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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1911
Page
16
The passage argues that law aims to retain own officers but yields a mirrored party influence. It notes Butte remains hindered by politics despite two years under metropolitan policing. It claims the metropolitan law is battered and ineffective, leaving Butte paying for inferior police service.
Washington report says Senator Dixon proposed a bill to stop fish loss as rivers feed government irrigation. High dams block spawning, nets and fishways help some streams but reduce irrigable land. critics fear agriculture may trump fish protection.
The notice lists subscription costs for daily and Sunday editions at $1.00 monthly and $10.90 for yearly prepayment. It also notes a Sunday Standard yearly rate of $2.50. The text provides office locations in Anaconda and mentions multiple independent phone lines and an editorial room with various extension numbers.
The document lists office addresses and newsstand partners for the Standard Publishing Company, with locations in New York Chicago Philadelphia Cincinnati Detroit Indianapolis St. Paul Minneapolis Kansas City San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland Vancouver and related agencies and contact details. It concludes with the instruction to address general business letters to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Montana.
The Butte Metropolitan Police Law aimed to depoliticize policing has struggled since adoption. Republicans Democrats and Socialists have each maneuvered to replace officers, leading to court battles over removals and a police force seen as still tied to party power.
The commentary weighs a potential twenty million dollar payout to fund the ousting of a leader and fears the cost may rise as new claims emerge. It notes Madero’s appeal and the volatility of Latin American politics, warning that peace is not guaranteed and upheaval could continue.
Citizens of Anaconda attended a Saturday night meeting pushing the good roads movement. The group called for a formal organization to awaken public interest and coordinate with state authorities for a lasting, cooperative highway policy across Montana counties.
Report notes Mr Bryan backing Champ Clark for president pending a national convention approval. Meanwhile Champ Clark is said to be losing ground. Anti Bryan factions tie the two stories to oppose Bryan and warn allies they may need him next year. The piece casts doubt on Clark's current momentum.
The article weighs Gov Harmon and Gov Wilson in relation to Champ Clark and Bryan. Harmon faces Democratic setbacks in Ohio, Wilson gains momentum from New Jersey success and Pacific coast tour, while Clark remains solid though not certain to gain. Hearst backs Clark as he heads for Europe.
In Seattle on May 8 claimants to Coughton group coal lands in Alaska including former Gov James N Gillet and wife former Rep James McLachlin and Henry T Oxnard were ordered to appear within 30 days to show cause why their entries should not be canceled. Valuation estimates range from 25 to 50 million dollars amid charges by a GLO special agent that original locators were dummies.
A long list of notes covers patents in Korea, lighter aluminum wires, maritime routes, Harbin banking and building, Japanese beef, Philippine woods for a tomb, theater hats, a Maine hunter, coal storage losses, pellagra studies, and a hatpin accident in a crowded elevator in New York.
Goethe's immortal drama Faust presented by the Della Pringle company at the Family theater drew two large audiences. Arthur Matthews as Mephisto, Hogan as Faust, Miss Pringle as Marguerite, Van Auker as Valentine, and Miss Searth as Dame Martha received praise for their vivid portrayals. Faust runs nightly with a Saturday matinee, followed next week by What Happened to Jones.
The Business Men's association in Butte will not host a public demonstration for the inauguration of the Milwaukee transcontinental service. Instead they will send congratulatory messages to President Farling. Four new transcontinental trains will begin, with initial arrivals in Butte at 9 44 a m eastbound and 7 25 p m westbound tomorrow.
Three young newsboys crawled into Forman's paint shop and left with eighteen dollars fountain pens and trinkets, later returning the loot after officers questioned them. A bogus $500 sack lured the trio, but the youngest received a stick in a pocketbook. upon opening it, he exposed the theft and told police.
Librarians and workmen complete the new $10,000,000 New York public library at Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street. Hundreds of thousands of volumes are in place and catalogued with rare manuscripts and art objects arranged. The consolidation of the Astor, Tilden and Lenox libraries was completed in May 1897 and construction began two years after designers Carrere and Haast were selected.
An escaping couple identified as Mr Wyre and Mrs Wye face immigration detention after arriving on the Lake Manitoba at Quebec. Officials question their marriage status, travel togethering, and financials before detaining them at Little River. The man, a civil engineer, carried substantial funds and sought to cash a large check.
Leonard Bacon in Harper's Weekly reviews a mock epic poem critiquing Burns and revolutionary myth. The piece targets the poet Carmvie and his claimed seer status, noting overgeneralizations and dated references to Bastille and blood crimes.
The piece recalls a dawn journey of the Traveling Man through the glen with robin and wren awake. It laments not seeing him and praises nature’s spring bloom as he travels north. A second note urges poets to persevere writing despite critics and editors, insisting self publication may yield lasting value.
FE Edwards recalls a meeting between William Lloyd Garrison and Keanah Rhynders. Rhynders, once a radical pro slavery Democrat and U S marshal for New York, explains how Seward influenced his 1857 reappointment. He admits hindering fugitive slave arrests to thank Seward, noting no fugitives were arrested 1857 to 1861. Tomorrow Edwards previews another revelation about Booth.
Skeel president of the Ohio State Medical association urged the association and its societies to appoint press committees. He said the public is entitled to accurate news of medical and surgical progress and discoveries and that prompt reporting would curb untrustworthy information.
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