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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
14
A clothing buyer has chosen three lots of young men suits on sale this week. Prices are cut to near wholesale and the suits offer style fit and durability. A smart chance for parents to save money and for young men to leave more cash in their pockets after purchase.
Missoula reports Chief of Police Larson received two letters from people asking about missing relatives. One letter seeks information on a presumed 90 plus father last seen in 1889 after a wander through Oregon and Montana. The other asks about an uncle named Daniel Peterson lost about 20 years ago, believed to have worked on a railroad in Chicago, Burlington & Quincy territory.
Missoula report says A. R. Garman, described as strong to the strong men class, lifted a 420 pound barrel of lard from a wagon to a kitchen in Grass Valley. Several heavier men could not budge the barrel, highlighting his unusual strength. Mail orders go to Colden Rule in Missoula.
Filed for Record Missoula June 17 in the clerk and recorder’s office a deed transfers lot 20 in block 56 of the School addition from the state to M Cummings for 104 dollars. Deed Benjamin F Housman of Idaho to M Cummings in Missoula county for 1 dollar. Harry Patten takes over management of Rankin barber shop in Missoula after helping create the tensorial parlors at the Finlen hotel in Butte.
A local Missoula physician notes 14 births since March 1 with 5 boys and 9 girls, suggesting births in the county skew toward female babies. Also advertised are home cured hams bacon at Dally's, and a visit to Missoula Nursery greenhouses or city store on Higgins avenue.
In Missoula on June 17 the university summer school reports 41 students, many teachers pursuing special lines like experimental physiology physics biology mathematics. Regular students work to gain extra credits while others clear prerequisites for September classes.
Walter McDonald was fined $10 by Judge Hays this afternoon for resorting to houses of lewd resort. He paid the fine.
Missoula wedding unites William R. Brennan of Lothrop and Miss McDonald of Husson. Rev. Walter Hays officiates. Newlyweds plan immediate departure with Brennan to return to Lothrop in a few days and Mrs Brennan to Husson.
James McGinniss of Thompson Falls died at Sisters' hospital Missoula from consumption after years of illness. A bookkeeper by trade and husband and father, he had sought relief in Arizona before returning to Missoula for hospice care. The notice notes his earlier nomination for county auditor by Democrats and the related court dispute over eligibility.
In a frenzied land rush near Pocatello six-hundred man stampedes, relays of horses, and crowded trains marked filing day for Topaz ranch and the Bob Smith claim. Mulen and Dekay led a swift 41 mile run, while others battled to reach Blackfoot as 27 filings were logged amid crowding and narrow escapes.
The man seen near Clinton on June 17 as a possible Charles Thompson, the Deer Lodge penitentiary escapee, is identified as someone else. Witnesses say the suspect does not fit the escaped convict’s description and he was not harmed.
The county board decides to rebuild the Harlan bridge over Ritter Root in Como with a wood and iron design, widening to a 16 foot roadway and new timber. A July 7 special meeting will award the contract. Coroner Adair conducts an inquest in Stevensville for James Linscott who was shot yesterday. Harry Place leaves the Hamilton team. Charley MecMurphy takes his place at short. Heman Gleason buys 105 acres near Corvallis for 4500. For sale: 94x10 foot six room residence at Main and Madison, with improvements. apply to Wolf & Ryman.
Chicago and Bangor reports from June 17 show Democratic and other party nominations for Congress. John D. Fitzburn is nominated by the Democratic convention in the Tenth district in Chicago. In Bangor Maine nominations are listed for the Third district Elliott Benson, Democrat Fourth district Thomas White Democrat Second district Charles W Littlefield Republican renominated.
The Illinois Democratic State Convention at Machinery Hall nominated John L. Pickering for Clerk of the Supreme Court, George W. Duddleton for State Treasurer, Anson L. Bliss for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, J. A. White, and S. Paxton for Trustees of the State University. John P. Hopkins was re-elected chairman after a bitter fight with Carter Harrison, a clash marked by passionate speeches, personal barbs, and a final Hopkins win 862 to 397. The platform endorses anti trust enforcement, tariff revision, and Philippine policy while condemning imperial measures and supporting civil service and public utilities reform.
In Sacramento Eldorado and Placer counties a grasshopper plague grows each hour. Sacramento County supervisors ordered burning of pasture land where insects gather and sent deputy sheriffs to enforce. The state board seeks authority. Attorney General Ford confirms only the governor holds power to take drastic measures to curb the plague.
P M Reilly and Company operates as a grocer with a five cent wine item noted along with Thibodeau and Lee in the listing. The fragmentary notice points to a period advertisement or trade listing.
Special Agent Dr Chadwick of the department of the interior visited Missoula to auction ties seized from Harry Wiper on the Coeur d Alene. With no receiver present to take payments the sale will be postponed until a designated receiver is appointed to handle proceeds beyond land transactions.
The Foresters of America elected officers tonight in Missoula led by Chief Ranger G. Dunham and Senior Chief Ranger R. Johnson. Other posts named include Treasurer J. B. Olson and Financial Secretary W. J. Johnston with Recording Secretary T. N. Brown, Senior Woodward H. Lehr, Junior Woodward O. Nibley, and Senior Bergle A. Newman. installation set for July 1 by Grand Junior Woodward J. A. Morrelles.
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