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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
12
The Western Montana office of the Standard is at 110 West Main street Missoula. Telephone No. 118 Advertising rates furnished on application.
TheMissoula council introduces an ordinance regulating the fire department, outlining the structure with a fire marshal, two drivers, and volunteer companies. It details duties, reporting, discipline, compensation, and property ownership, with provisions for organization and enforcement. Deeds and property transfers from nearby areas are also listed in the notice.
A stream of brief items from Stevensville and nearby towns notes Mrs. Cooper funeral in Corvallis, visits between Missoula and Victor, moves and school plans, illnesses, and community happenings. Locals include A J Newell moving to Missoula, Dr Buckley visiting, and the Stevensville Mercantile gifting a flag.
Missoula police arrested Charlies Felix a colored secretary for threatening to harm a woman. Officer Larsen intervened preventing the act. The girl plans to file a formal complaint in court tomorrow morning.
County clerk records show water right claims and deeds including Avis Jette asserting 200 inches of the Missoula River water and K M Cobban with wife and Samuel Dinsmore transferring five inches of Cobban and Dinsmore water rights to Annie Barnes.
Salt Lake City reports that Acting Governor Aquila Nebeker, president of the state senate, appointed Judge O. W. Powers to fill the U S Senate vacancy after Governor Wells and Secretary of State Hammond left the state. Nebeker urged no special session despite rumors of a broader shake up.
Salt Lake City report quotes Judge Powers calling his Utah Senate appointment a serious act to teach Nebeker and the secretary of state a lesson. He vows to fight for the junior Utah seat, says he will resign as presidential elector to free himself for the contest, and notes Governor Wells is expected to reach Brigham City this afternoon.
R M Cobban returns from the East. Woodmen of America send $25 to Texas for Galveston. Layton Stewart ill with suspected pneumonia. Milwaukee capitalists visit Wallace mining district. Merrill and Wilbur Hinchman depart for Plains to run Schook and Hinchman mill. McBride visits St. Pat office. Newberrys return from Lothrop. Western Union noted. Electric pole set at bank corner. street light to be suspended. County Commissioner Russell recovers from illness. Engines 168 and 166 pass through Missoula bound east. Health Marshal raises quarantine on James Porter home as Flora recovers from scarlet fever. Democratic central committee to meet Saturday to fill legislative ticket. Stinger Campbell occupy East Front for gutter timbers. W L Johnson pleads not guilty to swine roaming charge. trial Friday. McDonald and wife leave for Salem. Bo AL Mitchell to manage office. Complaint filed by Hay Tong Yin against Chinaman for goods and nonpayment. Knights of Pythias meet. George Potts elected in Reid’s absence. Edna Parker of Bowen files desert land entry. Anderson Jackson fined $15 for striking a Chinaman. incident over meal price. Nels Hanson injured in wagon accident. leg surgery performed. Fall styles of jack etee and millinery at Globe store. Missoula Nursery flowers.
A fragment notes house plants for sale and a hat prize linked to an election. Mrs. Young on South First Street is mentioned in connection with the item or sale. The text reflects a casual, local notices style from a historical paper.
In Missoula a land office contest challenges a Wallace district claim. Northern Pacific attorney J B McNamee defends the company while Robert Fisher and Judge Stevens press the mine owners D J Chadwick and Register Hershey as judges hear witnesses W H H Dickinson F G Land and James House testified. The case continues tomorrow amid a separate note of a tailor showcase at Golden Rule on Friday and Saturday.
Missoula reports Roadmaster Robert Coombs will soon deploy men to repair the Mayrivon lane on the Camas prairie to keep it passable with the center raised and two small bridges. A two month completion is expected. A separate crew works on the new Bonner road as county commissioners declared it a public highway, with rock removal and general repairs underway.
Missoula, Sept. 4. Across the river the red flags mark the course line and several novices have learned to hit the ball without uprooting earth for three or four feet. Proficiency comes with profanity and lost balls in the grass and river, but members wisely pick practice hours when ladies are not present.
The Missoula golf scene opens with a favorable course, a riverside setting, and growing member interest. A dealer mix up over local caddies prompts a small joke, but the club remains optimistic about a large fall season and rising membership as the course and club activities gain momentum.
Chauncey KE Woodworth, Northern Pacific land man, suffered a severe ankle sprain while attempting to jump between trains near Helena. He missed his connecting trains, landed on a pebble, and may have broken a bone. He returned to Missoula for treatment.
A special train carrying Company PD of the 24th Infantry passed through Missoula en route to the Philippines. The unit, from Fort Harrison, traveled in tourist sleepers with 129 men under Second Lieutenant Fraver. Several former Missoula residents among the privates reunited with local veterans during a brief stop.
The Emporium in Ravalli County offers menswear youth and boys clothing, shoes and rubber goods for all ages, millinery, carpets including axminster and wilton styles, linoleums, mats, chenille and silk tapestries with lace curtains, all described as high quality and well priced.
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