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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1899
Page
6
Business men will start preparations within days for a big Fourth of July celebration with forty days to organize. A June 1 meeting will set committees, secure a speaker, plan a program, buy fireworks, and advertise to ensure a grand homegrown event.
Anaconda has become a wood shipping hub with J. T. Carroll Co sending at least 1200 cords to Butte in two weeks. The rise follows smelter growth, population decline, and easier access from surrounding counties. Carroll Co holds a large stock amid market shifts, while coal competition with Anaconda Coal Co. reshapes sales. Reports tip of coin and ticket counterfeiting affecting city offices and streetcar operations, though officials deny.
Jack Harris, part of a East Third Street gang, was sentenced by Police Magistrate Kennedy to 14 months in jail and a $500 fine for adultery with Mrs. Bell after two years living as her husband. The court also pursued similar charges against Fred Knight and urged more defendants to appear as trials continued.
The apportionment committee passed provisions outlining Deer Lodge county’s 1998 assessed value at B16 and the combined real and personal property within the Deer Lodge portion attached to Lewis and Clarke county at 193. The report itemizes municipal funds values totaling 14 235.34 and indicates Deer Lodge owes Lewis and Clarke county 2 973.78, with further provisions about remaining county treasury funds.
The text notes that on June 1 1899 a portion of Deer Lodge county attached to Lewis and Clarke is to have funds paid from the Deer Lodge treasurer to the Lewis and Clarke treasurer for the credit of the specified school districts.
Four men arrested for vagrancy were brought before Judge J. M. Kennedy. All pleaded guilty but were discharged after a rigid examination. Three came from out of town seeking work with no luck. O Keefe, long-time Anaconda resident, claimed no funds after board and clothes were spent and sought work via boardinghouse influence.
The W C T U gathered at 718 East Fifth Street at 2 20 in the afternoon with no meeting two weeks earlier due to Evangelist Crittenton services. A mothers meeting at Dewey hall four weeks prior was a success, featuring an interesting program, readable papers by Miss Fanny White and Mrs Zell Sawyer, and a pleasing social chat with refreshments.
Filed for record lists multiple deeds and water rights transfers. George Janoski to Aldena Janeres claim at Jot 15, block 63 Eastern Addition Anaconda for 5 dollars. Ira B Covey to Hattle Covey lot portion section 28 township 1 north range 10 west for 500 dollars. Ira H Covey et al to Conley and others same parcel for 100 dollars. Water rights include ten inches of two springs in Dry Gulch by W J Deagler and Quartz claim at Alma on O Keefe Mountain by Wm O Keefe.
Local briefs report visitors from Butte and Deer Lodge, new directory in preparation, sales on hosiery, racehorse exhibition, and upcoming events at McRea Daylan's. Mentions residents returning from trips, mining talks, and a fire near a peanut stand with no damage. Also notes legal proceedings and jurors on duty as the civics scene shifts locally.
Sale notice for shirt waists with prices starting at $1.15 for Lee 31.0 sizes. Limited assortment available now at J H Strain Co Chestnut corner Park, urging customers to hurry while stocks last.
King Malietoa of Samoa engages in a high stakes poker match with an American paymaster aboard an old warship in Apia. The king wins a large pot including Deed to Manono island as collateral, then suffers a bust and flees to his castle. Officials protest the transfer and demand the deed’s return.
Notices detail Union Pacific fare to Omaha Kansas City Saint Joseph and Sioux City 42.00 to St Louis 49.50 to Chicago 45 53.50 with return by Sept 4 and optional Salt Lake route. Also an excursion by Oregon Short Line to Salt Lake to meet Admiral Schley for 15.00 round trip with sale at Butte and reservations via H O Wilson.
The Northern Pacific offers a special round trip from Montana points to San Francisco for May 26 events at 55.25. Tickets on sale May 17 to 20, valid for return through June 30 with stopovers at Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and more. Purchasers may travel by rail or boat from Seattle and Portland. contact W H Merriman AG Northwest Corner Butte.
Great Northern announces excursion trips starting May 13 from Bomaer with round trip prices at 190 dollars. Tickets go on sale Saturday and Sunday and remain valid through Monday. Sunday sales only permit return the same day.
A legal notice from Butte Montana dated April 17 1899 concerns the Green Copper lode mining claim in Summit Valley Silver Bow county with annual labor payments recorded for 1891 to 1898 and a proposal to transfer ownership by contributing costs. It enumerates multiple lode placer claims official surveys and the North Side ditch water right, then sets staged payments totaling 13000 dollars through 1900 for an option to purchase and sale rights, ending with secretary A J Huneke signing.
Charles V Franzman certifies sole ownership of Carder Wall Paper Co formerly co partnership with Herbert H Carder and Franzman purchasing Carder’s interest. Montana Silver Bow county notary I C Bachelor confirms on May 17 1899 Franzman appeared acknowledged executing instrument.
By a board resolution adopted April 17 1899 Western Mine Enterprise calls a stockholders meeting for June 1 1899 at 1 am in Butte Montana. The vote will authorize the board to grant an option to purchase up to 940000 dollars of the companys property in Township 5 south Range 1 west consisting of the Excelsior French Wadame Golden Leaf Springfield Blue Grass lode claims and related interests in Bannack and Independent mining districts Beaverhead County.
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