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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1905
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard published by STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Publishers and Proprietors printed daily year round. Entered at the Anaconda post office as second class mail matter.
The notice lists monthly and advance payment options for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include six months and one year prepaid plans. Contact details point to the Main Office Standard Block in Anaconda with office telephones for the Business Office and Editorial Rooms.
The Standard publishing offices are listed with branch locations and managers including Butte East Broadway East Main Street and W. J. Morton. A nationwide news stand distribution is detailed with outlets in New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City plus a central mail address in Anaconda Montana.
Count Cassini will sail for home early in July. Washington officials who favor peace hope his departure will calm the war ending process, though Cassini favors war and his influence is seen as a potential disruptor during upcoming talks. Baron von Rosen will succeed Cassini as Russia's ambassador, arriving in early July.
President Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard class of 1880, visits New England for the twenty-fifth reunion of his class. He is expected to speak and attend this year's commencement exercises, reflecting on his 25-year career from president at age 42 to his current status alongside Grant in youth at inauguration.
Roosevelt backs federal control of interstate insurance as a broader aim while the Justice Department under Moody pursues an investigation into Santa Fe railroad abuses. Lawyers Harmon and Judson report evidence supporting prosecutions of railroad officers, but Moody opposes charging Paul Morton, a cabinet member, leading to resignations and renewed suspicions of political interference. The episode ends with Morton moving to Equitable while the correspondence becomes public.
A letter argues for a strong title and favorable outcome to counter criticism of the administration's stance on the Santa Fe inquiry. It claims the policy backs down amid press scrutiny and portrays federal control as ineffective when opposed by administration favorites.
The shah travels to St. Petersburg with forty companions including several physicians. He has reduced wives from sixteen hundred to eighty five to show reform and economy, sparking debate among Persian clergy while hoping to lift the czar's spirits.
The annual intercollegiate eight rowing race between Yale and Harvard gathers teams at New London. Harvard historically led early in the series, but Yale has held the pennant since the early 1880s, with Yale securing five straight wins after 1899 while Harvard won several mid period races.
Dispatches report the Portland trial against Senator Mitchell growing harsher as Judge Tanner and Mitchell's former secretary testify with damaging detail. Mitchell, famed for strong bluff, now confronts serious questions about integrity amid a courtroom confrontation.
In a public confrontation Robertson testifies that Mitchell vowed to swear to his statements on a thousand Bibles while Robertson warns the claim would be false. The recording portrays Mitchell as a very bad formation and facing severe, if slow, retribution in the ongoing dispute.
The report describes Secretary Hay’s stroke like attack Sunday night and the doctors’ hopeful bulletins. It notes cabinet turnover under the Roosevelt era but confirms no cabinet death. Hay has served in cabinet since 1898 under McKinley, succeeding Judge Day, the longest tenure since Hamilton Fish.
Several cities tout low mortality while Lodz reports a notably higher death rate, highlighting public health challenges and differing regional outcomes. The article contrasts Lodz with other cities and frames the issue as a civic concern for residents and officials.
President Roosevelt desires the peace plenipotentiaries meet in Washington on August 1. The war plenipotentiaries are expected to meet in Manchuria somewhat earlier.
Despite harsh downpours, ranchers gain incalculable benefits as rains flood Montana. Speculation grows that Oyama plans a Fourth of July victory celebration.
The piece surveys global topics from a Washington eclipse to political tensions in Lodz and Linevitch’s defensive stance. It notes Montana’s steady leadership under pressure, New York’s large population concerns, Curzon’s India post and Curzon’s possible resignation, and the National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Portland without dwelling on gains.
The piece notes the shrinking danger of war sparks between France and Germany while pointing to Lodz as a major manufacturing hub producing Cossack cloth and ashes. It discusses Russia’s brisk legal action against red flag followers and hints at a broader pattern of corruption and indemnity talks involving Russian aristocrats and Japan. A hint of U S Senate maneuvering is also mentioned with Senator Mitchell’s secretary.
In Portland yesterday the performance of The Private Secretary failed to win universal applause from the audience. The production drew mixed reactions as critics noted uneven humor and pacing.
A Boston scientist claims hypnotism reveals natural instincts and that even the world’s best hypnotist cannot compel a moral person to sin. He also estimates 75 percent of people would steal for science and ethnology. Meanwhile Morris K. Jesup of New York, head of the Natural History Museum, is notified of his appointment as Knight of the Imperial Order of St Stanislaus.
Count Cassini is cited as the Russian ambassador in Washington. The piece notes John W. Gates debating a betting mock with a broker in New York amid plans by Newport cottagers to resist a personal property tax. It highlights Flora Cleft Stevenson being honored in Edinburgh and a tartan fashion tale about the Earl of Caithness in North Dakota.
