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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
10
Chicago grain and provisions report shows July wheat closing at 72 3/4 cents, July corn up 3 cents from Saturday, oats down fractions, and pork and rib prices mixed higher. Cash quotes list varied wheat and corn grades with several fractional cents and paralleled August futures.
The Oregon Short Line offers special excursion tickets to Buffalo and Montana points from June to October with higher privileges than standard tickets. The Rio Grande Western Railway sells round trips to Omaha Kansas City and Missouri River points on June 8 10 and 12 with fares 42 00 to Omaha 49 50 to St Louis and 53 50 to Chicago.
A description extols a single railroad operating on the block system between Omaha and Chicago. It highlights electric lighted trains with electric berth lamps, steam heated vestibuled equipment, private compartments, library buffet, smoking cars, palace drawing-room sleepers, parlor cars, reclining chair cars and premier dining car service. Tickets via agents or address.
Five men die and seven are injured when a freight collides with another and a car of dynamite explodes. Engines are reduced to scrap, track is blocked, and surrounding homes suffer shattered glass as rescuers search the Vestal Union area. Names listed include John P. Kelly and Elmer Polhamus among the dead. several injured later recover.
In Houston, an indictment for hog stealing preceded a fatal shooting affray. Thomas Payne and L. Echols were killed, J B Perkins killed, Dave Echols wounded. Payne’s son on trial. witnesses Kechols summoned. Two bullets hit Perkins. injuries unlikely to be fatal. Young Payne unharmed. Crowded street. only those involved hurt.
London reports Foxhall Keene wins the Oaks with Cap and Bells II ridden by Milton Henry. Keene says he bred the filly in Kentucky and claims the victory as the first American to win the Oaks. He notes heavy wagering from Americans and believes he netted about 10,000 pounds in wagers.
A party of six including three girls and three men were sailing off North Essington near Philadelphia when a squall swamped their skiff. The three girls Rosie Koons 17 Mary Koons 19 Mamie Traynor 22 drowned before rescue could reach them. The Federal Boat club hosted the guests and other members aided in the attempt.
The favorite route to the east is via Salt Lake and Denver over the Denver and Rio Grande or Colorado Midland railroads. It promises the most scenic ride in America with superior train service including three through transcontinental trains daily. Car classes range from Pullman Palace to Tourist Sleepers with Free Reclining Chairs and Observation Cars, plus a Perfect Dining Car Service. Information requests to W. C. Mc Bride in Butte or Geo. W. Heintz in Salt Lake City.
A notice promotes Nerve Waste a practical guide on nerve weakness by Dr Sawyer San Francisco now in its fifth thousand endorsed by religious and secular presses. Chicago Advance lauds its health and hope giving principles and the publishers offer sample chapter Nervines and Nerve Tonics mailed for a stamp.
An old advertisement touts Latative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a one day cure for a cold with a no cure no pay promise. The price is listed at 25 cents.
In Piedmont Wyoming on June 8 a shooting affray occurred about 20 miles east of town. Cowboys attacked a sheep camp and ordered the herders to leave, then shot them injuring three. The assailants also killed horses, many sheep, and burned wagons before being arrested.
New York Yacht Club will not permit Thomas W. Lawson's yacht Independence to race in the trial events unless chartered by a New York Yacht Club member who enters her. After a challenge committee meeting, Lawson’s offer to charter Independence to several club gentlemen was rejected. Lulu Kennedy Regains Her Nerve in murder trial. Kansas City, June 10. Kennedy showed improvement after trial strain. brother Will Kennedy, charged with conspiring in the murder, fainted upon learning her status.
In Aurora Ontario three men extradited from Chicago for a bank robbery faced trial. Fred Rice alone survived to complete a 21 year sentence as Thomas Jones died from wounds while fleeing officers and Frank Rutledge died by leaping from a jail gallery to the stone court below. In Denver ex Governor Baxter learns his son in law Tevis has died during a Yokohama honeymoon trip.
Thirteen thousand dollars more in gold coin stolen from the First National Bank at Point Wis May 24 has been recovered. It was found in the vault of an outhouse at the City hotel near the looted bank, where prisoner Steward Jelleff boarded. Detectives believe information came from the prisoner.
Judge Taft of the Philippine commission will head the civil government in the islands with the title governor. He is expected to assume around July 1 but may face delays if the governmental setup is not ready.
Six hundred foresters set out by special train from here to the head camp of the Modern Woodmen at St Paul. R R Smith of Brookfield Missouri slots for head banker and W R Boyd of Springfield Missouri seeks head physician.
Edward Moran renowned marine and landscape painter died yesterday in his Fifth Avenue apartment and studio from anaemic poisoning caused by long standing illnesses. He had suffered for about a year. Mrs McKinley improving after a White House visit Dr Rixey said she is slowly improving and up very comfortably.
A Kansas City correspondent reports a Friday night tornado and accompanying rain hail toppled wheat on about 400 farms across a 50 mile wide belt from the Kansas state line through Kay and Grant counties Oklahoma. The storm claimed three lives at Eddy and damaged Billings and Tonkawa.
Havana reports say conservative delegates expect the Platt amendment to be accepted. Radicals who opposed Washington policy have softened, with some supporting independence as a longer occupation looms. A secret session will convene to decide as votes are anticipated after days of deliberation.
Manila dispatch reports Lieut Anton Springer of the Twenty first infantry killed in a clash with insurgents at Lipa Batangas. Capt W H Wilhelm, Lieut Fitzhugh Lee Jr and Lieut Charles R Ramsey plus five enlisted wounded. Additional actions in Sorsogon Tayabas Luzon with several insurgent captures and provincial government organized at San Isidro Luzon with Captain Jacob F Kreps as governor.
The Chinese court plans to return to Peking in September. Foreign troops except legation guards will withdraw by mid month. Japanese troops await reliefs and may depart on two days notice. General Voyron to keep one brigade, French transports en route. British troops to depart by end of September with ten transports bound for India.
Constantin Scandal, an American, was robbed on a railway between Modane and Saint Michel while asleep by three travelers. He pursued them to Saint Jean de Maurienne. the men fled across the countryside and leapt into the Arc river, where all four drowned.
Robert Fulford killed his mother in law Mrs Jennie McCord and then died by suicide after driving his wife from Chicago. The incident occurred in London Ontario with neighbors reporting a violent love dispute and a grim domestic tragedy.
Robert M. Johnson from Des Moines Iowa drowned near Talpancingo Mexico City. He leaves a wife and two children.
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