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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1901
Page
7
Butte notes cover piano rentals and tuners, local visitors, business ads, church sermons, lacrosse club plans, public notices, theater and periodical ads, and travel rail rates. Highlights include visits by William Vipond and others, a Fourth of July address in Whitehall, and lacrosse meeting at Conroy O Brien.
The Wyoming oil fields near Crook county are described as rich in asphalt and oil, with 60,000 acres located. R A Weiss recounts discovery after a New Year report by Hildebrand, noting four to six asphalt leads and multiple prospectors, and plans to begin boring to depths up to 4,000 feet. The ridge lies on sagebrush plains ten miles northeast of Moorcroft, with oil-bearing sand strata and echoing optimism about future development.
Two strong from Anaconda join Buttes reinforcing their lineup for this afternoon's game against Bozeman and Livingston consolidated squad. Knox and Schill from Anaconda solidify the defense while Miley McDonough and Freeman bolster Livingston connections. Hammond departs Livingston for Dillon.
A company of Butte singers and players who produced The Gondoliers at the Grand opera house will travel to Anaconda on Tuesday to perform at the Margaret theater that night. The cast remains the same except Eloise Kingsley of Anaconda will star as the queen, replacing Finnegan who has gone East. The production is directed by Charlotte Best.
Dr W W Keen of Jefferson College Philadelphia, famed surgeon and anatomist, arrived with his two daughters from Yellowstone park and will tour around the world. He spoke on western doctors at a Butte gathering last night and departed this afternoon toward the coast on his world voyage with plans to remain away for months.
A Rostopff based report to the Austro Hungarian government outlines how compulsory military service, land restrictions, and rising costs erode Cossack livelihoods. It notes loss of common land, shift to private property, railway impact, and failing reform attempts threaten the Don Cossack institution.
Mrs May E Kendrick of Brooklyn reportedly earned around five hundred thousand dollars in a stock surge, largely from Amalgamated Copper and Western trunks. She stayed calm during volatility, waited to sell, and plans to use her profits to help others.
Mrs John Tobin aged 34 died Thursday. Funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence 714 North Wyoming Street.
The funeral for George Bier will be held today at 1 p.m. from the National Undertakers parlors. Calanthe Temple Rathbone Sisters plan a card party on Tuesday evening June 18 at Odd Fellows hall West Broadway. Admission 25 cents.
Work will resume Monday morning at the Blue Jay Berkeley and Silver Bow mines of the Butte and Boston company. The mines have been suspended for weeks due to the shutdown of the Butte and Boston smelter.
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