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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1913
Page
11
Bids are invited to furnish coal delivered to Montana state institutions in cities including Helena Deer Lodge Missoula Butte Dillon Twin Bridges Bozeman Boulder Miles City Warm Springs and Galen. Minimum 2500 tons for the state prison with bids due July 25 1913 at 2 pm.
The state board of examiners invites bids to erect a hospital at the Montana State Orphans home in Twin Bridges. Bids due July 25 1913 at 12 noon, publicly opened. Send in plain envelopes marked Bids for the Erection of Hospital Building to Walter Jobe president Twin Bridges. Plans seen at Fred S Wilson Co Bozeman or at Walters Shobe office. Include a $5 certified check with each bid. failure to contract forfeits. Board may reject any or all bids.
Police believe a former city official may be linked to a rash of city robberies after highwaymen shot at a Pacific Bar and two youths identified Bernard Donahue as the tall gunman. Donahue denies involvement while investigators push for an automobile patrol to speed arrests. Suspects W Kusenon and F Kennedy were also arrested in connection with robberies as officers question witnesses and compare alibis.
Lieutenant Yorath and detectives O'Donnell and Powell believed a gambling game ran in a Pennsylvania rail yard coal bunkers. They entered the engine room at dawn but found no players, only a drowsy fireman, and the hunch proved unfounded.
Miss Amy Eximunds assistant city clerk will read a paper on The Suffragette in Social Conditions at the Butte Equal Suffrage association meeting. A general discussion will follow. The session starts at 3 oclock at Eagles hall in the Lewisohn building.
July 14 report from Regina indicates a Detroit American League club representative secured an option on outfielders Williams and Smith. A portion of about 2000 dollars was paid immediately, with the balance due when the players join Detroit after Regina’s season ends.
Chicago on July 14 released pitcher Albert Lei ffeld to Atlanta. Also, Robert H. Craig a college shortstop from the New York state league was released to Terre Haute.
Mrs Rosalie Chivington wife of Thomas Chivington president of the American Association of Baseball Clubs won a divorce in Chicago court today. She is awarded five thousand dollars alimony with one thousand payable immediately and the remaining four thousand in semiannual installments of five hundred dollars each.
Recent authorities favor the idea that all diamonds arrived on earth via meteor showers. The meteoric origin is linked to diamonds found within meteoric masses that penetrated the earth, with Arizona sites supporting the heavenly theory as iron masses scatter across wide plains.
An Italian scientist states that one square mile of the earth receiving six hours of sunshine produces heat equivalent to burning over 2,600 tons of coal, illustrating the immense power of solar energy.
The State Board of Examiners calls for bids on one 100-horse-power return tubular boiler 18 by 66 inches 125 pound pressure to be installed at the Montana State Orphans Home in Twin Bridges. Bids due noon Friday July 25 1918 in plain envelopes marked Bids for Boiler addressed to Walter Shobe president Twin Bridges. Certified checks to 109 required. failure to enter contract may forfeit bid.
Wiley Mountjoy, deputy humane officer, arrives in Butte to place three 2 year old orphan brothers from Twin Bridges into good homes. He stresses moderate means with maternal care, noting one boy has flaxen hair and blue eyes, another dark eyes and Southern European features, and a third red hair with freckles. J C Osborne travels with Mountjoy to Twin Bridges and Great Falls as officials discuss arrangements with local agents and Mrs Hanchett.
Undersheriff Smith and deputies will today move to clear the race track of touts. A list of 20 known touts will be refused entry at the gate with a deputy stationed at the entrance. Persistent touts will be arrested on vagrancy charges.
A long list of guests staying at various hotels in Butte Dillon Helena Great Falls Missoula and surrounding towns includes numerous individuals and couples from Chicago New York Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Philadelphia Baltimore and other cities. Names span executives, professionals, and travelers with affiliations to firms like Wells Fargo and many local establishments.
J S Blair alias John Griffin a 35 year old escaped Colorado convict was captured by Butte police after 22 months at large. He had burglary conviction in Denver in 1910 and escaped from a road camp in 1911. Colorado officials plan to take him back to continue his commitment.
A string of letters and testimony detail Mulhall’s roles in anti Pearce and Littlefield campaigns in Maine New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1906. Evidence shows funding from manufacturers employing influence with labor groups and federal office holders and staging efforts to sway voters including tactics involving whiskey and paid speakers.
At the miners union weekly session fourteen delegates from the conservative wing were chosen to attend the Montana Federation of Labor meeting in Roundup on August 14. They are Jim Leary Jim Shay H Harrington Dennis Murphy Jacob Olive Tim Sheehan James Smith J K Crowley Al Marish Pat Lee James Ryan John Murphy John Coyne and Walter Little.
Mayer and company advertise mainsprings cleaning services at $1 with a $1.50 watch cleaning option and a guaranteed one year warranty. Location listed as 29 JW Park. Adv. includes contact and offer details.
The Montana Dairy company was fined 25 dollars after Judge Booker found milk samples from three cans showed 2.2 percent butter fat, below the 3.3 percent requirement. Health inspectors Kelly and Mabie testified the Spokane restaurant and others faced penalties for selling substandard milk. The judge warned future violations would bring higher fines.
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