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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1901
Page
5
The Principal Branch Office of the landard is at 21 East Broadway Butte. Telephone 422. Advertising rates finished on application.
A long list of visitors and locals in Butte includes L W Wertheimer in Helena, Fred Orton and J G Bates in piano trade, Montana Music Co connections, and several lawyers in Silver Bow block. Notables like former Senator T H Carter and State Senator Stanton are noted visiting or returning. Mentioned are births, lost items, a reward for a misplaced cane, and East Coast trip impressions from Mr and Mrs Jesse Holmes after a Buffalo exposition.
A large funeral was held yesterday afternoon for John Farrell eight son of Marcus Farrell. He died Friday evening from scarlet fever. He was a bright and promising boy and his family has the heartfelt sympathy of many.
The University of Chicago will start a new winter extension program with weekly lectures by the university lecture association. Courses are planned in Pittsburg Toledo Cincinnati Minneapolis Milwaukee and St Paul with aims to reach every city over 1 000 population within 100 miles of Chicago and extend to the Mississippi valley. The city plan hinges on early success in these centers for broader expansion.
Local store Boucher’s advertises clearance of children’s items with knee pants priced at 25 cents each. Sale emphasizes steep discounts and stock reduction.
The Bitter Root farm stock of the late Marcus Daly, including 75 mares and prized stallions Prodigal and Ponce de Leon, will be auctioned in New York City at Madison Square Garden on the 25th. Prodigal's progeny and other Daly-bred horses have drawn high prices in prior sales, with interest from top buyers like Whitney Croker and Haggin. The sale aims to disperse wealth of a legendary breeding operation in a yearlong effort to liquidate the estate's trotting and thoroughbred stock.
Honolulu attorney Francis M. Brooks asks Chief Reynolds to locate Misses Kate and Elizabeth Sullivan. He claims Washington officials say money due the women is ready with proper papers. Brooks, once a Butte resident, has lost track of them.
Heavy rains washed sand onto the track causing a street car to jump the rails on Granite near Columbia street last night. No damage occurred and service was delayed about an hour. Walkerville cars ran west on Park street during the interruption. Also offered for sale at Sherman's 129 East Park Butte a $300 Concert Grand graphophone with horned brass horn and 48 selected records.
The Florence county court of common pleas ruled a 1867 marriage between a white man and a Black woman invalid. The decision, issued in Florence, South Carolina, reflects postwar civil status questions affecting interracial unions.
The case discusses whether children born of an intermarriage can inherit from a estate left to lawful grandchildren of a testatrix. It notes 1865 prohibitions on white and colored intermarriage, repealed by 1872 codes, and that current law still bans White colored intermarriage. The real estate involved is described as valuable.
New Haven reports claim Yale students accused several Columbia players of not being bona fide students. Columbia coach Sanford denied any ineligibility while New York sources note a retractable insinuation and a Columbia athletics committee spokesman said all players appeared in good standing.
Dispatches from Catbalogan Samar report stringent measures to quell the insurrection on the island. General Smith orders presidents and head men to surrender arms and hand over Balangiga massacre suspects by November 6 or face Guam deportation, destruction of villages, and confiscation of property. Marines guard Balangiga and Basey. 10 gunboats patrol the coast. Naval Cadet Loveman Nou, ashore at Nipa Nipa, was attacked and boloed after losing his revolver.
Buffalo New York on October 27 announces farewell week at the Pan American Exposition with packed entertainments. Western New York hosts the exposition on Wednesday along with exhibitors day. Negotiations seek a nationally reputed football game for the afternoon and Saturday marks the final Nehts city celebration featuring a sham battle on the esplanade between Fort Porter regulars and an Indian congress force.
In South Bend Indiana Mrs Rebecca Webb and her son Charles lay unconscious from slow corrosive poisoning. Charles died. Rebecca is dying. Grant Webb a brother is under arrest. sister Cora 20 is under police surveillance. Physicians cite slow corrosive poisoning as the cause of Charles Webb's death.
In Chicago James Kennedy a laborer killed his wife and then killed himself after being refused access to his two young children whom he and Kennedy had quarrelled over and separated. The tragedy followed a request to see the children. In Cheyenne Wyoming a new oil discovery near Kemmerer yields a high grade fossil oil at 132 feet with a strong flow and plans for about a dozen wells amid rising property values.
Wet weather kept many theatergoers home as three venues offered shows. Thomas Q. Seabrooke impressed in A Modern Crusoe at Sutton's. Wilbur Kirwin Opera Co reopened at Maguire's Grand with strong singing. A Honolulu Coon at Sutton's Theater drew good crowds with notable specialty numbers. Local real estate ads from W H Winters promote available rentals and land on Mercury Street.
Chile announces army mobilization at end of November amid maneuvers while Argentina orders its fleet to be provisioned and crews work nonstop. Three thousand protesters arrive seeking federal intervention in Santa Fe province. Generals Roca and Mitre meet a deputation and a peaceable resolution is pledged.
Fleeing settlers report the western slope of the Alleghany mountains ablaze from the Yough valley into West Virginia. Hunters started about a dozen fires this week. brush is tinder dry. Water sources fail, crops and fences burn, and homes risk destruction with narrow escapes from flames lighting the night sky.
Governor Orman received a telegram noting Agent Myton and 150 Ute Indians from Utah started for their reservation yesterday afternoon. Myton will accompany them to the Utah line as part of ongoing consultation with Indian affairs officials. The Rock Island special train carrying Cornelius Vanderbilt and road officials arrived in Denver and will proceed to El Paso to inspect the Liberal to El Paso route.
Lieut. Lewis Van BSechaick reports insurgents attacked municipal police and scouts at Sabang. One scout was killed and two police captured. Insurgents seized two Krag Jorgensen rifles two shotguns and 200 rounds of ammunition.
Vienna reports twenty three people killed by wolves while working in a field near Witebsck Poland. The Neuste Weiner Journal cites the wolf attack as the source of the casualties.
A telegram signed by Mayor Weaver and prominent citizens invites Rear Admiral Sehley to visit Louisville after completing a Chicago trip. The message underscores Louisville's hospitality and interest in naval ties.
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