Real estate market in Butte shows steady gains and new builds
The week saw ground broken for a new YMCA building and several new houses in East Park street while permits issued covered frame bungalows, a flat building, and a brick store. Dealers report steady activity, awaiting the first draft and predicting a banner year with population growth fueling real estate demand.
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Young Men's Christian Association
East Park Street
Butte
Blanche Cutts
Hobson Street
William G. Burke
Antimony Street
John Minger
West Silver Street
J. H. Rasmussen
South Chrystal Street
Ed Burns
Simpson Street
Thomas
Salt Lake City Builds Bull Pen for German Prisoners
Salt Lake City plans a double fenced bull pen to house 1,200 German prisoners with guard towers searchlights and new barracks for 1,000 additional soldiers. Liberty loan bonds attract strong bids from Col. EB Wall Mat Cullem and D C Jackling while registration day proceeds quietly and rumors touch church officials’ possible large subscriptions. Brandenberg tours Butte Helena and Great Falls.
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Salt Lake City
L. Brandenberg
Salt Lake
Col. EB. A. Wall
Mat Cullem
D.C. Jackling
Utah Copper Company
Liberty
Mormon Church
Brandenberg
Butte
Helena
Great Falls
Lynch Law Adopted by Peasants in Kharkhay Vicinity
Reports from Petrograd via London say peasants in towns and villages near Kharkhay have invoked lynch law with good effect to curb theft. Organized bands once protected by the old police system now mete out whipping as the common punishment for lesser offenses including selling home-made intoxicants.
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Petrograd
London
Kharkhay
General McIntyre Becomes Chief Military Censor
Washington June 8 Brig. Gen. Frank McIntyre head of the Insular Bureau of the War Department formally assumed additional duties as chief military censor relieving Maj Douglas MacArthur of the general staff who will devote himself to regular staff duties.
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Washington
Frank McIntyre
Insular Bureau
War Department
Douglas McArthur
General Staff
Prospectors seek relief on assessment work bill
Butte district miners press congress for reconsideration of Senator Walsh’s bill to exempt or modify the $100 annual labor requirement on each mining claim. J F Wert notes war needs and labor shortages, arguing labor could aid munition production, while prospectors who perform in the nation’s interest should not be penalized by current rules.
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Butte
Congress
Walsh
Washington Street
Man Fined For Violation Of Eight Hour Law
F. Vernakis was fined 40 dollars in Justice Doran court for violating the eight hour law for women by forcing Effie Bro a waitress to work from 8 p m to 6 a m totaling ten hours. He pleaded not guilty at first then pleaded guilty and paid the fine. A second matter saw John Turia held to district court on bonds of 1000 for forging Arno Huhtala's name on assignment papers and attempting to draw money. Interpreters were needed for Finnish witnesses. F N Webster Milwaukee road official is in Butte on official business.
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F. Vernakis
Court of Justice
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Home Book of
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White Flyer Laundry
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Zoe
Willian
Bourgois
Sale
Women’s Union Saity
Children’s Union
iSe
San Francisco
Cormoran
Guam
United States
California
Tofay
Bull Pen
Cretonnes
Dis- Price Court
F.N. Webster
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
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