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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
13
Convicted prisoners at Kan Quentin penitentiary enjoyed a home grown stage show featuring colored costumes, songs, jokes, and local acts staged by inmates. The program, arranged and printed by the convicts, highlighted public life figures before conviction and included rare motion pictures as a treat.
Novice, January 1 report describes a downtown streetcar collision during celebrations. Mrs. E K Hallet died beneath the forward trucks after firemen freed her. her husband and child survived. Samuel Michaels and others were injured as two taxicabs were reduced to wreckage in the crash.
Special Dispatch reports Hunter's Springs hotel, a major Northwest health and pleasure resort, will close March 11 if Northern Pacific Rail Road does not build a Springdale station. Murray, owner, plans to end the lease and abandon the place unless a depot is erected, with hotel improvements and mineral water piping proposed.
The column discusses colonial Africa, trading practices, and peanut value. It notes traders paying a negro a bushel for seal, with four bushels to return from crop. It cites a twentyfold field yield and large shipments, about 28,009 tons in a year, and argues authorities should honor peanuts as a civilizing aid guiding natives toward wart culture.
Helena January 1 The Montana state and the department of agriculture signed a compact exchanging timber lands for national forest lands under act 48 402 The agreement involved the governor Norris and attorney general Galen The deal valued at 9060 00 and forwarded through Missoula officials The exchange aimed to relinquish forest lands and allow selection of agricultural lands by the state as valued similarly to other lands
Noted jurist and lecturer George Th Alden will speak Friday on a vex problem in a deep study session. His career grew from cautious advice to a successful, distinct lecture, promising a talk that departs from the usual manner.
A local store announces a broad overcoat sale starting Thursday morning with prices listed as 95 60 843 or 350 coats at 25 each. Separate military dispatch notes The fist battalion of the Twenty Atth infantry relocates from Montana to Fort Lawton and Fort Tant on a transport to Honolulu with command changes.
The McDonald Shoe company is praised for standing behind its printed promise with well priced, well fitting shoes for boys and girls. Mothers can trust purchases as if present, with sales emphasizing accurate fit and growing tastes. A call to get acquainted notes the store's attentive service.
A Mining and Scientific Press note discusses leaching chryacolia in granite at Hut te, noting it is not soluble in usual sulphuric acid leaching strength. It lists impurities in the gangue that may foul solutions and hinder progress, and reviews whether dilution and new electrotype methods can profitably handle the dilute acids despite challenges.
The Raven Mining Company pursues deeper development while continuing shipments from the PES area. Exploratory work yields copper bearing pieces with pyrite and bornite. Arrangements are under consideration to fire the shaft and advance the project soon.
Washington June 1. Montana was the second largest copper producer in the United States in 1912, according to a preliminary U.S. Geological Survey estimate. Arizona led the list, with Montana’s output expected to approach 10,000,000 pounds, up from about 7,000,000 pounds in 1911.
Rebels attack a power line near Mexico City causing a citywide outage and streetcar stoppage for hours. Transmission was severed from River Necaxia to the capital, with partial service restored later. Thibodeau Little, 18, died. remains at Walsh's parlors. funeral notice to follow.
The Crystal Graphite Company near Dillon in Montana operated the sole graphite property in the state in 1911. Reported by Edson and Rastin, the mine sits nine miles southeast of Dillon at Crown Point in the Ruby range, with veins showing up to four inches of graphite and a main vein with several inches of high grade graphite. The geology includes limestone and quartzite with pegmatite intrusions, faulting and postmineral movements affecting vein exposure.
The report details a two foot wide irregular graphite vein in Montana, bounded by Sharp-walled schist. It compares this deposit to Ceylon graphite noting lower luster, iron oxide films, and softer texture. No near term commercial promise found, though scalable mining could enable crucible use.
Special Dispatch from Tewistown reports a sensational divorce suit filed by Tim Tonger against Virginia Yours. The couple, long residents of Lewistown after marrying in Mouth Wilson, Virginia, accuse her of cruelty and intent to marry another. He seeks the transfer of two properties back to him and accuses her of consorting and pressuring for a settlement. Also noted, Ollie Shelton, colored, escaped from Whitefish jail after federal charges of bringing a colored woman into Montana for immoral purposes.
A New Year’s Day fire in downtown Kansas City damaged buildings at Ninth and Delaware streets with losses estimated at 250000 dollars. Fire crews battled the blaze for hours as the flames threatened the core of the district.
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