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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1908
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard prints daily and Sunday subscription terms with monthly and yearly rates for advance payments. Advertises Main Office in Standard Block and dedicated editorial and business office telephone numbers.
The Standard lists branch offices in Butte, Micoula, and major cities with manager J Morton in charge of foreign advertising. It provides multiple sale locations across New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Pasadena Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and more. All general correspondence should be addressed to Anaconda Montana.
The treasury secretary’s year end 1907 statement shows interest bearing debt of $898,210,050, including Panama bonds. Cash balance around $270,000,000 plus non interest bearing treasury notes about $350,000,000 leaves net debt well under the bonded debt of New York City.
A New York lawyer William Nelson Cromwell dominated the Panama canal preliminaries representing the French company. He billed 724,165 dollars but the French offered 125,060 in settlement. Senator John T. Morgan relentlessly opposed the Panama project, and Cromwell faced ongoing pressure from Morgan.
The Boston Globe estimates world population rose from 640 million to 1.6 billion in a little over a century, an increase of 150 percent. Researchers note figures are approximate yet useful for comparison, with 1800 world trade around 1.5 billion dollars and 1900 exceeding 20 billion.
The article notes earlier debates on Earth’s overcrowding and catastrophe, asserting vast room overall yet acknowledging severe congestion in China and India. It reflects on population density challenges without detailing specific events or dates.
The piece notes Speaker Cannon avoids declaring candidacy, focusing on public business between power and the Chicago convention. It contrasts rival contenders Hughes Taft Fairbanks Knox Foraker, all in office and seeking delegates, while The Washington Star argues Cannon’s service strengthens his presidential boom.
The administration backs Taft with White House and cabinet support. Garfield in Ohio, Hitchcock active in the Taft campaign in the West and South, Bristow aiding Taft, Wilson’s faction warms to Taft, Root omitted from endorsement. State Department silent on Taft. If the coterie has its say, Taft secures the nomination.
A German scientist reports sunshine helps destroy tuberculosis and typhoid bacilli. A New York practitioner adds sun baths and rest as key cures for grippe, suggesting West Indies trips and hot whiskey in bed, plus caution on lingering risk and prudent aftercare. Chicago health rules advise avoiding cold rooms, overheating, and poor ventilation while staying in contact with a physician.
A note states Samuel Fessenden died in Stamford Connecticut last week. A longtime Connecticut legislator and power in state politics he helped back Thomas B Reed for president in 1896 alongside Maine’s Joseph H Manley. The piece highlights his fame from a single phrase.
Mark Hanna led Kinley boom while Manley abandoned Reed. Fessenden confronted Manley with the fist and declared God Almighty hates a quitter. The remark, uttered in wrath, becomes a lasting political quotable about quitters, as Fessenden himself never quit pursuing the Senate.
The report recalls Boni Castellane and Prince Sagan in a brutal public encounter outside a church as a memorial service ended. Boni’s brother intervened and a possible duel loomed while commentators mocked the combatants and weighed the affair against broader political chatter.
A telegram from Mexico City reports the El Oro mining camp in Mexico is being destroyed by fire. Principal hotels and major business buildings are already ashes and the town is said to be under threat. No further details or communication has been received from El Oro.
Police Patrolman Fred E. McLellan is stripped of badge by Chief Walter Wynne amid graft allegations involving a colored man and his wife. Details are scarce as investigations span three days. McLellan denied soliciting money but is named among officers accused. Additional uniformed officers face scrutiny over $10 payments from women in the restricted district.
The text extols Golden Medical Discovery as a potent alterative and tonic with mucous-membrane healing effects across nasal passages throat bronchial tubes stomach and bowels aiding catarrah and related disorders while Favorite Prescription is praised as a strong toning nervine for overworked women improving strength regulating feminine functions and reducing pain. Both are claimed non-alcoholic and free of habit forming drugs, with formula details provided in bottle literature. The ad urges buyers not to substitute secret nostrums and notes Pierce’s Petters as a candy-like stomach and bowel regulator.
Special to the Standard Dillon January 183. Fred Baker faces a first degree murder charge for shooting Ed A Lawrence at the Baker home on Kentucky avenue. Ed, who planned to wed Nora Baker, died four hours later after the New Year’s Day confrontation. Albert Lawrence, a key witness, gave a shifting narrative under cross examination by Lieut. Gov. Edwin Norris. Jurors heard coroner testimony on the fatal wound and described chaotic testimony from witnesses who described the volatile wedding day confrontation.
Samuel V. Proudfit of Iowa, the first attorney in the interior department's attorney general office, has been appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office in Washington on January 13.
Franklinville New York January 13 The People's National Bank of this city was placed in the hands of the bank examiner today No statement of assets and liabilities is made
In Washington on January 13 committee discussions centered on treasury bond issues. Senator Tillman pressed questions about bond sales to banks at relief prices, noting citizens bid higher but were denied. Correspondence from George Kloeber and a Augusta source highlighted bank dealings and currency flows soaking the stringency, with Tillman awaiting Secretary Cortelyou’s forthcoming report.
In United States district court the injunction sought by the mine owners against the Goldfield miners union was postponed to tomorrow as criminal cases dominated the docket. Postmaster Atwell pleaded guilty to embezzling 5000 dollars from the Searchlight post office and will be sentenced tomorrow after claiming innocence until jury selection began. Witnesses from Searchlight and government inspectors testified.
Union members and friends press for clemency for Joe Shannon William Cutts and A E Edwards after their jail terms for defying a federal injunction. Miners meet to discuss pardons and plan to appeal to the president. carpenters join in support citing family ties and steady records.
Helena Jan 13 Frank Stephens of Fergus county has completed a sale of W D Corbyn cattle holdings in Valley county. Forty thousand head were sold at twenty five dollars each making it one of the largest deals in the state's history.
New York Jan. 13 A resolution allowing trust companies to join the New York Clearing House association at 25 percent basis was unanimously adopted at the meeting.
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