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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1907
Page
20
The Western Montana office of the Standard operates at 130 Higgins Avenue Missoula. Telephone 0 advertising rates are available on application.
Missoula May 26. The Missoula Gun Club held the Du Pont trophy event at the south side grounds. An east wind hindered shooters but records were set as J. S. Boa and Pete Holohan exhibited shots. Winners crowned in multiple events with Woodworth and Holohan among top scorers across singles and doubles.
Memorial Day observances in Missoula include a 9 o'clock parade forming on Main Street with the Grand Army of the Republic Eagles band Eagles lodge Odd Fellows Woodmen and the fire department and a Fort Missoula squad. A 10 o'clock train departs for the cemetery and a return schedule runs until 4 30 pm. The Woman's Relief Corps serves a dinner at the I O O F hall annex after the cemetery visit.
In Missoula two families mourn a burial as Dick Estey and his wife bring their 11 month old son from Garnet for funeral at Lucy chapel. Rev. E W Wright presided while many friends gathered and flowers adorned the casket. Many attendees then left for Butte to attend David Blackie’s funeral, a miner killed at Garnet yesterday.
In Circassonne France on May 26 more than 200000 winegrowers demonstrated urging relief from Parliament over the production of impure winey.
A resolution was passed rejecting the government bill as inadequate. Similar demonstrations occurred in many towns across the wine growing regions.
Missoula May 26. A large May term calendar led to a second special venire. Sixteen jurors were drawn and given to the sheriff for service as deputies continued to search this month across three long lists.
Missoula May 26. A red hot nine inning game at the South Side grounds between the North Siders and the Northern Pacific ended 12 to 14 in favor of Northern Pacific. Farker and Hroulette formed a solid battery for the trammen while Dishman and Seli starred for the North Siders. The contest stayed tight throughout and sparks of rivalry hint at a possible rematch next Sunday.
Miles City plans a Fourth celebration at the Tongue river site on Fort Keogh land. The 154.84 acre tract was secured by Senator Dixon for county fair use for five years, with a revocable lease by the War Department.
Miles City reports lambing yields down due to cold weather. May’s normal rainfall is 2.26 inches, but 4.40 inches have already fallen, boosting grass prospects if June brings a similar rainfall. sheep on the range face a mixed start with cautious optimism for forage.
The ninth annual session opens July 9 and closes August 15 at Big Fork on Flathead Lake. Dr. M J Elrod reports record attendance and the program covers zoology botany physiology nature study photography with lectures by President Craig and instructors P M Silloway Maurice Ricker Edith Ricker and C H Scherf among others.
Missoula teachers and University of Montana professors will attend the National Education Association’s fiftieth anniversary convention in Los Angeles from July 10 to 12. Many will use discounted railroad rates, combining travel with a California vacation. President O J Craig of the University of Montana promotes attendance and offers information to interested members.
In St. Petersburg on May 26 M Gurko assistant minister of the interior challenged M Rodieticheff a member of the war association executive and parliament to a duel over a famine speech. Rodieticheff declined saying charges put Gurko outside the code of honor. Gurko’s move was seen as a play to the gallery. Gurko’s challenge letter appeared in the Novae Vremya before his second letter.
London May 26 Austen Chamberlain said Joseph Chamberlain’s health has improved but his father’s return date is not fixed and future plans remain uncertain.
Baron General Kuroki of the imperial Japanese army and his suite were in Buffalo on May 26. He planned to depart for Chicago the following morning after visiting Niagara Falls.
Philadelphia North American reports the death of Elias Hartz known as the goosebone prophet. He predicted weather for nearly seventy five years using a goosebone and bitterly opposed the weather bureau since its founding. Hartz, born in Berks county, lived near Reading and issued forecasts around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Poem condemns lack of support for workers who fought hard and lost. It laments enduring injustice, voiceless struggle, and insists only fair compensation for honest labor will alleviate suffering.
In Zion City, a riot at Shiloh tabernacle led to police intervention as Wilbur Glenn Voliva, heir to Dowie, faced a growing opposition. A coalition of 800 rebels gathered at Zion College planning to depose Voliva at the September church council. Voliva vowed to name his successor and pursue legal action.
