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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1901
Page
10
Local store touts new fall line with patterns finishes and pieces at low prices. Four piece tea set ten dollars and full sets thirty two to eighty dollars. Water sets twelve fifteen and eighteen dollars. Cake dishes three twenty five five fifty and nine dollars. Three piece ferry sets twelve seventeen and twenty dollars. Baking dishes six sixty and ten dollars.
The ad touts filling prescriptions with fresh full strength drugs by competent staff. It promises large volume allows reasonable prices and invites customers to leave prescriptions at the corner store for quick pickup. Also lists rubber sheeting bed pans throat sprays and Turkish bath outfits.
An Indian beauty from the Lemhi tribe attracted Butte onlookers with a rainbow ribbon gown and a regal bearing. After plans for a theater meet were arranged, she decided to return to the reservation on the 8 50 train, leaving Billy Love disappointed. Tickets and travel ads fill out the page around the tale.
Joe V. Surprenant, early Montana pioneer, returned from Cape Nome and inland Alaska after a year of travel and hardship. He described prices in Nome, warned against false claims, and said he will stay in Montana, while noting distress and coal shortages but available groceries at low costs.
A ranch patch in Butte is robbed when a ton of potatoes and all cabbage heads are dug up and loaded into a wagon. The thief vanished, with no trace of the produce. In the same notes, Lawrence McArdle’s funeral is set for Saturday, and the Butte Brewery saloon dissolves as John A. Barta assumes the business duties.
A Fort family child nearly died when his clothes caught fire at 663 Placer street. Neighbor Mrs. Barry smothered the flames with quilts as Dr. Campbell treated burns. the injury is painful but not expected to be serious.
In Portland Oregon on October 10 Portland defeats Tacoma 4 to 2 with strong battery work from Grendon and Vigneux. Umpire O Connell officiates as Seattle beats Spokane 5 in Seattle Washington on October 4 with Harmon Hurley Hawley Thielman Swindells behind the plate.
Molly Murray, a Black woman, declares her life threatened and demands the arrest of Alex Bannon for murder after alleging he fired six shots at her cabin. She shows a letter from an attorney urging county action and asks police to act amid fears of brickbats and bullets in her daily life.
In Silver Bow County the prosecution will be led by County Attorney Simpson with defense oversight by Attorneys Booth and Kohl of Butte. Warne, in good health, move freely at the railyard and helps with the sheriff's horses. Many witnesses from Butte are slated to testify, and sensational testimony is anticipated, fueling speculation on the case outcome.
The Burlington Route will sell round trip tickets from Buffalo on the first and third Tuesdays for 64 50 dollars. For further information contact Phil Daniels at 35 East Broadway.
Special dispatch reports the trial of John Warne for the February Walkerville murder of Hettie Blewitt to start tomorrow morning in Deer Lodge with county attorney present.
James Foster was acquitted after a short jury deliberation. The trial opened with Judge Napton presiding in Deer Lodge and adjourned until 2 o clock. The jury returned a not guilty verdict at about 9 30 PM.
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