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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
1
In a special session Mayor Mullins presented twelve nominations to the aldermen. Nine were confirmed while three were rejected including Templeman for City Attorney and White for City Engineer. The council approved several officers and denied others, shaping city administration for the near term.
A special meeting of the city council discussed officer positions amid resignations. Mayor Mullin appointed Templeman as city attorney after the resignation of J M Lamb. aldermen debated the purpose as notices did not specify the occasion while several officers awaited confirmation.
John Yancey of Yancey’s in the National Park dies at 78 of natural causes. He ran a small hotel and lodge at a famed halt favored by Presidents Roosevelt and others, located south of Yancey’s near Gardiner and Cooke City. His place once hosted notable visitors from presidents to senators and foreign statesmen, drawing hunters to nearby Jackson Hole area and Hell Roaring entry. The funeral is planned in Livingston.
Col. C. Ashby, former clerk for the state board of insane asylums, is named adjutant general for Montana replacing L. McCullough of Hamilton. His career spans banking, insurance, and agricultural implements, with Civil War service in the Sixth Virginia Cavalry and deep ties to Helena's growth. A separate item reports a warrant for George Dolphe, former Warm Springs asylum inmate, who escaped and assaulted Mrs. Marguerite Barter, with authorities unsure of his current whereabouts.
Special Dispatch to Verona May 7 all pleaded guilty in district court to conducting a gambling game. They were fined 100 dollars by Judge Henry Smith. The amount was paid immediately. A cash bond of 250 dollars was in the hands of court clerk Finlay McRae. Cosgrove owned a gambling house at the Club saloon. the place was raided about two months ago and a large amount of gambling paraphernalia was confiscated.
El Paso May 7 reports say Senator W A Clark of Montana purchased the Guadaloupe Calve group from Sos Charles of the Rosario mines in Ohio for about 50 million dollars amid earlier offers near 400 thousand. The sale involves famed mineral properties and reflects Clark's mining interests.
Police investigations lead to charging John Wiltrax with the murder of Paul Passekoski. Mrs Wiltrax is named an accessory with guilty knowledge, and their son Julius is charged as an accessory on the same grounds.
Meager reports describe a serious accident at Dexter on the Canadian Puette railway near Port Arthur. A passenger train struck a caboose on a sidetrack where laborers were eating, killing 12 and burning them. eight others injured while relief efforts are hindered by faulty wires.
Albert A Ames, former mayor of Minneapolis, was found guilty of accepting a $600 graft bribe while city chief executive. The verdict followed hours of deliberation as witnesses testified on whether the money was graft and whether Ames knew its nature. Ames was released on bond of $1,000 with the original bond continuing.
Word reached at Butte that John Finley and C G Sullens, prominent ranchmen near Whithall, were drowned in the Jefferson River yesterday afternoon. Men are dragging the river for the bodies as the melting snow swelled the current. The accident occurred while they attempted to ford the river while en route from their ranch, and both men were known figures in Whitehall, Pipestone Springs, and surrounding areas.
Fragmented report describes a Tacoma incident where a man fired a bullet through a bra in a chaotic scene. Details are garbled, but references to a wholesale firm and a person named Barnes suggest additional troubled events.
A Caruthersville report cites Louis dispatching from Little River noting four men and two others named Ed Chitty, D.C. Diane er, Bob Godair, Jim Wrick, J. Nichols, and Jeff Nichols denied knowledge of the constable W. J. Meooeyham and Rev. M. Matton killing last Saturday. They claim to prove subla None.
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