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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
8
The first several lots in the Empire Addition, located six blocks from the new post office site, will be sold at exceptionally low prices to home builders.
At a city council meeting the contract for a new fire station on Missoula Gulch from Quartz Street to Mercury Alley was awarded to J A Riddell for 9718 dollars. Other bids ranged up to 10239 dollars with Strunk & Mayotte at 9760. The council also approved sewer work on Galena Street, discussed hospital contracts, and set bids for Missoula Gulch and Buffalo Gulch sewer extensions.
Finley 4.14 and 30 cents and M J Mc Cune 4.13 and percent are noted. Both contracts were forwarded to Thomas Rowan. The city engineer was instructed to notify owners on East Granite Street near the Blue Jay mine to erect a railing on the sidewalk as a precaution against the deep and dangerous ground near the curb. The council adjourned.
Helena Joseph Allen was condemned for the murder of J. Reynolds and sentenced to be hanged September 14. Salt Lake Tuttle, visiting for his son’s wedding, will preach in Montana soon. Bridges across the Boulder river won by Gillette Herzog. four horses ran away injuring Billings banker John Chapman and injuring carpenter Richard Ruyter.
A long list of guests includes J. Sands and J. B. Clayberg of Helena and Dillon, O. H. Spencer and W. H. Douglass of Chicago, J. Forbis of Butte, C. H. Drake and wife of Chateau, Mont, D. M. Garrity of New York, P. M. Seymour and wife of Butte, and many others from Martinsdale, Boulder, Deer Lodge, Spokane, St. Paul, and Helena.
Crystal Springs advertises a resort five miles from Butte with electric fountain display, modern bath, boating on the We sell shoes cheaper than competitors claim, urging readers to visit Tassell at 25 West Park.
The article extols the Praganza diamond of 1880 carats as the world’s largest jewel and links its brilliance to a premier train service. It notes a splendid train running daily between St Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago, highlighting superior construction and comfort for patrons.
A massive deal links Union Pacific and other railways in a four to six property merger to form a cross continental trunk line. Kuhn Loeb EBH Harriman Speyer Co and allies push a system including Union Pacific Illinois Central Chicago Alton and Baltimore Ohio with Wall Street watching a shift in traffic power. Union Pacific to begin double tracking from Omaha to Ogden and Portello, starting Cheyenne to Laram fifty miles, to meet rising demand.
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Firemen Conductors and Telegraph Operators met in Cedar Rapids to form a joint plan for state legislative action. A committee was appointed to coordinate the groups and press for reform across states.
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