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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
19
The Principal Branch Ones of the Standard is located at 28 East Broadway Butte with telephone 422. Independent telephone 1.02. Advertising rates furnished on application.
A scattered Butte page notes Regal shoes and Moyer buggies, piano purchases, and a list of locals including Dr. W. E. Casey and Cote Tait dentists. It mentions marriage licenses, openings, travels to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and railway schedules plus fishing trips by the B A P club and osteopathic examiners in Helena.
Solomon Tebo liveryman on South Montane street is accused of receiving a stolen saddle. A warrant will be served when he returns. The complaint stems from thefts involving local youths including Gene McLain and Tara Guile. The saddle allegedly sold for its value. Funeral notices follow for Patrick Karnes and John Parr with services set at St Josephs.
A.J. Werner known as Doc Werner travels to Leadville Colorado to testify in the trial of Frank Shercliffe charged with murder of a Leadville policeman. Shercliffe, also linked to the Butte killing of Policeman William Briard, had earlier been acquitted, then extradited to Arkansas, with Werner now aiding in identifying Shercliffe as the man known as Hickey in Butte. The tale recounts Hickey confessing to Werner about the Butte killing and noting another man was present.
The report notes that Kid McCoy and Hickey were both known by the same nickname in Leadville and Butte raising suspicion that Sherelitie and Mickey may be the same person. The trial at Leadville is scheduled to start on September 3.
Notice announces Silver Bow Montana Democratic county convention set for September 3 1908 at noon in Butte Auditorium plus primary elections in numerous precincts to select delegates and alternates to the county and state conventions. It lists candidate offices, voting boundaries, and apportions delegates across many precincts under the county central committee chaired by Charles P Nevin and J P Crowley.
Gustave Arkell remains under heavy scrutiny as Oakland authorities expand the circumstantial case in the murder of Alice Donohue. key witnesses include Emma Verra and Mrs Elizabeth Laumelster who link clothing and a spade to Arkell. A burglary warrant, police cross checks with San Francisco, and a dynamite threat letter attributed to the suspect deepen the case's tension.
Will Berenbaum, a recent Philadelphia arrival, was approached on Idaho Street by a man who asked for money. The thief reached into Berenbaum’s pocket and fled with cash, as a second suspect appeared around Galena Street. Berenbaum reported the incident to police.
The largest and best equipped jewelry factory in Butte, Mayer's at 22 West Park, offers repair and new work of the highest artistic execution. Individual pieces made to order are available, though less common than in the East.
The speech argues taxes on consumption burden the middle class while sparing the rich. It links federal taxes to a de facto graduated income tax and cites appropriations hurting farmers. The speaker accuses Republicans of excess spending and tariffs as indirect benefits to protected interests, while Democrats push economy and necessary taxation only. The notice mentions Dr ironside lowering rental work, and Orton Bros offering pianos and organs at 219 North Main Street.
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