Butte News Offers Piano and Organ Sale After Inquiry
After visits by James M. Orton, a careful investigation led to a sale offer. Every piano and organ is marked with plain figures at wholesale price or less to ensure rapid disposal.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1902
Page
11
After visits by James M. Orton, a careful investigation led to a sale offer. Every piano and organ is marked with plain figures at wholesale price or less to ensure rapid disposal.
The piece denounces F August Heinze backed coalitions in Silver Bow county races. It frames a five faction ticket as corrupt and self serving, condemns labor and anti trust lines, mocks a carnival of vice, and warns Butte voters that decency resists such a slate and will reject it at the polls.
A large and solemn funeral for Harry Thomas, vice president of the Musicians' union, drew Red Men and Odd Fellows members. About 65 instruments played funeral marches as the procession passed through city streets led by Samuel Treloar of the Boston and Montana band. Thomas was a former miner and Miners' union member.
An inquest at Richards Undertaking Rooms found Patrick Kelly of Helena died of heart disease. Witnesses included Robert Ek Taylor, Fred Hansen, and Dr. W W Taylor who treated Kelly after he collapsed in the hotel hall. Remains were sent to Helena for burial, with Christian rites preferred by a sister in California. burial later planned for Helena.
The Overland club entertained members and friends with a smoker marking the first event of the season since the successful minstrel show in Butte and Helena. The club talents had been inactive after the show but resumed performances last night.
Lively club smoker drew praise for its varied program including Overland club quartet led by Jack Thomas and Sam May, Mansel Boyle impersonations, Salome mandolin quartet, John Howard as conductor, and witty dialect stories. Organizers Harry Holp Dr Schwartz Jed Freund Gilfidlen and Howard received credit for planning the event.
The dedication at St. Pauls Episcopal Church at South Warren and Talbot Avenue is postponed to January 25. It was set for October 8 but Bishop Brewe of Helena could not attend.
In New York on October 4 at Gravesend the six furlong opener saw King Raine win with Belle of Lexington second and Onduris third in 1 11 1 5. Ethics led a mile and a sixteenth with Brunswick second and Boaste third in 1 47 4 5. A six furlong Prospect Handicap winner was Astarita with Hurstbourne second and Golden Maxim third in 1 10 3 5. Colonel Bill won the Oriental Handicap at a mile and a quarter with Ignite r second and Herbert third in 2 06. Andke captured five and a half furlongs with Lady Josephine second and Ring Dove third in 1 07 1 5. Zoroaster took the mile and a sixteenth with Fried Krupp second and Bela Rio third in 1 49 4 5. Right Once True won the five and a half furlongs with Sheri Bell second and Flerham Queen third in 1 07 1 5.
Chicago action on October 4 features a sequence of six furlong races. Chickadee takes the opener with Sandflea second and Gold Age third in 1:24 2-5, followed by Fairbury winning the next race and Pirates Queen placing second in 1:24 3-4. Aladdin claims the Tecumseh handicap at a mile and three eighths in 2:41 3-5.
In the St Louis Fair Grounds program on October 4, results show Joe Lesser winning the first seven furlongs, Extol taking the five furlongs, The Mormon prevailing the mile and twenty, Sailors' Dream capturing the W. J. Lemp handicap, Pyrrho winning the mile twenty, and Nearest triumphing the seven furlongs. Times listed for each race range from 1:05 to 1:52 with various runners placing behind the winners.
Miles Finlen, former Butte resident, now in Oak Park Chicago, travels to Salt Lake City and Coconino County Arizona to pursue a Coconino Copper company stake. The vein is 500 feet wide, 15 miles traced, 8–15 percent copper. a small plant costing 100000–150000 prepares ore for a future smelter. Finlen also owns eight two year olds and Lucky Star, a notable racer previously tied to By Holly.
A Hamilton woman, Miss Browning, visits Captain Mannix jailed in Bozeman for passing worthless checks. She plans to marry him after his 60 day sentence and may influence additional charges being dropped. The tale depicts romance amid legal trouble and a county jail stay.
Missoula on October 4 report that Mrs. Busch who runs a lodging house on Main Street says someone entered her apartments since yesterday and stole two gold rings from her trunk. A roomer is suspected.
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