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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Sandard is at 21 East Broadway. telephone 422. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
Butte notes list Espina urges for life prolongation, many visitors including J G Bates Montana Music Co, F N Wild Basin Progress editor, and George Wellcome real estate man. Mentions: Dan McDonald Miner’s Union address in Marysville, Sennett Moyle wedding, Seno Moyle and Miss Charlotte Fay McLaughlin marry, Portland baseball club staying at Finlen, new dentist offices, and NP electric sleeper details. City social items mix with business trips, licenses, and real estate activity.
A Pretoria proclamation substitutes a 10 percent tax on mining profits for the previous 5 percent levy of the late Volksraad. The change expands the tax base and updates the mining fiscal regime.
Stockholders of Basin and Bay State Mining meet today to decide proposals to lease or sell all or part of the Katy mine property and the new mill and smelter. Experts say the costly plant will be hard to turn profitable, and strong opposition from some stockholders suggests little action will occur.
Charles Collette, convicted last Friday of criminal intimacy with Annie Keefe by Judge Arnold, was jailed for 36 days after bondsmen withdrew on learning of a repeated offense and another warrant. Annie Keefe, arrested on vagrancy, was released on promise to reform as Collette's wife seeks a divorce.
The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railway announces a cheap 80 cent round trip from Butte to Gregson Springs and back. Tickets valid from Saturday noon to Monday noon both directions. Natatorium open day and night allowing a swim for 25 vents. E. Granite no kick on Mullave.
Manager McCloskey said Butte will keep out of the Portland and Tacoma protest against umpire Mullane and denied any kick against him. He praised Mullane as a good and fair officiary for the game.
A quoted fan defends an umpire amid crowd interference at a game. The speaker urges fair treatment for all and calls for equal handling of everyone involved without protest.
An unidentified insane man, Charles Simpson, ran through Miles City with a large knife chasing cattleman John Carter. Sheriff W E Savage and Officer Kennedy pursued and captured him. Simpson, a stranger, was ordered committed to the Warm Springs asylum after a magistrate hearing.
The Manhattan company brings the melodrama From Sire to Son to the Grand for Thursday Friday and Saturday shows with a Saturday matinee. It is billed as the most elaborate production yet and offers a bargain matinee on Saturday.
Lincoln school will unveil a bust of Lincoln this afternoon at 3 o clock. The event includes songs and readings such as America and Sketch of Lincoln by Drea Johnstone and Lincoln's Endurance by Catharine Weeston. John Wharton will present Lincoln's Dedication Speech at Gettysburg and Lincoln's Speech on Temperance. Mrs Speer presents the statue and Miss HB Downey accepts.
The Turk known as Mourahala pledges to throw any five men in one hour or forfeit 100 dollars. He offers 25 dollars to anyone who can hold him off 15 minutes. John Lebau plans to pit Tony Harris Tom Dundon Jack Martin Crawford White and a fifth opponent against the challenger.
A customer asks if the agency stays open to midnight and is told yes, you can gain admittance any hour. A late arriving client can see the manager, get counsel, and leave town without missing work, by entering the 21 2 Owsley block office in Butte Montana.
Trial in Judge Clancy's court ended with the jury awarding the defendant $10 on four counter claims in the action by Eschle Heating and Plumbing against W. F. Winters for a balance on a job at 212 South Washington street. Attorneys were W. A. Pennington and J. N. Kirk.
Rail specials include St Paul Minneapolis round trip 24.50 with May 31 depart and 60 day return. Travel to St Paul Minneapolis Duluth West Superior Sioux City 42, Chicago 53 59, St Louis 49 50 and other eastern points at low rates. Depart June 7 8 10 14 16 to Sept 15 return. Minneapolis round trip 34 50 with July 4 5 6 go and return by Sept 1. For details visit Great Northern Ticket office 41 North Main Butte.
Great Falls June 10. Highland and Calvary cemeteries may gain water access soon. J P Lewis seeks bids to sink a well with guaranteed water, offering contracts at reasonable prices. George Berthold notes mains from city would cost about 5000 dollars, proposing a well with a windmill or tank as the solution.
United States labor commissioner Carroll D Wright has secured the information President Roosevelt sought on the anthracite miners strike. Wright will present an official report explaining the root causes without making recommendations. He notes soft coal contracts could trigger a strike that would forfeit unions’ public sympathy and weaken future arbitrations. President Mitchell returned to Wilkes-Barre.
Helena residents anticipate the Butte based Overland minstrels as about 80 prominent local youths form the Smoky City hit of the season. The performance is listed for Saturday evening June 14 with special Northern Pacific rates to Portland and Tacoma for round trips. inquiries directed to W. H. Merriman, General Agent, N P Ry, Butte.
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