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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1899
Page
5
The White Front Grocery advertises canned goods at bargain prices including Standard Corn at 90 cents per dozen cans and Casino products with various discounts. Multiple items list price per can and bundle offers, such as beans, tomatoes, and mixed canned goods presented as weekly deals.
Local ad promotes assorted fruits including cherries plums raspberries strawberries and gooseberries. Offers one dozen cans, standard fruit, with price terms 1.50 per can and seven cans for 1.00. Encourages customers to visit the store to review inducements.
The executive committee released the official programme fixing Monday October 23 as the reception date. Volunteers arrive at 9:30 am via Oregon Short Line, greeted by citizens and escorted to the race track with A. A. TR and Rough Riders as guard of honor. The day includes bells, bands, salutes, speeches, dress parade, parades through town, fireworks, and a public reception at the auditorium for the volunteers.
The Grand hosts opening night of My Friend From India with Walter E. Perkins leading a strong company. Fred Mower and Miss Lillian Brainard deliver standout comic turns while Gillian Sullivan shines as a stylish ingénue. Performances run tonight and tomorrow with matinee and evening shows.
The First National Bank of Butte, buyer of Dillon water works and electric light bonds, delays payment while a court tests the election validity authorizing the issue. Attorney Consrevamin Campbell reports minor defects and a serious flaw in current law allowing bonds up to three percent of assessed valuation. At elections, every male resident over 21 may vote. A subsequent law vises municipalities to bond them.
The dispute centers on a bond election for a waterworks and electric plant in Butte. Critics argue mixed propositions were not separated for qualified voters, claiming the process invalid. Bank demands court test, with two potential paths: agreed facts or injunction to halt bond sale until ruling. Authorities have not decided course.
A roster of hotel guests includes A B Youngson Cleveland WT Spencer Chicago J B Annin Columbus Wm G Blott Detroit C B McCarthy Whitehall Dr A Borgius Garnett D D Tittsworth and wife Chattanooga J Miller L A Burrows Dillon L Luner Eviva Ja 8 Bernstein San Francisco C Weissman New York J Howard Davis Whitehall J W Knight Dupuyer H Lawrence Georgia Minstrel Leon New York B A Carter Springfield Mass Dr Peter Musig brod Garnet M Mayer New York Geo BE Dole St Paul Beisier Fargo D H Priest San Francisco The McDermott J TL Rerry and wife Portland C M Frephagen Cornell Bluffs W T Justice New York J Ta Stitoln Best Respy Tim Ohio W H Sien Salt Lake J J Murray Denver W C Taylor Minneapolis F Ainsworth Chicago J McGie Great Falls George F Ingram Helena Win Patterson Great Falls C A Gorman Chicago R J Smith Helena Henry Neill and wife Helena D Lynch Great Falls W H Hammond Missoula
A Marion governess recounts how a retired Civil War major sank into madness and, against medical advice, was cared for by his wife at a seaside cottage. Six months to sanity followed by full recovery after replacing coffee with Postum Cereal Food Coffee. The story credits Postum as the key healer, with the wife requesting her name be omitted.
Wright's Paragon Headache Remedy advertised as stopping achos for obstinate cases. The Ladies Home Journal and Poritan for October available at the Postoffice News Stand.
Crystal Springs promotes a place of recreation with sleeping apartments in a separate building, a cafe serving the best offerings, and private party facilities at moderate rates. The springs offer soft mineral water and healthful properties. A dance hall is available free to private parties with meals on short notice. Regular staged trips depart Langlois' stables at 10 am 2 pm 50 Mm and 8 pm. springs depart 12 30 pm 4 pm and 10 30 pm. Fare per person is five cents.
Notice issued by Silver Bow County Montana Treasurer. Taxes for 1899 due at the treasurer’s office. unpaid taxes by November 30, 1899 at 6 p.m. incur a 10 percent penalty. Dated October 11, 1899, in Butte. Jonun G. Holland is the County Treasurer and Collector.
In the Montana Ore Purchasing vs Hutte & Heston condemnation suit Judge Clarcy hears final testimony. Batterman testified for the defense admitting eight copper veins lie beneath the property and that the BL were intended for mining and tailings dumping. The Butte & Boston and Boston & Montana are accelerating work toward the veins with Shaft No 1 and drifted levels nearing the mineral claim.
After eighteen years of court action a patent for the Emery placer claim adjoining the Hesperus lade to the south was obtained and filed. The patent, issued by the government in August, reached the claimants about two weeks ago. Named assignees include Wesley Emery Gan J. Jang and Charles Colbert. The 184 acre tract covers areas of Protertion Val- 1 and Guleh fede elaine and part of Syndicate lede eline. All quarts veins except those existing before the patent were excluded. Three initial patentees sought patent, but William Guedelhofer Linemann Schidt and others protested. the placer claimants won. Ground to be platted for city extension. Concurrently Vienna galoon at 119 South Main street offered wines liquors cigars and new orchestrion in Butte.
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