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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing details for STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY. It notes daily and Sunday editions, subscription options, and payment terms. The fragment references postal designation, advance payment, and various subscription periods.
A terse note lists page counts for editions and mentions Wiles Gents editions, with references to overseas distribution and postal inquiries. It indicates varying page ranges from ten to sixteen, six to forty eight, and describes double rates for Europe and other foreign countries with P.O. inquiries.
The Standard notes branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates available on application. Washington Bureau is at No 41 Post Building with New York offices at 18 Nassau Street and 87 Washington Street under W J Morton in charge.
The Standard is available at several newsstands including Chicago Postoffice News Stand and Auditorium Annex San Francisco Palace Hotel Los Angeles 422 S Mair St Denver 906 Seventeenth St Salt Lake 51 W Second South Salt Lake Salt Lake News Co Spokane 108 North Howard Tacoma 1203 Pacific Ave Seattle 316 Pike Portland Hotel All general business mail to ANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY Anaconda Mont.
The narrative chronicles a Cuban leader who rises from a New York school principalship to become president. A loyal Cuban, he endured Spanish terrorism and remains land poor despite vast inherited estates. The piece outlines Cuba’s first congress with 63 representatives and 24 senators and lists province delegations.
A dispatch from the president's Washington to New York journey notes a man in a car adjacent to the president having a convulsive fit. Secret service quickly concluded the man was harmless, sparking praise for Wilkie and a view of the force as Sherlock Holmes level in detective skill.
The text describes Holmes and Wilkie performing a remarkable act involving sheaths as protective tools, hailed as wonders in a bold, safe operation.
Summary of 19th century peril surrounding Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The piece notes a bomb found on a railway car he was to enter, describes his long reign from 1848, and recalls personal tragedies in the royal family. It discusses the potential brutal fate as a stark reflection on his troubled era and foreign pressures.
The sketches of Amos M Cummings note that as a youth Walker joined Walker’s Nicaragua expeditions. An American adventurer, he sought to annex California first then target Nicaragua to expand US influence. He seized power in a revolution, aimed to rule a vast empire, led many expeditions, raided Honduras, was captured and shot as a pirate, totaling about ten years of peril and romance.
The anti canal lobby in Washington argues that proximity to volcanic regions makes the Nicaragua plan unsafe and uses disasters like Mount Pelee and Martinique as scare tactics to delay actions in Congress. They aim to kill Nicaragua to then attack Panama, treating any volcanic event as ammunition in their broader campaign.
The Detroit Tribune notes Martinique’s population of 160,000 in a land only one third the size of Silver Bow county and comments on why people settle in earthquake and volcanic zones. It compares Japan’s 40,000,000 people in an area smaller than California and how natives love their soil.
The Tribune notes twenty seven earthquakes causing loss of life, with the Antilles and Asia Minor regions riddled by tremors. It cites Sicily Sardinia Vesuvius Etna Stromboli activity and widespread destruction in Java Sumatra Borneo. It compares global risk and mentions Galveston rebuilds on treacherous sands.
A Seattle backed Siberia venture lures Montana miners with a concession to a Siberian strip larger than Montana and a 10 percent royalty for company and government. Skeptics note Siberian placers are untested, laws unclear, and climate harsh, while some prospectors push toward distant fields. Senator Platt hints at potential reelection if health permits.
May 20 1902 marked the transfer of Cuba from U S military rule to a Cuban constitutional government. President Roosevelt announced end of occupation and the new republic began amid celebrations in Havana and Santiago with Cuban flags raised and a 21 gun salute.
Secretary Hay dispatches identical notes to capitals worldwide announcing the end of military occupation in Cuba and the inauguration of an independent republic led by President Tomas Estrada Palma. Ambassadors and ministers are instructed to relay the news to their respective governments.
President Theodore Roosevelt speaks at Carnegie Hall in New York on May 20 to close the centennial Presbyterian home missions celebration. He sits with Rev. Dr. Van Dyke and Rev. Dr. Stewart Dodge as a 12 voice choir leads a hymn and the president joins in. A photographer’s flash interrupts the moment and Roosevelt jokes about the mystery of the creed.
Special Dispatch reports in Great Falls on May 20 two concurrent strikes. Brewers at Montana and American breweries walk out as do Western Labor union teamsters. Lumber firms suffer as deliveries halt at Great Falls Lumber and Holker Lumber. Byrne & O'Neil deliver few loads. groceries and ice wagons continue routes. Court house deliveries expected to proceed.
Planing mill owners refuse a nine hour day to the union, prompting a walkout threat. If talks fail, about 2,500 building trades workers may be idle tomorrow as unions affiliated with the building trades council support the plan.
Knoxville telegraph reports eighty two bodies pulled from the Fraterville mine at Coal Creek where 225 miners died in yesterday’s explosion. Ernest Mc Donald survived but severely mangled, detailing the blast as gas had collected in an adjacent abandoned shaft opened by a boy. Bodies buried east of town. fund sought for a memorial as rescue teams search rooms and wings.
Iron molders in Spokane walked out after employers refused to concede a nine hour day with $3.50 wages, the same rate as 10 hours. The action stems from a year old national machinists demand and may close most city machine shops except railway shops.
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