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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
3
The Anaconda Standard announces subscription rates and lists mailing options for daily and Sunday editions. It details city and national newsstand locations, and provides contact addresses for editorial and advertising departments in Anaconda and branch offices in Butte Missoula and other cities.
In Washington the House discussed making Jim Crow car rules law for the District of Columbia. Several members favored the measure and called for a roll call to reveal each member’s stand. One speaker doubted an open vote would show much support. After a lengthy debate the House moved on without a vote.
An editorial from the Wall Street Journal argues for balance in organizational makeup to steady business and politics. It notes federal regulation of interstate commerce and cites W G Conrad of Montana as a potential balance wheel to name Bryan for president, reflecting on history and campaign tact.
The article analyzes Republican and party dynamics around the Brownsville affair, arguing that demagogic and opportunistic tactics will shape the 1900s contest. It suggests Bryan will be championed by Southern constituencies, while Foraker and Roosevelt conduct are weighed for safe GOP positioning. It discusses race, loyalty, and electoral calculations affecting candidates and coalitions.
Governor Hughes says the fate of female suffrage rests with women themselves as anti suffrage forces mobilize in Albany. The Standard recalls past state debates and suggests Massachusetts once showed formal female preference without a clear majority for agitation.
A historical excerpt discusses a rat plague scare and pest control, citing Sir James Crichton-Gone’s praise for a Pasteur Institute method. It traces rats to Europe from Asia, notes their spread by ships in the 16th century, and mentions campaigns in Denmark offering a penny bounty per rat head to schoolchildren.
A garbled 1900s New York newspaper fragment reports jurors in a trial undecided on a railway company case and later fined for contempt. It mocks jurors as a queer lot, mentions Thaw trials, a banqueting association, and jokes about Roosevelt, Port Arthur, and Manchuria with scattered political and literary asides.
Wilford B. Hoggatt governor of Alaska wed Miss Clarissa Eames at the bride’s parents home in Utica N T The ceremony followed an engagement announced earlier this year The bride born in Chicago has traveled with her family and lived in Toledo
New York reports Charles W Morse, charged with perjury, withdrew not guilty plea and filed a demurrer to the indictment in supreme court. Arguments on the demurrer are scheduled for March.
Lisbon telegram reports broad belief that a violent political clash looms over Portugal as republicans and reformists push for regime change. Monarchy supporters blame corruption and royal favors while the young king faces pressure from discredited parties. observers warn of instability if a popular regime cannot be stabilized.
Special Dispatch to the Standara Helena Mont Four opinions were handed down today by the Supreme Court. In Schmuel Parnell v Davenport Co from Silver Bow the lower court sided with the plaintiff. Justice Holloway affirms the judgment. In Joseph Mirsel v Culacas Electric Co from Fergus county the opinion is by Justice Holloway. The plaintiff sought damages for injuries while employed on a Lewistown building as he tried to save himself from a fall.
An article quotes Sir James Crichton Beawh and Sir James Crichton Brown at the Royal Institute of Public Health on living to 100 with proper care. It touts cod liver oil product Vinal from The Smith Drug Company as a remedy to restore vitality, promising satisfaction or money back and listing Newboro Drug Company as a seller.
A series of court summaries discuss negligence claims against a company after an electric light incident, a note and insurance application case where a nonauthorized agent acted, and a state constitutional challenge to a 16 hour law. Justices Smith Brantly Holloway concur. The higher court remanded the first case for new trial and affirmed the constitutional ruling.
In Chicago after a wedding at 713 Front Street, four men were stabbed fatally and many others cut during a violent clash between rival factions of Wales and a tree-for-air group. Police arrested 30 suspects. the bride and groom were jailed briefly then released.
Special Correspondence from Lewistown notes Nordahl and relatives Jacobson and L. Ole have arrived to assist due to custody since the crime. Prosecutors expect the case to be tried this term. defense attorney J. C. Munison has not completed investigations, slowing proceedings.
Helena February 25 Judge J M Clements grants Isaac Hill of Great Falls a writ of habeas corpus after Hill was tried by a Belt justice of the peace on a Sunday and given a jail term The county treater alleged the Sunday trial invalid and Hill sought relief from the Supreme Court through the writ Chief Justice Brantly ordered the matter heard by Judge Clements in this county
Special to the Standard from Helena February 25 The board of railroad commissioners will meet at the Capitol Building June 38 for the process of considering distance larl fates for the carriage of freight wider all the 10 classes the same to be applicable to all railroads operating within the state of Montana Respondents subject to a prison at this meeting in person or by representative invited to attend
In San Francisco on February 10 the Superior Court granted Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney an extension to file counter affidavits in the Abyahon Ruet case. Heney said he needed time due to illness and the burden of preparing affidavits for himself and other prosecution members.
In St Petersburg on February 3 Lieutenant Clencrat Stoessel, condemned to death for the Port Arthur fortress murder, petitioned Emperor Nicholas for a full pardon. The court recommended commuting the death sentence to 15 years in a fortress with several years in another fortress at Borylee.
A Republican gathering in Lebanon named delegates to the Chicka convention and endorsed Taft for president. The regular convention favored Taft and was held today as delegates from the sixth congressional district discussed the national race.
Sun Pao Ki, the Chinese minister in Berlin, has instructions from Peking to discuss with German trade authorities a potential US Germany agreement on equal trade opportunities in Chinese Manchuria. Washington and Berlin have received the proposals, with officials cautious on whether such an accord is needed or covered by existing international treaties.
Washington Feb 95 Chinese diplomatic activity in Europe and Manchuria has the state department ready for a possible message from Wu the new Chinese minister after he arrives in Washington within a fortnight. No concrete basis exists for a Japan representation beyond protests over Japanese railroad policy in Manchuria though informal exchanges have prepared officials for an official discussion if an appeal from China is formally brought to attention.
In New York a temporary restraining order was issued by Judge Platzok in General Sessions to halt payments of four quarterly dividends totaling 8 percent for 1908. The injunction follows a minority stockholders suit claiming the railway company had not earned the declared dividends despite a 15 percent earnings report for the year. The order is reviewable next Monday.
Sedalia Missouri February 25 W W Cox a wood chopper of Franklin Junction 210 confessed to railroad officers that he wrecked a freight train near Otterville on Friday to rob the Missouri Pacific St Louis to Kansas City train No 4 which was due shortly after the wreck Cox said he did the deed alone 36 years old with a wife and it did not reveal any accomplices
Advertises Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as relief for neuralgia and neuralgia-like pain. Customer testimonials claim rapid relief with two tablets, minimal side effects, and personal endorsements from Mrs Katherine Barton and Mrs Perrier. Miles Medical Co of Elkhart Indiana promotes pharmacist pricing.
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