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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1903
Page
7
Daily and Sunday plans listed with annual, semiannual and quarterly prices. Includes rates for daily and Sunday, six months, three months, one month and Sunday only. Main office and contact numbers noted.
Branch offices in Butte Missoula Great Falls and New York Chicago are listed with street addresses and telephone numbers. The entries include Butte 28 East Broadway Missoula 110 West Main Great Falls Post Office News Stand and offices in New York Nassau Street and Chicago Washington Street.
The Standard may be found at various news stands in major cities including New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Portland and Kansas City with locations such as Brentano's Union Square Vanderslice Kavanaugh's Palace Hotel and Salt Lake News Co. Copies are distributed through multiple outlets as listed.
A period editorial notes the sacred conclave of cardinals shares two-thirds voting but differs from a national convention in restraint and silence. Cardinals vote daily in private rooms, remain in prayer, and elect a pope only after a two-thirds consensus.
The piece lauds District Attorney Folk as a pivotal figure in Missouri politics. It notes his indictments of eighteen legislators and the lieutenant governor’s resignation, arguing his anti corruption stance could propel him to the governorship and renew public faith amid national political turmoil.
In St Louis yesterday a judge sentenced five former house of delegates members convicted of taking bribes in connection with legislation. One received six years, three five years, and one four years. The average sentence is five years, questioned as light when compared to states like Montana. The piece criticizes the disparity and notes Deer Lodge could see far longer terms.
Philadelphia papers cite unofficial Pennsylvania tolls of seventy five to one hundred deaths from lockjaw linked to the toy pistol on Independence Day. The North American campaigns against sales cite fatal outcomes and youth defiance of bans amid ongoing fireworks risk.
The piece argues drastic measures to stop toy pistol use, urging prohibition of the dangerous weapon. It notes Montana Fourth of July returns show only one or two lockjaw deaths linked to toy pistols, with possible unreported cases, suggesting further harm from the device.
The article notes limited attention to Blaine’s Pan American railway, with academic interest only. It cites Outlook on intercontinental links, warns progress isn’t rapid, and highlights the isthmian canal as the key catalyst for private development and route links.
In Kansas farmers paused a train to recruit harvest hands offering two to six dollars a day with board. At Russell two Black workers were bid up to three and a quarter dollars daily while a white laborer fetched six dollars in a separate auction in Victoria. The memory recalls a disturbing practice once described in antebellum slavery contexts.
The speaker warns against others claiming a claim on a person and notes shifts in society over the past fifty years regarding slavery or servitude, implying broader social and racial transformation without graphic detail.
A-era column notes many former national figures relocate to New York after leaving office. Henderson of Iowa plans to practice law in the city and follows precedents set by Reed Cleveland Conkling Carlisle and Gage. The piece frames New York as a magnet for ex officials seeking success.
Philadelphia hotels adopt a shared service where a day and night chaplain officiates baptisms weddings funerals and other ceremonies. Connected by telephone to all hotels the clergyman is on call to be ready for any event. The feature mirrors a broader carnival of curious happenings across the era.
A dramatic burst of escape from Folsom Penitentiary involved thirteen convicts led by unnamed ringleaders. Pursuing posses from multiple counties and city officials joined the manhunt within a half hour as sheriffs deputized volunteers to track the逃犯 across the mountains. Names and sentences include M. Miller Fresno burglary 12 years and J. Theron San Francisco life for robbery among others.
Escaped Folsom convicts clash with officers near Pilot Hill Eldorado county after a raid on John Mendis store. Convict Howard dies in the fight while Seabis is wounded. guards Brown and Kiin zendoan escape. Missing convicts Gordon and another may have fled into the woods. Guard Jetter held by the convicts. Harry Wilkinson and ex Sheriff Conroy arrived to join the scene.
An illustrated report places Folsom penitentiary near Sacramento in a rocky amphitheater along the American River. Guards with Gatling guns monitor watch towers while 1,500 inmates labor in stone quarries by day and are confined at night.
