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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
17
A caller asks the commission pertinent questions about a wreck. Details are unclear in the fragment, but the inquiry focuses on the wreck event, its causes, and potential investigation steps. Further specifics are not provided in the readable text.
Rev Fletcher Wharton pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church challenged the Valencia investigation by questioning life preserver guarantees. Witnesses including A W Hawkins Joseph Mcaffery and Martin Tarpey spoke on crowding lifeboats and crew discipline. Bruer Bancroft merchant missing after the Valencia wreck off Vancouver Island is presumed lost.
To the People of Anaconda the Smith Drug Co pledges to furnish Vinci cod liver oil with a positive guarantee. If not effective it will be absolutely free. The offer targets the sick, aged, nursing mothers, and children, promising restored health, stronger bodies, and improved appetite.
In Ravalli County District Court Hamilton dispatch reports M Dwyer sued William Costello for 1000 dollars over a partnership dispute tied to ranch property in the valley. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and awarded 1 dollar? no, the judgment for 1000 dollars. The trial extended three days across last term and two days this term. Local notes mention residents C C Grants visiting Ravalli, F W Smith and John Costello dealing with the school superintendent, and others from Stevensville Missoula Portland and San Francisco visiting or staying in Hamilton. Edith Gants of Stevensville is in Hamilton. See full report for more details.
Lewistown Jan 3 The Barnes King company reports a long tunnel exposes a virgin ore body over a mile from the old workings. The new deposit was found by diamond drilling last year and has opened other rich veins including cyanide ore about 30 dollars per ton. The Kendall ore is improving and next month output should return to prior levels, with larger ore bodies and higher values from the double compartment shaft. The firm is privately owned by Montana men led by E W King and John P Barnes. Spokane interests who once pursued the property would pay more than a million now awaiting a several hundred thousand rise. The developments boost faith in the camp’s future.
A Jin 30 A suit filed in Linco Nebraska seeks to oust an alleged fire insurance trust. The action targets an organized effort by Nebraska businessmen to dismantle the leading fire insurance companies’ combination.
A passenger train No. 1 traveling westbound on the Santa Fe line near Galesburg Illinois collided during a gale on June 29 causing injuries and disruption to service as crews investigate the wreck and assess damage.
A brief report notes a derailment east of here at Laura. A smoker car chair baggage and express car overturned with con digers unclear. Details scarce as investigators assess the scene early today.
Lewistown January 30 John Morton of Stockett coal mine workers district deputy visits Samuel Gebo to settle wage by ton dispute at Spring Creek mines. Workers previously paid by regular wage despite coal output. Gebo invested in opening property but machinery delays persist. Morton opposes ton rate while Gebo seeks it. Resolution uncertain.
Frederick Katche mate of the steam schooner Jennie Wand reached San Francisco aboard the Caracag with other crew members after the Jennie Wand ran ashore near Lapaz in a heavy gale during the early part of the year. The ship and its captain and crew reportedly launched lifeboats.
An advertisement touts CALIFORNIA PRUNE WAFERS as a daily health aid. It claims fruit laxative benefits, relief from constipation, headaches, and nausea, and promotes regular bowels and kidney health. The product is priced at 100 wafers for 25 cents, with sellers listed in Anaconda and Butte Montana.
Ronald Morris of Fairbank Canning testified that Commissioner Garfield demanded the firm’s secret profit and loss books after preparing his beef inquiry report. Morris said Garfield inspected them and later returned with most of the report. Other witnesses included L Crathuff Samuel Roberts and Charles G Dawes.
Special Dispatch to the Standard Stevensville Jan 3 Henry Buck & Co. contract with B B Liddell for 100000 brick to build a new brick store on the old burned site. May start. building 40 by 60 feet brick and plastered. Fire led to ordinance banning frame buildings on Main Street. Revival meetings end. new series begins led by Rev W W Howard with aid from Edward Nith and W H May. Merit items include Missoula trip by May. local sawmill Harper & Baird noted. J R Faulds visited Hamilton. Perrence Lockridge improves from typhoid.
Weak kidneys blamed for many illnesses, Swamp Root touted as the cure. The ad promises a free sample bottle and book by mail, urging readers to send their address and cite the Anaconda Daily Standard as the reference.
The document lists westbound and eastbound A P local trains with departure and arrival times from Butte to Anaconda and connections at Durant Silver Bow and connections with N P G N at various points. It notes effective date December 1, 1905 and mentions connecting railways and transfer points.
Townsend to Ington reports a Senate day rich in action with four bills approved, including measures for lighthouses fog signals revenue cutter essentials and consular service reorganization. The bill introduces consular classifications transfers inspections and American clerks. funds from consular fees to be accounted. Lodge spoke on the shipping bill detailing a grain freight cartel and restrained constitutional objections. Patterson gave notice of tomorrow's remarks on Aforocean and San Domingo questions.
Richardson of Alabama as a Democrat notes things done and left undone in the measure. Questions directed to various speakers show there will be opposition at least to the bill during debate.
Hundreds attended the funeral of Osmand B Varney held in the city hall auditorium at 2 pm. Rev Charles Quincey led the Episcopal service and delivered a moving tribute to Varney's life. Interment followed at Hillside cemetery with active pallbearers including R D Hawkins J D Marsha R V Stewart Zack Clem Malcolm Switzer and Patrick Carney. Honorary pallbearers listed as T J Farrell George Gohn James Saunders W A Clark A J Bennett and Judge Lew L Callaway. The choir sang Nearer My God to Thee as mourners filled the hall.
In Washington on January 30 members of the house showed broader interest in the railroad Fate bill than other topics. The debate featured questions to expose obscure points and alleged evils. Townsend of Michigan opened the discussion, followed by Adams of Georgia praising the bill and Roosevelt’s stance, with Hinshaw of Nebraska highlighting impacts on the trans Missourian region.
In St Fewersburg on January 30, managers of the East Chinese railroad discuss increasing freight rates northward to stations in Russian hands amid fears of invasions of Japanese and American goods on Manchurian markets. Japanese middlemen moving British and American wares aid shipments from Yakov to Kwiduan, where vast stores are gathered for Harbin Vladivostok and other markets.
Portland report from Salem says Dr Bancroft received a letter from brother in law IL V Leeper of Yakala Als, noting schooner Prosper ashore near Valdez with seven dead aboard. Unclear if deaths were from starvation or freezing. Letter dated November 28.
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