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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1912
Page
14
New York reports merchants expect higher clothing prices next year as leading cloth producers raise spring 1913 season figures by 7 to 20 cents a yard. Domestic wool crop this year is about 29,001,00 pounds smaller than last year, mill owners cite wage levels and shorter hours as contributing factors. price rises also seen abroad.
Helena July 18 Special Dispatch reports W H Young local manager of the Helena Automatic Telephone company resigns after three years. He will move to Kalispell country to pursue fruit farming. H R Risley names R G Richardson, current plant superintendent, to succeed him.
Special Dispatch reports land sales this week in Sanders and Missoula counties led by Deputy Register Joseph Oker. Total sales totaled 191,789 with an average of 16.47 per acre. He sold 68 state lots in a Mussoula addition averaging 195.75 per lot, totaling 13,882. Returns to the state from this section amount to about 30,000.
Walter E. Layman, after starving on the island, emerges from a brush farm house near the penitentiary west of Tacoma. He says his food was scarce and escape to the mainland was impossible. Layman was serving a three year sentence from October.
A 46 member group of state insurance commissioners will arrive in Butte Monday. The Butte Chamber of Commerce will host an informal banquet at Silver Bow club at 6 p.m. with a $28 cover. The secretary requests advance notice by telephone for seating and arrangements.
No fines were collected from automobile owners cited for city speed ordinances. J. J. Doran and J. M. Orton each paid $3 fines suspended. Thomas A. Walsh and others were dismissed. Walsh had been linked to a collision near the Butte, Anaconda and Pacific depot, with witnesses noting slow speed before impact. A separate disturbance case involving Mr. and Mrs. Berg featured a loud neighborhood quarrel described with vivid language.
Mayer promises top quality with guaranteed mainspring or watch cleaning for 1.50 dollars. The firm pursues satisfaction with a simple refund policy. New theater building at 29 West Park Street anchors their address.
Sacramento July 19 Arthur Ji son a negro porter swam in the Sacramento river above the city. Fishermen Fred Ford and William Glad Stone were nearby as dusk fell. Jackson floated on his back spouting water. Gladstone fired a shotgun as a warning. No one was harmed.
Judge Donlan resumed argument on Marian A Waller's objection to administrator Barn ey Coll over the estate of W A Waller killed in the Silver King mine. The 21 year old sole heir complains of expenses and lack of investment of funds over years. Separate suits include Emil Belcher vs John Hopkins on a note plus interest totaling 4810 and a guardianship petition for Clara E McClure owning 90000 in Butte property. A divorce suit by Maude Riegger against Joseph Riegger cites non support and desertion, with alimony set at 50 per month.
A young woman plans a leap year marriage proposal at the Columbia Gardens annual fête on Saturday night July 27. Merchants offer to contribute to a housekeeping fund as she sustains courage to the pivotal moment and possibly secures the $50 in gold prize.
The July 12 Washington report states ordinary Chinese and Japanese punk no longer enters the United States duty free. The Treasury Department says punk is a smudge stick for driving away mosquitoes and other insects and is subject to a 20 percent ad valorem duty.
A. L. Westgard of the American Automobile Association visits Helena on July 19 as guest of the Lewis and Clark Automobile Club. He is midway on a coast to coast automotive tour and is greeted by local car owners and escorted into town. A committee of the Butte club plans to meet him there.
Woodmen groups and lodge members are summoned to attend the funerals. Adelbert Beranek is to be honored at the Masonry temple on Sunday afternoon under the direction of Woodmen leaders Rooks Geiger. Fellows of the city are to assemble at I. C. O. F. hall in Butte at 1 o clock Sunday to pay respects to Brother Tenny F. Bowden and follow orders from Bi. E. Olson, N. G.
The tariff is presented as the live issue and a hard-fought battle is anticipated. The Standard promotes itself as Montana's progressive paper and urges readers to stay informed through its daily and Sunday editions. Subscription is $1 per month, with carrier or mail delivery nationwide including Canada and Mexico.
A Seattle report on the House Judiciary subcommittee hearing impeachment charges against U.S. District Judge C. H. Hanford. Testimony covers ownership disputes, can-topper patent talks with Evan S. McCord and Frank Burpee, and injunctions from Hanford’s court.
July 19 report from Moreman states the Young Men's Business league selects ten candidates for carnival queen. The list includes Inez Patterson Vida Ferguson Aimee Piedalue Zada Sales Rausie Roecher Midge Cline Anne Sacket Bessie Dawes Josephine Kountz and Margary Quaw.
John P F McKnight of Deer Lodge files for bankruptcy in federal court with assets around 900 dollars and liabilities about 58 dollars. Richard Roberts, jeweler of Billings, also files for bankruptcy with assets near 28 765.87 dollars and liabilities about 19 593 dollars.
Ella Cobb, daughter of County Commissioner Jerome Cobb, remains unconscious and in critical condition after a runaway incident Tuesday morning in Livingston. Her injury status prompted continued medical care and official updates.
Spokane July 19 The plan to merge tidewater sawmills and lumber interests of Washington and Oregon into a single 42 million bond financed corporation is abandoned for the time being by promoter J Pierce. The majority approved but some opposed. merger would have centralized logging sawmills transport and marketing to cut out middlemen amid already arranged financing with New York and Chicago bankers.
Washington July 18 An investigation of expenditures in the forest set by a special senate committee is asked in a resolution today by Senator Overman The committee would sit through the recess of Congress The Overman resolution was referred to the committee on urgent expense It was inspired by reports that duplications of payments have occurred that more officials are employed than are needed and that timber lands are being denuded more rapidly than before the Service was established.
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