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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
1
Helena reports a large turnout of women and supporters pressing for passage of the woman suffrage bill. The Senate Judiciary Committee granted a two hour hearing, receiving petitions from across the state and deciding to recommend printing the bill rather than killing it.
Tucson reports a head end collision near Vail Arizona after orders were not delivered for eastbound No 9. Twenty bodies recovered with more feared. numerous injured and unidentified victims. Names list includes engineers John Bruce and R R Wilkie of Tucson among others. rescue ongoing as flames hampered efforts.
A snowslide near Park City Utah early this morning killed three miners and injured several others at the Quincy mine. Rescue crews rushed to aid the injured while authorities feared further slides as storms continued and the stormy night drifted the mountains.
Workers dug free eight men trapped by debris in the mine at Daly West. One partly buried by a beam and a ninth who freed himself, while foreman Shay also escaped. Injured workers suffered cuts and bruises, halting operations as the tunnel route to the mill remains the only access. Jan 28. John Mitchell declined invitation to join Illinois state arbitration board.
Washington reports that Senator Quay, in charge of the statehood bill, inserted amendments to the agricultural and sundry civil appropriation bills to admit Oklahoma and Arizona as states. The move aims to push the measure through by linking it to government funding, with the amendments referred to Quay’s own committee. The plan includes an early Senate session to expedite action and hints at continued debate over territorial admission.
Levi Ankeny a Walla Walla banker won the caucus vote with 58 to 1 and minor tallies for other candidates. The caucus, involving 76 legislators, deemed Ankeny the choice and the group adjourned to a hotel reception. Ankeny pledged to serve the entire state without partiality.
The Helena session of January 2% sees intensified lobbying to stall the Harney case before the Senate. Fred Sutherland testifies to Harney’s drunken bench conduct at the Alamo saloon, with money exchanges and torn corsets revealing party members' involvement. Witnesses recount stays and orders affecting the Yankee Bay mine, while jurors and officers describe Harney’s impairment on duty as the session vents debate on admissibility and cross examination.
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