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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
18
Publisher and proprietor details appear in a masthead style item noting mail matter status and contact lines for business office editorial rooms and phones, with numbers and locations indicating a historic newspaper notice format.
Directory of news stands and agencies across American cities including New York Chicago Detroit Seattle San Francisco and more with addresses and managers. All general correspondence directed to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
Lieutenant Shackleton proposes turning to ocean exploration following polar limits. He argues sea farming could yield vast food, citing Jules Verne and the need to diversify beyond dramatic expeditions. Oyster Bay is noted as a convenient access point for this exploration.
Senator Warren of Wyoming proposes a bill to place one million acres of vacant public land in each public land state under state control for grazing. States may lease to small stock owners for up to five years, with ten cents per acre annual rent. One cent per acre must go to the reclamation fund. the rest funds public road construction within each state.
The Warren bill proposes leasing public range lands to individuals or corporations with a 640 acre limit per lessee to raise revenue for road construction. It would likely yield from five thousand to one hundred thousand dollars yearly per state and ten thousand from each reclamation district, appealing to conservationists and western irrigation advocates. Senator Warren seeks early committee consideration on public lands.
British poet William Watson visited the United States where he gave lectures in New York and lamented poetry’s poor support in England. He praised American culture as vibrant and urged poets to be recognized, noting the Missouri dawg song overshadowed his visit and hoping for better days for poets at home and abroad.
An editorial in the New York Times denounces Roosevelt campaign tactics urging a presidential preference vote, noting most states lack legal provision for such a vote. It states primaries must follow existing laws and party rules, with no authority to alter them. It adds Dixon’s challenge is political theater and that the RNC previously limited recognition to law provided primaries.
The piece discusses the limits of federal authority over primaries, noting states with no primary system, and critiques Kansas City Roosevelt tactics. It contrasts Roosevelt and Taft camps, cites voter turnout in a 1908 district, and mocks the credibility of the Kansas City primary while reflecting on Orozco, Lorimer, and Roosevelt’s political strategy and rhetoric.
North Yakima Washington March 13 In spite of belief Carlson Long son of Alderman Theodore K Long of Chicago has vanished since March 5 no trace of his movements has been found Co W Lockwood and Alexander Keith arrived from Eau Claire Wisconsin and have taken charge of the search Lockwood is an uncle of Long and Keith is an uncle of Miss Geraldine Shaw Longs fiancee The Yakima river was dragged today for the second time while horses and men scoured the foothills for 20 or 20 miles
Seattle report details Mrs. W. L. Schultz widow at 18 recounting her experiences in Ecuador after her husband died of yellow fever. She recalls battles and a siege near Huygre, a self built fort, danger to a warehouse with 150 casks of sugar alcohol, and women armed with revolvers awaiting capture.
Pasadena March 13 M J Condery accused by Mrs Jack Cudahy of entering her home to persecute or intimidate her was held to answer in superior court on a burglary charge He bail was set at 0 he could not furnish He testified he never was in Pasadena until arrest He denies employment to harm Mrs Cudahy The hearing delays Cudahy children who were taken from a convent near Alhambra now in the care of their Chicago aunt Mrs Cudahy without her knowledge
Not in Chicago March 13. Friends of the Cudahy family denied that the three children of Mrs. Jack Cudahy were in Chicago. No member of the family ordinarily resided in the city and none could be found today.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette, arriving in New York from the West says she will shorten her lecture tour and return to England within two weeks. She cites concern for her mother Emmeline Pankhurst, describing forced feeding and harsh treatment in Holloway prison and blaming Prime Minister Asquith for the stalemate in Parliament.
New York on Hart's Island reform school will employ an instrumental music teacher as part of a new program. Commissioner Patrick A. Whitney directs that an optional course of 80 lessons be offered this spring, with endorsement from the aldermen.
In Livingston on March 13 August Bund ing, an aged German, died this morning after four days of burns around the chest. He had begged admission to the county farm and refused to explain his injuries. County physician Dr Beeson suspected chemical cause for the fatal burns.
In Concord New Hampshire final arguments began before the state supreme court over the will of Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy founder of the Christian Science church The three day session centers on clauses restricting bequests and the transfer of most property to Boston church directors amid questions of charitable bequests statutes.
Washington reports the cattle embargo on Great Britain is lifted by Secretary Wilson after nearly a year of prohibition due to mouth and foot disease. No evidence of the disease has appeared in Britain for three months.
ABE MARTIN notes Professor Tansey was asked by school directors if the Mississippi river flowed north or south and he replied that he teaches both ways, reflecting rural humor about education and country life.
A committee of 45 eastern railroad general managers met in New York to prepare for a conference with locomotive engineers over wage demands. J H Stuart of the Erie is committee chairman, while Warren S. Stone leads the engineers’ side. Each railroad division will submit its reasons for the demands.
The Bell Trading company's warehouse in Nelson British Columbia burned today causing damage to several adjoining buildings. Loss estimated at fifteen thousand dollars.
A Dawson Yukon dispatch reports no word from explorer Herschel and colleagues in the Arctic indicating mail has not yet come from the far northern Arctic region.
A report states no word has come from Hubert Darrell the explorer who ventured east from Mackenzie in 1910 and is now presumed lost. The updated notice confirms ongoing search efforts and the long disappearance remains unsolved.
New York March 13 Charles Thompson Harvey age 83 who planned the first elevated railroad in the city and built the Sault Ste Marie ship canal is dead at his home. For years he was among the best known civil engineers in New York.
Chicago March 13 United States District Judge Carpenter denied a discharge motion for defendants Edward Morris and Louis Heyman on a technical objection to the indictment. He ruled Morris Co of New Jersey was the sales corporation for fresh meat and the government’s allegation was clear under the law.
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