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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1909
Page
13
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 28 West Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Independent telephone 1,422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
In Butte, D T Edwards visits from Great Falls while A A Schultz and George Akrus tour from Helena. Miss Mae Thorne and Dr Grace Cahoon relocate locally. Local licenses issued include a marriage between Ture Bjork and Alviria Soderling. Articles filed show Santa Anita Mining company in Butte with $300,000 capital.
An unnamed correspondent signing as A Humble Follower of the Lowly Nazarene offers to reveal his identity to the Standard. The letter discusses The Age of Methuselah and requests publication of private information if allowed.
City officials discuss options to remove the dump on 140 acres along the Milwaukee road line. The plan considers selling the site for city lots to fund an incinerator. The Milwaukee road may need more land for future shops. Committee actions extend several weeks. Orton Bros. piano and organ ads interrupt the text.
A delegation representing the honorary commercial interests travels to Cleveland to meet the prince and princess, aiming to discuss trade and cultural exchanges during the visit.
A Japanese commission arrives tonight at Niagara Falls to honor Prince and Princess Kuni who are en route from the Hudson Fulton celebration to Japan. The royals will visit tomorrow and then return to Cleveland tomorrow afternoon.
Thieves smashed a rear window at 1107 Utun Avenue store stealing twenty seven gold plated rings and a revolver. In South Main Street Dixon House room twelve, an overcoat razors shirts and shoes were stolen from Vasel Witcheff. A Pine Tree saloon break was halted when J Mooney woke to glass smash and a circular hole cut in the front window.
Chauncey Olcott delighted a large Broadway audience in Butte with Ragged Robin a tale of honest love thwarted then rewarded. The cast included Rose Curry Josie Claflin Mark Price Lottie Smith Andrew O Neill Magda Foy and Alice Farrell. Olcott sang new songs and encore My Wild Irish Rose with esteemed incidental music and Irish themes noted throughout. F Sanden sold his blacksmith shop to open a new one at 1027 East Front Avenue promising careful attention to customers.
Captain Bernier of the Canadian government steamer Arc tic returns to Father Point Quebec after more than a year in the far north. The crew reports reaching 84 degrees north on August 19 1908 with musk ox and other game, no seals or Eskimos sighted, and minimal snow. The voyage aimed to collect duties from American whalers and to plant the British flag on unclaimed Arctic lands.
W J Stevenson, a 20 year old from Timberline born 1888, died in the stock train wreck at Fourteenth and Rockwell streets Chicago on Sept 27. He lived in Park and Gallatin counties. Survived by three brothers and four sisters. He belonged to Woodmen of the World and Royal Highlanders.
Dispatches report a large depot of arms for revolutionists reached Barcelona from the Spanish frontier and indicate that bombs are being secretly manufactured in large numbers.
Northern Pacific schedules radical new transcontinental service starting Oct 28 with solid trains from Chicago to Portland and back No. 21 and No. 22 will also run Duluth to coast as through services. The North Coast limited remains largely unchanged extending to Portland and new through sleepers are planned for No. 8 and No. 4. The Morgan purchase of Chicago Great Western may fold that line into the NP system improving Chicago connections.
Dr Hill weighs possible war with England and Germany as he surveys paths after appointment in Berlin. The inquiry reflects cautious diplomacy during a tense period between major powers.
Glendive Montana October 3 Mrs H F Hilliard wife of a Belle Prairie homesteader confronted two trespassers cutting hay on her husband Hilliards land. She armed with a six shooter fired a single shot driving the pair away leaving dust down the road.
Madrid reports lack of front news since General Marina began operations at Melilla. Moors hold three key mountains Argain Uxurgan and Milan and resist dislodgement. Rumors say Mulai Fafid calls for a holy war and urges tribes to join the Rif war effort.
Special Dispatch from Glendive Montana reports colonization efforts targeting Dawson county. Polish immigration agents Stanley Mankowski and Father Theodore Luck toured the area with I N Hill of the H H H Land company. Luck purchased a 640 acre ranch and plans call for several hundred families to settle and farm this land under favorable conditions.
New York October 3 Dr. David Jayne Hill successor to Charlemagne Tower as ambassador to Germany arrived today on the liner George Wash ington.
Mayer's presents blue white flawless diamonds sold for less with a money back guarantee. Unmounted rare diamonds and original factory samples offered, with mounting in any style. Low prices on new work and repairs. mainspring and watch cleaning guaranteed for a year.
The New York visit of U S Navy sailors brings tragedy as two men from the U S S Montana die in a gas filled hotel room. H Daniels and M Germaine were identified by their caps while a third sailor, Samuel B Hermann, drowned after falling from the gunboat Castine at Poughkeepsie.
Lieut. W. Baird, 28, U S Army, killed himself at his boarding house in North Adams Mass by taking poison He left a note requesting notification of his father Dr W C Baird of Beaumont Texas and signed Here goes a misspent life May God forgive me.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw claims she supplied funds to her brother Howard to secure his release after an arrest in New Haven on a bogus diamond ring charge. She says she pawned her diamond engagement ring and sent $25 by telegraph.
Missoula officers arrested about 20 men for attempting to speak on the streets and called out the hose wagon to disperse a mob. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the I W W organizer known as the civic orator, was jailed in the county jail amid ongoing actions to curb free speech demonstrations.
A Chicago and St Louis delegation arrives in Bozeman to tour irrigation projects in the West. They visit Gallatin Valley, Billings, and Yellowstone valley, impressed by crop yields and reclamation work. State Senator J M Schwood of Wyoming joins and the group heads toward Cody to view canal country.
Maj. J. G. Sanders leads arrests of about a dozen saloon keepers in Butte and Anaconda for failing to cancel internal revenue stamps. Many defendants may plead guilty in Helena federal court next week, claiming ignorance rather than fraud. The article also notes abundant big game hunting and record trout catches around Butte.
Rome reports the pope has been ill for several days yet received an archbishop in audience. Afterward he showed fatigue and swelling in the leg signaling a gout recurrence. Doctors order complete rest and all audiences are suspended.
A Louisville Herald writer denounces the East Coast signal stealing incident calling it contemptible. He says such methods belong in neither the National League nor any American Association park and urges higher standards.
Weinberg's at 67 West Park unveils new fall styles in women’s wear emphasizing elegance and distinctive fashion. The retailer promotes its latest selections as stylish and refined for the season.
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