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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
23
Western Montana office of the Standard is located at 130 Higgins Avenue Missoula. Telephone no. 118. Advertising rates on application.
Heavy washouts due to melting snows along the Idaho division suspend eastbound service. About 25 to 30 track spots between Pasco Junction and Spokane driven by floods near Lind Washington require urgent repair. Kent’s special train with bridge crews and material aids Idaho while 50 workers move from the Pacific region and 35 from Montana head to the scene. Trains reach Spokane from the coast, bypassing the disrupted section, but overall traffic halted for the day.
Missoula reports a lively YMCA game as Altermatt's Colts defeat the regular association team 21 to 17. In senior athletic events Sam Dinsmore wins the standing broad jump, with Fen Dorman second and Hugh Forbis third. Dinsmore also takes the running high jump, while Forbis and Dorman tie for second.
Edward Brown, longtime Missoula night ticket clerk for the Northern Pacific, is named cashier at Wallace to replace A. Foster who resigned. Frank McCarthy, a noted local employee, moves to a clerk position in Silver Bow.
The University of Montana track team organized today with Roy McPhail named captain and King Carlington as manager. Training starts immediately with short cross country runs and light gym work.
Missoula report notes attorneys H. H. Parsons and H. C. Stiff departed the city this evening as part of ongoing legal proceedings.
In Hamilton the case of T.8 against the Wood Placer Mining Company goes to trial tomorrow before Judge Webster. Webster, who spent today at home, returned to Hamilton this evening.
In Missoula the state’s appeal in the Beeskove murder case against K F W BeesKove sees the respondent’s brief served on defense counsel Parsons and Murray. Prepared by Attorney General Galen and Assistant AG W H Poorman, the reply challenges each point to uphold the lower court’s decision. One hundred calling cards and plate for $1.50. Standard office, Missoula.
J H Vickery files suit in district court against John Waltman alleging cutting timber from land in Ratl esnake valley. Plaintiff seeks $1245 damages plus costs.
In Ormonde Florida on January 24, the auto tournament produced new world records for five miles. Mariott in the steamer reduced McDonald’s 3:17 to 2:47.5, with Lancia 2:54.6, Fletcher 3:02, and Clifford Earp 2:56 in gas cars. Open, middle, and heavyweight finals crowned Lancia and Earp as champions with record times.
Paris reports another scheme by the Band of the Baker thieves. They created a fake United States mining company with no mine, sold shares at 20 each, issued staged dividends, then demanded a 15 per share capital call. Shareholders who refused were told funds would be returned minus dividends, and the company vanished.
At Gedney Drove End a villagers club funds defendants in poaching cases. Members contribute a fixed sum to cover expenses for those charged at Holbeach petty sessions.
Mrs Sargent of Lynn Massachusetts credits Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey with reviving her health after a family doctor predicted death. She reports four springs of illness ended and no doctor since, claiming the tonic keeps her strong and pain free in old age.
An advertisement claims Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey strengthens aged bodies, supports nerves, and purports to ward off diseases. It cites ministerial and medical endorsements, insists on the Old Chemist trademark, warns against imitations, and promotes purchase through druggists or direct from distributers in Montana.
Missoula reports on George Barnes, first Montana Cecil Rhodes scholar, and American Rhodes scholars at Oxford. Letters say life there delights them, though room heat and costs test frugality. Parkin notes hope Rhodes fellows foster cross nation ideals, while warns balance of study and social life matters for future impact.
World famous archaeologists Professor Charles EF Hawes of Cambridge England and Miss Harriet A Boyd of Smith College plan a March wedding. They met while excavating prehistoric cities in Crete and will unite in the United States, marking Hawes first visit here.
Maine cruiser Orion Southworth describes winter life for timber land cruisers in Maine. He details survival methods including frozen ants as a lunch, hunting squirrels, hedgehog meat, and foraged foods, painting a stark picture of life in spruce forests and the stumpage trade.
New York Herald notes 4 217 vessel arrivals from foreign ports last year, American flag over only 7 ships. Of these 7, 4 78 were steam powered with 5 ships and 2 barks, 6 brigs and 246 schooners among sailing vessels. Also 2 844 steamships under foreign flags entered the port, 1 855 British and 621 German.
A baby suffered a widespread skin tumor with ears drooping and a full face covered in sores. Three doctors failed to help as the child’s condition worsened, but the face and body are now clear following an unusual treatment.
Mrs George J Steese of Akron Ohio shares a case of infantile skin humor cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment after doctors failed. She describes severe sores on her baby’s body and face that healed after using the products, touting low cost and satisfaction. The ad promotes a complete treatment set and directs to Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Mass for orders and information.
George Poell of Grand Island Nebraska will receive the first bronze medal of honor under the 1905 act for saving 2 year old Paul Assary on a St Joseph and Grand Island train near Grand Island. He leapt from the cab and grabbed the child as the train sped down the track, losing his left foot and both arms in the process. Roosevelt praised his coolness and sacrifice in a heartfelt letter.
An army officer recalls Gen. Robert E. Lee as the pioneer of inconspicuous uniforms at West Point. He notes Lee abolished blue cadet dress and introduced gray, a change that influenced khaki and drab campaigns widely used today. The seventh regiment of New York and Maryland’s fifth regiment popularized the shift.
The wartime reports praise Major Lee for advocating plain campaign attire and functional arms without polish. He argued less show reduces casualties, a view later echoed as the universal standard in modern armies. He noted gray uniforms spread from cadets at West Point to northern forces and influenced Confederate policy.
The education workforce totals 450000 teachers with 120000 men and 330000 women. Most are native born. under 30000 foreign born. Ages skew young with many women under 25 to 32. few over 60 among women. Colored teachers number 21000 split as 7000 men and 13000 women. Indian schools employ 500 teachers. Vermont has the largest share of women. West Virginia has the most men. U S teacher numbers have risen from 125000 in 1871 to 450044 today.
Excerpt from The Teaming of the West in The Outing Magazine describes winter trails in the mountains. Sledging and travel are limited by severe conditions and heavy snows. Spring thaw turns teaming into a fierce battle with looming closures and fragile mountain threats.
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