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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1907
Page
14
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing house Standard Publishing Company as publishers and proprietors. It notes daily and Sunday subscriptions at $1 per month and six months or yearly rates for advance payments, plus reference to office location Standard Block Anaconda and telephone numbers for offices and editorial rooms.
The Standard is on sale at multiple newsstands nationwide including Hotel Raleigh in Washington D C Brentano's in New York Union Wares in New York Auditorium Annex in Chicago P O News Co Dearborn Street Chicago Empire News Stand at Jackson and Dearborn Minneapolis Kavanaugh's South Third Street San Francisco International News Co Hotel St Francis News Stand Pasadena Denver 6 Seventeenth Street Salt Lake News Co Rosenfeld Han son 24 Church Street Ogden Fond 114 Twenty Fifth Spokane North Howard Street John W Graham Co iano Tacoma Pacific Avenue Seattle Hotel Seattle News Stand Seattle International News Co Oregon News Co 14 Sixth Portland Carl Jones 27 Washington Portland Ninth Main Kansas City Yuma News Co Ninth and Main All correspondence to Anaconda Mont.
Simon Guggenheim born December 30 1867 in Philadelphia is described as a linguist and a wealthy, vigorous man who will join the Colorado Senate. He declares he will represent the people of Colorado not a company, and researchers note his past as a strong Republican organizer and prior nominations by silver Republicans and the People's Party.
Washington dispatches say Senator Spooner of Wisconsin studies the Brownsville affair to defend the administration against Senator Foraker. Foraker attacks the president over a civil war precedent and Ohio political history, while Spooner readies constitutional arguments to counter the opposition. Party lines may blur as Texas Senator Ley leans toward supporting the president amid local Browns sentiment.
The disputed policy division colors debate as Senator Tillman and others back the president while Senator Foraker links Major Blocksom’s inspector general report to anti Negro prejudice. Major Blocksom travels to Brownsville with Milton Purdy to bolster sworn testimony for the administration.
The Butte racing group plans annual meets despite last summer’s rain losses. They aim to raise 30 000 dollars in remaining stock to pay 10 000 owed to the Daly estate for the track and cover pre meeting expenses, while stressing a true race meet not a gambling carnival.
Washington report says Reed Smoot will keep his senate seat with fifty two votes in his favor. The privileges and elections committee opposed him, but administration supporters push Smoot through. The piece wittily notes fifty two as the magic number guiding representation.
An 1905 Standard forecast of 1906 warned of Russia dissolving, Turkey falling, czar and sultan assassinated, three wars halted by Roosevelt, a South race war, floods, volcanic eruptions, and many quakes. The piece notes the forecasts overestimated historical events and urges astrology to focus on material matters.
A miscellany of 1906 era witticisms touching astronomy misreads, Rockefeller laurels, Ambassa dor Bryce flowers, and New Year resolutions. References range from Roosevelt and Hearst to Heinze, Wil l iams, and Tom Marlow, with the cold Russia wave and the telephone girl ringing in the new year.
Attorney General Bonaparte grants leave of absence to United States District Attorney Col. D. P. Dyer and Horace Dyer to defend Col. Dyer’s son David P. Dyer Jr. in an embezzlement indictment involving 61200 dollars from the sub treasury. Special attorney F. W. Lehmann represents the government. Trial likely Jan. 15.
Arguments were heard in the U S district court in Kansas City before Judge Phillips in the habeas corpus case of Aggie Myers who is under sentence to hang on January 10 for the murder of her husband. Mrs Myers was not brought into court. Attorney General Herbert S Hadley led the state case and the judge reserved decision until next Friday.
Fire discovered in an upper room of the Fed National bank block in Billings. Western Union telegraph operators smelled smoke and alerted the fire department. Firemen cut through the ceiling of the Golden Rule store to reach the blaze caused by a defective flue.
A Chinese fire at government property near new railway buildings in Peking drew a large crowd as coolies with hand buckets and a pump struggled to quell the blaze. The fire was ultimately extinguished by foreign troops amid great confusion and antiquated firefighting methods.
The article quotes Secretary Shaw criticizing the present monetary system and the restraint on banking cooperation under the Sherman act. He notes overflowing granaries and congested railways, reduced freight movement, and the risk of economic contraction if a crash occurs. He argues responsibility lies with the administration, not a single man, and cautions against overhauling the monetary system.
Richmond Ind Dec 31 Mr and Mrs Walter T Carpenter nearing 73 years of marriage both in fair health. They drive weekly to Quaker meeting where they have worshiped for long. Carpenter formerly superintendent of Earlham College and the wife worked with him. They retain distinctive Quaker dress, including his broad brimmed hat and her bonnet.
In Hagerstown Maryland on December 31 Thomas Standill justice of the peace and Miss Jessie Virginia Young were to wed at the bride's home noon tomorrow but the ceremony is off. Standill learned his former sweetheart had already married John Jacob Schotterbeck two days earlier and he is now prostrated at the parsonage of Rev. E. K. Pearce before plans for his own home wedding collapse.
Mary F. Hayden of Chicago aims to establish a 1000 woman colony in Refugio County Texas. She has bought 5000 acres and plans farming ventures, with homes owned by wives and hopes for women suffrage in the colony. Hayden known for temperance work with Frances E. Willard.
Two people were killed and seven seriously injured in a Southern Railway wreck near Danville Virginia on December 31. Local trains halted as investigators began work at the scene.
Morristown New Jersey December 31 Dr Joseph Ward on a farm near Newton faces a cat infestation after using cats to eradicate rabbits from his strawberry beds. He cannot shoot or use dogs under game laws and appeals for a solution to rid his farm of the felines. The piece also quotes J. Lloyd Jones on evangelists magnetism and phone conversion.
Chicago reports two Illinois evangelists Hicks and Gallo Way using telephone outreach to win converts among Neponset area farmers. Nine conversions noted as novelty appeals, with critics noting the brevity of such conversations and concerns over lasting faith.
In York Pennsylvania a letter from Miss Jennie V Young of Hagerstown Maryland ends an engagement to a York county suitor. She declares she will not wed him, returning the ring and saying she will marry the man she has loved for three years.
John Brady of Paterson, 59, was jailed ten days in Newark after lying about prior arrests. Arrested on drunkenness charges, Brady initially denied any record but admitted a past arrest, prompting Judge Kuhn to sentence him to ten days or a $2.50 fine for lying.
Denver December 31 Thomas Bowen former United States senator from Colorado died today at age 71 He was prominent in state politics for many years as a Republican.
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