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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1900
Page
12
Western Montana office location at 110 West Main Street Missoula offers advertising rate information on request. Telephone number provided for inquiries and rate details.
Missoula reports the Magnificent meeting of the independent democrats drew the largest crowd yet at the Union opera house. Matts and Lamb deliver arguments on imperialism and Clark. labor issues, hours, and alleged plots dominate local political chatter with tensions rising among Curran, McLaughlin, and Clark supporters.
Missoula delegates arrive for the Grand Templars session with local lodge hospitality. A prize drill pits Anaconda and Whitehall, with Whitehall the defending medalists. Teams include Whitehall’s D Houghton and K W Woolverton, Miss Margaret McMlatchey, Bert Wall, Ida Hindman, and Mrs F A Taylor. Anaconda’s May Howard, Pearl Carther, Julia Morarity, Darby McLain, John George, J A Longstaff, H A Laird, and M Leeper. Globe store advertises jackets and millinery. stove pipe, elbows, and dampers offered for delivery within 50 miles of Missoula.
Three land office decisions from Washington sustain the secretary of the interior and the local office. Plaintiffs John Enstrom Ralph H Brink and Joseph Beaton, all of Plains, lose their cases over land near Plains. The reasons for the decisions are not fully detailed in the excerpt.
Being against them is that they have not complied with the homestead law in not living on the land the required length of time and not giving the land the cultivation that is required by law These cases have been before the land office for a long time and have been keenly contested.
Missoula hosts a brief visit by NP president Robert Mellen and General Superintendent Kimberly. Kimberly arrived by private car, toured Bitter Root valley with Superintendent Russell and Roadmaster Mayne, and returned to catch westbound No. 4. Kimberly to remain overnight before departure tomorrow morning.
In Missoula on October 16 a man reregistered at Judge Catlin's office. He claimed two years apart that he was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, aged 46, then Windsor, Ohio, aged 49. The agent accepted both declarations, noting birthplace does not affect registration.
The Missoula post office lists unclaimed letters for the week ending October 16. Names include Bork R A Beach Mrs Lizzie Burke John Doxey Latimer Ducie John Ford J L Hunter W A Hughes Mrs E F Lay Ella Murphy Kings Mitchell Mrs Al McDonald Miss Dollie Proctor J Gi Rehfeld Otto Ratthe Stevens on Master Lea Shangen Mies Clara Walker Mrs Jenet White Charles Wood Ren Gkoa WKEEP Postmaster. Gordon note adds miners from Copper Cliff report a mine closure with high grade ore and expected reopening.
The Missoula paper notes state ticket filing with eight parties including independent democrats labor and socialist groups. Model offers 25 cent items. Missoula merchants host fur and garment showcases featuring Alaska seal royal ermine and other skins. Medical specialists visit Florence hotel for eye ear nose and throat care with free glasses exams.
Ed Riberdy from St. Regis and J W Russell visiting Missoula along with editor Stevens of Hamilton and J F Spelman of Anaconda. Numerous hospital updates, travel notes, and small business moves across Missoula including barbershop plans, guardianship filing by Alex Dow, and regionwide political chatter as Alex Dow surveys the local scene.
Instruments filed with the county clerk include a deed from Miles Mocady and wife and By vester P Hull to Thomas Hornig, as recorded in Missoula on October 16 in The Record.
A deed details half of the northeast quarter and west half of the northeast quarter of section one township and range with 160 acres, to Edward Vounset and Silver Of Gold and Mimioe come pany. The Copper Queso and Brown Bear claims lie one-half mile east of Lookout Station on the Coeur d Alene branch, for $1.
The Rattlesnake nuisance discussed in the Standard prompts authorities to act. Owner Lachambre plans to dispose of the swine they were considered a nuisance and a stench. Health officials had urged surrender, and Lachambre now continues selling them off to remove the issue.
Missoula reports August F Johnke and others filed home stead entries in various townships and ranges within ranges 16 west and 10 west. Entries include 160 acre parcels in sections 4 25 12 24 18 and 5 with names Breston Jackson Shaw Barnes and Engelsfield. Additional plots of streams listed for filing across multiple fractional townships.
The season calls for reliable wagons to haul crops to market as farmers enjoy prosperity. A reputable maker ensures strength and durability, lightening burdens for beasts. Also suggests upgrading family mobility with a nicer vehicle from a large stock of horse drawn conveyances.
Hospital notes from Missoula report Thomas W Lonzely of Moore a patient at Northern Pacific hospital with rheumatism. Elsie Howe returns after months away. Nurse Fred Sage ill with typhoid fever. Harry Light of Butte travels to Helena after a recent eye injury. Conductor Thomas McEachran recovering at the institution with typhoid fever.
Special correspondence reports the Granite County Teachers Institute in Philipsburg concluding Friday evening. Dr. Craig of Missoula and Mrs. R G Young of Butte delivered excellent instruction. The group adopted resolutions endorsing enactment of proposed state education measures.
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