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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1901
Page
5
The piece explains why large plated ware remains expensive compared with high grade silver. Base metal costs little, plating adds tiny weight, so top quality plated tea sets run 35 to 40 dollars while solid silver equivalents run 175 to 300 dollars. It promises an attractive window display of plated ware this week.
Three inmates joined Peter Dempsey in a premeditated escape from the Butte jail while jailer J P Grant was distracted at breakfast. Dempsey, Schrickengost, and Healey fled after unlocking the outer door. Shafer aided by locking the door behind them, and Healey was last seen heading east on Granite. Police pursue across Montana. Dempsey regarded as certain to die on the gallows.
A 50 room steam heated miners hotel near downtown is offered for 2500 dollars, newly papered and painted with furniture in good condition, and includes a fine saloon and bar fixtures. Reynolds and M'Dowell at No 46 EF Broadway Butte handle the listing.
Harry Manitaras, 24, died yesterday. The remains are at Dug-San's undertaking rooms with no funeral arrangements yet. White waists and linen skirts advertised by New York Shirt Waist Co. at Dan Tewey's Southern hotel described as a continual round of pleasure.
Prison escape at the county institution freed three notorious inmates as dawn broke on a Sunday. Deputy Kirby pursued them within twenty minutes, while Shafer stayed behind, aided by guards and a jailer, and detail of the breakout emerged in an interview. Thomas Hatch attempted to swallow compromising letters during a struggle with officers.
W. D. Snyder was arrested in March 1899 by James Leyden in this city after police, with secret service aid, found 56 counterfeit dollars on him in a California brewery saloon where he listened to a girl sing. Snyder used the alias Gus Schrickenges and stayed about two weeks. room search yielded no incriminating items.
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