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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
1
A tense session tightens on patrols against peddlers as the legislature moves to fund member pay and staff. The House reports favorably and the measure passes, with Senate consideration continuing. A separate bill proposes boosting the secretary of the bureau of child and animal protection salary and deputies.
Section 32 of chapter 4 in the code of civil procedure amended to centralize the First judicial district. Various bills referred to committees on roads highways and counties towns and corporations. Measures include penalties for obstruction of highways, public records actions, cattle inspection, and railway worker hours. Amendments limit reading of appropriations, appoint election officials, and favor several reports for judicial districts and unit expansion. Elected clerks named. new bills introduced on railway hours and livestock indemnity.
A plan to carve a new county from Carnot County advances from Bridger and Gridger leaders. The group seeks a north south division with a Bear Creek delegation heading to Helena to lobby lawmakers. Officers include a Bridger backed sheriff candidate if taxable property falls short of two million dollars.
In San Francisco on January 17 at Oakman field, Nilironex-Rilelgy won the feature with College Widow in second and Hester Swot third. Multiple races followed including a 2:01 mile for seven furlongs, a 1:05.15 time for a two-furlong dash, and a 1:04 1-3 for five furlongs. In New Orleans the Futurity course opened with Derdoin winning, Livius second, Otto Price third, with additional results across six races setting up a busy card.
Billings high schools Boxe man and Gillings vie in a special dispatch from Jan 17 noting preparations for a girls game on Jan 26. Last year Billings won the Northwest title, but this year the team has not played a match yet.
The Portland magnet notes Seattle hopes to rejoin the Coast or Northwestern leagues as talks pivot on salaries and franchise viability. Discussions include a possible return to the old California league, with Coast league finances and a Seattle bid under scrutiny as leaders plan early meetings with directors and Spokane prospects.
Aldorado Kansas January report states the dead body of schoolteacher Silea Mary Glass is found near here with throat cut. Robert Ifell, who was wounded, told police they argued at the schoolhouse last night and he was unable to speak due to blood loss as investigators note signs of a struggle at the schoolhouse.
A Helena report outlines a governor appointed three member police commission to control the city police. Members must be residents, citizens, and serve five years with a 600 dollar salary. The commission can hire officers, set rules, appoint special and emergency staff, and direct police spending, with strict political and conduct restrictions for officers.
The Buenos Aires chamber adopted a customs article to abolish duties on pend Wels of Paraguay and Brazil including coffee and to useen. It also approved an article adding a 2 percent ad valorem duty on goods valued over 10 percent.
President Roosevelt will ask Congress to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to address car shortages amid a national emergency. A preliminary report from demurrage representatives urges federal action, including reciprocal demurrage and car interchange to meet extraordinary railway demand.
Rosebud county residents oppose a proposed judicial district reorganization that would join Rosebud with Yellowstone and Carbon. They fear longer distances to court and increased litigation, and may send a committee to the legislature to protest the bill.
Special Dispatch from Dilton reports heavy snow hindered two traction trains between Polorte and Armstead delaying ore movement to the new Polaris smelter. Meantime, school work at the state normal college suffers from cold, dormitories froze, and the electric plant shut down due to canal freezing and coal shortages. Articles note a new Phoenix company incorporation and local quarantines amid ongoing county issues.
A fragmentary exchange mentions cigarette use with unclear context. The quotation pairs imply a conflict over smoking behavior. The text references an unclear person or group and a place in Houston, yielding limited verifiable details. The item reads as a brief overheard dialogue fragment.
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