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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1901
Page
12
Missoula reports ready fort facilities and immediate troop arrival. Sergeant Pillow oversees preparations as Commissary Sergeant O Hara arrives to order hay grain and supplies for stables. Two companies are ordered, with quota expected to rise to full garrison.
Four Indians and a white man were arrested near Missoula for killing deer out of season. The group, led by Poker Jim, carried freshly skinned hides and buckskin. Hunt, the white man, denies involvement, claiming a failed lead to rich quartz. Powell county officers had been notified.
John Cromie and Mrs. Rennick visit Missoula this week as locals discuss new business plans. Fire incidents prompt inquiries into arson while Northern Pacific readies grain cars for a coming crop. Community figures travel for meetings, camping, and mining activity fills the week.
Missoula team prepares for a hoped for visit from Butte after issuing warnings about boasting. The Missoulas have not lost this season and anticipate an easy "letting down" when Butte arrives, noted in today’s standard.
Pulliam Bros. promote Howard’s Bitter Root butter and cheese variety, touting quality and local sourcing for daily use and specialty dishes.
E H McHenry former Northern Pacific chief engineer and W L Darling acting chief engineer traveled by private car attached to the westbound train through Missoula after a stay in Butte. Darling is expected to succeed McHenry as chief engineer. They were met by several friends.
In Missoula on July 25 the land office finished testimony in the land contest between T. H. Hahan and Cyrille Burgeois. Bourgeois testified he has visited the place for five years, sleeping there with his blankets. the contestee asserts the cabin appeared long unoccupied based on its condition.
A new smallpox case is reported at the Palmer home on North Fourth Street in Missoula. The house is quarantined as the 19 year old son improves and a child in the family shows symptoms amid several others in residence. The item notes sale of split bamboo rods with nickel trimming for a dollar at McBride's.
President James J. Hill's special train moved east through Missoula last night as the second section of the delayed No 2. The consist included Hill's private car and two Great Northern cars drawn by a large locomotive.
George King foreman of the Deer Creek Mining Company in De Borgia arrives in Missoula saying ten men are currently working at the placer mines with hopes for additional workers. He notes that many more men are needed to advance operations.
The Nine Mile Mining company plans incorporation next week with 2 placer claims located nine miles from Deer Creek. Mr. King leads the company as manager and Fred Wince will serve as superintendent. The mines have operated about a year focusing on development work.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Morse of Drummond arrested a man giving the name Samuel Steelsene in Missoula on July 25. He was accused as one of four men who looted blankets tools grub and other articles from Joseph Eli's cabin. Morse obtained a $200 bond in Clinton and brought the man to Clinton that evening.
The Missoula school board met in a special session to inspect sanitary conditions at Central school. Radical changes were ordered to greatly improve the building and relieve the unhealthy conditions affecting students.
Missoula reports the Western Montana fair runs October 1 to 4 with a large premium list. The driving club race meeting spans October 2, 3 and 4, with dates fixed and announcements forthcoming.
Alfred S Scott, employed at Bitter Root stock farm trotting department, sues James R Rawlins, county board chair, for 10000 in general damages and 0 special damages. He alleges wrongful confinement in a pesthouse for smallpox exposure causing partial loss of his left eye and wages lost for two months. Rawlins defends that the action was to stop spread after medical examination deemed Scott's case genuine smallpox.
Hamilton records a quiet week with no rail excursion next Sunday due to a coach shortage as local and valley visitors plan to attend. Notables and visitors arrive or depart including McRea in the Drinkenberge-Reinken farm sale, Mrs. Harlan in Butte, and Dr. and Mrs. Murray visiting the Bitter Root stock farm. Local officials, merchants, and family movements feature in a roundup of arrivals, departures, and social notes.
Missoula July 25 An important mining deed was filed with the recorder transferring from Seymour F Stoughton of Plains to Herman Hellst the Seymour Eva Theresa and Carrie quartz lode mining claims near Plains for four thousand five hundred dollars.
Judge Hayes awarded the plaintiff 145 dollars in the Broad Bent Missoula Nursery Co case over a heating plant dispute. The Missoula decision confirms the plaintiff’s entitlement to the amount, enhancing local coverage of the court ruling. Premiums for a four year subscription to the Standard are advertised at the office.
The 15th annual Montana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church meets in Missoula August 7 to 12 with Bishop Charles H. Fowler presiding. Pre-session events include Epworth league rally and song services on August 5 and 6. The program features devotional services, Woman's Missionary societies, receptions, addresses by city and church representatives, and Bishop Fowler’s Abraham Lincoln lecture at the Union opera house.
In Missoula on July 5 a young man calling himself John Miller passed a counterfeit check on Henry Rosendorfer. The same man had previously passed a $20 bad check with a protest fee, marking his second worthless check in ten days.
In Missoula on July 25 a railroad employee named Howard was carried from a Logan train to the railway hospital on a stretcher. He is very ill, with Mrs. Howard by his side, and Dr Spottswood attended a sick passenger on the delayed eastbound train tonight.
In Missoula on July 25 H Jensen clashed with his employer over tools. The boss struck Jensen’s nose and cheek, leaving several facial injuries and marks.
Missoula officials report two ranges stolen from the ruins of the M. M. warehouse during the night. An acting special officer is inspecting the site to stop further looting as owners conduct a systematic search for the missing items.
D C Bigger a shoe clerk at the Golden Rule store was overcome by heat and taken to the hospital. His physician reports spinal meningitis as a diagnosis after the incident in Missoula on July 25.
July 3 report from Denver says 14 year old Jessie Kinport identifies Noy Henningter as her assailant after being choked and found unconscious in a vacant lot. Henningter, age unknown, is under arrest while asserting innocence and a possible alibi. The Kinport family had longtime acquaintance with the suspect.
The small steamer Louie E. running between Tillamook City and Garibaldi went on the Nehalem bar spit today. Seas broke over her, but skipper G. H. Wheeler and passenger Joe Richardson escaped unharmed and the vessel may float free tonight.
George Ek Lawton, astronomer of the United States Naval Observatory, dies in Washington from typhoid fever. The death marks the loss of a noted scientific figure who contributed to celestial research and naval astronomy.
The ad claims most Americans suffer from aspepsia and liver disease with symptoms like sick headache and heartburn. It touts August lower at 75 cents a bottle and two doses as relief. It also advertises Green's Prize Almanac and lists Smith Drug Co in Anaconda and Missoula Drug Co in Missoula, Mont, plus general dealers worldwide.
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