Sacramento July 27 Governor Pardee authorizes $100 rewards for the arrest of convicts who escaped from Folsom prison today, on top of the $50 already offered by the state prison commissioners, making a total of $150 per man at large.
Seven Salt Lake club players and manager Reynolds remain at an impasse over a northward trip. The players demand Grim accompany them, while Reynolds enforces a $100 fine on the seven players and Grim and suspends them indefinitely. The league pledges support to Reynolds.
Virginia City July 27 William Long aged 21 has been examined by a board of physicians and pronounced insane. He was committed to the asylum at Warm Springs. The young man is the son of Henry Long of the Ruby valley.
The Billings baseball club returned from Forsyth after a 7 to 1 defeat on Sunday. The dispatch notes Forsyth secured the win for their team in front of a local crowd.
The July term nears end with many cases postponed and appeals from justice courts resolved. Judge Napton notes a lighter docket, and several cases against locals like Conley and Leach see filings and demurrers. The water rights suit against many Deer Lodge valley landowners proceeds as defendants seek removal to Powell county. The term’s last week will discharge the jury.
Mrs. Pozega arriving from Austria swears Matt Pozega of 720 East Third Street is her lawful husband and that he is living with another woman. She says they wed in Austria on June 10 1891 and that Pozega later married Manda Canier in Philipsburg. County Attorney McCaffery filed a bigamy complaint with Justice Hendricks, likely leading to Pozega’s arrest.
White Sulphur Springs July 27 Frank Edwards for Francis Wiley & Co of Boston reports wool clips in the valley the past week W W Bryan 18006 pounds at 154 cents D F E Folum 1000 at 17 cents Johnston Penwell Livestock Co 1000 at 16 cents Len Lewis shearing plant near town closed after shorning 45100 head this season Dorsey plant still running but will close soon having shorn about 73 TM head
Special Dispatch reports 14 wool clips offered with 30 000 pounds sold at averages around 16.21 cents. Largest clip 8 L Potter 37 40 pounds brought 17 1 2 cents. Buyers plan a Fort Benton trip Thursday morning with no sales locally that day.
At Billings on July 27 more than 3,000,000 pounds of wool were sold at good average prices. Tomorrow is expected to be the big day with 49 cars of samples ordered to the warehouse and a late setup at the wool house. Sales included Mrs C A Smith 8,000 pounds at 40.5 cents, Charles Smith 15,009 at 15.4 cents, Buffalo Creek Sheep company 58,000 at 15.5 cents, Forbes Leslie 5,000 at 13.5 cents, Charles Perrine 20,000 at 14.4 cents, George Robertson 15,000 at 14.0 cents, E N Fawords 27,000 at 15.5 cents, Bloomington.
A fragmented auction record lists bidders including L. Fitzpatrick, John Bujnowski, A. J. Barth, J. G. Fraser, Mitchell and others bidding for sheep at various lot sizes and prices ranging from 1 to 16 cents per head, with totals around 20 000 to 54 000 and multiple fractional cent quotes.
Big Timber July 27 The wool market remains quiet after July sales. Thomas Ryley stays to finish sales within 10 days while remaining buyers move on. Day’s sales total 39 000 pounds with top price 15 4 cents. John Forsythe sold 13 000 pounds at 15 cents and Lou's Wirak 10 000 pounds at 15 4 cents.
The Dillon wool market closed with private advances. Henry Thompson sent 8 000 pounds and W B Carter 30 090 pounds to a Philadelphia firm.
Helena July 27 Hillman Crider colored convicted of assault in the third degree sentenced to 90 days in county jail by Justice of the Peace Tibbets Crider chased Will Crider through the streets last week slashing at him from behind with a razor.
Big Timber reports sheriff arrests John De Vries in connection with a stolen horse case in Park county. Sheriff Fallang of Big Timber detained the suspect and Park county authorities moved him to Livingston for processing.
Helena July 27 Edward Mitchell a Helena druggist has been adjudged a bankrupt by Judge Knowles Liabilities total 3524 assets 1563 including 1500 value of stock The case highlights a substantial gap between debts and assets in Mitchells bankruptcy filing.
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