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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1916
Page
8
Louis Philip Smith, an original discoverer of Fold in Alder Gulch in 1862, dies after a month of illness. He was among Butte’s oldest pioneers and served as sheriff of Deer Lodge County.
The obituary honors a Longtime West explorer born 1834 in Albion New York who migrated west at 13. Survived by J H Mills a grand nephew of Butte and two grandnieces in Boston. Funeral in Deer Lodge. His tale recalls the 1862 Florence Alder gulch expedition with John White John Allen and Patrick Malloy.
Early yesterday morning Butte police rounded men, releasing most after they could account for themselves. Twenty held on vagrancy charges remained in custody. The jail and new county facility were heavily occupied, with additional prisoners arriving. Real estate transfers listed include Robert E. Tait to Julia O Leary and several other parcels sold for $1 in Butte and surrounding additions.
War news reports continue from Verdun with stalemate claims and renewed French and German attacks near the area. Russian offensives in Armenia and near Baghdad push Turks back, while Italian front bombardments and a Macedonian sector artillery surge are noted. In Los Angeles a murder trial tied to the Caplan case ends the shelling narrative as testimony unfolds at the Times building.
Saratoga Springs N Y May 9 Delegates to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church debated a resolution urging Congress to prohibit intoxicants in Hawaii. The measure criticized American soldiers and was referred to temperance. A separate resolution backed movie censorship and urged Governor Whitman to sign a bill to create a state board of motion picture censors.
Baltimore May 9 The faction led by former Gov P L Goldsborous was defeated in the Republican state convention here today and the four delegates at large to the national convention presented by the regular organization were elected Felix Agnus publisher of the Baltimore American C E B Weller defeated Republican candidate for governor Walter B Miller and Dr J McPherson Scott The Chicago delegation is uninstructed though some district delegates are known to favor Hughes or Roosevelt Resolutions arraign the Democratic tariff and condemn the Democratic administration foreign policy at Washington Do not take steps toward proper defense Meanwhile San Domingo quiet Melbourne cruiser and Hector arrived no candidates remain in the field for provisional president
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