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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
7
The Princip's Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway Butte. Telephone 422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Butte current notes list visitors in town including H N Nalbach and Reese Roberts, and registrations at the Thornton and Finlen hotels. Local services promoted include Orion Bros piano rentals, Montana Music Co pianos, and Stromberg Mullins Co distributors with watch cleaning and main springs advertised. The Butte hotel is billed as Montana's leading European hotel after remodel with rates from $1.00 per day.
A local report notes nearly one hundred paupers or poor residents were admitted to the public hospital, highlighting crowded wards and strain on city infirmary services.
Dr Ignatius Donnelly county physician filed a January February report with Auditor Crossman on the poorhouse and county hospital. In those two months 21 admissions and 13 discharges left 98 hospital and poorhouse inmates by March 1, with contagion hospital at six and rising.
City physician Leggat returns from Highland gulch after a three day survey in which he waded Lime Kiln hill snow 25 to 60 feet deep. He was briefly buried in a drift but escaped with help after 12 hours’ travel back to Stratton’s ranch. He noted a mountain lion sighting and described roughing it with bacon beans and molasses.
A court ruling grants a decisive point to the Sir King people in a dispute over local rights. The decision affirms their claim and outlines the next steps for enforcement and appeal options.
Judge Clancy ruled the Silver King claim has priority over Plymouth in the vein conflict at their overlapping triangular ground. Plymouth located first but Silver King patented earlier, entitling the Silver King to the vein portion in question. Testimony included Samuel Barker and a cross section glass model. model not admitted.
Governor Taft answered questions on the social evil in the islands and efforts to check immorality saying Manila is as moral as any U.S. city. He defended health measures and noted a Pacific cable would bond Manila and the United States, favoring a government cable but stressing the need for any cable regardless of method. The hearing closed his extended statements.
A 69 man extra gang started today on the Portage cut-off section between the passenger depot and the Fifteenth street bridge. They will ballast and raise the track east from the depot for roughly three quarters of a mile.
A legal brief reports a case before Judge Knowles concerning postal service wire stringing. The matter centers on disputed procedures and regulatory compliance with filing deadlines. Local officials and postal representatives balance remedy options and potential penalties.
The Telegraph Company seeks to force Oregon Short Line to allow wiring along its right of way from Monida to Silver Bow. The case, tried without a jury in U S court, features eminent counsel on both sides led by L P Williams and J R McIntosh. Depositions and testimony from A M Holter and W P Hawk are part of the proceedings.
Verd y Willmont seriously injured at RB and M smelter when a converter bonnet weighing hundreds of pounds broke loose while being emptied. He was struck on the head and shoulder, knocked to the floor, and narrowly escaped being crushed by red hot metal. He survived to be moved home for treatment.
Count Richard Keeskattle seeks revenge after Miss Lucile Roehl eloped with Ira Davis. He has had Max Roehl arrested for grand larceny, alleging theft of a 14 gauge shotgun a tennis racquet and a gun case. The hearing was adjourned to Friday evening with George H. Stanton as counsel.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports Judge Leslie presided in court today but remained ill and unable to travel to Helena to sit on the supreme bench in place of Chief Justice Brantly as he had expected.
Great Falls March 6. County commissioners ordered Assessor McGriffin to collect the special road tax in all unorganized road districts. Only two Cascade districts are organized Sand Coulee and Stockett with Geyser among the rest unorganized.
Catalog of electric belts and batteries with varied prices from 8.00 to 60.00 and a note that the store carries the most complete stock in electrical goods for treating disease.
At the annual Great Falls meeting the club elected officers led by President J N Bridges and Vice President F N Fillian. William Johnson was secretary with Alex Irvine as treasurer and Gus Frazier as captain supported by P B Gallagher as assistant captain. The executive committee includes Bridges Johnson Irvine Gaunt and Prior.
A supplier advertises a line of ground spices described as absolutely pure and full strength. The label warns first use may spoil food due to the spices being double the strength of others on the market.
Osman Pasha, son of Kurdish chief Bedrahan Pasha, was sentenced to death for high treason but will be commuted to perpetual imprisonment. Gen Nazimi Pasha, son-in-law of former grand vizier Ali Pasha, has been arrested.
London reports a second levee held by King Edward since his accession at St James Palace. Attendance was lighter than the first levée, though elaborate ceremonials surrounded the ceremony. Dense fog obscured the event from both inside and outside the palace.
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