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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1901
Page
9
An OCR supplied fragment reports widespread poor service over the past week. It mentions multiple days of outages and customer frustration with repeated failures and silent delays. Entities are unclear due to garbled text but reference a north area and a Missoula like locale.
A garbled report notes Michael Hileus addressing penitent menrehane and referencing a Mach otAlone heatioh event. It mentions Pow day’s MIS Sout and a expectant tone about ongoing: spvabiow and Naalliys Seven, with vague attributions to Spokene and Walitee Stal.midee.
Missoula briefs cover a busy week with Miss Pevty Shaughtier visiting Butte, a Spokane trip by Hummel of Missoula Mercantile, births and travels of local residents, court actions in Farrell vs Evans, and shifts in store hours at Missoula Mercantile. The piece notes community visitors, legal matters, school vacancies, weather boosts to merchants, and homestead protest filings at Grant Creek.
Socialists press Reichstag to oppose higher duties on imports. Empress allows boy emperor Kwong Su to reign. Southern textile spinners to meet in Charlotte to curb production. Major bar crush injures 11 workers in Mereland. Duke and Duchess of Cornwall expected to visit colonies and possibly the U S for yacht races. Great Britain and others fund rewards paid to claimants. Paris dressmakers strike grows with eight hour day and pay demands. Judge McMellan shot in Montgomery as search for Beale’s daughter escalates.
Notice is given by JOSEPH R B TREVARTHEN as executor of the Martin Mitchell estate. Creditors must present claims with vouchers within four months after first publication to Fervis and Mattison, attorneys, No 47 E Broadway, Butte, Montana. The probate is in Silver Bow County Montana. Dated Lothany, 1904.
Meadeville saw a tense confrontation over the Mountain Chief lease as workers and lawmen clashed with foremen and miners. O Neill and John Machineia disputed authority while warrants and bonds circulated. authorities moved to detain three men and secure the mine site amid rising tensions.
Special to Inter Mountain lists stock results from Boston on February 11. Amalgamated 91.50 Anaconda 46.40 Parrot 50.90 Boston and Montana 325.00 Butte and Boston 83.00 Calumet and Hecla 850.00 Tamarack 340.00 Osceola 88.50 Utah Con 36.00.
The court this afternoon discharged Levi Carthy and secured a jury including Moses Dagell George Fl Mores Wilmn Seymour Patrick Reed Enos Sheldon Mike Heed Thomas Watters Michael Mevanthy Tiina Watson William Movniigan Peter Ward and Phil Levy. Fridd Rowhends testified detailing a larceny involving a Miller village item stolen, found in Cartier and another man's possession, with portions missing. the accomplice fled.
Superintendent Carroll of the water company said the situation was more favorable than since the accident at the pump station. Cold weather had closed mines and limited supply, but the Big Hole pump works well and another pump station is being set up on the flat at White's Pond. If weather remains and no accident occurs, enough water should reach mains to operate some mines, with some Bill mines resuming operations today under a limited force.
M A Miller of Dillon and J B O Neil of Deer Lodge are among The Butte visitors. John Harmon of Missoula and E S McCartney of Great Falls stay at the Butte. Kenneth McLean of Miles City at the McDermott with others from Kalispell, Anaconda, Twin Bridges and beyond. Montana towns including Helena and Big Timber are represented. several legislators and local residents register at the Butte or McDermott hotels.
A lengthy roster lists numerous individuals and couples visiting or staying at hotels in Pony Montana New York Spokane Portland Chicago and San Francisco. Names include Clarke York Underhill Mish Hutchins O Neill Dillon Dillon Brannan Meintire McLean and many others with affiliations to hotels The Eugenie Blair company The McDoermett Woodward and The Chelarian company among others. The long catalog reads like a social ledger of patrons and travelers across multiple locales.
New York trading opened with Industrial and low priced rail shares showing traction while International stocks fell with London. Smelting issues led to losses, bonds were irregular, and money on call hovered around 1 percent amid brisk swings and scattered gains in select utilities and steel related firms.
The report compiles futures and receipts from Missouri Pacific, Northern Pacific, and related lines with prices in Chicago and Omaha. It notes cattle and hog receipts, market levels, and steady to rising prices, alongside corn and wheat quotes and regional grain movements through February and March.
Louis Bi reports a soft wool market on February 11 with declines in both territory and western medium wool. Prices for merino types show a drop to low to mid 17s, while coarse grades ease to around 4c per pound.
In Cincinnati on February 14 the defense says only Jeffries and Ruhlin can reveal what will happen next Friday night. The case concerns a prize fight for the world championship. Judge Harmon notes fighting is a crime in Ohio and argues the event is a public nuisance that municipal authorities and police may be colluding to permit. The state may intervene to restrain promoters and avoid city state conflict or disgrace.
Washington February 11 The president sent to the Senate the nominations of James H Wilson of Delaware and Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia now brigadier general of volunteers to be brigadier general in the regular army.
Washington February eleventh the senate agreed to a conference on the war revenue reduction act by a vote of 283 to 28. At the last meeting of Butte Stationary Engineers Union No 1a W F of M resolutions were adopted authorizing an eight hour day for engineers, foremen, pumpmen and compressor men after March first 1901 signed by President Br Lindsay and Rec. Sec. Be J Tuckett.
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