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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
9
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard in Butte lists advertising rates on application. Located at 2h Fuat Broadway, with telephone 42 Independent 1,422.
The optical parlor provides a full plant for cutting printing and drilling lenses. They replace broken lenses the same day the order is placed and fill any optician's prescription. They repair and adjust frames.
Recount of visitors and residents in Butte and nearby towns includes Orson Bre dann i renting pianos from Ball of Minneapolis, Gordon of Great Falls in Welt, PB Hughes crossing from Crom Am inion, E. Freeman from Missoula, Jean Sperry from Anaconda, Lydia Wenger from Anaconda visiting Bulle. Birth notices mention Alfred Rogers 84 Ma Bol Born and a son for Mr and Mrs Vance L. Butler. James Burlow travels to Cane night for Sever at Born. Various locals like Ray Holloway of Helena and N. Chine of Anaconda appear in town, with Miss Mud Mosher visiting Jefferson schools and Miss Geneva Smith visiting from Los Angeles.
Adverse report from Yellowstone Superintendent Young on extending the Gallatin valley route to Mammoth Hot Springs. The executive document to Speaker Cannon notes a $1,000 appropriation last year, while Young calculates proper construction would cost at least $100,000, making the project impractical.
Fragmentary text mentions Balt Lake, Truth, Lala citys region, and individuals like Mr. Hugues. Details are corrupted, with names, dates, roles, and affiliations unreadable, making exact events or actions impossible to determine from the readable fragments.
City council debates annexing southern territory to increase tax base and adjust ward boundaries. Proposals include adding land south of the city into the Seventh or Eighth ward, with protests from residents and talk of a potential political impact for party balance. Related items cover street signs, street improvements, water contracts, and bids for a steam fire engine.
An elderly man named Cole White was arrested in New York after writing threatening notes to Justice Dowling about the Thaw case. He was sent to Belle Vue hospital psychiatric ward for observation, with ink traces from his handwriting on the papers. The notes mocked the trial and included requests for a card of admission to the trial.
Tigverstown Pa January lists 117 dead from a theater fire. Coroner Strasser reports one firefighter died during the blaze and another man died later from injuries. Charred remains recovered as relatives identify the victims.
In Frankfort Kentucky the deadlock remains with Beckham leading at 68 votes Bradley 4 and six scattering. Senator Wheeler Campbell of Paducah spoke urging party unity and criticizing Beckham as serving himself first amid alleged misguidance and bad advice.
A joint conference of Nevada Senate and Assembly committees framed a joint resolution to be introduced to the Senate asking the president to retain federal troops in Goldfield until the state can provide a police force or other means to preserve order in the camp.
In Washington on January 5 Senator Gore introduced a bill to end the interstate status of shipments of Aquor upon arrival in a state where consigned and to subject the shipment to that state’s decal laws from that point forward.
National crime tale recounts the theft of the First Baptist Church bell valued at about $100. Deputized officers arrest Dan Lacey and George Bray at a Meaderville home, after a night stakeout. The bell, weighing around 100 to 200 pounds, was taken from the old belfry during church preparations for a new edifice.
A broken church bell was sold to a junk dealer who notified police. Deputy Baldesira traced two men, Dacey and Tray, from Meaderville to Butte and finally West Alurabium Street, where they were arrested last night. The junk dealer will identify them in jail today. The Baptist Church trustees may prosecute.
A large gathering of women joined a charity dance event organized by the Women’s Union. The evening featured performances and raised funds amid a busy street scene with many attendees leaving town afterward.
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