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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
3
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure effective remedy for kidney liver and bladder issues. It promises consistent quality in every bottle and offers a sample by mail with a booklet about kidneys. The ad urges readers to buy at drug stores in two bottle sizes.
A letter from Pleasantville New Jersey describes a severe cold that settled on the lungs. After trying many remedies with little relief, the writer credits Kekman’s Alterative from the Bekman Laboratory in Philadelphia with improving coughing and breathing after continued use. The notice urges readers to seek the product through their local druggist.
Debris cleanup progresses after the First State bank block walls are torn down. Street and alley work by the city aldermen’s committee makes the area passable by Thursday noon. Telephone service to the east side恢复 by night. Bank owner W. G. Conrad in Virginia expects rebuilding on the same corner as stockholders back a new enterprise. losses exceed 150000, with insurered stock and fixtures covering only a fraction. Safes from the Miles company recovered. vault remains unharmed.
Madrid dispatch reports a large Moorish force routed by Spanish troops at Muley Abslam in Spanish Morocco. Air force bombs dropped from altitude while infantry pressed the assault. many Moors killed or wounded as Spaniards suffered some losses from accurate rifle fire. In Des Moines, W W Whitenton resigns as Rock Island Lines east of the Mississippi confirms departure Jan 1 after 15 years service.
Tanner Springs Kan Dec. 38 A bootlegger named Rolla Harvey was killed and two men wounded when a posse surrounded the city hall on its second floor where he conducted a “Joint.” Easting the town marshal tried to arrest Harvey on the street. firing over fifty shots followed. Harvey fled with two companions, shot at Easting, then fell in a rear door exchange as Mrs. Harvey handed him a pistol and retired. Harvey wounded C H Weber in the leg and Marshall was dazed by a scalp wound. The body lay on the floor as the four‑sided siege ended with Harvey killed. In Billings Dec 18 George Saban 0 five men implicated in murders in 110 appeared. Saban, long missing, was found in a lair with an exit spotted by searchers after an automobile escape.
Washington dispatch reports sweeping reassignments of high ranking officers. Major General Thomas H. Barry moves to the Philippines department in March to relieve Major General J. Franklin Bell, who returns to the U.S. in May. Major General William H. Carter shifts from Texas to Hawaii to relieve Brigadier General Fred Funston, who returns to the U.S. in April for brigade command. Brigadier General Clarence J. Edwards moves from Texas maneuvers to Hawaii to relieve Brigadier General M. Mommanding the First Hawaiian brigade as General Macomb comes to Washington to relieve Brigadier General Hunter Liggett at the War College. General Pershing, recently relieved in Mindanao, heads to command the Eighth Brigade at the Presidio. Brigadier General John P. Wisser moves to command the Pacific coast artillery district, and Brigadier General Charles J. Bailey leaves Fort Worden to head the North Atlantic coast artillery district at Fort Totten.
A Seattle warrant was issued on a complaint by the county prosecutor for the arrest of Roy H. Cordray local manager and Friede a salesman of Liz Berger & Sons Company charged with selling filthy decomposed and putrid animal substances unfit for human food. Also noted is the swearing in of Robert A. Taft son of the former president among 64 sworn today in the supreme court as practicing attorneys.
In San Francisco on December 1, William Bastian known as burglar de luxe was sentenced by Superior Judge George Cabaniss to four years in the penitentiary. His crime record spans several years and includes over 100 bath items and valuables. Prosecution noted his motive of supporting his mother in Germany and plans to furnish a home for his sister. Items seized included a piano, Vistrola, guitars and violins, and a collection of folios and bags.
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