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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1908
Page
9
Fairbanks delivers a sharp address challenging the president while endorsing a larger military force. He frames the policy as a prudent national security move and calls for coordinated support across branches. The speech signals a proactive, assertive stance on defense expansion.
A Chicago dispatch reports Vice President Fairbanks criticized excess military expansion while urging funds for real schools and churches during Roosevelt’s speech at St. Stanislaus Catholic school dedication. The piece notes recent naval budget clashes and defends national defense as necessary but warns against overreach.
A Rocky Mountain Special Dispatch reports Livingston May 10 that a telephone company plans building several toll lines this summer. A representative visited, estimating material for a line from Livingston north through Shields River Valley to connect with a line from Nest to Eastern Montana. The Yellowstone park line will be rebuilt with connections to Yellowstone Park and upper Yellowstone Valley, and rural lines will serve both Yellowstone and Shields River valleys with complete systems.
Twenty American republics gather in Washington to lay the corner stone of a building planned as the home of the international bureau of American republics. President Roosevelt to speak, with remarks from Secretary Root and Andrew Carnegie who has donated three quarters of a million dollars. Ambassador Nabuco of Brazil to read sentiments. seats for 3000 reserved. John Barrett to preside.
Secretary Taft holds conferences with President Amador Foreign Secretary Arias and others in Panama. A tentative accord on key points is reported, including arbitration under the treaty to settle land values and legalities. Taft plans to finish canal administration work and sail to the United States Tuesday.
On May 10 in Aurora Indiana a band of marauders believed from Kentucky ruined Henry Kelser’s tobacco beds five miles below town they dug a grave placed an old sword a box of matches and a note warning Kelser not to raise more tobacco Farmers remain alert and fear further trouble.
California Republicans held unofficial ballots to signal presidential preference for Roosevelt, Taft, and Hughes. Sacramento convention insiders expect Roosevelt instruction. regulars claim a 40 delegate edge. Delegates chosen from 629 total will attend the state convention with unit voting possible.
Lakewood New Jersey May 10 Reports from the Lakewood hotel tonight say former President Grover Cleveland has passed a comfortable 2h duration and his condition continues to improve. Mrs Cleveland left the patent letter today and will attend services at the Presbyterian church. She plans an hour’s walk about town this afternoon.
Newburyport May 10 nine men from Newburyport were aboard a naphtha launch crossing the Merrimac River bar off Plum Island when a large wave capsized the boat. Five men drowned and four were rescued with injuries.
Charles Ramford, a West Point graduate and former second lieutenant, shot himself in his Regent hotel room in Washington on May 10. Letters suggest he sought reappointment to the army. A second item notes Afghanistan's Ameer replying to Indian remonstrances over frontier incursions with orders to curb tribal incursions.
Chicago May 10 delegates at the national socialist convention clash between city and agricultural delegates over appealing to farmers to join the party. Debs and Haywood are seen as presidential contenders. Key votes on women’s control, immigration, and outreach to farmers dominated the day with a two thirds rule debate to come. Washington provisional committee contested seating of some delegates as Evans bodyguard cadets departed San Francisco for home.
La Porte Indiana May 10 crowds from La Porte and beyond flock to the Gunness farm near Pine Lake to view the scene of the decade’s grim deaths. Venders, lemonade stands, and souvenir cards dot the grounds while sheriff investigators plan further excavations of the cellar, ashes, and possible gold flings in Mrs Gunness teeth.
Helena dispatch reports W G Conrad, the Montana banker mine owner and rancher, has opened campaign HQ in Great Falls and engaged Warner G Stensel of New York to run his presidential ticket bid.
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