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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1901
Page
8
A retail column notes a peculiar belief in Reeves county about a magnetic rock. Patrons discuss luck charms and odd remedies claimed to stem from the rock’s alleged powers.
Light comedy in a Butte pharmacy as a colored woman seeks love charms, a clairvoyant clerk jokes about magnetism and powders, a dainty customer laments staff ignorance, and an Irish woman balks at signing the poison register amid humorous exchanges.
The Mining Congress president Shaefner visits Butte to assess outlook and industry prospects. He meets local officials, tours facilities, and discusses future funding and policy directions affecting miners and related enterprises.
Secretary Mahon will arrive in January to begin advertising the next year’s meeting in Butte. bk. L. Shafner of Cleveland, president of the Interstate Mining Congress, is in town on related business and predicts a highly successful session. He argues mining congresses offer far greater benefits than Pan American exhibits, as visiting investors will engage directly with mining plans and realize Montana’s wealth and future potential.
Rev Father Gaspard Gueymard from All Hallows college in Salt Lake City preached at Sacred Heart Church on the advent of Christmas tide. He urged peace, charity, and spiritual focus, tracing scripture from the fall of Adam to Christ and stressing the Christian spirit guiding toward better conduct. He departed on the early morning train for the south.
All Hallows College in Salt Lake plans a football game next weekend with the Butte Business College after a scheduled match with Butte high school fell through. Manager Grueymard has arranged the switch to a Sunday contest, as the business college team prefers Sunday play. The All Hallows squad is described as splendid.
Payne of Wisconsin says revising the tariff could threaten his party, though duties protect trusts selling cheaper abroad than at home. He warns a failure to revise may invite a severe war within the party.
A gay young man from Utah arrived in Butte and placed duplicate orders with two cobblers. One delivered a right shoe, the other a left, both correct in size but with minor defects fixed after fitting. The man fled the city aboard the Short Line, heading toward Zion.
At a Butte health board meeting in Dr Leggat’s office the removal of the red light district was discussed. A petition from women may seek moving the leet women from the bad lands to the flats. The board ordered temporary crematory repairs and asked plans for a first class overhaul and a new incinerator. Work to start next spring. A typewriter will be bought for the health officer.
Window dressers in Butte render striking, harmonious displays across stores from dry goods to groceries. Christmas anticipation boosts beauty as geese migration and weather chatter punctuate daily life. A mining district tale follows a cat lost to a shaft and a copper refinery oddity ends with a shapely cat outline formed in the molten copper. A collar of mislaid coats sparks a family quarrel while a mother discovers she wore her elder son’s coat and vows not to shop again this winter.
Mexico City December 1 A proposed measure to the pan-American conference would appoint three jurists from each contracting state to form a court of claims. Contending parties select a third jurist to preside over the case. The commerce committee also reviews Pablo Macedo proposal for a conference of customs experts and tariff simplification.
Sam Powell a pioneer of Montana died in Dillon this morning and will be buried at Mountain View cemetery tomorrow afternoon. He came to Montana in 1862, mined at Bannack, then ran a butcher shop before turning to farming on Birch Creek north of Dillon. Born in Cornwall, he was about 66 years old.
Fort Benton dispatch reports burglars attempting entry to Davis & Sons store with a broken wire found in the lock. Silver Bow sheep near Chinook break quarantine with three other outfits affected. Lucy Fontaine sues Frank Fontaine for divorce on neglect and cruelty seeking custody of children and $50 monthly alimony. Dinnie Kayser also seeks divorce from FP Kayser on cruelty. A. P. Cole builds a three ton bottom boat to load fruit for Norris store at Judith river mouth. J. D. Savage and wife return from a month in Indiana and Buffalo expositi on.
Special correspondence from Big Timber reports visiting parties from Butte explored Boulder river power and other advantages for a smelting plant. They were very impressed by the potential power generation from the Boulder waters and Big Timber’s prospects.
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