Higgins Smart Trick Blocked in Standoff at Helena
In Helena on April 2 Acting Attorney Higgins and Attorney General Donovan failed to push a plan to install their allies as land agents due to a quorum walkout by Welch. The episode derailed the scheme to reseat officials while Governor Toole and Secretary Hayes were away. A separate fall on a stair railing injured Landis and Foot, with multiple injuries reported.
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Inter Mountain
Helena
Nice Tittle
Auterior
Higgins
Donovan ‘Oy
Alate
Guyernae Poste
Hayes
Blate Supententen
Welew
Robert MH
Natnd
Donovan
John Hall
Great Falls
K Searles
Missoula
Welch
Frasier
Toole
Flood Abates As City Picks Up After Ohio River Crest
Floods recede as the Ohio River crest passes, hundreds of families homeless, gas supplies cut, and rail traffic halted. City records show no lives lost locally though accidents occurred. Cincinnati game postponed. gas mains broken at Gallup, Kentucky. Middlefork drownings reported. Ironton to Huntington gas outage impacts region.
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Kentucky
Nationaleague
Cincinnati
Gallup
Ashland
Middlefork
Jacob Tussey
Ironton
Ohio
Huntington
Salt Crisis Worsens As Ohio Valley Flood Hits Promeroy
Promeroy bend and Point Pleasant endure severe inundation with seven feet of water closing Main street business houses. Thousands of salt barrels at the mills near Promeroy are lost or given away. Families become homeless while rail service to the towns stalls and Galliopolis receives only one daily train. Local schools and neighbors shelter affected residents amid mounting disruption.
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Associated Press
Galliopal Ohio
Ohio Valley
Promeroy Bend
Point Ploant
Pomeroy
SHIP LOST BUT STILL FLOATS
The German bark Otto Gildemeister has been condemned a constructive loss and will be sold at auction in San Francisco next Monday after hurricane damage on the Yokohama to Portland voyage. Reinsurance placed on the vessel proved for $0, loss to speculators totals $115,000. In Helena a separate incident notes painters J B Landis and James Foot falling twenty feet when a rope broke on a scaffold.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Otto Gildemaister
Germany
Gildemeister
Yokohama
Portland
Oregon
Mexico
Santa Rosalia
San Diego
Science of chiromancy and palmistry lecture
Public lecture by Comte de Saint German A B LL M on chiromancy chirophy palmistry promises life insight. Free prailing ture. Tickets 25 cents at Evans Books Store. Private readings at Room 3 63 W Broadway.
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Ats P.m
Comte ¢ de Saint German
Evans Books
W. Broadway
Hager charged with first degree murder in fatal saloon shooting
Helena April reports Charles Gris died at St Peter's hospital after a brawl at Ville saloon. Gris had claimed Hager fired the fatal shot, while earlier saying the shooting was accidental. The bullet damaged the spine and internal organs. surgery failed. Hager will be charged with first degree murder.
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Associated Press
Helena
Charles Gris
St. Peter's Hospital
Lewis Pennwell
Matthew Hager
Peterson
Geis
Hager
Helena Federal Building plans announced in April notice
Plans for the new Helena federal building describe a granite mixed Gothic and Classical structure 122 by 57 feet, 57 feet high, with a steep red tile roof and plate glass windows. Interiors include marble stairs and wainscoting, a ground floor office, and a third and fourth floor courtroom, with erection limited to two years. Also an unrelated ad promotes French Tansy Tablets by Augendre of Paris via Newbro Drago Tutte, Mont., at 2 per box.
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Helena
Federal
Reverry Aasayer B. H. Tatem
Joss
Augendre
Paris
France
Newbro Drago
Tutte
Mont
Butte Franchise Condemns Private Property for Broadway Alley
A city ordinance in Butte Montana condemns portions of the Carrie Lode and adjacent lots for a new Broadway Alley. The measure specifics several parcel segments in the Butte Townsite and Bulls Townsite, outlines property descriptions, and states all condemned lands will be dedicated as a public alley with costs assessed as a special tax on the affected properties. Final passage occurred April 5, 1901, with mayoral approval on April 18, 1901.
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Butte
City of
City of Butte
Bertion
Carrie Lode
Granite Street
Lot No
Lot
Bulls
Butte Townsite
Block 20
Jutte
Bultwualle
Alea
Crystal Street
Carr Loile
Crysnal Street
Silver Bow
Huat
Montana
Becnon
Sevita
Paseo
Albert Jop
Callan
Iaver Raw
Cid
Apel
Apri
AL Ty
Sugar price cuts and sweetening samples offered
Sugar costs reduced with trust prices halved and a sweetening extract offered by the Sweetine Co. Readers invited to request samples by mail. The garbled text mentions Box 774 and an address in a foreign city, but the key point is discounted sugar and sweetening extract offers.
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Agenta
Periteuters
Swee.tie Co
Munt
Notice for Public Sale of Mining Patent in Silverton County
Notice announces a mining patent application by Bitty Opie for a claim in Silverton County Montana near unorganized mining territory. It describes the claim boundaries, survey data, and adjacent claims, with field notes on a porphyry stone monument and references to official plat on file. The publication states the claim area, ownership, and location details as of April 18 1901.
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United States Land Olive
Helena
Muatapot
Tuts
Montana
Silverteon
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Calkins’ Book Store
North Main
Chungs
West Galena
Hong
S. Arizona Street
John Muller
Los Angeles
Cal
J. J. Conley
Paul
Booth
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J. B. Landis
James Foot
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Inter Moun
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Joseph Soss
Montana Ndistone Company
H. L. Frank
Loss
Business Men‘s Association
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Bluffs
Yellowstone
Suss
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Kan
Cavite Nation
Lucy Wilhite
Julia Evans
Lydia Muntz
Fuil
Gris
Marysville
Helena Federal Building
Council
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East Broadway Telephone-Construction
Nhone
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Alsen
Salt Lake Portland Cements
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Havana
Butte Mercantile Company
State Distributors
Strassburger Harness Co
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