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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1909
Page
5
The Standard lists its Principal Branch Office at 28 Hast Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Independent telephone 4,422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Various briefs list rent pianos and coal firms, dentists, a new mining manual, social event at Renshaw hall, eye ear nose doctor, liquor law stance, and local business moves. Names include McLaughlin Coal Co, Majestic range, Howell, Murphy alderman, Mussigbrod, Merriman, Sleeman, Godfrey, Maginn & Renick, Stentz, Siebenaler, Corby, and Walker’s liquor policy noted. Also society pieces on dances, birthdays, and travel anecdotes with neighbors and officials.
Fred Zimmerman and David Johns, both jailed on Harrison avenue south of the Olympia brewery, face disturbance charges. Zimmerman also has a concealed weapons complaint after an eight gauge revolver was seized. no shots were fired. Dr. H. T. Ashlock ends office ties after Feb 1 1909. accounts payable to L. K. Cramb.
Tim Brennan confronted Don Noonan at 500 West Park Street saloon after learning he was suspected in a prior robbery. Noonan fired a 38 caliber ball point blank shot, Brennan wounded but not seriously. Noonan claimed self defense as Brennan’s associates testified and Brennan fled. The robbery had netted $137 from the bar area, prompting authorities to investigate. Noonan was briefly jailed on bond while witnesses were questioned. charge pending first degree assault.
The long time local character known as Buckets may be jailed for vagrancy after being found sleeping at Morrow’s livery barn. He laments the situation and jokes about an election morning hangover while behind bars, claiming he spent all his money on drink and vows he is done with alcohol.
Virginia City in Jan 30 report notes top scorers R A Vickers 232 and Lewis Gilbert 230 selected captains of Invincibles and All Stars respectively. First series 2 074 to 2 04, All Stars lead by 29 pins. second series All Stars win 2 225 to 2 195, Invincibles trail by 30. Rubber match tomorrow promises strong interest.
A Butte meeting of Irish American citizens in Judge Lynch s courtroom planned a St Patrick s Eve banquet. A five member committee including James H Lynch and J A Coleman will arrange details with a treasurer selected from its ranks. Attendees must submit names within ten days.
Rev P D Hartman the new pastor and first regular preacher at the South Side Methodist church Fourth avenue and George street led yesterday morning service to a large attendance. Mrs Hartman and the choir received praise for music. Hartman came from Bozeman where he is highly regarded and expects a fruitful mission in the south side parish. For the sick and infants use milk certified by the Silver Bow Medical society sold only at Crescent creamery.
Fire units hurried to the Deeter saloon at Montana street after smoke was seen pouring from a second floor window. No blaze was found and the crowd dispersed as the incident ended without damage. The text also hints at Centennial beer being marketed with long history and fighter references.
Theodore Roosevelt discusses California bills restricting land ownership by aliens and the broader Japan immigration issue. He argues the measures threaten treaty rights, warn of national harm, and favors preserving existing exclusion arrangements with Japan while advising federal objections.
Six bench workers at Mayer’s handle new and repair work with prices at one dollar for mainsprings and one fifty for watch cleaning plus a year guarantee. The store emphasizes thorough original work to avoid costly re-dos and touts extensive custom jewelry and a "LOVES PRICE OR MONEY BACK" policy.
Resolutions adopted by the United German Trades of Philadelphia urge the U S government to act on the alleged 1907 execution of Fritz Strembach a U S soldier and former Philadelphia resident. Friends say he was killed by Russian authorities in Kurland while visiting his mother during furlough. he had enlisted in Company L Thirty eighth Infantry at Jefferson Barracks Missouri in 1899.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor declared that no injunction could stop his speech in New York before the Central Federated union. He said labor leaders would go to jail with him if needed and trusted the higher court would overturn the Mitchell Morrison case ruling.
The Tribuna suggests granting Roman citizenship to President Roosevelt as thanks for U S aid after the earthquake. It calls him a gigantic foreigner deserving citizenship and argues such a gesture would seal renewed friendship between Rome and the United States.
A Times dispatch from Pekin notes that after the dowager empress's death the regent and Manchus hold power and the palace hosts party factions. Censors conduct wholesale impeachments, leveling accusations at any chosen target.
Motion pictures of the great Italian earthquake at Messina, Dec. 28, shown in Butte a month after the calamity. Vitagraph photographers in Rome raced to Messina, filmed within 12 hours of the quake, and sent negatives to New York aboard the Baltic.
Eric Hamry lay dying at St James Hospital after a Wednesday night shooting at the Swiss saloon near the Pittamant smelter. The bullet entered the back, shattering the spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders down. local reports said he could not live more than 48 hours.
James Barry of 38 Gaylord Street was taken to Murray's hospital last night with a badly sprained back after a fall from a ladder at Barus mine. Automatic phone home service advertisement appears with the number 2,258.
A blaze engulfed Milton Florida ten miles east of Pensacola wiping out the town today with losses estimated at 200600 dollars. No fatalities are listed in the report though the fire caused extensive property damage and prompted investigations into its cause.
The body of Miss Emily Price who died at Sisters' hospital in Missoula will be shipped tomorrow to Pingres North Dakota. She will be accompanied by her mother two brothers and a sister of the deceased.
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