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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
19
Butte faces a severe influenza outbreak described as a chain-linked streptococcal grippe. Doctors report 118 hospital cases and hundreds at home. symptoms begin like a cold then worsen with headaches chills and throat drying. Many young men are affected for the first time in their lives.
Special Correspondence of the Standard reports J W Strachan of Northern Pacific promotes a Livingston based railroad men’s club near 800 members, plans rooms in Livingston, and meetings in railroad interests. Changes loom as NP eyes smaller hogs engines increasing engineman needs. Dairy venture by Igleheart and Pruitt may open a creamery. High School accreditation request aims to honor Whitehall. Pony and Whitehall basketball set for Dec 20 in Pony. Burners trip notes Ruby valley branch condition and possible future passenger service. Canham transfers to Great Northern junction near Billings.
Mrs. Lorton Blair, who asserted American birth protection, was detained by immigration officers as she prepared to leave the liner Persia. She admitted the charges were well taken and will pay her own passage back to the Orient. Immigration officers here state the case details.
As Shanghai conducts a broad purge, women connected to illicit circles push to secure American citizenship wherever they establish footholds, seeking refuge and legitimacy in new jurisdictions.
In New York on December 12 Miss Ellen Bart a young stenographer found a paper on a Third Avenue elevated train containing more than 200 in small denomination bills folded between pages. She handed it to the uptown police, asking the desk lieutenant to hold it for the owner to claim within 30 days.
D A G Flowerree died recently in the South and his will filed in Helena for probate shows Montana realty valued at 360 000 and personal estate at 65 000 plus property in Florida to be administered there. The widow and five children inherit with a 3000 bequest to a Missouri sister. Executors are the widow John T Murphy and W T Pigott. The will dated October 21 1910.
Chicago engineer G. S. Faber notes that at 12 minutes past noon today the date 12 12 12 12 can be written with a pen. He adds that another such coincidence occurs only 98 years 9 months 62 days 23 hours and 58 minutes hence when 10 10 10 10 can be written exactly.
Tacoma report of Emil Bleedern a 49 year old man who died after hydrophobia from a dog bite six weeks earlier He received Pasteur treatment too late provoking medical interest as possibly the first Pacific coast case Dr Rich who was infected while treating Bleedern travels to Chicago for precautionary Pasteur Institute care
Rumson New Jersey December 12 chief charitable bequests in the will of Prof Morris Loeb of Columbia University who died last October include half a million dollars to Harvard University for advancement of physics and chemistry and $250 000 to a memorial home for convalescents in New York The entire estate is valued at $1 000 000.
Kansas City December 12. At the Western Association of Nursery Men final session D J Tighe of Billings Montana spoke on Nursery Development in the Northwest G H Webber of Nursery Missouri was elected president of the association and the meeting focused on protecting stock from imported pests.
The Montana Supreme Court overturned district court decisions in Chouteau and Sanders counties. Nicholas of Chinook, convicted of rape, will have his plea withdrawn and may plead not guilty after his lawyer urged overwhelming evidence. The court also orders a new trial for John Baas vs Sharp and Runyan over grain-damage damages and grants A. G. Thomas a new trial for grand larceny due to insufficient evidence.
Helena reports the Carey land act board led by State Engineer Mahon says state and federal contracts cover about 160000 acres with 75000 more awaiting approval. Bills mention Billings Big Timber and Waller projects with thousands of acres reclaimed and sales to settlers, plus strong warnings to push projects with diligence or revert land to the public domain.
Montreal December 11 Pilot Samuel Raoux faced the admiralty court ruling on the grounding of the Royal George. Wreck Commissioner Lindsay found the accident stemmed from Raoux overconfidence and reckless navigation, suspending his license for three years.
Fort Smith Arkansas December 12 Robert Wisley eight years old was killed while playing cowboy when lassoed by a boy on a pony the saddle slid the rider fell and the pony fled dragging Wisley half a mile through the streets authorities said the incident occurred during a group game and the horse ran away after the accident
Denver taxi driver Christian Schmittle says four well dressed young men hired him to drive to Fort Logan then attempted a post office robbery at Platte Canyon. He was held at gunpoint for over 12 hours until the car broke down and the men fled toward Denver. He later caught a train to report to police.
Denver, Dec. 12. Helen King Robinson, Colorado's first woman state senator, will introduce a bill at the next assembly requiring health certificates before marriage. She has backing from prominent women club members.
In Seoul on December 12, defendants in the conspiracy case against Count Terauchi detailed brutal police abuse. One prisoner described being hung by the hair with the scalp pulled away, though his scalp showed no injury. Multiple inmates testified to torture and cruel treatment during detention.
Benjamin Franklin McKinley, uncle of the late President William McKinley, died in San Francisco at age 80 after a brief pneumonia illness. He came to California in 1859 and left a widow, a daughter, and a son, Benjamin L., once an assistant at the attorney general’s office.
The queen then duchess of York, driven by a sudden urge to improve her boudoir, enlisted Princess Charles of Denmark and another princess to rearrange the furniture. In a brief span, they completed the work, rousing curiosity among onlookers.
A removal revealed dust and cobwebs behind furniture at royal rooms. The housekeeper faced dishevelled princesses in shock. The queen recalls the lesson and often checks behind heavy furniture at York Cottage or Buckingham Palace, demanding access to hidden spaces.
Twelve of Independence Kansas's wealthiest and prominent women were summoned for jury duty in the James Blue shooting case. The list includes wives of two millionaire oil operators, two bankers' wives, and two suffragette leaders, reflecting the high social profile of those summoned.
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