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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1902
Page
14
A brief notice directs visitors to Missoula Nursery greenhouses or to call the city store, with a location on Hierina Avenue for access or inquiries.
Missoula June 2. Mr Read of the Horticultural Society states the Bitter Root valley berry crop will be only about one fourth of normal. The Fruitgrowers Union abandons plans to handle the crop and shifts to direct shipment from growers to consumers. Despite the shortage, there will be plenty of berries for the market.
Two water right suits were filed in Missoula district court. Frank Nelson sues John Ringuette and Fred Hammond over Union creek water allotments claiming 159 inches and that the water is being withheld. KE Markwell and others near Careton seek 100 inches from Maple creek with a separate action.
President Ives of the state trades and labor council reports from the Coeur d Alene districts that the large mill at Lothrop operates with a full crew and the planer is active. Contractor Graham has workers on the water works project expected to finish before cold weather.
Firemen plan their annual dance at the Union opera house on July 4 with decorations and many tickets already sold. The event is set to celebrate the holiday in Missoula.
Missoula school board met June 23 and conducted routine business. Several bills were presented for payment totaling several hundred dollars.
Bids for relocating the central school annex to block 54 of the school section were opened. Offers came from N Colcombe 175 dollars E B Fountain 400 dollars and Joseph Michaud 325 dollars. The board took no action on awarding the contract. Also thanks from Rev and Mrs J W Bennett for sympathy after a bereavement expressed to many friends including church members.
Joseph Trahant an ex convict faces multiple charges after a Sunday spree in Missoula. He is accused of robbing Paul James of over $20 at Capitol deer hall and stealing several bicycles. He pleaded not guilty in Justice Hayes' court and awaits a preliminary examination tomorrow.
W T Newton of Ohio fourth vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen arrived in Missoula to recall the local lodge charter. Members say the action stems from the lodge's independent strike during a recent dispute with the railway company.
In Missoula on June 23 a contest began in the United States land office with H. K. Westerman challenging Joseph Draper’s Lolo homestead entry. Westerman claims prior settlement rights. Draper is represented by Attorney Evans and Westerman by Robert Fisher.
At a Clerks' union gathering in Missoula on June 23 Reuben Dwight was chosen president with Charles Franklin as vice president Charles Hartman as secretary Isaac Abbott as financial secretary and M R Hardenberg as treasurer Committees were formed to review members patronizing Chinese restaurants The Fourth of July will be a full legal holiday.
Dr. Wilson, Dr. Westbrook of Minnesota, Dr. Buckley, and others traveled from Missoula to Stevensville to examine a suspected spotted fever case. They will stay a day or more to monitor symptoms and watch the case closely.
Joseph J. Hindson eminent grand commander of the Knights Templars visits Missoula with Mrs Hindson. He paid the local lodge an official visit to the nehe and the attendance was large. Light refreshments followed the opening and closing of the lodge. He was much pleased with the visit here.
Two men were thrown from a wagon on Toole Avenue in Missoula during a runaway incident. Oscar Fechter and a companion stopped the team from Joseph Nagle. The frightened horses overturned the buggy at the 4 corner, injuring one rider.
Complaints were filed against several citizens in the justice court of William Hayes alleging they will not pay their road tax. Similar suits are expected against others if payments are not made within a reasonable time as city officers press to collect the tax.
Missoula June 23 Idlewild is a wooded dell near Fish creek where two prospectors, living in a two story log dwelling, received Miss Kate Shelley and Mrs. Marshall as visitors who named it Idlewild The place long owned by Young and Williams for nine years is praised as one of Montana s prettiest spots A sale ad offers a six room modern residence at Main and Madison with 989x100 feet of grounds and highly improved surroundings
Missoula June 23 James H Cowan of Corvallis is in the city securing Marshall and Stiff to defend him in a $2000 suit brought by James Hayes alleging his wife’s affections.
Missoula reporter notes deputy state game and fish warden Arthur BE Higgins traveled to Hamilton this afternoon. Russell, arrested and charged with killing a deer out of season, will face examination before Justice Morris tonight, with Higgins ready to testify about the arrest. Split bamboo rods priced at $1 at McBride's.
