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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard published daily by Standard Publishing Company with proprietors listed. Printed year round and entered at the Anaconda Post Office as second class mail matter.
Daily and Sunday rates listed with monthly and advance payment options. Includes phrases Daily end Sunday per month and six month and one year terms. Mentions office blocks and telephone numbers for business and editorial rooms.
The Standard is sold at multiple news stands nationwide including Brentano's Union Square New York Auditorium Annex Chicago Kavanaugh's Minneapolis Palace Hotel San Francisco Hotel St Francis and other venues in Denver Salt Lake City Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City Business letters go to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
War dispatches hint at ongoing peace negotiations in the Manchurian region as Field Marshal Oyama readies actions Japan hopes will pressure czarist leaders. Russian gossip suggests no one near Vladivostok believes the coming land battle will be avoided.
The interior minister clarifies the emperor's public speech, denying any plan for constitutional reform. He insists Russia will remain autocratic with no signs of modifying fundamental laws, warning that promises of civil liberty would come only despite the czar, not with his help.
The Milwaukee mayor invites Russia and Japan to send plenipotentiaries to arrange peace terms noting Milwaukee can provide unrivaled comfort. The Milwaukee Sentinel jokes that rival sites offer less advantage and cautions that discomfort from pests and poor facilities could delay negotiations.
A local sentiment argues Milwaukee should host the Russia Japan peace talks, claiming beer culture and hospitality will foster cordial deliberations. The piece cites Kentucky bourbon versus Milwaukee beer as a metaphor for temperament and outcome, urging officials to come without price.
After months abroad Secretary Hay returns to Washington and then spends time at his summer home. He had left duties ill but is reported well, though questions remain about his health and ability to stay at his desk. The piece compares him to Jim Bludso from Hay’s poetry and notes lingering public doubt about his vigor at sixty seven.
A Moscow widow sues a Russian general for 40000 in damages claiming his retirement orders caused the death of her husband, an inferior officer, in battle. She offers proof of the detachment's destruction due to the general forgetting them, risking heavy judgments against blundering generals. The case hinges on wartime responsibility and potential compensation.
A reader notes increasing awareness among Russians of front line incompetence and criticizes the government and its grafting blunderers, expressing bitter resentment toward authorities blamed for wartime failures.
The Roosevelt prompted plan uses the census bureau to survey marriage and divorce laws across states. It aims to craft a national code or push for a constitutional amendment, with state and county officials aiding the data gathering. The effort last occurred in 1889 and seeks a coherent national framework.
The Montana state board of pardons today upheld Governor Toole's pardon for Eric Michaelson, convicted in 1903 of stealing and dynamiting a safe in Flathead county. The board found no fair trial and the conviction based on suspicious evidence only, noting tracks and shoe similarity to the defendant. Michaelson had served four years and had been in Kalispell recently with no clear employment.
The piece highlights William Watt, new director at the Dusseldorf Science and Art Institute, a Port Glasgow native rising without privilege. It notes Philadelphia aldermen as native Americans, Mayor Weaver as the lone foreign-born figure, and traces Thomas F. Ryan’s rise from Virginia to leadership at Equitable. It includes a Holmes anecdote, Governor Alonzo Garedon’s 92nd birthday, and a curious typography error cited by Laurence Hutton.
A remark praises James Lenox for his vast bequests, stating New York has been greatly enriched by the receipt of his vest buttons and other gifts. The commentary reflects on Lenox's lasting contributions to the city’s cultural legacy.
James William Lowther, chosen as speaker, hails from an ancient English lineage linked to the Earls of Lonsdale. A Penrith MP since 1883, he is grandson of the first Earl and shares birth year with the current heir, while noted early for amateur acting and caricature skills.
Suzuki reports Anopheles mosquitoes can hibernate and survive to 7 C. He collected 186 female mosquitoes between Jan 20 and Apr 1, and after being bitten on Mar 8, developed malaria symptoms by Mar 24 with blood showing numerous parasites on Apr 1.
New York Mayor McClellan has leased his Washington Square residence for a four year term, the length of the mayoral tenure under the new law. A New York citizen questioned the mayor's finances, and an intimate friend replied that he could have been rich but remains honest.
On health board advice the government requires daily disinfection of confessionals in all capital churches with fines and imprisonment for noncompliance. The measure is described as essential to prevent disease spread during epidemics and will extend from Guadalajara nationwide.
Public appeal issued by the memorial committee requests New Yorkers to donate to a memorial entrance to Central Park at Seventh Avenue and One Hundred and Tenth Street. Estimated cost ranges from 75 000 to 100 000 dollars with 50 000 already appropriated by the board of estimate.
Court gossip across Europe points to Princess Eva of Battenberg as the most probable bride for Prince Eitel Kaiser's second son. The 17 year old, praised for her simplicity, won the prince's affection during a recent England visit and is expected to inherit substantially from her godmother, ex Empress Eugenie.
The Indianapolis News cites a Gloucester ship built circa 1713 by Capt. Andrew Robinson as the source of the term schooner. A bystander exclaimed “Oh, how she scoons” and Robinson replied “A schooner let her be.” The name, though Dutch in spelling, became the common English term.
Schuyler F. Herron, former Northampton Mass public schools superintendent, is named superintendent of the American School association of the City of Mexico. The English speaking colony includes about 8,000 American and British residents and oversees local education.
Tulare Lake in California is completely dry due to irrigation canals draining Kern and King rivers. The land is now crossable on foot and even by team in some areas.
An Australian backwoodsman recalls a wet season practice where natives ferried canoe loads of goose eggs to the Ade laide area and broke them into buckets to feed horses. The anecdote notes the eggs were given to the horses by those stranded workers.
The United States runs 75,000 post offices and 500,000 miles of routes with 500 million miles of yearly travel. The service costs over 150 million dollars annually, and receipts nearly balance expenditures, having doubled in the last decade.
Plans to build electric street car lines in Peking provoke native protest arguing the project harms the poor who rely on rickshaws and wheelbarrow passenger hauling for livelihood.
In April 1904 soldiers under General Kuroki near the Yalu receive a circular from battalion chiefs urging beyond human effort. The message proclaims that the country and emperor expect the impossible from the brave and loyal.
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