Thunder storm sparks shocks strike Butte homes
A thundery afternoon in Butte featured lightning striking several houses and a fatal dog death at Tom Griffin’s 5% East Mercury home. Mrs Griffin and neighbor Er Dr Creighton suffered shocks. the Griffin engineer worked at Silver Bow mine No 1. The public library tower and St Patrick’s church chandelier also endured intense electrical display with windowpane damage and a burned platinum cell.
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Butte
Tom Griffin
East Mercury
Mr. Griffin
Er. J. Creighton
Griffins
Griffin
Silver Bow Mine No. 1
Jove
Piers Mens
St. Patrick's Church
Hechting Company
Cattlemen Seek Delay in Opening Kiowa Comanche Lands
The cattlemen urge delaying the August 6 opening of Kiowa and Comanche reservation lands. Some 206000 head of cattle from Texas and Oklahoma ranges would be unsuited for market, risking hundreds of thousands in losses. A telegram to Secretary Hitchcock appeals for a 60 to 90 day postponement to market mature cattle. The note mentions Iver Lawson, Green, and Artie Bell in a separate motor parade.
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Denver
Oklahoma
Texas
Hitchcock
E. A. Hitchcock
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
West
Southwest
Livestock Industry Ier
John W. Springer
National Livestock Association
Great Falls Street Fair Opens Amid Wind Delays
Great Falls hosts a street fair with booths from local merchants and wide crowds. The harbour troupe performed for the first time this year and wind disrupted some acts, but officials expect a successful event with a Fourth of July atmosphere.
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Standard
Great Falls
Federal funds allotted for agricultural colleges reach cap
Treasury issues warrants totaling 1.2 million dollars for 45 states and two territories under the August 1900 act to endow and maintain agricultural and mechanical colleges. Each jurisdiction now receives a fixed annual grant, funded from public land sales, rising from initial minimums to 5,000 dollars at cap. Salem reports on-state court rulings in Umatilla Indian murder cases overturning prior verdicts and jurisdiction. Pendleton holds prisoners as Leipziger bank fallout leads to arrest of town chancellor Bodel.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Agriculture and Mechanical Arts
Salem
Ore
Supreme Court
Columbia George
Toy Toy
Umatilla
Painter Suffers Broken Leg in Opera House Barn Collapse
J L Atkins, a painter, was injured when the platform he stood on collapsed under him while working on the new barn behind the opera house. The incident occurred July 8 and left Atkins with a broken leg.
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The
Standard
J. L. Atkins
Boer Commando Burns Murrayeburg Town in Cape Colony
Cape Town dispatch reports Scheeher's Boer commando entering Murrayeburg in the Cape Colony and burning public buildings and residences. The town was undefended.
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London
Cape Town
Scheeher
Murrayeburg
Cape Colony
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Ellis Paint Co
Calder Bros
East
Quartz Street
Western Medical Dispensary
E. Broadway
Mont
Montana
Iver Lawson
Green
Artie Bell
China
Tacoma
Wash
Canton
Braemer
Lung Keng
Wang Tung
Great Falls Street Fair
Agricultural Colleges
Leipsic
Bodel
Leipreiger Bank
United States
New York
Symons
Foulards
Economis
W. Park St. Butte, Mont
Jersey
Drawers
Hamburg
Nazareth
Lee Yard
W. Park St
Butte, Mont
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