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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
22
A shaky trading day saw limited moves as stocks held firm on the exchange. North Butte remained robust for several days while Amalgamated and Greene units showed gains, with quotes near parity and some listings trading at slightly higher levels.
The United States and Great Britain agree to a 2 cent per ounce letter rate starting Oct. 1, joining Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Panama in the domestic rate extension. The change is an experiment expected to boost international mail while prompting discussions on universal rates and post office funding.
The East Butte Mining company board will be reshaped with three Boston men William P. Everts Robert H. Gross and Frank P. Son added to fill vacancies caused by deaths and resignations. The move consolidates control for Paine Webber interests who have underwritten treasury stock and contributed 150000 in cash plus 60000 shares. The new directors will be confirmed at today’s stockholders meeting. East Butte, well financed and producing, holds extensive ground and mineral rights near Butte including sites south of Parrot smelter and a precipitating plant. A further deal to expand holdings is anticipated.
The Canadian balloon King Edward with John Bennett and 15 year old Gerald Gregory sank twice in Lake Michigan during the Chicago to cross country race. The Ville de Dieppe, a French craft, nearly cost two lives ten miles from shore before also submerging occupants to their shoulders. The King Edward finally landed near Port Huron, Michigan.
Fire at the Hotel Albany on Broadway and Forty first street sent forty or fifty women in scanty attire to the street. Several women carried pet dogs as they gathered on the corner and watched the blaze. Within thirty minutes the fire was out and guests returned inside.
The Interstate Commerce Commission upholds laws requiring lumber shipped on open cars to use stakes for safe transport. Lumbermen argued the practice imposes undue costs. The ruling followed complaints by the National Wholesale Dealers' Association and the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association against major railroads.
A federal grand jury was impaneled by Judge tJilunt this morning in Helena and immediately began work. The panel includes N. J. Good David Beach J. S. Thomas B Moulton Edward S. Chapelle T A Grimes A J Snyder L Flaherty H B Ives N N Davidson H W Gloege J T Britt H Richter J W Pollock G F Brown J P Bahnsen R M Hawkins William Fowler and Emil Brulo.
The ad promotes a Rocky Mountain Bell telephone as the handiest household asset saving time. It claims instant reach to friends, the store, the doctor, and others in town and in 800 towns across Montana Idaho Wyoming and Utah. It promises you can run all over town without leaving home.
Lincoln Nebraska July 7 three bodies were recovered today as floods receded. They were John Nelson a milkman and William H and John Amen aged 14 and 19. At least two more children are known to have died though their names are unknown. The list places the death toll as high as 12.
Jeweler William Reiman plans a revolving house on a turntable to swing with a press of a button, powered by electricity. The Bayside, Long Island project, costing about 0,000, aims to even sun and shade exposure across seasons for the home interior.
In Santa Fe New Mexico Judge John K. McFie dismissed the blanket indictment against Phelps and Dodge Co and officials led by Charles Spiess after United States Attorney David J. Leahy argued the facts did not justify further prosecution for conspiring to defraud the United States of coal lands in San Juan County New Mexico.
In Washington on Louisiana avenue northwest a small fire yesterday sent saloon proprietor M. D. McCarthy through a skylight into a den housing a large black bear. He quickly leaped out of danger and escaped unharmed.
Cooperstown July 7 Henry C Potters health shows steady improvement despite intense heat He suffers from liver and stomach troubles and doctors say the crisis has passed with good prospects for full recovery as he continues to improve today in the hot weather
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