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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1903
Page
13
Mrs. Sarah Ensminger testifies she saw the alleged Northern Pacific dynamiter in the Smelter City on July 17 and that he mailed threatening letters from Butte. A bartender on the stand corroborates the same timeline and observations.
Helena December testimony in the Gravelle trial nears its end as another defense witness wraps cross examination. Gravelle disputed key claims about his handwriting and the blackmail letters while admitting trips and camps in Montana and Idaho. The judge and lawyers pressed for precise spellings and locations as maps and letters were offered as evidence.
Two work trains on the Northern Pacific collided about 11 am near the Homestake tunnel. Three engines damaged. a caboose with eight men telescoped onto a flat car. Traffic delayed about five hours. Eight men escaped serious injury. crews unclear. Superintendent Boyle investigated and ruled accidental. no blame assigned.
General Morales, provisional president, is absent from the city and the provisional foreign minister has resigned in fear. The government seeks a 20000 loan to defend against insurgents but lacks resources, risking pillage and street fighting if rebels enter the city. The Newport gunboat is the only warship, and U S Minister Powell is urged to convene diplomats to protect foreign lives and property.
In Council Bluffs a mob of about 1000 gathered to lynch George Williams and Neely Zimmerman, accused of assaulting Mesdamés Sanders and Stark. Congressman Smith intervened, securing Sanders’s return home and urging the mob to disperse. National guard had been summoned but left after the crowd dispersed.
Minister Powell dispatches from San Domingo noting revolutions at Azua and Barahona with two provisional governments. He reports one government in the north and center and another in the south, marking two revolutions and two regimes.
Portland Ore Dec 28 Police captured David Van Houten at his barn five miles from the city after he shot Al Young a saloon keeper over alleged infidelity. Van Houten offered no statement. his wife denies the accusations and accuses him of abuse and neglect.
Crested Butte Colorado December 28 Charles Ostraut about 55 and Joseph Beitler 10 burned to death in a cabin near Anthracite. The cabin housed Ostraut who cut timber for a coal mine. Joseph’s brother George 14 was with them and escaped. the cause of the fire is unknown.
St. Joseph Missouri December 28 Superintendent Perkins of the Burlington road received a letter mailed at Weston warning that unless $5 000 was deposited in a designated spot Sunday night the writer Odell Carter would kill him on sight. Perkins turned the letter over to post office authorities.
St. Joseph Missouri December 28 H G Edmunson real estate dealer was found in a hotel room with Mrs G W Grote fatally shot by the woman's husband a building contractor Grote used a shotgun firing through the door panel Mrs Grote accompanied the injured man to the hospital
Sargent Kentucky December 28 On Big Cowan creek William Shepherd shot and killed Riley Webb aged 28 and fatally wounded his wife Mary Shepherd and her 10 months old baby at the home of the woman's parents. Shepherd was arrested and may be lynched.
Russian officials and observers in St. Petersburg suggest the czar will make concessions to Japan to avert war while maintaining readiness for conflict. They warn Russia seeks to safeguard Korea and Far East interests, deferring trouble to a more favorable time, with banks and merchants ready to fund war if needed.
Peking reports Lien Fang asked Russian Minister Lessar about evacuating Manchuria. Lessar cites cold weather and lack of barracks plus risk to Russian interests during ongoing Russia Japan negotiations as reasons to delay. China favors Russia’s continued control and suggests preserving treaty rights in Korea and Manchuria without further gains.
The Russian government placed an order with Armour & Co for 1 500 000 pounds of mess meat destined for immediate shipment to San Francisco with delivery by January 22. The meat is intended for the Russian army and port of destination is Port Arthur. The item appears in San Francisco as part of a Bulletin note about Getz Bros. & Co. continuation.
Admiral Coghlan aboard the Olympia arrives in Colon after Cartagena reception. He meets Gov Jose Insignares of Bolivar and courts, escorted by Colby. Crowds cheer as Olympia fires 17 gun salute and sails out toward Cartagena. Minister Beaupre travels to New York aboard Yucatan.
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