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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
9
The notice advertises cabbage onions beets carrots parsnips sweet potatoes pickling onions celery corn pumpkins and smoked meats. It promotes Xmas bargains with case pricing and half cases, invites readers to call or visit for orders this week, and mentions souvenir wording.
A sheriff's office reports the loss of four hundred eighty gallons of rye from a storage area. Investigation is ongoing to determine how the missing liquor vanished and whether criminal activity was involved. The incident prompted a review of security measures at the facility.
The coroner seizes a whiskey cask from an attachment in a replevin suit by Straus Bros. Co. judge Clancy halts a motion in Hart v Ryan over a lien on a Stephens addition home. Hart, a hod carrier, seeks $26 plus $50 court fees. decision favors the plaintiff. Henry Altenbrand answers Johnston’s stock redemption suit with a general denial for Manhattan Paper company.
Clerks Protective Union No 12 reelects Charles Henderson as president. Butte Workingmen elects J W Dale as president and others for six months. Barbers and Butchers unions name leaders. Typographical No 126 tabs William Purnett as president. James McDonnell endorsed for superintendent of the free employment bureau. Also travel and music ads.
City officials led by Mayor Davey and Street Commissioner Mc Laughlin favor West Galena street as the coasting hill on the west side. The site lacks streetcar tracks and heavy travel, with few sidewalks to hinder pedestrians. If Ohio Avenue is chosen instead a policeman would police the area and streetcars would be halted in both directions during sliding.
William P. Black of Chicago filed suit against John Davis as administrator of Edward A. Davis estate seeking 6262.50 for seven years of legal services. Black held a contract to handle Edward Davis's legal business at 900 dollars per year. Probate court allowed the account, but the administrator rejected the claim.
In a suit by J. R. Greenless against H. A. McLellan and the Smith Grocery Co. the Smith firm filed a general denial to all charges of conspiring to defraud over a potato shipment. Appraisers fixed each one forty‑eighth mineral interest of the McQueen placer at 7500 dollars. Josephine Leducx sues Antoine Leduex for divorce on desertion after a 1900 separation. marriage in 1885 at Sultan Flat, Canada. no children.
Miss Lora Axtel and Teress Steele married Monday at 5 pm in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Olson 722 South Wyoming. The bride wore a dark gray traveling suit and was attended by Mrs. Olson. William Axtell of Butte gave away the bride. The couple will host friends after the 18th at Basin.
Gratitude to friends and acquaintances for sympathy during illness and burial of Edward Reese. Thanks to Knights of Pythias Rathbone Sisters and Women's Relief Corps for funeral support and for sending flowers and wreaths from numerous named individuals and groups.
The Equitable Life Assurance society issues a handsome calendar for 1902 produced by Richards & Ellis of Pittsburg block Helena. The calendar pages portray a woman from sweet sixteen to sixty with beautiful coloring.
The Christmas edition of the Standard requires five cents postage for delivery to any part of the United States Porto Rico Philippine Islands Canada or Mexico. Newspapers will not be forwarded without full postage and mailers should note that underpaying prevents the edition from leaving the issuing post office.
Ed Mayer starts a jewelry business at 65 West Park two doors east of the post office, forcing old shops to struggle as he plans to sacrifice stock in three weeks to meet eastern bills. Also notes the death of G W Brainard at 47 in Salt Lake City with funeral plans for Friday and details on Martha Harris death and a Pride of Montana social dance in Scandia hall on December 12 1961.
Relatives of Madame Nordica report she has filed a claim with ex Speaker Thomas Reed and another attorney for three to four million dollars. She asserts direct descent from Ichabod Norton, a Revolutionary War ship owner whose merchant fleet was seized by French vessels. Nordica says the government indemnified Norton’s losses but payment never reached his heirs.
Washington reports a Filipino court martial records cannibalism among crimes. Raymundo Fonte killed his sleeping companion Liberato Benfico in a Capiz boat dispute and confessed to cooking and eating part of the body. Fonte is sentenced to be hanged on December 13 in Panay Capiz.
Unofficial word from Jeffersonville prosecutor Frank Mayfield states the stomach analysis of Charles Goodman, alleged poisoned by Newell C. Rathbun, has found no poison traces. The report will remain sealed until Rathbun stands trial in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
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