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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1902
Page
10
The event lists daily races starting at 3 p.m. Street cars go directly to the track while Columbia Garden cars will transfer. Admission is $1. Officers include Hugh Wilson as president Tan Frank as secretary Joseph A Murphy as presiding judge Ralph H Tozer as associate judge.
A bustling track card featured favorites dominant but tight finishes. Names such as Lake Mills Frank Woods Virgie Oz Clover and Duffy plus a dramatic jockey incident colored the day as horses contested multiple races including a perilous stretch, a silver cup trophy, and a crowd buzzing with wagers and excitement.
Yesterday’s results list Delmar meets with five to six and a half furlong races. Latunk, Verity, Harry Grimm, Clyde, Mabel Winn and Varner among winners with several second and third place finishes. Brighton Beach cards include Pepper, John Al Beott, Coweswell, Cuapidor, Afrikander and Mount Kisco securing victories with multiple place results and times noted.
Pacific Northwest League matchups include Butte at Portland and Helena at Tacoma. National League games feature New York at Brooklyn, Philadelphia at Boston, Cincinnati at Chicago, Pittsburgh at St Louis, New Jersey at length, Cleveland at Baltimore, Chicago at Washington, St Louis at Philadelphia, and Detroit at Boston.
July meeting results feature May Glaeau winning the Liverpool Cup with Adaber aboard. Congratulation, Fighting Pure, and six others completed the field. Additional wins include the prolife sevear cold stakes and the Merry stakes. In golf, Exmoor Golf Club captains Chandler Egan and Abram Poole Jr compete. Egan wins the Raven Oaks Cup by two up amid large crowds.
A county clerk statement shows total hospital and poor house costs reaching 31 921 98 by July 15. The building cost 37 457 40 and the reservoir, pipeline and sewer accounted for 4 464 58.
Witnesses identify bullion from the Granite-Bimetallic Consolidated mill at Philipsburg as belonging to the Masonic era case. John Boyd, former night watchman, faces charges of stealing several thousand dollars in bullion. testimony traces shortages from June to August 1898 and links delivery to Mayer at Butte.
President Dan McDonald of the American Labor union announced the referendum result on a proposal to start an official newspaper. The union vote showed 115 in favor and 98 against, with a small tax to fund the paper and next steps for establishing offices and directing staff.
J L Lamb, a Chinese weather and astronomical observer, reports astrological readings and lantern festival insights. Local readers await interpretations of celestial alignments affecting harvests and market days.
Convicted murderers Charles Lennox and James Martin, who killed J B Williams, are set to learn if they receive death sentences at 10 a m. Judge McClellnar will preside. Lennox’s defense plans a possible stay of sentence pending appeal, while Lennox and Martin remain unaware of any further actions. Teanex, who testified for the state, says he will fight the case to the end and expects a supreme court appeal.
At 1 o'clock yemeraay morning two men with faces partly concealed by handkerchiefs entered the Clarence House bar on East Park street and held up the barkeeper Thomas Kelther. They took the cash register contents, about two dollars. The two other people in the room were unarmed and unable to interfere.
In Helena on July 21 a divorce was granted to Alvira Goss from John Goss on grounds of failure to support. The couple wed at Chateau in July 1885. The court awarded custody of their four year old child to the mother.
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