Sessions Close Not Far Away
Legislators push work forward as March calends approach. Members accelerate bills and committee actions amid looming deadline pressure.
20 Feb 1905
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1905
Page
1
Legislators push work forward as March calends approach. Members accelerate bills and committee actions amid looming deadline pressure.
Twenty four bills passed this week in the Montana legislature bringing total for the session to 46. A tuberculosis bill was introduced in the house authorizing the state veterinarian to kill infected animals without compensation, while other measures include taxation of private banks and city annexation powers. The governor has issued no vetoes yet, but observers expect potential objections to the Thirteenth judicial district bill and to a land agent appointment bill.
Aboard the steamer Tartar Lieutenants low and Bondy of the cruiser Sevastopol were released after parole. Captain of the Sevastopol and other prisoners to reach San Francisco. Lieutenant Bellow brands Stoessel cowardly and notes Mme Zouhokek as heroine in defense at Port Arthur.
The Montana exhibit funded with ten thousand dollars two years ago is being transferred from St. Louis to Portland and will be installed as soon as the Portland building is ready. Lawmakers discuss cooperation with the federal government on arid land reclamation, with lands designated irrigable to be sold by farm units and funds used for irrigation construction. The state transfers land to the United States at minimum price, and a federal right of way is reserved on all state lands for ditches canals tunnels and transmission lines.
The hearing of testimony in former Gov. James H. Peabody's contest for Colorado governor closed. Briefs will be filed this week. reports due March 1 to Lt. Gov. McDonald, with final decision by March 2. Governor Adams disapproves a March 2 demonstration at the capitol and urges calm and orderly conduct.
An explosion aboard a naphtha barge in Baku today ignited several nearby barges and a landing stage. Reports say twenty people perished in the blast and subsequent fires, with rescue and firefighting efforts underway.
Telegram from St Petersburg dated February 20 reports that Grand Duke Sergius will not have a public funeral in the capital. Remains to lie in a temporary vault as alterations to the Romanoff mausoleum proceed. Officials fear terrorist attack. some princes may attend a subdued service. Trepoff remains confined amid revolutionary threats.
Decorah in Iowa reports that after a 17 day trial Prof. T S Gifford accused of killing neighbor S A Bigelow on November 3 1904 was pronounced insane by the jury He is a prominent Decorah educator and Methodist church member and will be sent to an asylum on Monday
Midshipman Samuel W Battle of the second class at the naval academy collapsed with heart failure shortly after noon as the brigade was called to dinner. He was the son of Surgeon 8S. W Battle retired, of Asheville North Carolina.
William Scallon argues against special legislation in the proposed initiative and referendum bill. He cites constitutional sections prohibiting special privileges and urges explicit safeguards to block railroad bonuses and other targeted grants, warning that without them the people may be misled.
Reported strikes across Russia intensify with 30 000 to 40 000 workers idle and railroads in Moscow nearly paralyzed. In St Petersburg major plants discharge workers. government arms production shifts trigger foreign orders while employers deny responsibility and demand political reforms.
Three paroled Russian naval captains and eleven lieutenants arrived in San Francisco from Port Author en route to Russia aboard the Siberia. Captains von Essen Shenissevitch Saac and Lieutenants Bestoujeff Rumy Berestuzeff Beklemesheff Butkevitch Krotkoff Ostetski Rigey Turtoff Wesselken Dennissoff Kovalefski praised the Japanese treatment.
The navy department reports the seizure of the British steamer Salvina bound for Vladivostok with Cardiff coal. The exact seizure location is not disclosed.
The message claims Smith alleges a grand larceny case was mishandled or falsely charged. No further verifiable details are provided in the fragments.
Miles City telegrams reveal D A Smith state stock inspector retracts grand larceny charges against Fred Hathhorn. Smith says proceeds from a March cattle collection found in Hathhorns safe at Billings and asks papers to publish his full retraction and intent to repay any damages.
Rev. William E. McLaren Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago died in New York at age 74 after heart failure. He had been ill for over a month and was confined to bed. Survived by widow, one son, and two daughters. He was consecrated in 1874 and founded the Western Theological Seminary in Chicago in 188.
In Ophir Washington on February 19 a squaw’s son killed Eli Pettijohn her white stepfather amid reports of abuse. He then rode over rough country to surrender to the Miles Washington Indian agent, on the Colville reservation where Teresa, Pettijohn’s widow, owned his farm.
Seattle February 19 Castore Valentine Italian teamster shot and mortally wounded Gertie Assalyo a young woman who had been in America four years. He then shot himself dying a short time later in the home of F. this evening.
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