Heavy showers caused damage to trolley roads and telegraph lines in Allegheny with sections flooded. Wood's Run and Pleasant Valley washed away tracks, derailing cars and displacing about 60 families. About 300 railroad and street department workers cleared debris as $20,000 in damage was reported.
The Times Tokyo correspondent reports Japanese shrug off attacks on Tokyo style restaurants in San Francisco. They attribute the incidents to American restaurant owners’ jealousy of Japanese competition and note the lack of significance placed on the acts.
Several hundred strikers assaulted a refrigerating and meat packing plant in Buenos Aires on Saturday night. They were repulsed by soldiers and police after a clash in which four people were killed and many wounded.
From Haverhill Massachusetts a local cautionary tale warns of a baseball union. The piece outlines proposed rules including standardized batting averages, base runner checks, eight inning games, substituted players by union card, and walking delegates selecting umpires.
In Normandy at La Haye Malherbe the prospective bride Mlle Deschamps learns she is legally a boy due to a registrar’s birth entry. The stunned couple and guests watch as officials refuse to approve the marriage until the registration error is corrected, delaying the ceremony.
Paris reports a Brittany tale where Le Saux's wife bore a boy who the father then sold for 40 to Mme Bonan. The wife claimed it as her own, the husband registered the birth, and both households now claim the infant as their son making it two mothers legally bound to the child.
Burton-on-Trent magistrates faced a case after a constable found a swarthy man with unknown tongue leaning against a shop window in a chemise and overcoat, wearing boots and socks but no trousers during the early hours in London.
Dublin in May 26 report details an aggressive Sinn Fein anti enlistment campaign undermining British army recruitment. The Belfast based Sinn Fein print cites a war office medical table showing high rates of immorality among armies, especially the British, and notes Dublin figures exceed other stations, prompting limited discussion among medical journals.
Berlin reports that German industry thrives under protectionist tariffs with rising wages as orders surge in textiles shipbuilding and electricity sectors. Output and exports climb from mid 1905 to mid 1906, while labor is scarce and wages rise 20 to 40 percent.
Paris May 26. W Gould Brokaw's automobile becomes a house on wheels bigger than old stage coaches and like an English railway car. A crowd gathers as the 75 hp car carries tent poles spare tires a dynamo and a full camping outfit on its roof. It holds two beds a lavatory and a dining table for six with power lights and fans. Brokaw would travel the world in this car including tiger hunting in India with a small armory.
In Grossbutyn Hungary the daughter of the local magistrate was arrested for wearing a skirt striped red and yellow. Police ordered removal on the spot. a crowd gathered as she refused. The skirt was removed later in private amid the incident.
In Berlin on May 26 Dr. Rosenburg admitted in court that within one year he gave evidence against 3,000 drivers who raced like Jehu. He had a habit of lying in ambush on roads to Berlin but has quit that to take a deputy assistant station master role in the Rhine provinces.
The Berlin Post notes the death of Prof Ernst von Bergmann leaves a vacancy in the Berlin University faculty. The last faculty meeting included remarks by non resident members. Deadline for replacements and selection process are not detailed in the fragment.
The Chicago Tribune outlines a 140 pound man’s weight on celestial bodies. It lists Moon 28 pounds Mars 58 Venus 114 Mercury 119 Neptune 123 Uranus 127 Saturn 165 Jupiter 71 sun 3871. It notes gravity varies greatly and affects movement and strength across space.
The article recalls how Danes revered ravens as favorable omens and how King Alfred tied fate to a crow on banners. It notes ravens guiding early explorers to land before the compass, with birds marking near land by sailing away or returning to ships.
The item notes several Friday births including Gladstone Bea consfield Washington Bismarck Fahrenheit and Spurgeon and claims Henry VIII gave Cabot his commission leading to North American discovery. It cites Columbus and the Pilgrim Fathers landing at Plymouth Rock on Friday. It mentions the London Times steam powered printing and a stamp ad repeal on a Friday and Dickens’s fondness for Fridays.
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