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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1917
Page
1
A bill introduced in the House and Senate seeks to consolidate several agencies and streamline operations. The measure aims to reduce duplication, cut costs, and improve coordination across departments. No further details on sponsors or specific agencies are provided.
Staff Correspondence from Helena reports Senator O'Shea of Carbon proposes merging boiler inspectors, mine and coal mine inspectors under the Industrial Accident Board with four year terms and specific salaries. A separate bill would tax mining profits, fund schools, and require annual profit statements. penalties apply for nonpayment. A resolution seeks to gauge valuation of mining and utility properties, with legislative debate on adding other property classes.
An array of brief items reports a guilty verdict for a German surround, ongoing suffrage pickets at the White House, war notes, strikes, and local incidents. Other items cover Helena lobbying, Anaconda reports, Y M C A site bids, and detective captures a robber amid a broad state news roundup.
Philadelphia January 10 police maintain Bernard W Lewis of Pittsburgh killed model Marzie Colbert in her apartment on December 29. They cite acquaintance for over a year and a shirt necktie linkage, noting Lewis died by his own hand in Atlantic City days after the body was found. Motive given as a money dispute amid dire finances.
In Greeley Colorado Everett Crozier a farmer returned home to find his wife unconscious and his five children shot dead in the house. The note on a table and a claim by Mrs Water of infidelity marked the tragic scene as Crozier faced questions from deputy sheriffs and neighbors. The baby was found in a crack, and the mother died soon after.
In Denver on January 10 the Colorado Metal association in its annual session urged that the smelting industry be placed under state public utilities commission supervision by legislative action. The committee reported that current ore smelting charges are exorbitant and need regulatory oversight.
London reports that Greece has accepted the terms of the Entente ultimatum. The Athens correspondent states the reply was delivered Wednesday evening. Reuters dispatch notes the decision concludes negotiations with the Allies amid the ongoing crisis in the region.
Four rooms in a downtown Toledo hotel housing strike breaking linemen from the Ohio State Telephone company were wrecked by a bomb. A dozen guests were knocked down. C. C. Conners of Cleveland, a marine engineer, was uninjured. Doors and windows shattered. water pipes broken. city police investigate the two month old strike.
William F. Wolfe United States federal district attorney for the western district of Wisconsin collapsed two hours after fainting during a harmony dinner of Democrats at the opening of the state legislature in Madison and died in a local hotel. Wolfe, a U S Senate candidate against Robert M. La Follette, had recently recovered from appendicitis and had been appointed by President Wilson to the district attorney post after John A. Aylward's death.
New York January reports the whereabouts of Harry K Thaw remain unknown as detectives search for him after an indictment on kidnaping and assault charges involving Fred Gump Jr. Brower and O Byrnes are linked to the case with documents found. O Byrnes disappeared while Brower provided key evidence before the grand jury. Page column.
Col William Frederick Cody known as Buffalo Bill died at 12 05 p m today at his sister s home in Denver Colorado will receive the body into the state capitol for four hours Sunday funeral services are set for Sunday at the Elks home with the body to be placed in a receiving vault until burial likely on Decoration Day at Lookout Mountain near Denver Masons to oversee interment with Grand Army Pioneer Society Cowboy Rangers and Denver Elks involved in funeral arrangements a final monument is contemplated for his mountain tomb
Amid partisan divisions a subcommittee files a contempt complaint against W Lawson for refusing to answer questions. After a two hour executive session the House Rules Committee adjourns without final action on Representative Wood's resolution to investigate rumors of a leak ahead of President Wilsons peace note. Democratic members are split on abandoning the affair.
A sub committee was appointed to draft contempt bars against Thomas W. Lawson amid a bid to broaden the inquiry. The stalled resolution, offered by Representative Campbell of Kansas, seeks to widen the probe to cover names Lawson refused to reveal, tied to rumors of officials involved in a money system.
German Consul General Bopp and four attaches were found guilty by a U S district court jury of conspiring to undermine the Allied war effort by targeting munition plants, railroads, and ships. The case, linked to 1915 16 indictments, ended with a mixed verdict and pending motions as the court set bonds and scheduled further action.
Twelve women with suffrage banners stood at the main gates of the White House in a silent picket led by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. They wore yellow, purple, and white, and faced no interference as they began a daylong vigil to press President Wilson for a federal amendment.
London reports Premier Briand delivered the entente reply to President Wilson’s peace note to Ambassador Sharp in Paris. Washington confirms official word that the reply to discuss terms has been handed to Sharp but details were not disclosed and public release awaits Wilson’s receipt and review.
Springfield reports a pressman unloaded four wooden boxes totaling well over 1000 pounds at the state Capitol and left them at the executive mansion containing applications to Governor Lowden for jobs from Chicago. In Arkansas, Charles Tilman Trough, former economics instructor at the state university and former Woode Tow pupil, was inaugurated governor of Arkansas.
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