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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1921
Page
1
Six people were killed when a tramway car from a Colorado plant plunged hundreds of feet into a gulch. Rescue crews battled hazards as the accident sparked investigations into equipment failure and safety practices across the region.
Six men were killed and six others injured when a tramway car cable slipped at the Schuyler Doyle Shale plant near Grand Junction Colorado. The car plunged down a gulch 2000 feet below as workers started from the plant toward the valley. Bodies were found along the tram line route. The scene is three miles north of Grand Valley and 45 miles from Grand Junction along Parachute creek. Most of the dead were foremen.
In Denver on July 30 Pilot Rose Poland of Cameron Missouri and George Singer a Denver auto figure were killed when their Italian plane crashed at takeoff during a 24 mile handicap race at an air carnival under Sons of Colorado auspices. The race was won by Pilot Paul Meng as other pilots continued.
Fifteen people were sent to hospitals after a series of sewer explosions in downtown Minneapolis. Flames surged from manholes as a short circuit in an electric power cable sparked the blasts near Sixth Street and Nicollet Avenue. Police struggled to keep onlookers away while fire crews fought the blaze.
Committees from the clerks union the butchers union and the chamber of commerce will meet at 2 p m in the clerks union office to plan a Columbia gardens picnic on Commercial Day August 18 This marks the first joint effort between the unions for a picnic holiday with music dancing and old fashioned sports including a peanut race greased pig race base ball and more officials expect chamber president Paul A Gow to participate in humorous events and races
Dr. N Hayashi of Nosoya arrived in Helena to study Rocky Mountain spotted fever and its fever infected districts. He will be joined by assistant Dr. N Takeuchi and proceed to Butte tonight then to the Bitter Root valley.
Helena July date reports an effort to add the livestock industry to a federal agricultural credits bill. Thomas A. Marlow, Helena banker and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis directorate chair, urged Montana lawmakers to back the amendment. Senator Walsh stated he already supports including livestock men and agriculturists in the measure to extend producer financial assistance on reasonable terms.
A telegram to the Standard reports Aviator Prest and mechanician L M Bach arrived in Butte about 9 am after seven hours there. They continued toward Helena on the Polar Bear, flying at high altitude and sighted on the western horizon at 8 45 pm. The craft resembled a white bird as it passed Martfield near Butte before landing in Anaconda en route to Helena.
Associated Press reports in Chicago July 30 that David Mi ex owned by Mrs Margaret Christian 60 was judged a nuisance. The two dogs were condemned to be killed by a justice of the peace after being deemed public nuisances.
Helena July 30 The Montana statute limiting the number of fish one person may catch and the pounds limit is plain says Attorney General Rankin in response to Parcells county attorney of Stillwater County Parcells sought interpretation The AG states no person may catch more than 50 fish or more than 25 pounds of fish regardless of weight Bozeman
A mountain lion was spotted in the upper gulch behind Dr. Scott's ranch near the Northern Pacific tracks east of Butte. Farmers fear for W. H. Pierce's 100 goats valued from 75 to 250 dollars each as the lion stalked a horse near the track area. Louis Sternock reported the sighting at Schumacher's on Park Street.
Senator Joseph I. France of Maryland, returning from Moscow to Riga, reports factories in Soviet Russia still operate and farms prosper where not stricken by famine. He notes potential trade, hoarding optimism over relations with the United States, and recounts the release of Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison of Baltimore by his efforts. The senator envisions expert exchanges to aid industrial and agricultural recovery.
In New Orleans on July 39 James Bishop, driven by starvation, began to eat his own flesh and was found by post office workers. He was taken to the charity hospital with abrasions on his forearms from chewing.
Dublin dispatch reports the Irish republican parliament is expected to meet next Thursday or Friday, according to a Westminster Gazette alert. The AP dispatch notes London sources indicate the session may convene amid ongoing political tensions.
The crown attorney announced the release of John J. Egan and Patrick Higgins pending a habeas corpus appeal and related contempt orders. A master of the rolls stayed an attachment against Gen Sir Newitt MacReady and Maj Gen Sir Edward Strickland for noncompliance with writs demanding production of Egan and Higgins, linked to a death sentence for Egan in Dimerick last June over ammunition possession and alleged bush activity at Clonult.
Mrs. A A Billings of Oconemewee Wisconsin fainted in her son’s embrace at a raiso road station this afternoon and died an hour later from heart trouble. The incident was reported by ed Pres Livingston at July 30 Betterment meeting.
Weather brief notes a planned heat spike for the week with high temperatures and humidity. Forecasters caution for outdoor activity and urge hydration.
San Francisco July 30 A campaign to raise one million dollars for promoting the study of American history was launched at a Knights of Columbus supreme assembly session ahead of the next week’s convention. Grand prizes include two thousand five hundred dollars and five prizes of one thousand dollars for essays on subjects set by the national historical commission. History professors, college students, and researchers in the Americas and Canada are eligible to compete. over 25,000 members are expected at the convention.
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