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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1916
Page
4
Two workers are entombed and one is recovered after a cave-in near Three Forks. Rescue teams coordinate efforts as conditions delay salvage. authorities report tense search operations continuing through the day.
Three Forks December 31 Special Dispatch reports Frank Dunbar and J F Brown were trapped when ground caved in at the Copper City mine shaft on the Befoot level. Dunbar survived after being struck by timbers. Brown is believed dead. Rescue teams and experts arrived after a signal to halt work.
Fire in a Bear Creek Carbon county rubbish pile in the basement nearly total loss to the Gugliemetti building the largest business block. Loss to Ager Mercantile Company which occupied part of the ground Moor will run over 20000 with about half insured. Lodges on the second floor and Niethammer Meat Company also damaged.
In Philipsburg a bus iness visitor W E Moore of Missoula and locals Selina Draxton Nellie Duffy Benefit from nurse training in St Paul. Several out of town guests join the Christmas season. A Woman's Club Christmas recital at Firemen's Hall featured piano vocal and dance numbers with a reception and dancing to follow.
Joe Reiser a 38 year old former St. Paul laborer was arrested in Dickinson North Dakota and will be returned to St. Paul to answer to the charge of slaying Joe Fink Argo of St. Paul whose body was found under the floor at Boxeman Northwest bank officials said Fink had deposited $900 earned while with Reiser in the Cand area. A man identifying himself as Joe Fink attempted to cash the funds at the Cando bank prompting bank staff to notify St. Paul police who wired the Dickinson sheriff for the arrest.
In Miles City Dee last night under Sheriff Al Truncott, John Miller and Harry Mitchell were in custody for the murder of C Robinson at the poor farm in September. Miller was found guilty in the second degree and sentenced to 12 to 15 years. Miller, deaf and German-script reader, required multiple stenographers and reverse transcription during questioning. Mitchell received one to five years for forgery after pleading, charged with distributing checks around Ismay but tried on one count.
M Rapelie of the Northern Pact arrived Thursday with his wife and Josephine and is returning to St Paul from California to visit friends. The Woman's club of Livingston started a fund for a clubhouse and held a fan entertainment. Home economics plans a January cooking school with tickets to be sold. Modern Woodmen Silver Tip camp elected officers including Consul C E Vouss adviser W G Goodson banker T V Rowe clerk escort Henry Gostelow son E Ayers watchman LG Byrns trustees Frank Bender O Carlson and George Gaskell camp physician Dr E Leard. Judge A C Spencer of Ret Lodge orders a case to show cause Friday Jan 7 in Wood vs Bates treasurer over Main street paving taxes and payments to Warren Construction.
Helena December 31 report notes employers insured under plan No 3 of the compensation act must pay the November assessment. The fund is low yet the payment is required to meet any demands and ensure coverage.
Washington reports the house public lands committee voted to report favorably the administration general leasing bill for coal phosphate oil and sodium products on public lands. Coal lands would be 2.50 acre tracts with 2 cents per ton royalty and escalating per acre rents. Railroad and municipal uses permitted with specified lease terms. Similar terms apply to phosphate potassium and soda lands. oil and gas lands at 64 acre tracts with 10 percent royalty and $1 per acre. Proceeds to fund reclamation.
Moulder Dec 3 The death of W D Northrup from pneumonia at about 75 occurred last night He was born near Winona Minnesota and moved to Townsend then to the Holter Northrup addition of Boulder where he lived for years He belonged to the Society of Pioneers and was long a gardener and more recently a poultry raiser He leaves a wife and numerous relatives in Minnesota and a brother in California
Billings, Dec 31 Aged Mrs Martha Hogan died at her ranch home after living ten years without medical or dental care. She recalled seeing Halley’s comet over three quarters of a century ago in Norway and witnessed its return in this century.
In the senior ailings on December 3 the school board may introduce voluntary military drill in the high school. Superintendent Nye and board members weigh the proposal, noting wide interest and growing support for adoption.
Thomas F Trasler, gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery, suffered shell concussion that erased all memory of his past. His fiancée in Montreal mourned him, and he believed his parents were strangers until a scar revealed his identity. He then proposed again, declaring he has fallen in love anew with Feta.
