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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
6
Contractors resume work on the court house with a target completion by year end. The new jail building is under roof and nearly finished. heating will be shared via a tunnel connecting both structures for maintenance without disturbing walls. Stone and brick masons and cutters are returning to the site, continuing the inland Anaconda project.
The Anaconda charity ball proceeds totaling 500 dollars were sent yesterday by Mrs. Z O Leary through Marcus Daly & Co to Cal Kessler of the Montana regiment. The funds are to be held by three member committees in each company Ky and M for the sick and wounded, not as company funds. Col Kessler was urged to hand over the money to the named committees. protests loom if he does not comply.
A garbled report from Philipsburg describes Reverend FT Cleland reappointing Iron Phils p ehure and a Sunday service sermon by Rev James but- Wee at Philipsburg. It mentions sessions and discussion on adoption of confessions, with names like Dr Bob Groeneveld, Stew Wallet Hage, and Missoula.
Alderman Hamill and Maguire attended the session while Gananer and others were absent. A motion by Alderman Dalit to adjourn the proceedings was tabled until 9 o'clock Monday May 9. The meeting featured a debut by Makope who moved to adjourn.
A garbled notice advertises a closing out sale with prices and items including velvets corsets skirts and ladies wear. The legible fragments list discounts and odd product names alongside miscellaneous dollar amounts. Further details are unclear due to the OCR mess.
The current council will transact its business for three hours up to noon on the day the new council convenes at noon on the first Monday of May. The new council's personnel includes Mayor J M Madden and aldermen from four wards with named members. Appointive officers are not listed.
The Missoula Messenger reports the certificate of incorporation for Montara and Denver Reduction Co filed in the county recorder office. Capitalized at 75000 dollars with 1 dollar shares, the firm aims to establish a cyanide ore reduction plant in Bear Gulch near Garnet. Incorporators include Mayor Webster Judge Sloane Tyler Thompson A R Browne and Jerome B Frank.
Local notes report church services by German Lutheran and Scandinavian congregations, a newborn daughter to Mr and Mrs Henry Damon at 712 West Commercial Avenue, and upcoming hearings in Judge Kennedy’s court on Friday. Marriage licenses issued for Arthur Forbes and Henrietta M Scholz, with details of a Presbyterian ceremony last evening. Old-town transit nostalgia recalled on the Mullan road and a court discharge for Henry Kies in a family tragedy case. Reporter Horace Greeley Perry, a notable newspaper woman from Minnesota, plans to resume work in American Malley State.
Officers of the Fraternal Union of America at Race Track were installed in the I O G T hall last Saturday evening. Names include Fraternal Master James L Fiters Justice FE Mallory Truth J O Gubelhei Mercy W S Roseborough Secretary J D Gabelhel Treasurer Henry Blakeman Guide Frank Mallory Protector doe Keppler Guard Soinis Trapp Sentinel Edward Trapp Stewards J K Mallory Hugh Ma gone.
A vivid tale from the St Louis Globe Democrat recounts a Milesian jacky in the Senate saloon describing the capture of Holly during the Iloilo action. The narrator recalls orders to surrender or fight, the fleet opening fire, and the Petrel firing machine guns as troops landed and moonshiners followed.
Fragmentary speech describes chasing wagers out of town into the country and returning at night to quar thers to start a distillery, with uncertain details and wording remaining.
U S Treasury invites sealed proposals by May 15 1899 for a centrally located site in Butte Montana for a public building. Corner lot preferred 160 by 150 feet or 150 by 190 feet with street frontage. Vendor bears title proof and deed costs. buildings to be removed within thirty days after notice.
Certificate stating the names of the members of the partnership of McCarthy and Connell. The undersigned, composing all Silver Bow county, Montana, certify the partners carrying on the business of wholesale and retail dealers in beef pork mutton veal poultry fish and game in season with principal place of business at 407 North Main Street in Butte.
The document certifies full names and residences of McCarthy and Connell partners Patrick McCarthy and Henry D Connell in Butte City Montana with March 28 1898 dates. It includes a Montana notary Will K Quarles acknowledgment and a probate notice for the estate of James Caldwell Singer, setting April 29 1899 at 2 PM to prove the will in Butte. Clinton C Clark issues the notice with James F Wilkins deputy clerk signatures.
Fragmentary dialogue shows soldiers and surgeons debating a wound location and its purpose. The text references a main dealer and Ed, with unclear terms such as "eighty swonded" and "resis myeritak surgeon" amid confusion about whether the phrase is literal or coded.
A letter from MO Saxton expresses gratitude and pledges to spread a remedy to the public in the area. The writer thanks the recipient and commits to promoting the cure locally.
A distressed reader seeks medical help from Dr McLauglin at 121 N Main St Butte Montana. The ad lists hours from 1 am to 10 pm and mentions remedies for kidney trouble and back pain. It frames the offer as a free aid and urges contact for relief.
Coowners Charles Colbert and Mary Campbell are informed that in 1897 and 1898 William Pirton Mary Laird Henry Crangle and Nina B Witherspoon expend $200 on the Green Copper jade mining claim in Summit Valley Silver Bow Montana to meet annual labor requirements. If noncontributing coowners do not pay within ninety days, their interest may be forfeited to the executors of the expenditures. Butte Montana March 16, 1899.
John F McEvoy and others notify that $100 in labor and improvements were performed in 1898 on the Idlewild quartz mining claim in Summit Valley Silver Bow Montana to hold the claim under section 2224. Co-owners must contribute $16.65 and costs within ninety days. failure transfers ownership to the undersigned co-owners. Dated February 8 1899.
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