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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1900
Page
14
The Western Montana office of the Standard is at 213 Higgins Avenue Missoula opposite Jeffice. Telephone number 118. Advertising rates furnished on application.
The store promises refunds or exchanges if a pair proves unworthy. It sources only top makers and sells with small profit margins. Displayed are spring and summer styles in chocolate vici, black vici, box calf, patent calf, velour calf, Russia calf, and Russia colt skin.
Missoula May 12. Chief Houston enforces bicycle on sidewalks and vows to curb chronic riders. Dog tax must be collected in June with fees up to one to three dollars. Cowherder Billy Loran returns to handle city stock amid recurring stock damage complaints. Pedestrian and sidewalk hazards prompt merchant action on packing crates and hitching teams. A drowning death near Corvallis raises questions as a child’s body is found in a ditch and identified as James Paine’s son.
A brief item from Hamilton dated May 12 reports a boy’s drowning, described as very sad. Details are sparse in the readable text.
Cobban and Dinsmore offer the best in ducement in Montana for owning a home. Orchard Home addition provides five to ten acre lots with monthly installment or quarterly payment options. Address them at Missoula.
In Hamilton on May 12 a lamp ignited Mrs. A H Clark s hair bringing burns to her head and hands. her father Michael Welch helped smother the blaze. A scow mills worker John Bates suffered a serious accident at the edger while a board struck him unconscious. Other notes mention sales, weather, rail stock, court house brick bids, upcoming weddings including Miss Carrie Hartley and Duncan J McDonald, and several local social and civic items.
The Board of Trustees of Missoula School District No. 1 invites sealed proposals with plans for renaming and securing the south side brick school building. Proposals due by 12 o'clock noon May 18. The district reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Clerk J. Watson Buford signs the notice.
Missoula reports on Andrew J. Stone and a New York Herald feature detailing three newly identified Arctic tribes the Kookpugmioots Noonttagmioots and Koeemelliks plus a mountain caribou and extensive geographic findings. Stone notes significant ethnology zoology and geography gains from his Franklin Bay coast observations and warns of the vast unknown North American regions north of 52 degrees.
Jamieson of the White Cloud Mining company is spending a few days in Missoula on business. In the United States land free he fled a protest against William T. Smith who filed on 120 acres in section one township ten north range.
Jamieson argues minerals hold more value than timber or stone on the land and says he sent a letter to the Interior Department on the issue. He notes Smith, formerly a county charge, now acts at another's request while infirm and unable to decide for himself.
Readable text notes a bold sale item at the Globe store offering men’s fancy worsted suits at a special price of nine dollars. Limited details available on dates or selection.
Smith and Simons reports a new carrier registration system will start May 15 in Missoula to aid districts near the post office. Fees are eight cents extra with attention to clear addresses and sender details. A separate note mentions opening game plans for Montana league. fans may travel to Butte or Anaconda. Other items reference local sales, gutter maintenance after a heavy rain, and spring wallpaper.
For any ranch size in the Bitter Keot valley contact Cob ban and Dinsmore Missoula. They offer ranches from small to large at any price. Write them.
Missoula reports rising streams in Western Montana ease log drive fears. The Blackfoot drive should reach the Clearwater and enter the main river by Tuesday as plans continue for the Big Black drive downstream.
The weekly report lists thoroughbreds foaled in early May including Chestnut colt Isiac and Bay filly out of Imp Dartaway. Trotting stock includes several Prodigal offspring and Queen Leyburn. Also advertised: second hand piano for sale at 516 East Front Street Missoula.
In Missoula on May 12 Professor F D Smith of the state university releases the week April 29 to May 5 streamflow figures in second-feet. The Big Blackfoot rise here is ahead of last year and the Bitter Root shows two weeks earlier than last year’s record.
John Baleen, who has run the Front street shooting gallery for a year, departed this week for mining prospects in Idaho about 25 miles from Iron Mountain. He plans to work the mines for the remainder of the year.
Work on the Switchback at the Marshall grade progresses with travel expected by May 20. The new grader has arrived and performs well, and observers believe the road will be a major improvement over the old route.
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