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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1901
Page
8
President withdraws the plan to move negotiations of indemnity and commercial treaties away from Pekin to speed up a broader settlement. Conger is urged to press for immediate completion at Pekin while powers are urged to avoid delay. The move reflects mixed reactions among negotiating powers.
Officials report unity of action impossible as one power withholds acceptance, blocking removal of two subjects from Pekin. President and Secretary Hay followed Minister Conger’s suggestion to break the deadlock and move toward settlement. No indication which powers opposed the plan, and Conger awaits further instructions after day’s end.
A Pekin report says 85,000 Chinese troops drill in Sian fu with modern rifles. Anti foreign sentiment grows as locals believe they can defeat allies in open fight. Ministers react to a Russia concession north of the Pesho and Manchuria annexation. Li Hung Chang foresees a favorable reply on a new agreement. Corogan predicts talks may start in Pekin and end in Europe. De Giers expects Hague negotiations.
Shanghai reports Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang have telegraphed the new Chili province treasurer Chung Yu Shan to hurry to Pekin to assist in negotiations.
Olympia January 10. The seventh state legislature begins without a U.S. senator contest and heats up over the house speakership. Five candidates are listed R B Albertson J H Easterday Harry Rosenhaupt J Falkner and W H Copeland with alliances forming among King Pierce Thurston and Eastern Washington strongholds. Most lawmakers arrive tomorrow to start campaigning in earnest.
Randolph Laughlin, attorney for the St. Louis board of election commissioners, seeks an injunction against Hoerton and Butler in the Twelfth Missouri district contest to compel ballot production and define duties. A temporary writ requires defendants to show cause Saturday. James Butler is the elected congressman. Horton contests the result.
In Inattet Cincinnati on January 1 Judge Davis instructs the grand jury to indict anyone involved in prize fights in Hamilton county whether as principal second or promoter or aider. No action can occur until a prize fight actually takes place.
Vancouver police report two unknown men believed to be Pinkerton detectives in the city over the past two days. They aim to arrest Pat Crowe, accused abductor from Omaha, with Crowe said to plan to sail for Australia on the Miowera the next day.
Rear Admiral Thomas Phelps, retired, of Washington DC, died in a New York hospital from pneumonia. He had been brought in from a hotel just yesterday while visiting Mrs. Phelps who remains ill at the same hospital.
Jefferson City Missouri Governor Stephens appointed Joseph P Rice of Moberly a locomotive engineer for the Wabash railroad as receiver and warehouse commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by J P Herringtons death The appointment was announced today and names Rice with his home and occupation identified in this state government notice.
A Puerto Real dispatch reports Admiral Cervera in Cadiz near Cadiz whose condition has worsened and his recovery appears nearly hopeless as of January 10.
In a study Horace Mann faced an impulsive intruder who insulted him and demanded a fight. Mann declined, noting his name and nature give him two odds against one, while the assailant pressed for conflict, boasting of being a man beside himself and four to one.
Two young men armed with pistols robbed J. E. Hample's butcher shop at 427 Arizona Street shortly before 7 PM. Patrolman Mc Connell confronted them. they escaped through a back door into an alley. Three bystanders were arrested on suspicion and locked up.
The Power 10 discusses if one tariff rate must apply in states and territories. Attorney General Griggs asserts constitutional adherence. Justice White probes free ports and territorial distribution. Justice Harlan questions trade prohibitions between islands and states as AG claims Congress holds absolute power. Griggs not finished. session adjourns with Cartiele to follow.
London dispatches report The Times editorial sees attrition at work in South Africa while others note Cape Town may need fortifications. Lord Kitchener delays reinforcements and a small Boer party seizes cattle near Pretoria as nine hundred Boers approach Richmond. Dynamics in Porterville and warnings of dynamite mines recall ongoing tensions.
From General Kitchener dispatches dated Pretoria January 7 night, Boers launched simultaneous assaults on Helfast Wonderfontein Noritgedacht and Wildfontein aided by dense fog. One officer killed, three wounded, plus two enlisted men killed and nine wounded. Boers suffered heavy losses with 24 dead. A Gordon's brigade supply convoy north of Krugersdorf was also attacked. four soldiers slightly injured. London reports five thousand Boers trekking west toward Cape Colony, with several small garrisons captured.
Both houses passed a memorial to Congress urging rejection of any measures leasing public ranges. The measure cleared the Legislature unanimously. John Barrett of Bear Lake County was named by the governor for a position.
The nomination for commissioner of immigration, labor and statistics was referred to the judiciary committee for examination and action.
A Washington Star breakfast scene features a doctor, a professor, and a judge debating spirituality and intellect while a tired hostess quietly serves coffee and strawberries. One line suggests women are the power behind man’s associations, despite being worn down by daily chores.
Uncle Phineas narrates a comic Christmas tale about a drunken man waking to 38 identical slippers. The man suspects a scheme or forgets a church pastorship and decides to wrap each slipper as a gift to patent medicine advertisers. The story ends with good night to Horace and a string of hiccups.
A Kingston asylum patient believes he is a poached egg and for 20 years has hunted a piece of toast big enough to sit on. He asks visitors for private chats and whispers his hunger. Despite harmlessness, the delusion keeps him confined with no relief in sight.
Canadian exports to Great Britain rise sharply with butter, cheese, bacon, hams, mutton, pork, apples, oats, peas, wheat, flour and potatoes more than doubling since 1896.
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