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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
3
New York dispatch reports Bishop Potter in New Haven arguing that divorce crime and corruption share one root the lust for money. He warns that greed underpins politics education religion and industry, urging scrutiny of wealth power and social values as dangerous to national life.
A terse excerpt urges the church to rise above current methods and remain on a much higher path. The remark emphasizes a decisive break from past practices and a move toward elevated discipline and purpose.
Robert Hoover chief engineer of the Chinese government mines department visits San Francisco and says northern Chinese coal regions in Chi La Shan Tong and Shen King hold the world’s richest anthracite reserves. He estimates coal could reach San Francisco at seven pounds per ton once railway lines improve.
Helena reports Governor Smith pardoned D Ferguson, once a cowboy linked to a 1880 first degree assault in Custer County, after serving much of his term and after compensation to Mrs. Martin for a stray bullet incident in Walkula. Also pardoned is James McArthur, jailed for breaking out of the penitentiary.
A London dispatch reports the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York may attend the America’s cup races next August if political and social conditions permit. The prince himself would like to attend.
Dr Angie Bellinaght, a young specialist in yellow fever treatment, has attracted attention in Mexico and New York. He declined a Mexican government purchase offer but agreed to develop serum production in Texas and establish hospitals in Vera Cruz Havana Panama and Venezuela to treat sufferers. He plans to set up a laboratory near San Antonio and then return to Brazil, with trials showing high cure rates. The Mexican government praised his work after Kilpatrick’s hopeful recovery, but he did not surrender full control of his discovery.
Special to Inter Mountain from Helena reports State Treasurer Collins says the state operates on cash basis with no bonded debt and $514,627 cash on hand. Twelve month receipts totaled $1,200,023 and disbursements $128,728, tax receipts up $53,278, inheritance tax small, and state schools hold $34,495 in secure deposits. Bonds against state lands total $660,000 across cultural college, normal school, university, deaf and dumb asylum, capital building, and school of mines.
Governor Brady of Alaska arrives in Seattle on his way to Washington and outlines priorities. He urges extended survey work to allow residents to obtain land titles, advocates citizenship for natives, proposes fortifying Dutch Harbor as a strategic Alaska point, and calls for an Alaska cable to Puget Sound.
The notice describes a single change of cars on the Northern Pacific Burlington route via Billage and Alliance Nebraska with good service. It also notes the annual meeting of Silver Bow National Bank stockholders in Butte Montana on January 8, 1901 at 4 p.m. for director election and other business.
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