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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
1
Governor Roosevelt visited Butte amid broad public praise as locals extended welcoming hospitality. Visitors and residents described the Rough Rider’s reception as generous, reflecting the era’s patriotic fervor and civic spirit.
Roosevelt's Montana swing drew a modest crowd in Butte as he avoided political clashes, greeted locals, and traveled via a crowded train route from Helena. Supporters hailed him while critics noted ordinary oratory as he rode to the hotel amid cheers and band music.
The crowd fills the Butte depot as Teddy Roosevelt emerges from the rear coach of engine 1064. Republicans surge along the platform in exuberant response while climbers perch on box cars and poles to glimpse the Rough Rider leader.
Philadelphia reports 118000 of 142000 anthracite mine workers idle after two days of strike. Prices rise as Philadelphia Reading Coal & Iron adds 25 cents per ton, dealers pad price 54 cents, while Lehigh Coal & Navigation grants 10 hour days for higher wages. Union non union tensions surface in Likens district.
Hazelton Pa Sept 6 The second day of the anthracite strike shows no sign of miners and owners meeting mediation. About 6 000 more miners joined the idle force bringing total to 118 000. Mitchell reports large additions to the strike in Hazelton Lackawanna and Schuylkill districts and wage protests spread as Readings coal price rises and September orders are canceled.
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron notes from a September 18 report indicate ongoing industrial activity and potential corporate movements in Pennsylvania. Details reference regional energy and manufacturing sectors, with implications for local employment and market trends.
Report from Shamokin Pennsylvania dated September 18 notes reduced work, about 1000 miners on strike, and limited activity. A demonstrable calm prevailed except for stones tossed by breaker boys at Mount Carmel and a few mine owners ordering mule hoists and some firings. The Franklin mine at Trevorton and Locust Gap remained fully staffed while others halted operations.
On September 18 in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania the second day of the miners strike shows near parity between coal companies and United Mine Workers. Some washeries operate while big mines stay idle. Maconaqua colliery works in full force. Union officials recruit. violence occurs at Bugar Notch with many joining the union. Special officers sworn in to guard property. Shipments halted threaten about 1,400 railroad workers, mostly brakemen, out of work.
Tension rises in the Likens valley as union and non union miners clash over the Williamstown strike. Williamstown men refuse to join the walkout while deputies and watchmen secure the colliery. The operation continues with 110 workers as Father Logue ministers to workers.
Democrats from across Montana gather in Helena for a pivotal county and state convention fight. Supporters of W A Clark push to seat Clark delegations from Silver Bow while anti Clark factions from Deer Lodge and others resist. Central committee holds a quorum as hotel lobbies buzz with factional maneuvering and possible boodle concerns.
An outfit in Helena plans to take control of a machine and operate it, aiming to run it in their favored manner. The situation describes a power grab by a local group intent on guiding production.
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