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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
4
Patrolman John Quigley arrested two men on vagrancy charges after a quarrel with a obstinate prisoner in Butte jail. The officer warned him to mind his affairs. The man resisted and was restrained with a jolt before the case was dismissed and the man reprimanded by the judge.
In a police court session Judge Whitty presided over miscellaneous cases. Five defendants pleaded guilty to gambling charges and paid fines of ten dollars each. Chris Whalen was fined fifty dollars or twenty five days in jail for beating his wife, who testified she had $200 stolen from a local bank. John J. Sullivan and Td Gallagher were found guilty of creating a disturbance and jailed five days. William Reese and Mrs. Reese paid forty five dollar fines for disorderly conduct.
Belated credit goes to Sister Alice Boutin and Miss Jean Groves for their roles after the explosion at the naval hospital. Despite roof collapse and damage, no patients were lost as Boutin stayed on with injured patients and Groves kept calls going to summon doctors and aid before continuing at another exchange.
An embargo on freight to North Atlantic sea board ports was ordered by the eastern railroad action committee. The export division extends authority to issue railroad shipping permits covering all export commodities except government freight, and all existing permits are canceled. Senate debate assigns blame for the coal crisis to inexperienced distributors and to railroads and miners.
In New York on December 13 a major property company owning 140 apartment houses began turning off heat daily from 11 AM to 3 PM due to a coal shortage.
Police chauffeur intercepts a whiskey bottle intended for three inmates two of whom were jailed for disturbance. Mike Prior faces new charges after allegedly attempting to pass the bottle through a jail window. Prior and his companions await arraignment before Judge Whitty today.
The Milwaukee Railway files suit against Independent Coal of Butte alleging they unloaded and kept a car of Roundup coal for delivery to A C M, after repairing it on a repair track. The claim seeks $123.66 plus costs for coal and transportation. Attorneys Furman and Verheyen represent the railway.
New York December 18 A cable from Sal Grayson M P Murphy head of the American Red Cross in France says surgical dressings must be sent in millions with all possible specifications. The message was released by headquarters of the American Fund for French Wounded noting the urgency of the supply.
Dec 12. The United States government issues the first license to mine coal in Alaska to the Chickaloon company a $125 000 corporation of Italian Texans located in Seattle The company plans to supply coal locally and to Seattle and expects a material price reduction by next March.
In Vienna dispatch a Austro Hungarian war minister General Stoeger Steiner states Jerusalem was occupied without fighting and will remain outside the fighting zone. He notes the city suffered no damage and the Turks will not attempt recapture.
In Rome on Wednesday December 12 Premier Orlando announced United States war declaration against Austria Hungary. The house rose in applause and the galleries joined in shouting Viva America Viva Wilson.
Lisbon December 18 The new government issued a decree ordering President Machado to reside outside Portugal for the remainder of his elected term following the successful revolution.
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