectory and past housing troubles as reasons for the move while noting his popularity and a 50 percent rise in communicants during his 16 months.
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Standard
Billings
A. H. Gesner
St.Luke's Episcopal Church
Shattuck Military School
Faribault
Minn
Gesner
Copper firm buys Ferris-Haggerty mine for 1 million
Cheyenne Wyo Aug 22 The North American Copper company capitalized at 40 million formed to own and operate mining properties in the Grand Encampment district has purchased the Ferris Hagerty copper mine at Battle Lake for 1 million with transfer set for September 1.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
North American Copper Company
Ast
Grand Encampment District
Ferris-Haggerty
Battle Lake
Roosevelt Attends Christening at Chan ter Residence in Newport
President Roosevelt ends New England tour in Newport guest of Winthrop Chanter. He attends the Chan ter baby christening with Theodore Ward Chanter named godson and Mrs Lodge as godmother. Foster father Lewis Chanter abroad represented by proxy.
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Newport
R. I
Roosevelt
New England
Winthrop Chanter
Providence
Senator Aldrich
Warwick
Chanter
New Haven
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Hartford
Willimantic
River Point
Pawtucket
Chanter Villa
Cortelyou
Jul'a Ward Howe
Lodge
Theodore Ward Chanter
Lewis Chanter
Sheriff in Pursuit of a Gay Deceiver and Wife Display
Special Dispatch to the Standard Billings Aug 23. Sheriff Hubbard sought George W Swain on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses after a $60 check bounce at the Tacoma hotel. Swain and a woman claiming to be his wife were reported in Sheridan and to have arrived in Billings Aug 19 with plans to be taken to Billings in the morning. The Los Angeles bank on which the check was drawn was cited as their home. Swain posed as a wealthy fruit rancher in Billings, attracting attention with his showy display.
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Standard
Billings
George W. Swain
Hlubbard
Sheridan
Wyo
George Bennighoff
Tacoma
Swain
Thiubbara
Bennighoff
Los Angeles
Cal
Red Lodge Game Canceled for Ball Team Return Day
The Red Lodge ball team canceled the planned game after advising the local manager by letter that they could not fill the engagement on their return from Miles City as players were going home. Dietz coal town team of Wyoming will visit Billings next Saturday and Sunday.
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Standard
Billings
Red Lodge
Mondlay
Miles City
Dietz
Wyoming
Montana Postal Matters Free Delivery at Kalispell
Free delivery ordered at Kalispell effective Sept. 1 with carriers Oliver C. Bowers and Charles F. Lane. Post offices discontinued Kesey in Custer County with mail to Brandonburgs Rowda. Gallatin County mail to Bozeman.
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Standard
Washington
Kalispell
Oliver C. Bowers
Charles F. Lane
Kesey
Custer County
Brandonburgs
Rowda
Gallatin County
Bozeman
Miles City adds daylight stage line route
William Gerhart of the Miles City and Eka'aka stage line reports from Washington that a change authorizes a daylight running schedule. The transition will take time but is definite and planned for the route.
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Standard
Miles City
William Gerhart
Eka'aka
Washington, D. C
Fire destroys two blocks in Walden mining town
A Fort Collins Republican telegram reports a Thursday night fire in Walden North Park 60 miles west. Two blocks in the business section were wiped out leaving several families homeless and losses totaling many thousands.
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Denver
Fort Collins
Colo
Walden
North Park
Here
Naval Maneuvers Off New England Coast Continue Vigilance
Rockport Mass August 23 The line of battleships under Admiral Higginson put to sea at 9 30 pm to guard a New England coast as reports suggest Commander Pillsbury may attempt a landward approach off Portsmouth or York harbors. Dispatches indicate a white squadron offshore with signals hinting at a blockade or feint to draw strength from Portland.
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Rockport
Mass
Higginson
New England
Pillsbury
Isle of Shoals
Olympia
Brooklyn
Decatur
Portsmouth Harbor
Philebury
Portsmouth
York
Rockland
Portland
Massachusetts Bay
Blue Squadron
Provincetown
Cape Porpoise
Will Build a Town in Teton County
The Conrad Investment Company plans a new town along the Great Falls Canada line in Teton County near Pondera. Civil engineer SS Darling will lay out the city next Monday, with offices and potential future headquarters at Pondera. Plans include a 12 mile irrigation ditch from Marlas river to Pondera, irrigating about 15 000 acres and attracting new residents. work starts next spring and may take a year.
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The
Standard
Great Falls
Conrad Investment Company
Teton County
Great Falls & Canada Railroad
Railway Company
Chateau County
Ss.darling
Semnetininas
Pondera
Darling
Marlas
King Lewanika and Maharajah Sail as London Faces Exit
London dispatch notes King Lewanika leaving Barotseland with six silk hats while Ras Makonnen takes a big balloon. The Maharajah of Japur sails home with a bicycle a horse and a small tricycle. The shah’s London visit ends as social life shrinks and a possible September second season looms.
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London
Lewanika
Barotzland
Rhodesia
Ras Makonnen
Persia
West End
West End Club
Edward
Woolwich
Persian Gulf
Persian
Japur
Dover
Ganges Water
Labor Party Committee to Meet in Great Falls
Thomas F. Richardson ex-legislator and Cascade county fusion advocate has called the Labor Party committee to meet Tuesday evening in Judge Race’s office in Great Falls to energize the political scene amid fusion rumors and as Richardson reportedly eyes the state senate seat for Cascade county.
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Standard
Great Falls
Thomas F. Richardson
Montana
Cascade County
Labor Party
Judge Race
Richardson
Be Married Tomorrow in Helena City nuptials
Henry McVey of Victor will wed Celia Johnson of Stevensville in Helena on Monday at the home of Mr and Mrs William J Malugin 10 South Davis Street.
