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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
3
The Anaconda Standard announces its publishing reach with offices in Butte and Anaconda and lists multiple branch newsstands and distribution points. It notes subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and directs general business correspondence to Anaconda, Montana.
The March 5 1908 report criticizes the Ohio Republican platform for praising state and national representation while sidelining Foraker and favoring Roosevelt aligned positions. It argues the Taft machine seeks to downplay Foraker despite his role in maintaining the state's rank in Congress.
The obituary highlights Redfield Proctor a Vermont magnate with marble quarries who rose to secretary of war in the Harrison cabinet. It notes his Senate tenure after Edmands’ resignation and his pivotal 1898 Spain episode, including a Cubal voyage and a famed March 16 senate speech praised as carefully prepared and highly effective.
The piece analyzes jamestown exposition funding troubles and a push to promote Admiral Evans to vice admiral as retirement nears. It notes government buyout talk for the exposition land, wartime service details of Vermont figures, and calls for prompt action before August retirement.
In Pawtucket a charity group rejected two hundred dollars from saloonkeepers via a liquor dealers association. A minister criticized the industry from the pulpit, causing the donors and newspaper to reroute the money to Salvation Army officers and plan a large flotation party for needy families.
A jumbled column surveys social charity, theater of politics, and public figures. It references the Salvation Army, Chicago conventions, Judge Yattine, Bryan, Roosevelt, and Butte politics along with stray quips about poets, anarchists, and spring politicking. The tone is satirical and fragmentary, noting mischief and national mood.
Special Dispatch reports Billings court action where A Helly sues to restrain the Bartenders Union No. 9 and Yellowstone Trades and Labor Assembly affiliates from interfering with his saloon business. The complaint cites efforts to close his establishment and to induce brewers to refuse supplies, with Judge Fox at Red Lodge handling proceedings.
James Mahoney native of Michigan and longtime Butte resident dies in Alaska pneumonia at Katchakan. Body to arrive in Butte and be taken to Richards undertaking rooms for funeral rites. Survived by wife two children sister Mary of Calumet brother Jeremiah of Denver and other relatives. He was 47, former machinists union leader and active in Red Men and Woodmen of the World. Funeral planned in Catholic cemetery family plot with interment possible Saturday or Sunday.
A fragment summary notes omissions in advertising for a competent clerk at ten dollars weekly and failure to advertise ground plots and furnished rooms. It mentions a destroyed servant machine and bric a brac, with references to improper announcements and consequences.
Pittyburk March 4 Augustus Hartje, John S Welehans a hardware merchant and friend of Hartje, and Cittard Hood the negro coachman, were acquitted in the criminal court of conspiring to blacken the character of Mrs Mary Hartje. The jury was instructed to acquit and costs to be taxed to the county. Mrs Hartje intends to seek a divorce. The case is on trial and to be called within a few weeks.
Tensions linger between Rid dell Point Wid Art painters and the union after a partly settled dispute. The painters report voluntary abstention from work, while merchants claim coercion occurred. Efforts by the Business Men's association aim to secure an amicable settlement soon.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION filed in Bilings on March 4 list Huse Yates Company as a general implement machinery and merchandise business with capital of 50000. JR Yates is president J 23 Kelly vice president and J W Stase secretary and treasurer all parties are prominent local business figures.
Donald, a famed Tacoma cigar business leader for 44 years, passed away this morning at age 64. Born in Minnesota, he moved to Tacoma and became a prominent figure in local commerce and Masonry. He leaves a wife and one daughter.
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