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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
21
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 28 East Broadway in Butte with telephone 422. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
Local items note rent pianos from Orton Bros and others, arrivals from Helena and Missoula, and Christmas edition sales. Mentions visits to Butte, coal ads, wedding tour return, a prison contractor, and court cases including forgery and incorrigibility charges. Also Christmas program at Welsh Sunday school and a train sleeper addition.
A. C. Broderson president of the International Mercantile company faces forgery charges in Judge Mc Clernan's court over a Sept. 19 bond. Prosecution contends the bond omitted real sureties. defense seeks to strike most testimony and urge a not guilty verdict after long arguments into the night.
Butte miner Jack Munroe famed for a Jeffries incident will perform a sparring exhibition at the Broadway theater Friday night in Butte. He faces Mike Sullivan for six rounds with a vaudeville act and Joyce Turkish bath attraction offered under the Great Northern ticket office. Fresh crabs, clams and clam chowder served at Atlas, 81 East Park Street.
Readers in the East are invited to see Montana's newspaper craftsmanship as the Christmas Standard, a Montana production, is mailed in ready form from the Butte office to promote state work.
At the latest Royal Arcanum session the following officers were elected for the term Regent L S Wild past regent C S Passmore vice regent G H Lee orator H C Kroger secretary F C Chess collector W E Burgess treasurer S A Hall chaplain R A Innis guide R W Stevens warden F W Bimrose sentry J D Searles organist L L Howard trustees Henry Mueller J K Hesler A J Wethey
Sacramento reports pugilist Frank Solomon known as Kid Williams was discharged in city justice court after being held on manslaughter charges for the death of Tom Pendergast from a brain concussion suffered in a Friday night bout. Others implicated in the affair were also discharged.
In Butte two officers, including Hughes, face charges after alleged tempers and misconduct. One officer jailed pending examination for intoxication and disturbing conduct. a second for beating his wife amid warnings to arrest if disturbances continued.
W D Clark county commissioner and assessor Dan Brown encountered EF J Bartels, former partner, on courthouse stairs. A clash followed as Clark swung at Bartels, who ducked and retorted with insults. Bartels sought court protection while Judge Harney referred him to the county attorney. no further action occurred.
Montana Transfer advertises prompt delivery of coal and wood with contact at 15 West Broadway and telephone number 23.
Reported by two bosses after a meeting no communication from the Plumbers union occurred and no committee sought a settlement. Bosses defend status quo while some would hire journeymen if terms improve, with limited contract work and jobbing largely in hand. The Building Trades Council supports the plumbers, forcing a church project pause.
Trustees report new screens and iron bars are being installed to deter escapes at the East Butte industrial school. Prof Hastings urges rigid rules for teachers and staff, detailing times and duties to restrict inmate movement and access to doors and windows. Hastings Young and the teachers committee will draft the rules. A petition seeks leave for Hastings and Soest to Anaconda for three days next week.
A notice lists ready for mailing items at Standard offices in Butte Helena and Missoula. Fancy tobacco jars range from 50 cents to 2.50 dollars. Christie Leys advertises these jars and notes Northwestern Mutual life insurance as the reason for taking the agency, with Robert Haydn named.
The Chinese inspector A Hampton declares the speaker not a merchant of Butte. Charles Meehan of San Francisco will not issue the return certificate. The speaker has 2500 Chinese silk handkerchiefs 1500 yards of Chinese silk and a large stock of Chinese and Japanese goods including Christmas toys offered below cost and asks for investigation.
Mrs. Laura Nash is charged with larceny from Richard Mooney after he alleges she invited him to her 553 South Arizona street home and left minus 38 dollars. Mooney, a prosecuting witness, faced Judge Boyle while Nash denies the accusation, claiming Mooney’s charge stems from intoxication and a brain disorder.
The Auditorium is secured for a newsboys Christmas tree and entertainment next Monday night. Donations have been received and the tree is expected to hold many gifts for the boys. Send contributions to C. S. Passmore at 25 West Granite Street.
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