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The
Standard
Helena
Henry McVey
Victor
Celia Johnson
Stevensville
William J. Malugin
South Davis Street
Mrs Judge Seeks Divorce From Husband in District Court
Emma Judge sister of three city businessmen filed for divorce from Matthew Judge in district court claiming years of neglect and drunkenness. She states they wed in October 1897 in Wabasha County Minnesota and for over a year he has failed to support her and their two children. She asks for custody of the children citing his unsuitability.
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Standard
Emma Judge
District Court
Matthew Judge
Wabasha County
Mipn
Americans not buying Washington ancestral house in England
London reports a US claim that Americans seek to purchase the Banbury, Oxfordshire home of George Washington's ancestors for transport to the United States for the St. Louis exposition. Agents say no movement exists and Commissioner Parker of St. Louis calls the idea impracticable.
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London
United States
England
Banbury
Oxfordshire
George Washington
Parker
St. Louis
Associated Press
Allen freed after Wyoming to Montana horse theft case
R 8 Allen jailed for taking horses and wagons from Sheridan West Virginia is released after investigators learn he bought the outfit in Wyoming and secured part of the purchase with a mortgage. The mortgagee then allowed removal to Montana ending pursuit and returning the property.
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The
Standard
Miles City
Allen
Sheridan
Wvyo
Wyoming
Montana
Miles City Beats Red Lodge 7 to 3 in Openers
The opening game of the Miles City versus Red Lodge series ended with Miles City 7 and Red Lodge 3. Red Lodge showed solid players and many robust kickers, suggesting faster play in tomorrow's contest.
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Miles City
Red Lodge
Musselshell deputy arrests man for horse theft
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports Deputy Sheriff Harding of Musselshell district arrested Wilbur on horse stealing charges. He is accused of stealing a fine colt from John Ramsey of the city and taking it into Musselshell country.
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Harding
Musselshell
Wilbur
John Ramsey
Supplemental affidavits in Hodge vs United States Steel suit
In Trenton a supplemental affidavit for United States Steel cites reasons for the bond conversion plan and a $10 million Morgan commission. George W. Perkins outlines the committee's rationale, while Joseph E. Corrigan recounts James Lancaster’s payments and motives connected to the stock to bond exchange case.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Steel Corporation
Court of Chancery
J. Aspinwall Hodge
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan & Co
Steel Corporation
Corrigan
Lancaster
Mr. Guthrie
David Lamar
Lamar
Abram S. Elkus
James, Schell & Elkus
Elkus
Hodge
Peter Power
Northern Securities Company
Power
Perkins
Finncial Committee
Conversion plan saves fixed charges for corporation
The board chose a cash rich strategy to weather money stringencies and adopted a conversion plan reducing yearly fixed charges by 1.509 million dollars. It approved a 10 million dollar commission to J P Morgan Co for risky market actions to purchase 80 million dollars of stock and advance 20 million dollars as part of the agreement.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Bishop Duncan to Preach in Helena and Conference
Bishop W. W. Duncan of Spartanburg South Carolina is in Helena as a guest of Mrs. L. R. Morris. He will preach at Grand Street Methodist Church South tomorrow and preside at the Montana state conference in Butte on Wednesday. He plans to visit Western Montana and travel to the coast before returning East.
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Standard
Helena
W. W. Duncan
Spartanburg
8. C
L. R. Morris
No. 26
Shiland Street
Duncan
Methodist Church
South
Montana
Grand Street
Butte
Mormon Missionaries Delayed Expulsion in Germany
Berlin reports 21 Mormon missionaries served notices of expulsion but held up due to U S embassy representations. Hugh J Cannon oversees 140 American agents with 3000 German adherents as local authorities review doctrines finding no legal objections.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Hugh J. Cannon
Cannon
Utah
Police Department of
Petition in Bankruptcy by H W Stanley in Helena
H W Stanley formerly in business in Great Falls filed a bankruptcy petition in the U S court claiming debts of 1736 dollars and 30 cents. He lists no assets except 193 dollars of exempt household property and a 160 acre homestead with a desert filling also exempt.
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The
Standard
Helena
H. W. Stanley
Great Falls
United States Court
Stan Iny
They Gave Him the Quirt in Eaton
In Eaton Colorado on August 23 a mob flogged Jerry Crimmins a sugar factory worker accused of assaulting a woman. He was tarred and feathered and driven from town with a death warning to never return.
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Eaton
Colo
Jerry Crimmins
Grand Lodge Adopts Year in Butte and Gold Badge Award
Grand Lodge session in Great Falls elects officers for the coming year with Louis Weigel of Helena named as gold badge recipient and three year grand president. Delegates plan a picnic in Great Falls Park to close the event with the Hermann Sons of Montana as official organ.
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Standard
Great Falls
Sons of Hermann
Montana
Butte
Helena
Grand Lodge
Julius Stein
F. W. Kuphal
Waldem
Stein
L. Winteraolt
Isador Pincus
Emil Zschau
Louis Weigel
Luther Hall
Gre Falls Park
First creditors meeting set for I F Davis bankruptcy
Helena reports the Sept first meeting date for creditors of I F Davis the Clancy hotel keeper declared bankrupt yesterday by Judge Knowles. The case lists Davis as the bankrupt party with the proceedings beginning in Helena.
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The
Standard
Helena
I. F. Davis
Clancy
Juc Knowles
Poisoned by Cookies in Bedford Boarding House
Mrs. Mary Collier of Bedford Indiana suffered a mysterious cookie poisoning that affected fourteen boarders last night. Nine remain in serious condition as investigators review the incident and potential causes.
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Bedford
Ind
Mary Collier
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