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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1916
Page
5
Joe Roberts starred in an elaborate banjo act on the Margaret theater bill at Pantages. The performance drew strong applause and multiple encores, with other acts including singing gymnasts, the La Scala Sextet, trained seals, and a blackface comic. Local ads and notices ran in the issue.
Members and families of the Loyal Order of Moose gather at the hall on Fast Park avenue for an elk feed funded by two hind quarters donated by Sheriff Lou Hart from a Gardiner hunt. The event features supper music and dancing, with attendance limited to members and their families. A special meeting for local No 200, I.B.B.W., is set for Sunday, Dec 3 at 7 20 p.m. Honnie Johnson is the business agent.
In the Third Judicial District of Montana Deer Lodge County the case of George P Wellcome plaintiff versus Mainville et al defendants. The summons orders defendants to answer the complaint within twenty days, or judgment by default. The action seeks one hundred dollars with 8 percent interest from January twenty first, 1815, for work on the Johnny Loden mining claim to prevent forfeiture. Witness Judge George B Winston and clerk’s seal dated November 14, 1916. Attorney W H Trippet for the plaintiff.
The Italian border at Domodossola remains closed since Wednesday, with censor restrictions halting letters newspapers and parcels. A courier service between Italy and Switzerland has been suspended, affecting cross border communication.
Armed posses searched woods east of Cayuga Indiana, about 18 miles southeast of Danville Illinois, tonight for Mark Wright as manhunt enters second day. Wright is sought in connection with a murder case and authorities reported the search is active with multiple squads and local residents alerted.
In Vermillion county Indiana the sheriff was killed when he confronted Martin Jones at Wright's store three miles northwest of Cayusa on a complaint by relatives that Jones threatened family members. The incident occurred after entering the store. Reports name several officials and locations in connection with the case. A separate dispatch notes Belgian women and other residents may be deported to Germany under orders reported from Fauquemont via Amsterdam.
Bozeman district court opened a $12000 suit by Wyite Permanent Camping founders of Yellowstone against Harry Wechilis of Helena and A W Mites of Livingston. Plaintiffs allege failures to honor agreed payments totaling about 412,000 since July 1908. John M. Wyte allegedly lost 4160 and a gold watch. Separate arrest of Cal Raybon and Morris J Colling follows a report by Three Forks railroad worker Thomas Walker. News also confirms the death of Mrs J D Hotline of Montana in Long Beach, California after years in Missouri and at Madison River and Ganatin valley.
The Lewistown News reports plans for a $150000 motel project by HL Territt and coal capitalists amid coal shortages and mine output due in 15 days. County Attorney Dockers releases detailed campaign finance data for candidates who did not file state expense reports, noting most named are socialists. Divorce actions include Mrs. Hanna Irwin and Mrs. Elizabeth Mauzey, with cases filed in 1897 and cruelty or desertion cited. Ten marriage licenses are issued in one day, including Percy Irish Jr. and Patience Eldredge. A pneumatic stacker is praised for saving grain previously wasted.
Spokane witnesses testified Edith Colby showed odd behavior and possible mental unsoundness. They recounted talking bouts, headaches, hysteria, loud car conversations, obsession with new enterprises, and talk of a desire to end life during despondency. Court proceedings continued with plans to call three Spokane witnesses and Dr. Miller after a short continuance.
White Sulphur Springs reports Miss Edith Warren returning for Thanksgiving with her mother Mrs Laelia Warren and notes a marriage in Los Angeles on Nov 23 between Miss Helen Natale Edwarda Roe and Roger Field Roe Jr. Also mentions Andy Stephens of Lewistown visiting relatives. In St Paul a nurse donated blood for Henry Brimsky of Carrington after an anemia diagnosis.
Washington December 1 Speaker Clark urged trimming the legislative load by eliminating oratory through gallery cuts and abolishing Congressional aid and voting machines He proposed reducing the House from 435 to 300 and argued Democrats could not hold a majority in the next House while Republicans might reach 218 He said he favored remaining in his current post and did not fear the speakership.
Two trainmen died and two passengers were seriously hurt when the northbound Winsted express from New York on the New Haven line crashed into a freight train at an open switch near Beacon Connecticut. Several others sustained minor injuries while aid crews tended the scene. Prices for spring wheat flour fell as markets slipped, with better brands quoted around 9.80 dollars a barrel.
Haldor Magnuson aged 35, a salesman, shot and killed himself in an automobile in St Paul. He was found five hours later by a worker at the garage where the car stood. A revolver with an exploded cartridge lay beside the body.
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