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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
15
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is located at 28 East Broadway in Butte. Telephone numbers listed are 42 for general inquiries and 1 422 for independent service. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
A local shop highlights a range of umbrellas from $1.50 up, featuring SOLID GOLD handles with Pernam buco wood sticks and silt, natural wood sticks with a ribbon rosette, and lines with pearl and gold plate finishes. Some models offer ivory handles for a discreet, refined look, and there are matched cane and umbrella pairs ideal for travelers.
A parade of visitors comes through Butte including James T Higgins from Billings Edward Dean from Great Falls and Walter W Kroger of Philipsburg. Local births, marriages and real estate moves are noted with officials from Montana towns visiting the city. France has 79 divorce courts, Germany 28, England 1 and the United States 2,921.
Everett Tranter, jailed on vagrancy charges, is believed to be linked to burglaries at the Marony and O Meara saloon on Dakota and Galena streets where a suitcase used to pack loot was found. Police seek ties to the Driscoll saloon break on Montana and Park streets and possible Maryland avenue burglaries.
Coroner's jury in Sherman & Reed's rooms found Percy Burke died due to an oversight in leaving an empty bucket attached to the cage during hoisting at Speculator shaft Wednesday morning. The mine company was not blamed. Witness testimony largely mirrored the Standard account, noting Burke and partner Harry E. Cook used abnormal signals and hoisted on one bed, the ore hoist signal.
Deputy State Mine Inspector Orem blamed the workers for the fatal accident at the mine. Burke plummeted 10 feet into the sump after a bucket remained fastened to the cage and swung, jarring him loose. Witnesses included engineer William Hawley, contractor Sam Brennan, station tender James McDonald, and mine foreman John Pope who oversaw recovery.
The English musical comedy The Blue Moon brought by the Shuberts, famed in New York, played at the Broadway theater last night in Butte. James T Powers dominates the show, with the rest of the company fair and some leads sung by understudies. The show features songs like Pit-a-Pat and Blue Moon and is well staged with a large audience enjoying the performance.
Joe Mudro holds the diamond challenge medal and city bowling title after defeating former holder Tommy Ellis and five top Butte bowlers. Five challengers, including McKinley and Van Ells, will contest tomorrow night with a $1 entry each. A second match between Boston and Montana teams on the fifth and sixth floors of the Hennessy building was postponed to Monday with a $25 wager and strong local interest.
North Butte management expects to start shipping ore about January 1 to the Hutte reduction works of W A Clark. Daily output will range from 200 to 900 tons, limiting new hires. The Original mine will close partially for retimbering, with North Butte ore temporarily replacing ore previously sent to the reduction works from the Original.
Special dispatch notes the mining assessment bill has little chance in the house. The measure would exempt mining locations for 1997 from a $100 assessment, with Montana and several other states exempted from its provisions.
George Johnson, accused vagrant of the secretary class, was tried yesterday afternoon and convicted, fined 100 dollars. He used a high priced attorney and the case lasted the entire afternoon. Vera Clark ignored a subpena but was brought in on a bench warrant. her testimony was dismissed due to forgetfulness and illness after Johnson’s trial. Notice of appeal has been filed.
Albany report says Governor Hughes, sidelined by grippe and staying at the executive mansion, is much improved and may resume duties at the executive chamber tomorrow.
Fire swept through a five-story structure at 42 and 50 Lake street causing about 150000 dollars in damage. The blaze affected several small manufacturing tenants occupying the building.
Representative William A. Calderhead of Kansas is critically ill with double pneumonia at his Washington apartment. He remains under medical care and observation as authorities monitor his condition.
Six Butte men including William Cutts and Joseph Shannon were cited by U S marshal Junius G. Sanders to appear in Helena for contempt of court over alleged violations of a Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone injunction against labor interference. Some could not be found. hearings may be postponed as attorneys arrange dates. Manager Murray rejected a settlement proposal from Montana Federation of Labor, insisting current workers be retained, while strikers are to be rehired under the agreed basis, delaying a full settlement.
President Roosevelt arrives in Pine Knot Charlotteville Virginia after a three hour muddy drive. The party rides in three traps with Mrs Roosevelt Miss Carew and others aboard. He greets the crowd saying I am glad to be back here again.
In a Washington Star exchange a young wife defends her husband after he loses all his money on horse racing. She quips that the fault lies with the horse, not him, reflecting a lighthearted quarrel over a betting loss.
Customers are urged to shop Mayer at 22 West Park where one fourth off nearly all stock continues through New Year's Day. Watches clocks jewelry art china cut glass bric a brac electroliers umbrellas stickpins cuff buttons bracelets chains sterling and plated ware offered at low prices for New Year's gifts.
About 500 children and as many adults packed the Auditorium for a Salvation Army Christmas show in Butte. Indiana campers from Cree contributed, and gifts filled the tree and stage. Moving pictures told the life of Christ, with music by the Stevens glee club and Mayor Corby speaking. Santa messages from Greenland New York and Chicago added festive charm.
A Finlander arrested Christmas morning in Butte under the name T F Scaolus or Sanfrid Junga seeks release via habeas corpus. He was picked up on arrival from the Oregon Short Line, described as a wanted forger in Utah and Idaho. No officer arrived to assume custody, no warrant exists, and the hearing before Judge Donlan is scheduled for 10 o'clock this morning. the prisoner speaks little English and has two sisters in Butte.
Sheriff James McDonald halted in Butte with three prisoners en route to Deer Lodge. William Ryan and Julius Freese received 18 months for grand larceny while Charles Foote drew a year for forgery. The trio is jailed in Silver Bow and to be sent to the penitentiary today.
Canton Ohio Dec 26 William M Duncan of Cleveland nephew of the late President McKinley files a suit for 10000 against R F Shields administrator of the Abner McKinley estate and against the widow and daughter of Abner McKinley alleging Abner borrowed 10000 from Helen McKinley in return for an assignment of his interest in President McKinley's estate and that Abner refused to recognize the claim in his lifetime.
Boston man Harrison Loring, a pioneer in iron steamship construction and former president of Brine Transportation, died at 85. He opened a plant in 1857, securing numerous U.S. government contracts. His vessels included the monitor Canoncius at Fort Fisher and the Marblehead, sent to Dewey at Manila Bay in 1890.
The Southern Society of Montana plans a Jan 8 banquet at the Thornton in Butte to mark Jackson’s New Orleans victory. Plantation melodies, Virginia hams, mint juleps, and possible possum headline a southern program with toasts about the south. Membership nears a hundred as organizers mail invitation cards to confirm attendance.
Two popular doctors in the Phoenix block were the butt of jokes after it leaked that they received boxes of cigars from an undertaker on Christmas day. The physicians, however, see nothing to laugh at and continue smoking the cigars, noting it is better to smoke there.
New York on December 26 marks the expiration of 60 day withdrawal notices from savings banks after the October panic. Few depositors asked for funds as banks anticipated relief and the withdrawals were largely offset by deposits.
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