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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1903
Page
13
A Philippine report advocates adopting an increase in the gold standard. The document outlines potential benefits and implications for monetary policy and trade, signaling cautious optimism about stabilizing the currency and restoring market confidence.
The Philippine commission and Gov. Taft report the 1902 year’s work in the islands. They detail governance, rice and water buffalo losses, ladronism risks, and economic pressures. Imports near 41 million dollars, exports 27 million. currency fluctuations cited. calls for postal savings banks and tax measures.
Montana voters will see a profile of men poised to shape state legislation. The piece highlights backgrounds, adviser networks, and political ambitions guiding potential lawmakers through upcoming sessions. Strong emphasis on individuals and their likely policy priorities and influence.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Helena reports the Montana legislature will include eight native sons. It notes religious diversity with many reporting no religious preference, lists affiliations such as Catholics Episcopalians Methodists and Presbyterians, and identifies occupations from mining to lawyers. Three lawyers Ward Helena Stapleton Butte Self Missoula, with Self the sole Republican among them, possibly chairing the Judiciary committee. House members show 54 married and 14 single.
Helena reports reveal a polarized start as Senate members list includes 33 Masons and many lodges while the oldest is Don Kohrs born 1833 and the youngest A W Mahon. Republican and Democrat factions clash over leadership as caucuses nominate speakers and officers, with labor representatives planning caucuses amid party divisions.
An ad style claim promotes curing a cold in one day by taking Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. The fragment references a product line with generic notes and no verifiable proof or sources.
A Pathan band attempted a daylight assault on Friday to rob the jewel room of the Arts exhibition where gems worth 1,250,000 dollars were kept. Police and jewelers intervened, foil ing the attack, making entrance more difficult henceforth.
A relative of former Guatemala minister Godfrey Hunter receives a letter from Sam Castleman now in Guatemala. It says Hunter Jr. was warned against leaving the country before the murder of W H Fitzgerald. Castleman cites 36 witnesses at the Guatemalan inquiry alleging a six man conspiracy. He claims the killers acted in self defense and notes threats against Secretary Bailey by the conspirators.
New York January 4 At Coney Island hundreds witnessed the execution by electricity of Topsy an elephant who killed three men and had become unmanageable. After 200 grains of cyanide were administered a 6600 volt current passed through copper plates. The elephant collapsed instantly and died within ten seconds once the current stopped though autopsy showed poison had not yet taken effect.
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