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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1906
Page
27
Western Montana office of the Standard is located at 130 Higgins avenue Missoula. Telephone number 418. Advertising rates of application.
Democrats in Missoula held ward caucuses with strong turnout and harmony as they selected delegates and alternates for upcoming party conventions. Included are long lists of named delegates and alternates from multiple wards, reflecting a busy local political scene ahead of the April 2 city election.
A 19th century style advertisement claims Pyramid Pile Cure offers immediate relief for piles and invites readers to request free samples. It asserts widespread irritation and reports personal testimonials, urging purchase at drugstores for 50 cents per box and promising mail delivery upon sending name and address.
Missoula March 2. Graft and gambling were discussed at a chamber of commerce meeting. A motion to table the grafting inquiry failed 11 to 6, and a committee of Weitz Kennedy and Beck was appointed to pursue a broad investigation. Other items included train service, extending the school term, Odd Fellows home search, park control, and courthouse finances.
Nominations for town officers were made at a mass meeting in Hamilton on March 2 presided by R. A. O’Hara. W. W. McCrackin was nominated for mayor with J. J. Southwick for First Ward alderman, A. O’Hara for Second Ward alderman, and M. J. Flaherty for Third Ward alderman. A committee including W. E. McMurry L. R. Peck and A. L. Banks was tasked to draft a platform, while incumbent mayor W. E. McMurry declined renewal.
Harry Kirk, a known hide buyer from Missoula, left for Colorado after a telegram said his brother Addison Kirk’s body had been recovered from a snow slide at the Camp Bird mine. Addison, a mine operator from Ouray, Colorado, had recently gone to inspect a mine in the San Juan country. his mother lives in Grand Junction.
Missoula March 25 Nelson Bennett formerly of Butte who completed the Great Northern Pacific tunnel through the Cascade mountains in Washington has been awarded the contract for building eight miles of the International railroad east of Spokane He will use a big steam shovel and begin work soon The International is the line by D C Corbin The grading from Benners Ferry to Sandpoint Idaho is nearly finished and the road may reach Spokane by August this year
Indianapolis March 26 Representatives of bituminous coal operators and miners in the central competitive and southwest districts end their executive sessions without progress in the wage deadlock. Mitch and Mitchell press for the 1807 scale and 8.58 percent increase, while the miners refuse to allow any district to sign the advance scale. An adjournment until 9 oclock tomorrow is taken with no prospect of a joint conference report.
In Amador Montana reporter recounts the fatal Amador railroad accident between Amador and Iron Mountain. Brakeman Alexander Ross fell from a footboard while spotting a mine car. the wheels passed over him, injuring the body and head. He died about an hour after leaving Iron Mountain. Ross, about 25, was a sober industrious worker at Amador mines for two years. He left behind a sister and a brother. funeral plans await his siblings arrival.
Harry Schwinat sues Burk and McFiride through attorney HM Parsons in district court over cedar poles sold in July 191? that proved unlawfully on government lands. Poles were surrendered to the United States, Schwinat seeks restitution of $148 plus costs and 2068% interest.
An advert promoting Hyomel claims it cures even worst cases of catarrh by breathing the remedy via a pocket inhaler included with the outfit. The ad says four daily sessions purify air passages and lungs, kills germs in throat and blood, and offers an outfit for $1 with refills at 30 cents.
An account of a Monday at the University of Montana where mechanical students start engines, operate wood and metalworking shops, and hear shop anvil and organ sounds. Midday breaks bring gingerbread and doughnuts as students share refreshments secretly near the bridge and bake shop, with a deputy dispatched to obtain more nourishment.
Missoula March 28 A certie copy of the certificate of incorporation of the Dinsmore Irrigation and Development company, incorporated in New Jersey, was filed with the clerk for record. Samuel Dinsmore, president, led the launch to build a large canal through Bitter Root valley. Capital stock was initially $16,000 in 1,?00 shares of $100 each, with later increases.
Missour Deputy El March 2) Sheriff Graham and Larson took Edward Joyce from Camas Prairie to the asylum at Warm Springs. Joyce resisted boarding the train and required several men to overpower him. He calmed after securing a seat. Sheriff Graham will pursue W McCarthy in Butte for threatening letters to a Missoula man, arrested by Butte officials Saturday.
At Algeciras March 28 the Mo ocean conference held an hour session to settle police questions. Austria proposed an amendment expanding the inspector general’s authority while Germany’s Herr von Radowitz urged withdrawal. The proposal was not adopted and the matter was referred to a committee to review the revised police project. Delegates remained hopeful for a settlement.
The Montana Supreme Court issues three opinions. It rules councils grant franchises for telephone telegraph and electric lines, not state authority. state law allowing lines on public roads outside towns is unconstitutional. governments may regulate but not wholly bar such utilities. Yegen v. Yellowstone County addresses hospital site power. Morrison case discusses county crime conviction appeal procedure.
A California woman writes that after 20 years of indigestion insomnia and sickness tied to daily coffee she switched to Postum Food Coffee for a week and felt stronger and healthier. She credits the change with ending her chronic illness and bed sickness and reclaiming energy and well being.
The opinion holds the legislation’s subject unclear and finds the Board of county commissioners lacks power to build and maintain detention hospitals for contagious diseases at county expense. The lower court’s ruling for the county is reversed. Justice Milburn writes the opinion noting no record before the court, yet the specifications of error were examined and no prejudicial error found.
D v Corbin recounts a Wardner visit in which James Wardner and partners owned early Bunker Hill and Sullivan prospects. After dinner at a miners’ boarding house, Wardner showed ore samples stored in a gunny sack. He later dumped them in a cabin pile, including ore chunks placed on a stick of dynamite, shocking the visitors.
MISSOULA NOTES report funerals for John McLeod at the poor farm with services to-morrow and Mrs Andrew Northivet of Bonner with interment in Valley cemetery. Returns from Seattle and Birmingham appear, plus a telegram requesting embalming and sending Robert Workman’s body to Wallaceburg, Ontario. T de B Smith and his wife arrive from Anaconda to furnish a south side home as he operates Dry Creek placer mines.
Voters in Clinton Waterloo Burlington and Des Moines participate in municipal elections today. Citizens campaign and close a heated effort to elect their preferred men. Local ownership and tenancy issues are among topics mentioned in the field reports.
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