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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1902
Page
14
Western Montana office of the Standard located at 110 West Main Street Missoula. telephone 118. Rates furnished on application.
Missoula reporters note strong mining activity along the Coeur d'Alene branch with ore showings in the Le Roy Richmond and Tarbox claims near Saltese Big creek and Packer Creek plus a favorable crop outlook in Bitter Root Valley aided by recent rains.
The remains of a man believed buried for years were unearthed when high water washed away the riverbank revealing a well preserved skeleton. Local authorities will examine the site as investigators await identification. A social event note mentions the Missoula Social Vaneing club hosting a dance on Friday evening and a camp store price of $1.50 at McRide's.
The secretary of the interior reverses a Missoula land office ruling canceling Matilda Sleeman’s timber and stone entry. The land lies below the Bitter Root valley Lolo fork, thus not subject to the June 5 1872 act. entry remains intact.
Missoula July 17. A heated meeting of the Cooks and Waiters Union is expected tomorrow night. Restaurant and hotel proprietors who formed a coordinating group have identified about 40 men entering Chinese restaurants for meals and may push action against them. The dispute could go to American Labor Union No 4 for settlement. The issue hinges on unions not agreeing as restaurants and hotels rely on Chinese gardeners.
Missoula July 17 The 3 year old son of Mr and Mrs John Brown died at 3 o clock this morning from diphtheria. The family had already buried their eldest son a few days earlier from the same illness. The newborn baby is recovering and the community offers sympathy and aid.
The New England Bloomer Girls edged Missoula 10 to 9 in a six inning game tonight before a crowd of about 400. The Missoula nine had been due to play earlier but arrived late due to a Northern Pacific delay. The note ends with a local promotional line for Missoula Nursery.
The district court room in Missoula will receive new linoleum flooring along with fresh paint. Several large rolls have arrived and workers prepare a neater, better finished courtroom, touted as among the state’s best.
Missoula July 17 The contractors and employes at the new car sheds of the Northern Pacific are at odds and a strike may be ordered in the morning. Concrete men belong to a union with a wagon per day rate of 33. It is said that pay checks were at 2.50 per day and they were refused. The men planned to quit but Special Representative Bruce urged them to stay until contractors from the East can be heard from and word is expected in the morning.
In Missoula on July 15 Gue Angst, an employee of John R. Dally, was injured at a slaughter house when a runaway team pulled free. He was dragged under the horses before freeing himself, breaking his leg above the knee. He lies at Trinity Hospital.
Walter Wellman notes how newspapers avoid naming or detailing misconduct by a high official who drunkenly hugged a congressman's wife at a fashionable hotel dining room. He cites repeated intoxication by lawmakers and social stinginess of Washington reporters in covering such incidents.
A judge notes a city youth dying in a peculiar manner. Local farmers discuss a strange cause linked to a mushroom appetite and toadstool judgment as the death mystery unfolds. Five cent wine and Garden City Standard bottle beer advertisement appear in the record.
Tracy and two Confederate accomplices were near Covington when his wounds were treated with a razor on a weekend, in a bid to prevent death from blood poisoning. One accomplice is described as a wanted murderer with a price on his head.
The badly decayed body of escaped convict and murderer David Merrill was brought to the Oregon state penitentiary by Mary Wagoner and Chehalis Sheriff Deggeller. Superintendent Lee refused the full reward, offering $300. Wagoner pursues legal action for $1,500. Meanwhile fashion notices urge silk garments, kimonos, and new lace blouses for the summer.
Reports from the Natchez Pass country are far from corroborative of the claim that Tracy, an inmate of the shack, reached a lonely cabin in the dead of night. The narrative continues to unfold with repeated escapes and renewed surround, though verification remains elusive.
Seven armed men left North Yakima to join the hunt for Convict Tracy. Sheriff Tucker led the posse with support from Hartman of Pierce county and Brown of Kittitas. The group planned to guard mountain passes as Tracy may cross the region, with two teams moving toward Wenas and Nachez passes.
Tracy was found in a shack near Sawyer lake in Black Diamond with two companions. He had been lying in the brush since leaving Pantoto's ranch and nursing back wounds inflicted by Deputy Bunce in a fight in the railroad cut near Covington last Thursday.
Missoula city treasurer Walter Hogan issues a call for road fund warrants registered prior to July 16, 1902. The notice targets holders of warrants in the city's road fund, urging submission for payment.
Missoula reports printer Harry Matteson found a human skeleton exposed along the Bitter Root riverbank near the MacLay bridge. The feet protruded about three feet from the bank as of July 7.
The San Francisco Bulletin notes Montana cattlemen aim to build a 700 mile fence though opinions doubt its lasting impact. It contrasts this with Theodore Roosevelt’s broad cross country fence effort spanning over 8000 miles and described as well maintained. A playful closing line invites mail orders to the Celdepn Rule in Missoula.
The article notes women increasingly buy stockings at higher prices from 50 to 75 cents, favoring refined black fine hosiery with white side stitching. Matching dress color is a trend, white stockings remain popular but impractical, and silk stockings sales have surged with a hundred pairs sold now where one was a decade ago.
A brief note describes a simple bow making contrivance that costs 50 cents and uses a tin arc with teeth like a comb. It promises quick, attractive bows for hair and corsages, appealing to women seeking easy dressing-table accessories.
Onions derive their strong odor from sulfur compounds notably sulphuret of allyle formed when onion tissue water mixes with sulfur. This compound intensifies the gaslike oils giving the pungent smell and contributes to medicinal uses alongside allyl sulfur compounds in horseradish and mustard.
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