Missoula journal reports Mr. McKinney, a noted local mining man, sent word of a rich placer claim near De Roria. The ground yielded 40 cents per pan, indicating promising prospects.
J C C Burton left Missoula for Stevensville to tend J W Kennedy who lives on a west side ranch. Kennedy, former clerk of the state supreme court, is reported to be suffering from appendicitis.
Frank Mayne road master of the Coeur d'Alene branch of the Northern Pacific presented to the Northern Pacific club diary a set of Ridpath's History of the World for the Railway Club in Missoula on June 23.
Missoula dated June 23 reports Gilbert Lewis confined to his north side home and seriously ill with typhoid fever.
Special correspondence reports Dan McDonald gravely ill at Stevensville with spotted fever. The case supports local experts' theory on the disease as researchers probe the region.
Justice Hayes presided at a wedding in his chamber at City Hall this afternoon. Norman R. Robert aged 3 and Elida Cecelia Swenson aged 20 were united in marriage. Harry Howard served as best man and Nora Welf as bridesmaid. The engaged parties work at the Change concert hall.
City Treasurer Walter Hogan will pay all road fund warrants registered before June 4, 1902 in Missoula on June 24. Interest on these warrants ceases after June 4.
The funeral for the late Mrs Harry Haven will be held tomorrow at 2 30 PM from the home at Waverly and Cooper streets. Friends are invited to attend.
An important meeting of the Fourth of July celebration committee will be held Tuesday night in the Missoula club rooms. Those interested are urged to attend for a large gathering and planning.
The Treble Clef club of Missoula holds its final meeting at the home of Mrs Hiram Knowles on Thursday June 23.
The article reports a disease introduced via woodticks with germs carried by several ticks. McDonald was bitten about two days before illness. Sunday excursion participants included Missoula crack shots aiming to duel Hamilton at Blue Rocks, whom they defeated again. Harry Patten took over management of Rankin barber shop in Missoula.
Miss Leta Price of Helena visits Stevensville as guest of Mrs. G. W. Samuels. H. C. Stoddard came from Missoula to see his ill mother. Miss Clara Rich of Missoula and Mrs. George T. Baggs visit Mr. and Mrs. John Dowling. Maude and Ruth Smith of Helena visit Mrs. J. G. Sharp for the summer. Rev. D. B. Price returns to Helena. Alberta Samuels travels with him to visit relatives. Grand Master George F. Sharp attends Masonic lodge.
Jane Toppan, a nurse, was found not sane but insane for life after a six hour trial over the murder by poison of Mrs. Gibbs at Cataumet on Aug 1, 1901. The case also touched several other deaths among patients she nursed in Cambridge and Lowell.
The Retail Butchers' Protective association announces a new company named the Retail Butchers' Abattoir to counter the beef trust. It has 1 million dollars in capital, two thirds subscribed, led by Edward F. O'Neil. West drovers will supply 20 cattle weekly, with New York demand at 10 000 to 15 000 head. The venture already has 450 Greater New York retail butchers pledged.
President H M Oliphant of the Delaware and Hudson company says Mitchell's statement is misleading and that there will be no arbitration. He asserts mines will reopen with striking workers and no strike leader can keep them out. Thomas F Flower of the New York Ontario and Western has no comment due to not yet reading Mitchell's remarks.
Yale commencement reports Senator Henry Cabot Lodge warning that electing senators by direct popular vote would trigger proportional representation and a constitutional revolution. He cites Ellsworth’s advocacy for state equality and cautions that abolishing the Senate’s balance would centralize power.
In a Brooklyn Eagle narrative a Western girl at an Eastern resort flouts chaperonage norms. She ignores a matron guarding propriety, introduces a Denver man, and debates marriage as wealth or instalment-style bargaining. The exchange highlights differing regional attitudes toward chaperones and courtship.
In Kamyschin district along the Volga marriages are purchased with prices from 25 to 100 dollars. Fathers haggle over sums while the bride’s family gains from the sale. A poor farmer cannot marry if his father cannot pay.
A dancing bear escaped its restraint in Mauch Chunk and snatched Margaret Courtright from a crowd of watching children. Spectators and a keeper chased the beast as it dragged the girl along the street. The bear dropped the child and fled but was captured. she endured fear with only minor scratches and bruises.
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