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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists publishers and proprietors of STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY and notes daily publication. It states postal registration, class mail status, and subscription rates paid in advance for daily and Sunday editions, with various time spans.
The notice lists postage rates: 10 to 16 page editions cost one cent, 82 page editions two cents, 36 to 48 page editions three cents. Papers to Europe double these rates. For other foreign countries inquire at the Main Office Standard Block Anaconda.
The Standard lists branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls where advertising rates will be furnished on application.
Washington Bureau No 4 details address lines for The Standard with offices at 150 Nassau Street New York and Washington Street W J Morton in charge. Lists newsstands in Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Salt Lake Spokane Tacoma Seattle and Portland and notes general business letters to Araconda Mont. Dated Saturday July 19 1902.
The Standard defends Anaconda baseball pride after the 21 to 6 loss to the Butte Elks. It laments the display but dares an August rematch with locally advanced players aiming for junior public school entry.
A Lexington Avenue Baptist church offertory sparked debate as a white-clad young girl stood before the congregation with musical instruments on stage, highlighting long standing tensions over acceptable church music and the use of modern instruments in sacred services. The piece notes varied reactions to instruments from violins and guitars to drums and bones within historic church settings.
A young girl in a church audience whistles Schumann as the organ plays softly. Deacons report no explicit sanction for whistling in worship but agree the performance was technically excellent and that all breath should praise the Lord.
The Butte annexation election adds about 1 200 residents to the city. West side districts vote to join, east side mostly rejects. Suburban areas west of Butte are now part of the city with improved fire police sewer and street services. Meantime crime notes and political quips pepper the era coverage.
The article profiles frontier lawmen including Bret Harte's Joe Hall sheriff of Calaveras and the Cudihee brothers from Leadville. It highlights their steadiness against outlaws and mobs, recalling Edward It’s struggles to bring down Tracy and a dramatic Christmas night arrest in 1882.
A Reading local conductor tickets a mother and child at Wayne Junction. The mother protests the child's age, and the conductor jokes that by the return trip the girl will likely be six. The exchange ends with a light remark about buying a return ticket.
Great Falls Montana July 18 Special Dispatch reports one of the severest cloud bursts in the Lower Sun River valley. Rain turned low areas to lakes and streams. bridges and culverts on roads to Sun River crossing were washed out. Priest Pudenz and Constable Ringwald endured harrowing travels through the flood and mud as officials planned an inspection today.
The Great Falls wool market closed with record highs as average price per pound reached 15 5 8 cents. Major deals included Box Elder Livestock company at 16 1 4 cents for 50 000 pounds and numerous consignments to Whitman Farnsworth Co Nichols Dupee Co and J Williams Co as wool flows in by rail. Expected next week’s activity is brisk with more growers entering the market.
Tomorrow or Sunday five tons of dynamite will be exploded at once near Conrad on the Great Falls and Canada road. J. F. Caughran, contractor for the Conrad road revision, aims to loosen rock with twenty 500 pound charges set off electrically. Thousands of yards of rock are expected to be removed, marking the largest blast in Northern Montana since a Belt hill demolition during Montana Central construction.
Billings reports total wool sales of 519 000 pounds for the day with many clips sold. Top price reached 15 ½ cents for J H Schrader’s 60 000 pound batch, as buyers including Brown Adams J Williams & Co and Hecht Liebman Co. secured multiple lots across Billings and Burlington yards.
White Sulphur Springs reports the home of W. W. Cook in Unity about 10 miles away was struck by lightning last Sunday afternoon. The bolt entered in three places, tearing the wall, shattering the telephone, and destroying a large wall mirror. Mrs. Cook and her two daughters were inside but uninjured.
Fifteen hundred people attended the free concert at Cascade Park in Great Falls. Mayor Collins announced plans to schedule the event twice weekly due to the favorable reception, instead of the initial weekly plan.
Livingston July 18 John Gunn a well known resident was arrested this afternoon charged with highway robbery. Joseph Murray an old Livingston resident alleges Gunn knocked him down last evening and robbed him of 13 dollars. Gunn denies the charge and a hearing is set for tomorrow.
Clarence Chambers married Myrtle O Mixer in White Sulphur Springs on Thursday morning. Myrtle is the daughter of Charles O and Mrs Mixer and was born and raised in this community.
The Charlotte district needed 1,211 ballots to nominate Robert N. Page for congress last week. The district is strongly democratic, so his election is conceded.
Bozeman July 18 The state case against James Keown a member of the police force was tried before Judge A H McPherson and the defendant was acquitted. He used the butt of his six shooter on a man while quelling a saloon quarrel.
J. N. McNulty reports abundant snow in the mountains near Big Timber with a prosperous outlook. He says conditions are unusually favorable for this time of year and that the area has more snow than ever observed before at this season.
Livingston on July 18 reports Assessor Daniels finished Park county assessment for 192, showing a total valuation of 3 923 354 dollars up 290 318 from last year. Real estate is 2 334 998 dollars and personal property 1 588 356 dollars.
Miles City July 18. Sergeant Turner of the 21st Infantry was arrested for attempting to shoot Morris Allen a sheep herder in the Bank saloon yesterday. He was tried today on assault in the third degree and fined 25 dollars by Justice Kennie.
In Big Timber on July 18 Samuel McGregor superintendent of the Two Dot ranch wed Mrs. R. E. Pierce of Two Dot. The ceremony occurred in the Grand hotel parlors with Rev. G C Rector of Bozeman officiating.
From St. Louis the American Fur Company sent about 100,000 robes in a single year while buying only perfect ones. Hunters kept three times as many robes for themselves, and shipments from Mackinac Detroit Montreal and Hudson Bay matched St. Louis. A million robes a year flowed east in the 1840s, with Inman Sheridan noted in 1868.
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