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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1923
Page
1
A columnist extols the lost art of minding one’s own affairs while lampooning busybodies who gossip and regulate others. The letter then describes Irish border fraternal mixing over Sunday liquor bans, noting whiskey as a unifier for Ulster and Free State factions amid political tension. Cont. on Page 2, Column 1.
The wheat buying movement led by a joint Omaha Chamber of Commerce committee and the Omaha grain exchange has already strengthened the market. Prices on the local exchange closed higher than the opening, with dealers predicting a much stronger grain market in the next two weeks if the movement continues. Nebraska farmers will be updated on progress via radio.
Stillwater Minnesota July 21 Peter Hall 85 of Atwater was elected president of the Last Man's Club during its reunion. Only three of four surviving members attended as the group honors the Bull Run anniversary and a keepsake wine bottle from 1886. Hall proposes changing the ruling to have the last two men toast and dissolve the club at future meetings.
At a joint Bitter Root Irrigation district meeting in Ravalli county courtroom, land owners and commissioners accepted Portland bond houses bid for 600000 in district bonds at 90. The plan by Ralph Schmeelock of Portland calls for a complete repairs program to the ditch system amid some objections from Attorney R A O’Hara and landowner Ward Sackett. Fund management firms Ralph Schmeelock Co and Freeman Smith Co of Portland were noted.
London July 21 Eamon de Valera told an American newspaper correspondent through his publicity department that it is not the Republicans or army's intention to renew warfare in autumn or after the elections. He said the war is finished and Ireland will focus on social reform education and economic strengthening.
Mining engineers from Canada and abroad will gather Aug 20 to 31 in Ontario and Quebec for the 128th meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The Montana local section, led by Reno H. Sales and E. V. Develer, will participate, with studies on petroleum, gas, and iron and steel topics.
In Boulder on July 21 the Roy Walsh murder trial opened with Walsh set to be the sole defense witness. A 34 person jury was seated with only one dismissal for bias, no challenges by the state, and Walsh briefly freed from manacles inside court. The case centers on a June 26 shooting during an attempted Renova holdup that killed Albert Johnson. State evidence outlines Walsh and Albert Hughes planning the robbery after a Cedar Hill night, then positioning near Johnson’s room as a shot ended the incident. Arthur W. Severtson testified as the first neighbor witness as the trial began in the Virginia City court.
Arthur Lorenz once chief editorial writer for Staatz Zeitung was sentenced to six months in the house of correction and fined by Judge Hugo Pam after the American Legion accused his editorial of criminal libel. The court overruled a new trial motion, and the judge deemed the piece nearly treasonous.
The famed newsboy Chimmie Fadden will appear at Columbia gardens Monday for a miners field day and inaugurate a newsboys contest. He will announce batteries at the ball park, sell Standards on the streets, umpire a Clark park game Friday, and speak at a Kiwanis meeting next Wednesday. His voice may carry a mile from Big Butte as he promotes better boyhood in Butte.
Paris July 21 The secrecy surrounding the British reparations note did not stop press discussion. French papers focus on British comments and dispatches with speculation that Britain backs a experts committee to re assess German debt, to advise the reparations committee under Versailles terms. Temps says treaty text does not justify it and calls the appointment futile and dangerous.
An error in ship ping material omits the comic section for today. The Gumps Little Jimmy Polly and Boob McNutt will be on hand next Sunday. The Standard regrets their absence from today's features.
A visit by James McFadden known as Chimmie Fadden the famed newsboy and stage figure is noted on West Park Street in front of the Standard office. The article recalls his early life as a Chicago House of Refuge inmate and his rise with the New York World stories shaping urban fame.
The Oregon Short Line railroad won ICC permission to build 98 miles of track from Rogerson Idaho to Wells Nevada at a cost of 5 094 000 The line should earn 135 000 gross annually within five years and add 361 708 annually in gross earnings on through traffic Wells will connect with Southern Pacific and Western Pacific systems and provide an outlet for irrigated Idaho farm products.
In Mexico City President Obregon privately suggested Francisco Villa’s death stemmed from a personal feud. A Parral garrison report says seven to nine assassins waited in a vacant house and fired on Villa and his escort, killing Villa and several others. Reports note Villa’s guards and the villa’s hacienda at Canutillo and Villistas nearby.
Three men held in connection with the assassination of Gen. Francisco Villa and his secretary Col. Miguel Trillo are detained as authorities push to identify leaders in the case. Continued on page 11, column.
A massive blaze in Salamanca New York on July 21 leveled a large portion of the west side Main street and burned into Clinton street. The fire caused an estimated 500000 to 1000000 in damage, fueled by oil and gasoline and driven by a strong west wind from a bonfire behind an abandoned skating rink.
Senator Pittman released letters showing treasury officials allegedly ignored law mandates on silver purchases and misrepresented holdings. The letters claim the treasury sought a rehearing from the comptroller general after Under Secretary Gilbert refused to reopen the allocation issue.
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