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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1902
Page
11
Graduating high school seniors delivered orations in the assembly room with plans to repeat them at commencement. The speeches pondered the assassinations of Lincoln Garfield and McKinley and urged stronger laws and immigration screening to curb anarchist influence.
The Portage cut-off of the Montana Central railway is complete and the old Great Falls to Floweree line to be abandoned. Inauguration of service on the new line is likely next Monday. Hard rock and water in Black Eagle Falls required 50 foot piles and large stone embankments. A proposed 86 foot step bridge is awaited as steel has not arrived. Nebraska education leads in literacy per 1900 census figures prepared for the Burlington Nebraska book.
The report notes ongoing revisions to rates since the last session and questions the impact of lower merchandise rates in Minnesota and North Dakota on overall tariffs. It emphasizes a debate over which adjustments will influence through tariffs the most.
Vice President and General Manager W H Bancroft of the Oregon Short Line returns from New York with information not released yet but denies selling the Salt Lake to Calientes segment to the San Pedro. He plans large expenditures on extensions and roadbed, including toward California, with possible Mackay branch extension toward Thundermountain. Formal announcements are expected later and insurance agent Francis M Street of Union Casualty and Surety Co is listed.
In a Madison county court yesterday afternoon Judge Ando May heard a case and apologized to attorneys and litigants for the delay. He revealed he had just married Lorenzo Doline, 39, Italian native now of Bilver Star, Madison county, and Mae Kingsberry, 19, Montana native born in Sheridan, now of Silver Star. Yesterday was a good day for marriage.
Licenses were issued to Frank Paires and Net tie Hanson of Pony James Albert Miles of Missoula and Mrs Prissilla Henderson of Butte James H Wysong of Jardine Park county and Maggie Finnelly of Butte A license was also issued to linton A Sloan and Lillian F Rogers of Butte.
News from Putte reports the death of Ruth Taylor the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs R F Taylor of this city from diphtheria in Los Angeles She was ten months old Friends here extend heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved couple.
The Butte Teamsters union passes a resolution declaring eight hours a day as of May 1 with pay of 33 dollars per man and overtime at 44 cents per hour. The note also mentions moved business details and local ads for pianos organs and railway tickets at Butte area offices.
The demurrer to the complaint in the Blockley versus Higgins case was filed in the United States court yesterday. The reason for the demurrer has been published in the Standard.
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