The Geological Survey bulletin notes Wyoming's oil output rose in 1915 due to a six inch gravity line from Grase Creek to Burlington at Chatham and the Greybull fold southward extension. A new 3000 cubic foot per day gas well on the Byron anticline near the Montana boundary was brought in, with early flow seen across the state boundary in Carbon county Montana. Havre tests driven by gas flow in 1914 completed an axial new gas well east of Havre in November, estimated to yield 0.90 cubic feet per day to consumers.
Helena December 31 report notes the muttering in at Bidney as part of a Montana national guard mobilization. The Second regiment comprises 12 companies with a total of 516 men. Dinners dances and church services mark the period with fraternal organizations and clubs hosting programs across Helena.
The Seattle city board ordered the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway of Washington to remove its tracks on three blocks of Whatcom avenue in the east waterway district and granted the port commission permission to use the vacated strip for a new harbor belt line. The Milwaukee line was built under a notable permit, not a franchise, and three other companies hold use rights on the affected tracks. The Milwaukee company protests that the port commission is altering four railroads serving the public to connect two warehouses.
Berlin reports German forces after mines exploded seized an advanced British trench near Hul luch, taking two machine guns and several prisoners. Allied airmen attacked Ostend, damaging buildings including the Sacred Heart convent. Belgian civilians suffered nineteen wounded and one killed.
In Racine Wisconsin on December 31 1914 Charles K Carpenter cashier and B Hinrichs president are bonded to appear in court to answer indictments returned by the grand jury over the failure of the Commercial and Savings Bank The bank closed September 1 and deposits were paid at five percent since then Carpenter’s bond stood at 30000 dollars
Two New Brunswick colleges were destroyed by fires. Sacred Heart College in Caraquet suffered about 250 thousand dollars in losses, while a Methodist female school near Aristol, Tennessee, burned from a boiler room fire with losses estimated between 80 and 250 thousand dollars.
Andrew J. Davis and Cornelia Margaret Moase married at the bride’s parents home on Harrison Avenue with about 30 guests. The secret nuptials preceded a post ceremony honeymoon to Atlantic Seaboard cities. Miss Ruth Davis served as bridesmaid and Miss Moose noted as a prominent Butte figure. The groom, son of A J Davis, is connected to First National Bank. Adolph a ssaxer and Hazel May Argyle wed at Grace Methodist Episcopal church with Nora McAllister H as bridesmaid and Frank Baker as best man.
The article notes regular Sunday masses will be sung in Catholic churches across Butte with choirs offering special music. The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railway offers a $1 round trip fare from Butte to Anaconda with tickets sale through January 1 and return by January 3, plus special trains leaving Butte at 7:45 p.m. on January 1 and 2 and returning from Anaconda at 9 p.m. Two days of incarceration for William F. Peterson, detained over the Salvation Army headquarters bombing, are described as police pursue leads amid uncertain guilt. witnesses indicate the suspect was near the scene and collecting discarded candy boxes. Services and rail service details reflect the New Year observances, with local roads closed for the day in Butte.
Gilet Gwen hosts a wine reception at Napton hall this evening from 1 to erelock and Sunday afternoon from 2 o'clock to receive invitations for a leap year party. The event continues Monday night at the Woman's club house. The United States produced 9,181 barrels of cement in 1912.
Spokane resident Decyf-Wilians Stoehr of Hohe Idaho filed a suit in federal court seeking to restrain Attorney General Tanner of Washington from interfering with Inland Brewing and Malting Company. The petition urges direct legislation and a constitutional amendment to the state law. No court action was taken on the petition.
In Hinston Texas on December 31 John Mayfield, a farmer, is accused of murdering his father W. Mayfield, his mother, and his older brother with an axe at their home. The crime was discovered by W. J. Mayneld later that day, leading to Mayfield being arrested on a murder warrant. Local authorities report the family may have had a prior quarrel.
A Paris report by Dr Guepin describes a soldier wounded by a shell explosion who lost the rear third of the left brain but retained intellect, sensation, and motor function. The case challenges assumptions about brain regions and functional loss after head injury.
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