A brief catalog of unusual place and person names linked to Brussels Molenbeek and Therese O, 1868 Belgian recruits with illiterate signature, and similarly named locales in Somme Y Zuyder Zee Amsterdam Ho nan France and Sweden. The note blends curios about names and geographic echoes without a single narrative.
Rev Charles F Guthrie of Park Place Methodist Episcopal Church Baltimore says he will not read the marriage service at rehearsal parties and discourages fashionable church weddings. He argues such events emphasize drama and dress over the solemn obligation, linking the divorce problem to fading religious ideas about marriage.
Viscount Hayashi informs the Scottish Anti Tobacco society that Japanese police confiscate smoking instruments and the tobacco of any youth under 20. Parents or guardians permitting offense face a 50 cent fine, and dealers supplying minors face a $5 fine. The law was passed in 1900.
A movement at Stanford University Palo Alto aims to colonize a three mile tract from the campus to form a new town. Subdivision and buildings will begin at once and it is assumed only college people will be encouraged to become residents.
Connecticut firm delivers a specially twisted stock shotgun designed for a man who uses his left eye to aim since his right eye is sightless. This is the third such gun made for him in 25 years, reflecting tailored innovations for individual need.
The Russian government seeks German professors to fill chairs at Russian universities. Two decades after Alexander III expelled Germans from trusted posts, German academics show reluctance to serve in Russia due to current uncertainties.
A London insurance company opened a St Louis agency to write policies on valuable horses lives. Any horse may be insured if it passes a veterinary exam on sanity and health. Policies range from 250 to 10000 dollars with rates of 6 percent for amounts under 5000 and 5 percent for amounts above 5000.
The issue highlights R H Graves the Our Annual National Slaughter article on Fourth of July casualties and a mix of timely essays such as Points About Sea Swimming The Camping Wagon Fortunes Earned by American Railroads Star Spangled Banner and The Swish of the Lariat. It notes ten fiction pieces including Don Q and several genre stories.
The July Tales issue expands to 17 pieces including the serial Siren Voices by Jean Reibrach and the Chekhov translated novel The Duel. French stories lead with seven works, with Germany Russia Denmark Spain Italy Hungary and America contributing one each. Notable pieces include The Coward by Catulle Mendes, A Funeral Oration by Leon de Tinseau, Simoom by Rudolf Stratz, Otto Heinrich by Herman Bang, Gregor Ponoiges Widow by Karl Murat, and Burnt Bridges by Gouverneur Morris.
The July Housekeeper features Marian Bonsall's series on the Mormon woman with investigations in Utah and evidence of polygamy. It also includes a salad feature by Elizabeth Morrison, canning tips by Elizabeth Clarke Hardy, dress guidance by Constance Fuller McIntyre, fiction pieces by Alec Bruce and Edith Livingston Smith, plus practical departments edited by experts. Published by the Housekeeper corporation Minneapolis. Sixty cents a year.
The July issue of Suggestion Chicago covers drugless healing nature care psychic research suggestive therapeutics auto suggestion will power memory and personal magnetism. The editor argues a right mental attitude greatly affects health happiness and success and that inherent psychic powers can be cultivated for improvement.
The Delineator for July includes summer fashions by Helen Berkeley-Loyd and Edouard Lafontaine, Paine's mystery serial The Lucky Piece, Zona Gale's The Never-Lighted Fire, a Longfellow boyhood sketch by Peter Freneau, and travel writings by T Cromwell Lawrence and W Jay Mills. It also surveys Rock of Ages, chest evolution, and domestic topics for the season with entertaining short pieces for children.
Helena June 26 The fifth week of the trial between the St Louis Mining and Milling Co and the Montana Co Ltd proceeds with sessions from 9 30 to 12 15 and 1 45 to 5 15 with possible night sittings. Engineers Molson and Sanders testified for the defense as Judge Hunt orders 10 tons of ore moved to the East Helena smelter for treatment and proceeds turned over to the court.
Thomas Brady and Clyde Lee were arrested in Bonita and brought to Philipsburg on charges of stealing a 3 year old mare from George Metcalf. The horse, taken from Rock creek, was found in Gilbert gulch near horses once owned by Frank Brady, killed last fall resisting arrest. Brady, Frank’s brother, was allied with him locally. They await preliminary examination set for July 5 in $1,000 bonds.
San Francisco reports Charles Wyman, among the first men convicted in the case, is set for sentencing as authorities reveal the early stage of a broader criminal investigation.
Mayor Jay H. Neff testified before a grand jury in Kansas City reporting alleged irregularities at City Hall including boodling. The jury was convened at his urging following campaign claims that city affairs needed investigation.
A narrator recalls a brief glimpse of a calm, shuttered imperial figure in carriage shadows. The doll-like visage, pale face, and stiff pose evoke emptiness and weariness as horse guards pass by in a grim moment of czar reverence.
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