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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1899
Page
8
Fragmented OCR style text references house trees and growth in a live city. Mentions peal psiat and timer without context. Reads like an ad or stray note about real estate growth and prosperity with garbled phrases and incomplete thoughts. No clear events, people, or organizations are identifiable.
The Helena article details a $255,000 deal for the Hesperus Mineral Right and nearby claims in the Butte region. The Amalgamated Company is involved, with J B Kirkanis Company handling negotiations and Receiver Wilson guiding the title transfer. A new eastern-backed company plans deep shaft work through the Lingle, expanding development over the next year.
The First National bank of this city disposed of its interest in the Hope mine at Basin to Basin Gold and Copper Company. Cash paid totals 45 000 with 20 827 in receiver certificates. The deal ends bank ownership and stops future dividends on the debt, with the mine once a major regional producer having extensive ore bodies.
Mr. Alex Tarbet and associates arrived from California to inspect a copper and wine prospects in Shasta County California. The group had invested 150000 dollars in an option on the Afterthought claim but canceled the deal due to reduced copper output and rising wine percentage. Development costs totaled about 8000 dollars with optimism fading. Tarbet reported progress at De La Mar's Bully Hill claim despite restricted access and said the syndicate would deploy emissaries in the field while avoiding other projects.
A Frenchman posing as a friend tended to nurse Josephine Blancheau after Eugene Laine’s failed attempt to kill her, then himself. Gossip says Laine shot himself believing his love betrayed him when the new suitor appeared. A telegram said Mrs. Bertha Laine, widow in Victoria, BC, could not come, requesting local burial for Laine.
Chief LaVelle reports October police court processed 143 cases with drunks 55, disturbances 49, miscellaneous 89, fines totaling 1,172 dollars. Meals billed 150 06, lights 732 hours, pawnbrokers 32 reports, pledges 121, property stolen and recovered valued at Was. Fire Chief Sanger states nine alarms, losses 370, property 45000, insurance 28000, salaries 2004 51, incidentals 109 44. The Widow Wiggles comes to Grand Opera House with Miss St George Hussey. strong local theater crowds anticipated.
Reports indicate weather will change soon guiding readers to stock up on Kemmerer coal touted as the best in the market along with Pennsylvania anthracite and wood. Mon roe & Co. advertises at 47 Bust Broadway and phone 50.
Live poultry including turkeys ducks geese and chickens offered for sale at 11 West Galena Vienna ealdon 119 South Main Street also advertised are choice wines liquors and cigars. See the new orchestrion the only one in Butte Albini Siste proprietors. $20 series of teeth $10. Dr Wix.
A Chicago Record excerpt discusses alpaca origins in Peru, noting debates about its native status and European use. It recounts Ledger’s failed Australian transplant, the wool’s exceptional fineness, and Titus Salt's role in bringing alpaca wool to England, making Bradford the trade center.
An interview with writer and artist Dr. Wix, Mr. Augustus Hare recalls a procession of distinguished men and women. He notes Carlyle was dour, Tennyson only slightly better, and mentions the poem Crossing the Bat arising from Tennyson’s growl as a vivid anecdote from past literary circles.
In Louisville a retired organ grinder confronted by nonpayment of rent played his instrument steadily in front of the tenant's house. Neighbors aided by listening paid the overdue rent, and the organ grinder bought off the landlord with the money raised.
Description of relief photography by a French photographer using multi sided light on a model, followed by a court notice from Montana District Court in Silver Bow County. The administrator J P Collins seeks an order concerning the estate of Joseph Grill, deceased. The article notes a Burlington Route travel reference and an office address at 35 East Broadway.
An order to sell the entire personal property of the estate, including the saloon at Watson Avenue and Gallatin Streets, Butte, Montana, to pay debts and administration costs. The judge requires interested parties to appear on November 11, 1899, at 2 p.m. to show cause why the order should not be made, with publication in the Daily Inter Mountain and postings in three public places five days prior.
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