Butte Considers Crematory to Cure City Garbage
The City Health Department urges a crematory to combat a growing 60 acre dump on the flats that fouls the air with noxious gases. Dr. Leggat warns of health danger and backs the Minneapolis De-carie incinerator now being tested with two 5 ton units to handle 76 tons daily.
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Health Department
Rome
Nero
Leggat
Butte
F. H. George
F. L. Deecarie
Minneapolis
Incinerator designs differ in heat and gas loss
Describes brick crematories wasting heat through cracks while a boiler plate Decarie incinerator burns most materials, leaving only fine ashes removed from below.
For Defending His Wife
In Chicago a man is sought after a likely fatal stabbing of Arthur Kennedy following a blow he gave to defend Mrs. Kennedy. Kennedy is in critical condition at a hospital after being stabbed in the back and abdomen near an elevated station during a confrontation with four well dressed youths. Miss Effie Schemer provided a description of the suspects.
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Chicago
Arthur Kennedy
Kennedy
Pursuit for Oklahoma Highwaymen Called Off
Guthrie Oklahoma January 20 pursuit of the highwaymen who killed the Ana darko officers has been abandoned. The murderers escaped the trail was lost and it was considered useless to prolong the search at this time. One of the highwaymen is known to be seriously injured.
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Guthrie, Okla
Salt Lake Man Sentenced for Sheriff Killing in Utah
G W Long, who fatally shot Sheriff W H Clark last November, mistaking him for blackmailer Sorenson, was sentenced today to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Long had served a 1896 term for manslaughter in Salina.
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Salt Lake City
Deseret News
Richfield
Utah
G. W. Long
W. H. Clark
Sorenson
Long
Salina
Reduction in War Tax Abolition Of Some Duties Proposed
A proposal seeks to abolish or reduce certain wartime taxes. Officials suggest scaling back duties to ease fiscal strain while maintaining essential revenues. Economic planners and lawmakers debate which tariffs to cut and where to preserve balance.
Tea and Beer Hearings Set by Ways and Means Panel
The Ways and Means Committee plans a Monday hearing on January 21 to consider tea duty and the war revenue tax on beer. Beer interests seek a 60 cent cut, aiming to revert to pre Spanish War levels, with total revenue reductions around 24 million dollars for beer and about 8 million for tea.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
Funeral halted by fire at Hum boldt church
Fire broke through the floor under a casket during Rev J M Hobbs funeral at the United Brethren church near Humboldt Indiana. Smoke drove mourners to windows as a bucket brigade fought flames. The corpse was rescued and the service continued at the cemetery after the fire caused by an overheated basement stove.
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Hartford City
Ind
United Brethren Church
Humboldt
J. M. Hobbs
Hoff Theater in Stuttgart Destroyed by Fire
A blaze gutted the Hoff theater in Stuttgart Württemberg on January 20 with no loss of life. The king of Württemberg and other royal family members observed the flames for hours.
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Stuttgart
Wurtemburg
Hoff Theater
Wall Caves In At Smith Field Flax Mills
A wall collapsed at the Smith field flaxmills in Belfast trapping workers including many women. Rescue teams have extricated ten bodies from the ruins as of this dispatch.
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Belfast
Smithfield
Contractor Refuses to Sign Hospital and Poorhouse Contract
D P Wortman had been awarded an $8916 interior contract for the county hospital and poorhouse but refused to sign after claiming plasterers formed a price increase. County commissioners kept his $400 deposit, readvertised bids, and set a new deadline of January 27.
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D. P. Wortman
Board of Commissioners
Wortman
Unanimously Elected to Fill Ward One Vacancy
Walkerville city council met in regular session and elected ex Alderman J R Thomas to fill the vacancy caused by Harry Stevens resignation who has moved to Rochester New York. The council approved December cash on hand and receipts while reporting high street spending and tabled sewer engineer letters. Alderman Elliott motioned to collect from Mr Zimmerman for demicine used during scarlet fever quarantine. Mr Thomas, previously ward one alderman, was unanimously elected with term to April 1903. Dennison ill in New Mexico. Poll books ordered.
