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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
4
General Miles was Guest of Honor at a Park County Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Livingston. He recounted frontier events, including his cautious alliance with Crow allies against Bannocks, and noted how western cities like Los Angeles have grown since his early headquarters there.
Deer Lodge May 2 reports D C Green and Catherine Edna Daniel securing a marriage license from the court. Judge George B Winston of Anaconda will hold a short district court session Saturday morning. Thompson of Elliston notes mining activity in Powell county with high-grade gold ore shipped. O R case before Justice J G Valston dismissed after insufficient evidence. Elliston residents involved in a pond crime were cleared. Funeral services for Thomas Stuart conducted by Rev Hulzer with Masons at the cemetery. London May 27 reports Dutch protest planned over a Gravenhage trawler incident off Ameland by a German aeroplane.
Deer Lodge May 11 Ransome Harvey who headed the science department at the College of Montana for the past year left today for La Grange home and will teach in the summer school at La Grange. He coached football last fall and supplied pulpits at Butte and Anaconda churches and has been temporary pastor at the First Baptist church of Butte. His farewell sermon was preached in Butte last Sunday. He has been invited to preach at Potatetto Baptist church and has several offers for next year with undecided location.
Bozeman daily briefs report teacher Winsor R. Holgate leaving Ik creek after two years as he oversees a new school house in Gallatin district. Howard S. Kirk earns a bachelor degree in architecture from UC Berkeley. D. Cr and A. J. Abbott visit Gallatin forest areas for homestead examinations. A Gallatin Valley silver cup collection is displayed in San Francisco bound for the Montana building. Louise Lamme narrowly escapes injury when a taxicab tips over near Central Avenue. driver averts further harm, no serious injuries.
Max Flint, a sophomore from the University of Washington, was unanimously elected captain of the next year’s nine at a dinner honoring the squad. Flint played a steady, heady game this year for the university baseball team, which was revived after a several year rest.
No fatalities reported in Checotah Oklahoma after the Checotah storm. Four persons reportedly died in Fort Smith Arkansas but denial arrives as wire service restores. Property damage estimated at sixty five thousand dollars, exclusive of orchard and crop losses.
George Thompson a Buffalo Wyoming cowboy who wed a Berthold North Carolina girl in Minot last Saturday arrived in Great Falls with his bride en route to the coast on a honeymoon trip. He shot himself in a cheap restaurant this afternoon dying of a self inflicted wound. He had money the day before but no money was found on him. The bride is penniless. Thompson said he was in town over a deal with partner John Benton to ship horses to Miles City for shipment to Canada.
May rainfall in Madison county surpasses long term norms with heavy western and Trout Creek bench rains delaying plowing. Farmers anticipate fat cattle and sheep, bumper crops of grain hay and higher prices, while ranchers like Guy Dodds and locals in Bear Gulch move ahead. Familiar names such as J C Sledensticker and Sanford Shepard appear amid town notes.
W C Busche of Livingston, president of Park County Automobile association, to coordinate a 2433 mile relay from Livingston to Butte via Chicago and Seattle, target 49 hours arrival by June 18. Local silver medal contest results favoring Esther Johnson and Wendell Niles, with future gold medal contest for state Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Memorial Day address by Rev E W Cross at the opera house May 31. Elmer Jennings funeral services held with Modern Woodmen of America lodge in attendance. C H Stoddard of R G Dun & Co reports improving business conditions in Butte area.
Washington May 27. W. Berglund of Townsend has been appointed as assistant forest ranger at Helena Montana.
Boston May 27 A resolution urging President Wilson to convene immediately a conference of neutral nations to discuss wartime conditions was adopted at the New England peace conference. The World Postal league, women’s peace party, world foundation, Massachusetts Peace Society and the American School Peace League were represented.
A sequence of deadly storms and floods hit Oklahoma Arkansas and surrounding regions. Deaths reported in Muskogee and Mannford Oklahoma. Thomasville and nearby towns suffered ruin with power outages and rising rivers Arkansas river valley floods feared near Dardanelle and Van Buren. Kansas Missouri and Pennsylvania also saw flood and frost damage to crops and property with rail lines washed out and several towns isolated.
Griffin Georgia Judge Robert T Daniel 87 dies at state Odd Fellows convention in Fitzgerald. He was grand sire of the sovereign lodge inaugurated at Atlantic City and long served as a superior court judge of Georgia. He also belonged to the Improved Order of Red Men.
A fragmentary market note from Minneapolis lists prices for grains including durum, oats, barley, rye and flax with figures such as 1601.17, alongside coded product names and unclear descriptors. The text appears garbled and partially unreadable, suggesting a damaged newspaper snippet from a commodities page. Entities include Minneapolis and Montana references and grain names.
Market notes show wheat and rye futures with July at 1615 and 4 percent, No 1 northern at 6.63 and No 2 northern at 6.63, durum and white varieties cited, flax trading near 1004 for May and rising to 2.00 in September, with several months ahead showing modest gains and backloads.
In a New York account Dr. Foss details the Lusitania disaster, describing lifeboat chaos and heroic rescues. She recalls swimming to aid drowning passengers, towing exhausted women to a raft, and reviving them after reaching a tug that picked up survivors. The ship sank within about 15 minutes after being struck.
Five men led by R. Holway of the University of California report Lassen peak sealed and two craters radically transformed after recent eruptions. The telegraph lines carried Associated Press dispatches noting the unusual activity and debunking a mud flood theory.
A fragmented report describes a mud flood in Hatreek valley caused by melting snow from the volcano's slopes, with vast farmland inundated. The storyteller argues no land was ceded as previously believed.
Washington May 2 The federal industrial commission concluded hearings that stretched over a year and covered all facets of U S industry. Chairman Walsh adjourned the commission sine die and plans an executive session in Chicago around June 1 to map its report for Congress. The report is expected in the winter session. Samuel Gompers, AFL president, was recalled to address criticism of organized labor and spoke on the Clayton act labor’s stance on unorganized workers and the McNamara brothers defense in dynamiting trials.
New York May 27 No possible disclosure of police corruption or higher up divisions of money paid for police protection will save Becker from the electric chair if District Attorney Perkins can prevent it Perkins announced Becker faces death for murder of Herman Rosenthal execution set for the week of July 12 No clemency appeals can be considered for offenses of a lower grade says Perkins
Four defense witnesses testified in the Roosevelt New Jersey trial of 19 men charged with murder over January strike violence. They asserted strikers initiated the shooting, not deputies, and that deputies fired into the air as strikers dropped clubs and fled. The court signaled it will direct acquittal for defendant John Smith, not proven linked to the shooting.
A heavy gale in Narragassett Bay last night caused the Rhode Island to drag anchor and collide with the battleship Nebraska. The impact tore away a portion of the bridge and damaged gun housing, with both ships losing heavy side gear and injuries reported among crew.
Anaconda resident Mrs. Joslin recounts violent riots in Victoria after May 8 and the Lusitania disaster, where Germans faced mob terror. She details attacks on the Kaiserhof hotel, a German club, the mayor’s house, and a brewery, with soldiers intervening and locals seeking protection as fear spread to Anaconda and Seattle.
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