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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1903
Page
7
Butte notes span travel and visits from Orton Bran to Helena, with mentions of Arthur Bran, Charles Schenf, Elmer J. Snaively, and Capt. Charles H. Palmer. Local business, medical ads, moving residents, and social ties appear alongside railroad changes, a gun club shoot, and a Boston & Montana band administrator appointment.
George Bentz was found dead in his Paumie block room at dawn with a bullet through his left breast. Three shots were fired, two bullets lodged in the ceiling. A .38 revolver lay nearby. a woman suspected of involvement had left the room. Police and the coroner investigated as possible murder or self harm amid claims of an affair involving two women and Bentz’s acquaintances.
Miles City reports from the north side show heavy lamb losses this year due to cold weather. George Ludlow arrived and described a three hour snowstorm. Woolgrowers including John Penman A Cunningham George Thomas and others report high lamb and calf mortality. Nights stay below freezing with persistent cold. rain has threatened but not fallen since Monday.
A new unit of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employes has formed in Paris sharing aims with the old American Railway union. The group began with 32 members and held an ice cream social at the old Columbia building on the West side where the organization’s purposes were outlined. Any railway employee may join. local officers are Henry B Outcault, chair. C. J. Wilson, treasurer. Joseph Roach, secretary.
New Orleans Item reports rail firms oppose intoxicants for workers and liquor sales in towns along lines. St Louis Watkins Gulf extends anti liquor deeds across Lake Charles to Alexandria, forbidding sale or manufacture of intoxicants on sold lots, with titles reverting to vendors if violated. The Lake Charles circuit court of appeals upheld the provision as binding.
From the New York Times a luxury imported bedroom set features light basswood with lavender stain. It includes twin bed frames a high bureau a dressing table glass wash stand small chairs and green upholstered seats. Brass inlay details shaped like an ace of spades appear on a silver sphere and the total price nears $700.
Anthony Gallagher known as Lony Gallagher, 35, died when a hoisting cage dropped 700 feet at the St Lawrence mine. Inquest verdict blamed alleged engineer incompetence J J Murray for releasing the brake or jerking the cage. Funeral plans set for Gallagher at Sacred Heart church, interment at Catholic cemetery.
San Francisco on May 2 reports F. H. Goldman who claimed to be a traveling salesman for the Richard Lutens Glove company of New York is under arrest pending officers from Butte Montana arriving. He is alleged to have passed fictitious checks there.
Special Dispatch to Blandferd Livingston May 2 The sentencing of Martin Zidmair for the murder of George Reider, of which he was convicted, was postponed until next Wednesday. The bill of exceptions was settled today and the argument on motion for a new trial continued until Wednesday, at which time if the motion is denied, sentence will be pronounced.
The annual meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America Forester camp will be held in this city on Wednesday May 6. Local camp members prepare to entertain visiting delegates with a royal reception at the Elks hall on Tuesday night followed by a special session and banquet.
Richard Warfield of London England is registered at the Bozeman hotel and claims to travel across the United States without money. He began February 17 and has relied on courtesies offered for his tale. In Bozeman he will pay board by painting a portrait of Landlord Kelly.
Great Falls May 2. At last evening's board meeting the standing committees for the coming year were appointed a superintendent selected and it was decided at least one more school was needed for the city with the outlook good for two.
A skeleton found Friday on Lake Washington with a bullet hole in the skull is identified as W H Davis a former Seattle saloon keeper. Authorities say the death was almost certainly self inflicted in January due to despondency over threatened blindness.
Great Falls dispatch says Rev. George Edwards will hold services at Cleveland in the Bear Paw mountains and consult Presby terians on provisions for a regular minister. Plans outline Rev. H. N. Wagner serving Chinook while another pastor is assigned to Harlem and Cleveland.
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