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Walkerville
J. R. Thomas
Harry Stevens
Rochester
New York
Origin
Spokane
Marsland
Annear
Zimmerman
Elliott
Ecouncil
Sand Creek
J. KR. Thomas
Chapin
Thomas
Dennison
New Mexico
Barbour’s Linen Thread Price Per Spool Se
Barbour’s Linen Thread is advertised as the best made with price per spool and a sales pitch highlighting quality. The fragment mentions Se as a possible location or seller marker.
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Barbour
Higgins plaintiffs face demurrers in federal damage suit
Marshall and Stiff with J B Patterson for Frank and Arthur Higgins filed demurrers in the federal damage case in Helena and Butte. Edward Bleeckley and Theodore Booth are plaintiffs. The demurrers claim the complaint does not state a valid cause of action and is uncertain and unintelligible including vague mentions of willful beating and other wrongs without specifying particulars.
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Standard
Missoula
Marshall & Stiff
J. B. Patterson
Frank
Arthur Higgins
Helena
Butte
Edward Bleeckley
Theodore Booth
Venison-selling suspect fined in Missoula court
Allen Dodd pleaded guilty before Justice Houtchens for attempting to sell venison to restaurants. As a first offense the judge imposed the lightest sentence, a $25 fine plus costs totaling about $50.
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Missoula
Allen Dodd
Justice Houtchens
Costa
Indicted men post bond for Savannah trial
Capt. B D Greene J F William E and H W Gaynor charged with conspiracy to defraud the government appeared before United States Commissioner Shields and furnished a collective bond of 100000 for their February Savannah court date. Preparations are underway for a technical attack on the indictments.
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New York
B. D. Greene
J. F
William E
H. W. Gaynor
Carter
United States
Shields
United States Court
Savannah
McKinley Day Proclamation Issued by Governor Yates
Governor Yates designated Wednesday January 2 as McKinley Day and urged proper observances of the late president throughout the state with appropriate exercises.
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Springfield
Yates
McKinley
Pe.eee
Preasi
Hassler Named Storekeeper and Gauger in Montana
George W. Hassler of Missoula is appointed storekeeper and gauger for the Montana district.
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The
Standard
Washington
George W. Hassler
Missoula
Montana
Split for Divorce in District Court
Special Dispatch to the Stanchard, Missoula, reports Fred Riel filed for divorce from Mamie Riel in district court alleging desertion. The couple has two children and were married in Butte in 1890.
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Stanchard
Missoula
Fred Riel
Mamie Riel
Butte
The Thornton Hotel Adopts European and American Plans
The Thornton Hotel offers European plan rooms at $1.50 per day and up and American plan at $3 per day and up. The hotel boasts a fine dining table noted as the finest west of New York.
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New York
Butte Woman Credits Yellek Doctors For Cataract Cure
The portrait praises Cecelia Durman and Greenberry Miller, praising the Yellek Medical and Surgical Institute in Butte. Durman says after a month of treatment her sight returned from four years of blindness due to cataracts. Miller, once totally blind for 22 years, reports regained vision enough to recognize objects and plan to resume work as a cook. Free consultations are offered at their office.
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Butte
Cecelia Durman
Bernard Quinn
Dakota Street
Yellek Medical and Surgical Institute
Greenberry Miller
North Carolina
W. C. Leetch
West
Mercury Street
Mercury Street. Mr. Miller
Yellek
Ta Mormon Church
Istoke Remedy Co
dan _panesees
Newton Bros
Nortain St. Butte
Ment Y Drug Company
Anaconda
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Ss City
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John Gund Brewing CO
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Chas. W. French
Anaconda, Mont
Riley-Dwyer Liquor Co
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Wholesaie Dealers
Plas
Tering
Lewis
Lewis Furs
C. K. Lewis & Co
Krimmer
Eton
Alaska
Rice
Sia
Ise
Angers
Roy
Demur
Brophy
Gordon
Dilworth
Tangier
P. J. BROPHY @ CO
Chesapeake Bay
N. Main Street
Gaynors
Thornton Hotel
EL Butte, Mont
Tonkin
California
Congress
East Park Street
Yeller Doctors
West Broadway
Butte, Montana
Carl Engel
Wehi
Armory
West Park Street
Silver Bow Foundry and Machine Company
County Road
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