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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
3
The advertisement promotes a city grocer emphasizing cash purchases and low profits. It touts bulk buying, the cleanest store in town, and includes prices such as 17 pounds for 1 dollar, 18c per dozen eggs, 25c per pound butter, 50c for 3 pounds sugar, and various evaporated fruits and coffee. The tone is promotional and aims to attract cash customers.
A 1900s ad touts D John or Flask as a handy guest in every home. It promotes Kentucky Fine Whiskey, Court ney brand malt whiskey, imported brandy gin and rum, domestic wines, and cigars at low market prices with bottle sales and full quarts.
Travel vendor Tisseras packages Ceylon tea and hires at Silver Bow Block while attorney J G Kates and W Y Pemberton appear in court. Business ads cover harness shop at Park Street, embroidery at O K Lewis, and Anaconda beer sales and new brewing office on West Park. A traveling man David Jacobs was killed in Seattle by a boiler explosion. warrants issued for an East Park saloon man charged with assault. Ladies fairs, millinery events, and cake walks announced with dates in March and April 1899.
The Republican ticket for Butte emphasizes good local government with John N Kirk as a principal mayoral candidate. Kirk, a Wisconsin native born March 12 1871, is a lawyer with a strong record in Silver Bow county including the Chinese boycott case, and he previously co ran a Republican weekly in Durand Wisconsin.
Lieut Ben E Calkins Republican nominee for city treasurer has strong local ties and broad support. Born December 25, 1862 in Troy PA, he served with Montana volunteers in Manila before returning to Butte to build a successful business and focus on city finances if elected.
James C. Sullivan born 1845 in County Kerry Ireland moved to New York with his parents. He enlisted in the U S Navy, served aboard the gunboat Otage, displayed bravery during a desertion incident, and fought at Vicksburg and along Red River and Washita. After a hardy postwar career as a chief engineer in Michigan Dakota and Butte he settled in town for eighteen years as a heavy taxpayer and resident.
The citizen and patriot Oliver N. Perry seeks the Second ward seat. Born in Pennsylvania about 46 years ago, he has resided in Butte about twelve years and runs major business interests for A. W. Barnard. He is known as master mechanic and aims to represent taxpayers with a vigilant, capable approach.
Patrick Boland, a veteran camp miner in Montana, has been involved with state mining interests since 1879. He served as Silver Bow county assessor for two years and has long been active in labor, aiming to secure full party support in his campaign.
Charles Bausman a 46 year old Montanan carpenter born in Illinois and former city council member with 24 years as a county taxpayer leads his candidacy for alderman in the Fourth ward. He arrived in Montana in 1874 and has long pursued local public interests.
The document profiles alderman candidates in multiple wards of Butte, detailing birthplaces and dates, early lives in Canada Germany and Wales, moves to Butte and youth education, career paths in mining, smelting, and business, and party affiliations with emphasis on their qualifications and dedication to city interests. It highlights Archambault in the Fifth ward, Kroger in the Sixth, Thomas in the Seventh, and Elderkin in the Eighth with notes on their professional roles and civic readiness.
In the United States Court Judge Knowles presided over the trial of John Newton charged with breaking into the Garrison post office and stealing 38 cents. The case, with jurors listed as Peter Conway Graves N Genereaux Evan He J Haggerty John Ing D C Lynch S L Lagro Sig Schilling and C W Sammis, had not finished at press time. U S Attorney Rodgers and Deputy Attorney English prosecuted, with Chancellor O'Donnell involved.
Miss Maud J. Smith Deborah Smith and W D Miner testified over a case hinging on a battered silver thimble found on Newton after arrest. Miss Smith identified it as stolen from the post office, tying the robbery to the defendant.
Captain Charles Gardner of the First Montana Infantry U S V returned home this morning with Lieut. McGrath after six weeks in San Francisco. He notes no criticism of Montana regiment's officers or men. He weighed 131 pounds upon arrival, down 40 pounds since leaving Butte last summer, but is rapidly regaining weight.
In Justice Harrington's court, Jack Doyle pleaded guilty to obtaining goods under false pretenses after presenting himself as another person. He was fined $10 and costs for buying whiskey on credit at the Hennessy mercantile institution a few days earlier.
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