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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1915
Page
4
The Anaconda Montana city council adopts a plan to form a Special Improvement District along multiple streets including Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Elm and Main to install electric lighting and a ventilation system. The district aims to light Commercial Avenue with posts, wiring, and fixtures, with costs estimated near four thousand dollars for lighting plus related maintenance and infrastructure.
City of Anaconda Montana plans to form Special Improvement District No 68 to pave and grade Hickory and Park avenues with brick, creosoted wood block, or asphaltic pavement. Protests due by 15 days after first publication. meeting set August 24 1915 to consider objections and district boundaries.
The city proposes an electric lighting upgrade within a Special Improvement District covering Cherry Oak Hickory Locust Maple Main Parke Avenue and adjacent streets. The plan includes posts wires pipes conduits lamps and equipment with costs split four city three quarters by property assessments and a six year repayment with six percent interest.
A coroner's jury ruled Frank Shaler's death an accidental drowning. Testimony described a creek side accident while camping with Willard Willards and others near Washoe park bridge. The tragedy followed a tent setup on Ward Creek during a day of play.
The Anaconda city council will hear protests against the proposed special improvement district at a regular meeting on a Monday in January 1815. Protests must be filed with the city clerk within 15 days after the first publication. Reference is made to Resolution No. 148 detailing district boundaries. Witness dated July 13, 1915.
The board of trustees of Seathont district invites sealed bids until 4 o clock on the twenty fourth day of July for contract work on floors woodwork doors and painting across Bryan and Lincoln schools. Specifications available at the clerk’s office. Clerk of Moara Qe School District No 1.
A coroner and jury recount the accident at the creek where 2 year old Orville Ware died. The tent was 23 yards from the end of the breach and three feet from the bank. Willard and another measured water depth with a hatchet handle. The current ran swift and no fatal marks were found on the body beyond a possible forehead bruise. Jury members listed.
San Francisco reports Clarence McDaniels a postal clerk confessed to a 20009 robbery at Wallace Idaho with deputies planning to present the case to the November grand jury. He claimed temptation, unlocked safe doors, and a plan to steal money, slipping out with bills and gold in a suitcase.
In Seattle on July 16 the cargo of ammunition bayonets and cartridge belts valued at about 200000 dollars brought by the schooner Annie Larsen to Hoquiam after aiming for the tanker Maverick off Lower California was taken over by the United States government on Collector of Customs Harper s order. The government investigates the sale of the Annie Larsen and its cargo amid suspicions it was bound for a Mexican revolutionary movement in violation of neutrality laws. The German supercargo Walter Page fled and remains missing. no claimant has appeared for the cargo or the vessel.
Mineola New York July 18 After testimony Walter E Jones announced a verdict of death by own action in the case of Erich Muenter alias Frank Holt who shot J P Moran exploded a bomb in the capitol at Washington and hinted in a letter to his wife that he placed a bomb on one or more ocean steamships A keeper Jeremiah O Ryan testified Muenter might have shot himself based on that statement and the inquiry remains ongoing
London reports the government expelled three Sinn Fein members Ernest Blyth Ennistimon William Matlows Athoney and Hf J Pim Belfast as a result of their antiwar and anti recruiting campaign. Pim authored books under the pseudonym A New Man.
The British armored cruiser of the Suffolk and Essex class stationed off New York near the harbor entrance is wearing a novel camouflage. The port side is painted to simulate a clipper bow with white bands to look smaller, and revolving screens with disappearing paint hide two funnels from view.
Frank Hopson of Chicago and Elgin, longtime manager of the Ropp Motor truck department, was arrested today by a post office inspector to answer an indictment in Portland Oregon. The indictment charges Hopson, nine others, and the United States Cashier Company with conspiring to defraud through a mail fraud scheme.
A ton of sea water yields 28 pounds of salt. four tons of Pacific water yield 79 pounds. Arctic or Antarctic water yields 10 pounds. Dead Sea water yields 187 pounds per ton.
In Inden Utah July 16 a jury found Albert Geddes is son of David Eccles and rightful heir to a large share of the estate amid a case over a claimed plural marriage with Margaret Geddes. The verdict states Eccles acknowledged paternity in life and Albert holds a one third interest.
Washington reports government purchase of the Wireless control for torpedoes invented by John Hays Hammond, with a recommendation to Congress. An advance says concealed shore stations could control submerged torpedoes, and aircraft scouts might extend the system's reach. Army officers foresee broader use of the screens control aided by an aviator directing from out of range.
Shriners from Seattle, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, journeyed toward rail stations and steamship wharves after the July 16 gathering. Most traveled south to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, with Imperial officers and a special excursion train guiding the departure. Some headed east and north, including via Vancouver, and many planned returns by Samarrow night.
Superior Wisconsin July 18 initiative and referendum cannot be adopted in Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois Indiana and Michigan five states formed out of the original Northwestern territory Addison C Harris of Indianapolis argues that Virginia upon ceding the territory to the Union required a strict republican form of government for the region The claim presents a constitutional interpretation of territorial governance and its implications for state policy.
Leon Isumeles July 18 AIFS tot Jensen first wife and Mrs Iva J Garrett second wife of Edward Garrett former land commissioner Idaho were principals today in a contest over the estate Garrett died in March 191%. Mrs Jensen acts for her son and alleges Mrs Iva Garrett induced the former official to leave the entire estate to her without provision for the child.
New York lawyer Charles Becker went to Sing Sing to confer again with the ex police lieutenant awaiting death for allegedly aiding the murder of Herman Rosen. W Bourke Cochran, leading Becker's defense, said he had no new announcement regarding saving his client.
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