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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
7
Local society notes list visitors from Anaconda Helena Livingston and Butte, plus arrivals from Pony, Philipsburg, Sheridan and Lewistown. Entries include piano tuners from Montana Music Co, a watchmaker ads, births, legal actions, arrests, shop openings, and racehorse stock offers. Community events include a church prayer meeting and a public address on force and matter.
The piece notes a Montana mining dispute with Heinze's Boston paper joking about water filling the Anaconda mine to quench an eight year fire. Officials may appoint a receiver as courts consider orders. The fire endangers workers and could trigger a volcanic eruption if water enters upper levels.
European plan priced at $1.50 per day and up, American plan from $3 per day and up. Describes finest table west of New York and standard accommodations offered.
The National Association of Woolmen re elected President H Harding Treasurer Benjamin Phipps and Secretary S N D North along with other officers. Resolutions oppose the Grosvenor pure wool bill arguing it would put textile mill regions under federal police control and seek a hearing before the Ways and Means Committee. They also back a merchandise marks act to criminalize selling woolen goods under false names within constitutional limits.
In Negaunee Michigan a mine cave in traps nine miners. Rescue teams fight quicksand and water with extra pumps but hope fades for survivors as officials confirm nine men are inside the mine and list the deceased including William Williams John Sullivan Joan Pearce John Pasco and others.
The Chronicle correspondent from Rome reports an upcoming papal bull to reorganize the Catholic church and religious orders in the Philippine islands. He says the Vatican has reached an understanding with the Washington cabinet on the matter.
Colonial Secretary Mr Chamberlain, presiding over the Birmingham University governors meeting, earnestly urged a British millionaire to relieve the university of financial difficulty and leave a lasting name, similar to Andrew Carnegie.
The Ways and Means Committee fixed January 15 as the hearing start date on Cuban reciprocity with a prevailing view that hearings should not extend beyond February 15.
Prankfort Kentucky January 8 Judge Cantrill overruled the motion for a continuance in the case of Jim Howard charged with complicity in the Goebel murder. The work of securing a jury will be begun tomorrow.
The National Tidend dispatches a Copenhagen correspondent to the Danish West Indies to stir opposition to a proposed sale to the United States.
Delegate Robert W. Wilcox of Hawaii is seriously ill at his Washington apartments with a stomach ailment.
San Francisco report notes Hulls and Boilers inspectors Bolles and Bulger fixed 30 o clock tomorrow morning as the opening time for the proceeding, with officials awaiting the start.
Edwin Goodall stated there was no further word from the missing aboard the Walla Walla. A photograph identified by Third Engineer Brown and Fireman McCallum confirms that George L. Field, a commercial traveler from the city, was one of the unknown men drowned when lifeboat No 7 capsized.
Angey Abernathy near Chapel Hill church reports a visiting spirit to his farm home in Huntington. A little girl says the spirit spoke only to her promising $2000 buried three feet under the kitchen floor and to dig for it. The family fears the haunting may be tied to a Civil War era ghost named Bill Ross.
F X Beaudet reports from the Klondike that nine solid silver nails from a claim on Hucker Creek resemble modern nails but are pure silver. They were found 110 feet below ground on bedrock, with machining marks and indentations. A rough iron hinge piece and mastodon bones nearby suggest great age and earlier exploitation. Bonanza Creek yields a 40 foot by 4 foot drift indicating prior mining activity.
Helena dispatch notes that a county health secretary may immediately quarantining or take necessary steps upon reliable notice of smallpox or dangerous disease without awaiting county board authority. Attorney General confirms the duty to act promptly and that commissioners must fund legitimate expenses.
Eastern Montana residents urge measures to repudiate Cree Indians amid law violations. The plan calls for towns to bar Indians from obtaining supplies to force their departure, with calls for Congress to deport them. Also a United States court jury selects in a $30,000 damage suit by Mrs. Mary Freebury against the Northern Pacific. Testimony says she was injured aboard a Cheatnut to Livingston train ride when the train jerked, throwing her against steps. corroborated by Mrs. C. E. Lockhart.
Helena mourns the death of Mrs. Hannah Silverman, longtime resident who died yesterday in Spokane. Her body will arrive tomorrow afternoon and the funeral will be held on the train’s arrival. The Silvermans moved to Helena in 1867 and lived here for years before later relocating to Chateau and then Spokane.
The Grand Street Methodist church in Helena was crowded for the funeral of Miss Clark Hamilton daughter of W H Hamilton superintendent of construction of the Capitol. Reverends B Price and J B Harper led prayers and eulogies praising the youth cut short. Interment followed at the Odd Fellows cemetery.
James Pierrie chair man of Harlan & Wolf's shipbuilding firm has been elected director of the Leyland line. He also serves as a director of the White Star line. Leyland was lately merged with Atlantic Transport. Pierrie's election and Henry Wielding's appointment as chairman of the Levian line signal possible alliances among White Star American and Atlantic Transport in shipping circles.
Seattle resident Jan L L Bailes, the first person to leave on an overland voyage to Nome from Point Barrow since the end of the Icing navigation, boarded the Alaska Commercial Company's steamer Bertha under Captain Johansen. Bailes, who has crossed Alaska and the British Yukon numerous winters in five years, said the journey over ice and snow posed no terrors.
Andrew Carnezi was today elected trustee of the New York public library to fill a vacancy. He will oversee the expenditure of $5,000,000 which he has given to the city for library buildings.
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