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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
8
In Missoula on December 23 the jury acquitted Charles Effinger after lengthy testimony. The state alleged fraud related to purchase slips and cash handling, but the defense argued improper conduct and questioned the sufficiency of evidence. The verdict ends the lengthy trial amid defense claims of misconduct by prosecutors and questions over book entries.
Missoula December 22 Christmas services announced including a service with Te Deum There Were Shepherds and a children's program. A Sunday evening service is scheduled for 7 30.
In the polled court Tony Charles Barvete faced a $10 aid conte for an assault on Charles Luke 7.0 Smith. Smith was fined for geink and dauvderly. All kids fresh I rule at P.M Welby’s.
Supreme court declined to grant a new trial for Dee Mott, convicted of murder in Missoula County. The decision, noted in Helena dispatches, centers on juror competency and related motions, with public sentiment mixed over the death penalty.
A reading of a holiday health notice touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a remedy for sour stomach headaches colic winds and other misery from overindulgence. The ad promotes taking a tablet after meals or at night to prevent sickness and ensure a ready start for the next day.
A murder charge is filed in a case tied to a quarrel between a mother and her son and another man. Louis Wig rd and Amel Plyfing Bird are named suspects in the shooting that killed an uncle and wounded a man, with police noting the full details are scarce. The Spokane band known as the famous jin' Eales will perform later at the L. P. ball.
In the morning at 10 pelack and preaching services begin at 10:30. Evening program at 8 features a children's procession and a hymn titled Glory In God is the Highest. The photo will sing Every Night.
In Herd Missouri on December 23 a freight wreck occurred when a train left the tracks near a bend. Engine 11 pulled No 58 with conductor Shaugnessy and crew, the locomotive overturned down a bank delaying westbound traffic until ten o'clock.
Entertainment at Odd Fellows Hall features a lengthy program with instrumental solos recitations and readings by many participants followed by a year end ball at the opera house. Also notes a land dispute contest over a land claim in Missouri and a Christmas special service upcoming at Evangelical Lutheran Church with communion service details.
William Q Ranft appeals the Interior Department decision denying 180 acre settlement rights in the Como forest reserve area near Bitterroot Valley. Applicants include Anna Marshall Tyler Thompson MT Chiney Emily Marshall and others, who sought permission to file on lands withdrawn from settlement July 14.
Misoula notes list residents traveling for Christmas including George Kane from Stevensville and Reverend EL Mills heading to Helena for a family reunion. Mrs Allan of Carlton and John M Evans’s sister visit, with plans for Nebraska and Wisconsin holidays. Several Missoula natives attend university or return from Virginia City and New York, while others plan holiday gatherings with Kellogg family and John Johnson in Kalispell and Detroit.
The commissioner rejected Lyda J. Parson's Waitte Root preemption entry as land not in the Uitler Root valley, located east of Florence. Margaret Luby's application was also denied in a similar case to the Twilche Walle at the 2.1 F. balt Christmas night.
Missoula public schools closed this afternoon with vacation running to January 4 1904 Teachers will attend the Teachers association meeting in Anaconda Special exercises were held in all schoolrooms today and some programme were presented
Georgetown Colo Dec Be-Whay the district court adjourned this evening on juror Rudolph arth had been accepted by both sides in the Maho Springs dynamiting cases. Five times during the day the defense announced willingness to act except the 13 men in the box, but each time the prosecution rejected some of them. It is not believed that the trial can begin before next week. Ravannah Ga Dec 22 Pope Darrow chief of the superior court died suddenly today aged 63 years. Tanace to Succeed Dents hlagion Dec W.Louta A Dent register of wills for the District of Columbia resigned to take after April to understood that Corporal James Taner to succeed Mr Deri Lutter Py Dec 2 Three deaths from typhail fever and two now avon wore To berkes tadey S
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