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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1900
Page
3
The text lists counts of various groups: dians 1,281 mixed bloods 648 married people families 428 widows with family 20 widowers with family 22 total families 470 Indian polgamists 93 married by the priest 116 Catholics by confession and communion 803 white men practical Catholics 6 White men with Indian wives 71 white women with Indian husbands 2 white women with mixed blood husbands 1.
Spectators fill Black Eagle park daily as the Great Falls team practices before their first Helena game on the 29th. A trainload of rooters will travel, band and dignitaries will lead the procession, and clerks may close early to boost attendance.
Miss Annie Lee was arrested on Second Street South by Special Officer Lippincott while painting the town red. She was jailed with a hack assist and faces sentence tomorrow. Mike Ryan began a five day sentence in the city jail, his repeated incarcerations noted. Charles Lind, a smelter, was seriously injured after being struck by a train near the dam while walking with a companion.
Great Falls welcomed H. M Whitney from Winehendon Mass catcher Frank Lowe from Illinois and Egan with Dalquist join the squad. The team plans first practice tomorrow if weather allows and expects good crowds. A $500 state league guarantee will be sent to Butte with a directors meeting Tuesday at the Silver Dollar club to bid on lemonade and score-card privileges.
May 13 Great Falls report lists Teton county delegates for the Butte convention set for the 17th. The Dupuyer meeting gathered legislators from Teton but they absented themselves from the delegate list to avoid any sensation similar to Fergus county incident.
Last year Rev Father Prando of Holy Family mission compiled statistics on the Blackfeet Indian reservation. Total population was 2,000 with a significant share of full-blood members.
Vincent Warrior a full-blood Piegan Indian from Belknap reservation travels with Paul Horse Capturer to Columbus hospital in Great Falls for an appendectomy. He asks no extra cutting, agrees to a standard operation, and returns home exhausted but grateful for civilization’s medical methods.
The street car company shipped a new 20 foot vestibule car with up to date appliances. It now runs on the north side and uses an electric push button in the window frame to request stops, eliminating the bell cord and reducing fare calls.
London investors faced a calm week with cautious selling and little public buying. U S and European stock weakness pulled down prices, notably Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Pacific while mining shares moved higher on war news and extended the money market easing with call money at 2 to 2.5 percent.
Berlin reports a rough week with panicky selling in iron and coal shares. declines reached 1 to 15 percent for some producers, while attention shifts to American iron market reports. Belgium plans to open coal contracts totaling 1.5 million tons.
Freshman rhetoric authors plan a five act comedy set in Bozeman with Bozeman city and college scenes. The show, written by Margaret Ferris Eilen Gottschalk Lucile Quan and William Schabarker Weldon Morris Maurice Lamme, features a 25 member cast and school shop and lighting work. The event includes special streetcar rates and promises beauty and joy for the town. Ed Purnell and C W Draper head for Cape Nome and Alaska with mining plans. The Bozeman streetcar contract for mail carries about 465 yearly.
A Philadelphia Record item reports four tea and coffee warehouse clerks playing a 5 cent limit poker game with grains of raw coffee as 5 cent chips and roasted coffee 25 cents. The proprietor watched as one worker ate $3.75 worth of coffee during the session and the banker remained unable to settle affairs.
A London New report describes Woolwich reserve depot officials tapping tins with sticks to assess meat quality. The examiner judges holesome versus putrid condition by sound, passing cans quickly amid distractions. The method is portrayed as curious yet reportedly infallible.
Real estate ads offer multiple price points and properties in Butte Helena Missoula and Bonita. Listings include 1 to 6 room brick and frame houses with stables large lots and rental income potential. Financing options include loans and favorable terms with builders and brokers such as Conroy Morley McMillan Floyd Hall Bros Cobban Dinsmore T. Elliott and Wade.
A collage of classified sale notices including lodging houses, motors, furniture, boilers, cattle, mining equipment, and dairy in Montana towns such as Butte Bozeman Missoula Meaderville Walkerville and Beaverhead area with contact details and brief descriptors. Names include M Wade Story Co Meadeville Butter's, D H Steele and T F Brazell. items range from boarding houses to boilers and livestock.
Two room furnished house with stable available in Anaconda. Contact Hilbert at 410 EF Park or inquire at 618 Pine Street for details and rental terms.
Leading millinery stock in Butte priced to move. Invoicing 86 percent, can sell for 20 dollars. Store located at 4 Kc Broadway, Butte, Montana. Also lodging house and hotel notices with location and earnings. Juvenile palm reader ad included. Personal.
French Steam Dye Works offers dry cleaning for ladies and gents garments at 3 K. Quartz in Butte. G Pichon operates the business.
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