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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1900
Page
8
A short treatise on pickle manufacture boasting high standards of freshness and crispness. It claims exclusive use of extra selected vegetables and pure malt vinegar. The catalog highlights American and European pickles in stock for consumers seeking quality.
Silver Bow county will send 135 delegates to a statewide labor party launch, with 300 expected attendees. Miners, carpenters, stationary engineers and several unions fill the delegate slate. Anaconda, Missoula, Great Falls, Helena and others contribute smaller delegations as preliminary steps toward a state convention and independent labor action.
In a morning scare, county courthouse witnesses felt two heavy underground blasts beneath the building. Initial earthquake fears gave way to the realization that large mine blasts caused the tremors, yesterday repeating the event. Doors rattled, windows shook, and the steeple painting appeared to quiver.
A heavy blast near the courthouse shook the building and rattled Judge Lindsay’s seven ton safe. Judge Clancy, returning from Hunter’s Hot Springs, noted the disturbance as investigators find two large charges set off during excavation for the building. The blasts, linked to earlier detonations, may have created crevices in the structure.
Mrs Carrie Finney of Missouri explains in district court how a $1760 bill for caring for her cousin Robert Elberding, mentally ill, was approved. Public Administrator J P Collins advanced $2000 for removal and expenses, court ordered limited payment. Finney, the estate’s sole U S relative, moved Elberding to Chicago then to Nevada Missouri private patient, seeks vouchers and eventual transfer of the estate to Randolph County Missouri after court reviews.
Professor Alexander Winchell, newly appointed geology and mineralogy instructor at the State School of Mines, arrived Saturday from Paris after two years studying his field. A young scholar, he is noted as a nephew of the late Professor Winchell of the University of Michigan and comes from a family renowned for scientific contributions.
The trustees select Harold I Boardman of Athens Pa as assistant instructor in the drawing and engineering departments with a salary of 120 dollars per month. An investigation found him fully qualified and the faculty addition is expected to boost attendance on opening day and the school’s success. The full course of study will be announced Tuesday evening.
Ben Hill of Missoula sues Charles W. Clark in district court for 820.08 dollars claiming a contract on March 20 190 involving twelve months of services at 200 dollars monthly plus expenses. He states he fulfilled terms and that 1000 dollars was paid long ago, leaving a disputed balance.
A large crowd of about 2000 attended the Sons of St George picnic at Twin Bridges with 500 visitors. Music by Alice band and Bergstrom's Orchestra, dancing, and fine field sports. Prizes went to Mrs Heather and Richard Thomas for Javahtmera, Miss Brophy and I Collins for second, cake walk prizes to Miss Claude Quirk and R A Leroux, with Emma Richards and William Hawkins taking second. Tug of war won by Peace and Harmony. Race winners include Mrs Alf Williams, I Lowrey, C E Griffin, George York, Charles Merrifield, Lyon Gillett, Peter Toy, D G Gillie, Edward Daugherty, Doc Trenary, and Miss Emma Richards plus Miss Henry Nankivell as popular lady. Walkerville cricket team Walkervilles beat a Butte selection.
A cricket game at Twin Bridges featured Centerville eleven against a picked team from Butte. Centerville won by eight runs and twenty three wickets as Capt Dave Dandie of the Centerville club sought to schedule more games in the state.
About fifty Montana fire insurance agents met Saturday to organize a state branch of the national association. A. T. Morgan of Butte was elected president with John W. Luke Helena as vice president and W. S. Frary Great Falls as secretary. J. T. O'Brien of Butte treasurer, with Fred W. Peckover Anaconda on the executive committee. Delegates to the Milwaukee national convention will be chosen later. The group aims to promote fire underwriting principles, oppose hostile legislation and unfair taxation, and favor local condition based rating and inspection to cut insurance costs and fight overhead writing.
Delayed train limits fresh fish supply with salmon at 15 cents a pound. Lobster at 81 cantas per pound. Spring chickens 18 cents per pound, old chickens 15 cents per pound.
A letter from Nome to Butte reports Sam R R Clerke Dick Watson Henry Hallow and the other members of the party who went to Nome for prospecting struck rich findings in Gutoxda bay. Some members plan to return to Butte for the winter.
The list records guests and their origins at various hotels, noting names such as T. W. Murphy of Denver, Henry Morris of San Francisco, Carl Klein Schmidt of San Francisco, Frank G. Moyer of New York, John Owen of Helena, W. A. Clark of Virginia City, and many others from cities including Missoula, Wallace, Dillon, Great Falls, Helena, Spokane, and Chicago.
A man named C. Jones a carpenter type was found dead in his room in the Kelly block on Saturday. He had been in poor health for some time and death likely resulted from natural causes. He was about 45 and further information will be provided tonight when Coroner Jullien holds an inquest. Republican county central committee meets at the Republican Club on Broadway at 8 pm August 13 to fix caucus primaries and convention dates chaired by M Gillis
Dr. German announces relocation from 114 N Main St to the corner of Granite and Hamilton streets seeking both old and new patients. Also mentions business ties with Butte Sewer Pipe and Tite Co and Viavi Parlors at 34 New Bee Hive Dr. Confusing OCR text notes 11¢ N Main at.
The Butte market offers Hungarian plums at 30 cents a basket and grapes at 45 cents. Blackberries 3 boxes for 25 cents, cantaloupes 6 cents a pound, cucumbers 2.5 cents each, green peppers 5 cents a pound, apples 4 pounds for 25 cents, tomatoes 5 cents a pound, peaches 8 pounds for 26 cents, bananas 20 cents a dozen, lemons 15 to 25 cents a dozen, watermelons 2 cents a pound, celery three for 25 cents, eggplant two pounds for 25 cents, wax beans 40 cents a pound, green corn 10 a dozen, new potatoes 15 pounds for 25 cents, parsnips two bunches for 5 cents, carrots two bunches for 6 cents, radishes three bunches for ? cents, young onions three bunches for 5 cents, old onions eight pounds for 25 cents, parsley two bunches for 6 cents, cauliflower 7 cents for 4 pounds, young turnips two bunches for 5.
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