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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1907
Page
13
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is located at 2 East Broadway in Butte with telephone 422. An independent telephone number 1,422 is listed. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
A telegram from Columbus Washington dated December 28 reports Nels Nelson a 31 year old laborer and former Butte resident was killed yesterday after falling from a bridge about 23 miles west of Columbus Police seek to locate his relatives in Butte and will cover mailing costs to notify them Porter Bros and Welsh relay the notice.
The Butte Kennel Club will meet at the Butte hotel at 8 o'clock this evening to consider important business. Members are urged to attend as several matters will be discussed and officers and committees will give reports on the bench show.
Misses Horgan received a Black Hand demand for $100. Aiding authorities, deputies hid near the bridge at the set hour, but no thief appeared. Miss Julia Wotean delivered the money in a package containing Confederate bills and a note, then returned home armed with a pistol. The case remains open as investigators pursue the writers.
The Lulu Sutton company staged a crowd pleasing melodrama at the Lulu theater with clever scenes and strong cast performances. Tonight a benefit for the striking telephone girls will donate sixty percent of tickets to the workers. A grand vaudeville bill at the Grand features The Musical Hawaiians, Armstrong and Davis, Donnelly and Rotali, Miss Rotali, Fred Primrose, and James R. Waite in nautical theater, with a New Year matinee announced.
The Montana Record notes that wool growers have little to complain about amid broader downturns. Reports from Boston indicate Montana wools are held at top prices, suggesting robust demand and favorable outlook for the state’s wool industry.
After a full day and night pursuit in South Butte, Con stable Lipschutz led to the arrest of "Doc" F. Wanamaker on a larceny as bailee warrant issued Saturday. Wanamaker, jailed, faced multiple troubles tied to a race horse he advertised as Dan Patch’s brother with a 1.59% pacing record. He claimed mortgage pressure and lost supporters amid alleged buyouts and a furniture sale dispute with Louis Feldman. Trial set before Judge Hunter later in the week.
Washington reports Senator William Allison of Iowa, chairman of the appropriations committee, backs congressional action to care for ex presidents. He cites Grover Cleveland and says Jefferson’s debts should have been paid by the government. He notes Mrs. Garfield already receives an allowance and argues the cost would be small.
Imprisoned miners in Ely Nevada remain trapped as rescue teams remove about 10 feet of earth in the last 24 hours. The ground remains loose and caving risks persist. more than 400 feet must be removed before the miners can be freed.
A Wallace visitor reports a man found in the snow near Wallace may be waiter W J McCraden missing from Saltese for over two weeks. A letter from Robert McCruden dated December 27 says little trace exists and searchers have given up, hoping for spring.
The Kann art collection, bought by Duveen Brothers last August for about 4 million dollars, has been shipped to America. One of the principal buyers is Mrs. Collis P. Huntington. American purchases include several Rembrandts such as An Old Woman Cutting Her Nails from 1658 and Crossing the Atlantic.
In Cumberland Maryland on December 29 nearly 500 shop and yard employees of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad were laid off over two days. Only the essential staff remains to handle the most urgent tasks.
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