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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
13
The Butte News fair in the auditorium showcases the West Broadway Presbyterian effort to ease church debt. Ladies preside over booths with crafts and gifts while a literary and musical program entertains patrons. Stella Parr funeral set for 2 PM at Sherman’s parlors.
Finlen Media Drug Co at 32 North Main Butte advertises a large varied line of nail polish and buffers at especially low prices.
Butte jeweler Mayer at 40 West Park offers a 1% carat pure white diamond for 140 dollars, reduced from 175. He guarantees a buyback within one year at 10 percent less than the sale price, highlighting a guaranteed resale option.
Gustaf Larson, a trapper boy in the mine, breaks both bones in his right leg when a loose rope jerks as he steps onto the track. The Belt community also notes arrivals, marriages, a Christmas program, a notable departure, a ranch move, a trip to Finland, and local lodge gathering with coffee and ham sandwiches.
Great Falls county commissioners opened bids for indigent sick care and pauper burials. McAllister and Berthold each bid 14 per burial. medical attendance bids ranged from 800 to 1100, with Gordon & Southmayd offering 600 per year. The contract was awarded to Dr. J. H. Fairfield as the lowest bidder.
Great Falls on December 5 reported the Nat McGiffin versus Cottonwood Coal Company suit for specific performance of contract was dismissed as settled in district court this morning.
Great Falls reports the contract for building the new Fort Benton passenger station has been awarded after bid reviews. The project aims to improve rail access and passenger service with anticipated completion in the coming months.
The project is awarded to A Guthrie & Co of St Paul for an elaborate af fair costing several thousand dollars. Labor is budgeted at 952 dollars. The structure will be wooden, one story, measuring 30 by 150 feet. A new freight house is unlikely. a spur from town to the old passenger depot for freight use is favored.
Great Falls Dec. 5 John A Harris 74 long time Montana resident died at his Chestnut valley ranch near Cascade after weeks of neuralgia likely from a cold He came from New Hampshire in the 1860s worked in Helena then settled Chestnut valley He married Swett 52 years ago with no children He served in the 1895 state legislature was active in Masonry The funeral will be held at Cascade school house tomorrow at noon
Mrs. Edwards wife of Louis Edwards, linked to a death under suspicious circumstances, arrives in Great Falls with Chief Cook. Minot lawyer Dan Greenleaf, her counsel, keeps her from speaking with reporters and plans a public statement tomorrow.
Northern Montana The Northern Montana Office of the Standard is located in the Bach Cory Block Great Falls opposite the Park Hotel Advertising rates furnished on application.
Coroner Longeway conducts the inquest into Louis Edwards found dead in bed. Testimony damns Mrs. Edwards with accounts of alleged threats to leave him and plans to go to Helena. Neighbors and witnesses describe the scene, notes on the door, a trunk, and a possible blood stain as organ analysis proceeds.
Six masked men held up the Western Lumber Co office in Portland at 6 pm securing 96000 in weekly pay envelopes. Four guarded entrances while two entered with revolvers demanding hands up. They escaped into darkness before an alarm could be raised as officers were dispatched.
Storms swept British shores with rough seas in the channel. Several minor wrecks reported. The steamer Ross Gull from Plymouth foundered near Jersey. passengers were saved but a lifeboat with nine crew members is missing.
A prisoner led a gang suspected of planning to rob the pay train near Kelt about five years ago with $100000 in specie. A Great Northern detective countered by equipping an armored box car with port holes and deputies ready to respond. The plot was abandoned after the warning, and the robbers did not act. The note advertises Hunter's Hot Springs in Montana with a Northern Pacific three day pass from Helena or Springdale for $10 including two days board and bathing privileges, with a 15 day extension possible.
Mr Bowers a close friend of Camden Bretz has been ill with smallpox and roomed with him. County Clerk Fortune reports last quarter receipts of 954.20, lower than a year earlier due to more filings in 1899, yet the quarter saw a record number of instruments filed.
The Prescott murder case in Great Falls was continued with H. H. Stanley on the stand for cross examination. Evidence suggests the bullet that killed Anderson came from inside the house, based on range tests involving the wagon, blood pool, and Jordan’s path. The state plans one more witness before closing. trial expected to run the rest of the week.
Deputy Marshal Ward moved Percy Dewolf through Great Falls to Helena amid claims he stole cattle from Mormon settlers near Cardston. Arrested on the Piegan reservation last Saturday, Dewolf faces Canadian bond and favors trial in the United States, predicting a rope on either side.
In Great Falls Mrs. F D Cooper of Cascade and George Budge of Neihart are in town. Helena residents C E B McCarthy C B Caird A Goodkind George E Gunn and F E Krause are registered at the Park. Kretlow and wife sold Lot 7 Block 137 to John B Wetzel for 1750. McCumber and wife sold 16.75 acres in Section 22 Township 18 North Range 2 West for 100. Most and wife sold Lot 1 Block 596 Fifth Addition to Great Falls to Robert Caruthers for 200. Thomas Jones, formerly injured near Harlem, now recovered and to return to run Havre to Glasgow. A two story brick building to be erected at Central avenue and Fifth street with stores on lower floor and lodging on upper. A new patient was admitted to the pesthouse yesterday.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Great Falls, December 5. Two new smallpox cases emerged in the city today, with patients sent to the pest house. Mrs. M. K. Gies on Second Avenue South may have contracted it from Camden Bretz, a lawyer released from the pesthouse, who previously represented her. The second patient is Mrs. Robert Blackburn of 617 Fifteenth Street North, whose husband works at the smelter. transmission method is unknown.
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