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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1923
Page
1
J H M Queene y a longtime industrial figure in Butte dies after 40 years in business. He arrived with the railroad and built the first house in South Butte. A noted figure in mining city, he was honored by city voters.
John H. McQueeney died at 943 South Wyoming street after a five month illness. A longtime Butte resident, he arrived in 1881 and started the McQueeney Transfer company the following year. He helped shape city business and social life and was part of a noted quartet at the Finlen hotel lobby. Born November 30, 1842 in New Haven, Conn. Continued on page 4 column 7.
The Pittman silver act of 1918 faces renewed scrutiny as Senator Pittman asserts not all silver sold to the government met domestic introduction requirements. He cites smelters paying miners 95 cents an ounce and deducting metal loss at higher rates when pricing silver sold to the government at $1 per ounce.
Anaconda kicks off its holiday with a street circus drawing hundreds to Main Street. Rotary, Masonic lodge, American Legion, Kiwanis, Knights of Columbus and other groups run booths selling candy dolls pillows and snacks as youngsters enjoy firecrackers and torpedoes. This marks the first large Fourth since several years past and crowds are optimistic for a memorable day.
Delegates from labor agricultural economic and educational groups meet in Chicago to craft a unified political front for next year’s election. The meeting aims to coordinate efforts without forming one party, seeking a producing class rights platform and a harmonized political machine.
The Citizens Paving Committee expects dirt to fly soon on the Montana Street Holmes Avenue highway project. Chairman James H. Rowe says immediate fulfillment of pledges will let the group report to the state highway commission that funds are in hand. The commission meeting was postponed to next Monday as several members were absent, with focus on turning pledges into cash to complete the fundraising.
The Associated Press reports in Springfield Illinois that the 55 million Illinois soldier bonus program began this afternoon. State Auditor Russell's office issued 8,000 bonus checks that will be mailed to former service men and women across the state who served Illinois in World War I.
Executive and Mrs. Harding are carried back half a century to days when West was won as Oregon voters see pioneer lineage in a presidential bid. The feature frames Harding era ancestry amid a revival of frontier imagery shaping national politics.
In Meacham Oregon a town of 60 drew between fifteen and twenty thousand for a celebration of Oregon trail pioneers. President Harding and Mrs. Harding rode in a Concord coach to a reviewing stand as Governor Pierce and Senators McNary Stanfield watched. Lunch unfolded in a large tent with chicken strawberries angel food cake and roast bear meat as the president praised pioneer spirit and self reliance.
Norman E. Mack said Gov. Alfred E. Smith would seek the Democratic nomination for president at the next national convention. He noted a platform plank favoring modification of the Volstead Act, with eastern states pushing for change while western states resist. He cited industrial states including New York and Pennsylvania warming to a softer prohibition stance, and southern states likely to stay Democratic regardless.
Narrator recalls a day of travel with President Harding, a Canadian ace from Spokane, and a train ride toward Alaska. In Shelby he meets old friends and shares dawn observations. The piece notes the press’s all night scramble for morning editions and ends mid-sentence with a reference to a continuation on Page 6.
Roy Walsh, accused killer of Al Johnson of Kenova, was moved to Butte for safety when deputies found a heavy pipe hidden in his trouser leg during a search at the Silver Bow county jail last evening after his transfer.
Registered motor vehicles in Montana on July 1 rose from a year earlier by 11 400. Passenger cars up 16 000 and trucks up 1 400. Total counts 57 000 cars and 6 095 trucks. Revenue gain 69 778 with counties receiving shares such as Silver Bow 42 157 Cascade 31 962 Yellowstone 26 551 Missoula 23 290 Flathead 1 883 Lewis and Clark 20 547 Fergus 17 714.
The July 3 report from Shelby Montana notes the advance arrival of fight fans for the Dempsey Gibbons bout. Over 300 Pullman cars were planned and special trains and cars were en route or already parked in the yards. Dempsey and his training retinue are due to arrive on a Great Falls special at 10:30 AM with the champion to stay in his car until shortly before the bout.
Shelby crowds buzz with excitement as anticipation builds for the Dempsey Gibbons title fight. Report notes a hard fought financial battle behind the event and promises nationwide attention tomorrow.
In Schul enberg Texas a 23 year old Black man Jess Bullock was seized by a mob on the main street at 4 pm after a 12 year old white girl identified him as the assailant at her home earlier in the day. A posse of about 200 men captured him near the Navidad river bridge and a crowd of over 300 hung him from a tree.
France presents its reply to the British reparations memo to Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon but refuses to outline a specific position on key points. Count de Saint Aulaire discusses the Ruhr question, leaving the overall stance indeterminate and signaling continued discussion for another week or more. Belgium’s ambassador Baron Moncheur voices general agreement with France on principal issues. Meanwhile in Berlin, seized Ruhr goods valued in the millions, mostly machinery and iron and steel products, remain under guard as authorities decide their disposition.
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