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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
7
Local notes from Butte feature piano rentals, tuners, and arrivals from Helena, Anaconda, Great Falls, and Missoula. Residents visit Ciregon Springs, attend trains, and discuss travel to Spokane and Vancouver. A court hearing about the L. A. claim is rescheduled due to attorney absences.
A ranchers reservoir on Birch Creek near Apex burst during high water, weakening a bridge. A northbound freight train passed before it gave way, spilling cars into a gulch, with two coal cars wrecked and no injuries. Passenger trains No. 7 and No. 10 were halted. crews cleared the track and expect repairs to allow passage today.
Butte to Anaconda Gregson Springs Mountain View park and return for 1.00. Anaconda to Butte and return 1.00. Park trip 2.00. Trains depart Butte 9:50 12:25 4:40 p m. Anaconda departures 8:25 11:00 3:10 7:40 p m. Park service after 1:30 p m every 30 minutes. Good Roads and Cycle Path Association picnic with horse races at Butte.
Yesterday afternoon a delivery wagon pulled by a horse ridden by Herbert Pierce collided with a street car on the Mary Granite tracks. The horse was jolted and fell, but both the boy and the horse escaped injury while the wagon needed days of repairs.
Eagles members of Butte Aerie No Eis F. O. E. are called to attend memorial exercises. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday morning at 9 30 at the Miners' Union hall. DOBSON, President.
Articles of incorporation filed for a printing publishing and related services firm in Butte. Capital stock set at 1500 shares of 19 each with 15 000 total. Trustees listed A W Browse Samuel M Roberts and J M Kennedy. Reveille plant and Heilbronner job department acquired. Reveille to be renamed. Probable new afternoon daily in Butte.
Professor Cooper lectures at the canvas auditorium corner Gran ite and Arizona streets with free admission and seating. A hypnotic exhibition by the boy hypnotist Stramble will be a key feature. The audience enjoyed last evening's convulsed antics of those under influence. Come early to secure seats.
Professor Henry H. Munroe of Columbia College visits Butte to inspect mining property and meets former pupils including Frank Klepetko and William Thornton. He notes a booming mining department with five students enrolled and declines to name specific mines visited.
In Butte the town buzzes over Professor Munroe visiting to survey the Boston & Montana and Butte & Boston mines amid absorption rumors by the Amalgamated company. Mrs. Young plans Bitter Root summer. Professor Young to join after school closes. Local Electric and McDermott Hotel preparations spark Fourth of July mood as U C T delegates arrive. John Beatty Jr. gains Montana support for supreme secretary. opposition grows in Kansas.
Reports from across the United States show favorable sentiment in wages and strikes. In Toronto President O Connell of the International Machinists association cites NYC firms granting gains and a three fourths member vote needed to order a strike. In Fort Wayne 150 workers at Bass Foundry walked out demanding ten hours pay for nine and Saturday afternoon off.
San Francisco May 29 P L Williams general attorney and C H Jenkins treasurer of the Utah Nevada California railroad arrived today from Salt Lake and filed with the county recorder articles of incorporation of the proposed line from Salt Lake to Los Angeles. The articles have already been filed in Nevada and Utah.
In Memphis on May 29 a grand floral parade welcomed Confederate veterans visiting for the reunion. A prior session discussed school histories and impartial wartime narratives for Southern classrooms, with delegates from 513 camps present and 300 to be represented.
New York May 29. At a police convention Chief Deitsch of Cincinnati defended a paper on police organization crime prevention and treatment of criminals. A motion to suppress the section on money for protection failed as several chiefs urged it be read. The paper continued with Deitsch criticizing profiteers and praising humane aid.
A parliamentary boiler committee orders a full speed trial between the second class cruisers Hyacinth and Minerva, each 5,000 tons, to compare Belleville and Scotch boilers. The ships will sail from a home port to Gibraltar to gauge performance under sustained high pressure.
London May 29 Sir Thomas Lipton president of Lipton Limited was warmly received at the annual meeting shareholders expressed concern he spends too much time on yachting. He reassured them and the report was adopted. Many wished him better luck with Shamrock 1 after the gathering.
Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii, returning from Honolulu, urged the interior department to appoint a commission to study the public land situation and report a draft law. He also highlighted unsatisfactory postal service in Honolulu to the post office department, noting no personal criticism of officials.
The University of Michigan anchors both singles and doubles finals at the western intercollegiate championships in Chicago. Danforth and Wherry won the doubles title by beating Ax tell and Bingham of Chicago, setting up a singles final between Danforth and Wherry to be decided tomorrow.
The Steamship State of California arrived from Alaska with 50 passengers and $190000 in bullion. A scarlet fever case was found aboard and the vessel was sent to Diamond P. quarantine station for fumigation. The Yulon river is rising and river snow is disappearing as provisions are made for unusually high water.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Kalispell May 29 reports the county vote for a $20,000 high school bonds bond measure won by a majority of 352. The board will advertise for bids on the bonds immediately.
Havana on May 29 reports a broad approval of the Platt Amendment and predicts the start of a new era of prosperity for the country.
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