Anderson Bros Take Over Gibbonsville Stage Contract
The Anderson brothers of Dillon will run the Gibbonsville stage line after subletting the mail contract from James O Connell. Al Halbert will handle Divide to Wisdom and T L Mitchell the Gibbonsville end. Fresh horses are now on the route and older horses are rested at Jens Peterson's ranch.
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Anderson Bros
Dillon
U. S
James O’connell
Messrs. Anderson
al Halbert
Divide
Wisdom
T. L. Mitchell
Gibbonsville
Jens Peterson
Death of Richard Wells in Yellow Stone County
Richard Wells, assessor of Yellow Stone County, died Thursday morning of consumption. A push is underway to save Joseph OC Hurtle of Glendive, under a death sentence for Sheriff Cavanaugh's murder in December 1898. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence, the supreme court denied a new trial and he faces hanging on the 380th day of this month.
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Richard ©. Wells
Yellowstone County
Joseph OC. Hurtle
Glendive
Cavanaugh
Supreme Court
A City Without Soap and a Madiso n Woman in Japan
Miss Kate V. Johnson of Madison Indiana recalls life in Akita Japan where sixty thousand people live without chairs beds or soap. She describes women who paint their teeth black shave their eyebrows and carpenters who plane toward them. Nayoe Saito a girl in Miss Johnsons house had never bathed with soap and begged for Ivory Soap.
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Kate V. Johnson
Madison
Ind
Japan
Miss Johnson
Akita
Nayoe Saito
Nayce
Saito
Tokio
America
Nayoe
Oregon Short Line to Spend 3 Million on Track Upgrades
General Manager Bancroft announced a 3,000,000 annual program to improve the Oregon Short Line from Butte southward with ballast crews and 85 pound steel rails. Plans include removing curves between Butte and Pocatello and expanding the road bed while labor remains tight. A Union Pacific test of a new 750 ton capable engine showed no helper needed on steep grades, signaling a potential fleet shift.
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Butte
Bancroft
Oregon Short Line Railway
Pocatello
Ogden
Evanston
Stack
Air Brake Department
Union Pacific
Sheridan
Devil’s Gate Hill
Madison County Notices and Local Visitors
Madison county news notes many visitors from Dillon Twin Bridges and Sheridan including Joe Smith IT, Frank Nelson, Richard Foreman and Geo Burns. Obituary reports James Swanstram John Carruthers Flora Belle Stevens and Elizabeth Kizer. Sailor Philip Conrey and Mrs. McClurg appear in town scenes along with horse market chatter from Lucerne Pa. Governor asked to back ten year protection for pronghorn antelope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Smith
The
Madisonian
Dillon
Frank Nelson
Richard Foreman
Sheridan
W.M. Keeton
Lou Powell
Twin Bridges
Flora Belle Stevens
James T. M. Stevens
M. E
Virginia City
Butte
Philip Conrey
Madison County
Aldergulch Canyon
Mollie Gibson
Elizabeth Kizer
A. B. Kizer
Montana
National Democratic convention set for Kansas City July 4
The Democratic national committee selected Kansas City Missouri as the site for the national convention on Independence Day July 4 1900 after a meeting at the Hotel Raleigh. Milwaukee competed but offered less than Kansas City which promised hotel accommodations and free hall and music. The call urged all Democrats to unite for a pure economic constitutional government opposing empire. The plan drew support citing Bryan and the Chicago platform while noting possible German American electoral impact.
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Washington
Kansas City
Democratic National Committee
Raleigh
Milwaukee
W. J. Stone
National
E. ©. Wall
Bryan
Chicago
Townsend
Oregon
Tillman
South Carolina
McGraw
West Virginia
Gorman
Gate City
West
Stone
National Committee
National Democratic Committee
Congress of the
United States
Alaska
Indian Territory
District of Columbia
Piles Relief with Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment
Painful piles affect all ages and sexes. Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment cures obstinate cases. Bottles cost 5 cents, tubes 75 cents. Williams Drug Store sells it.
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Williams Drug Store
Burlington Route Schedules Denver to Chicago in Fast Service
The Burlington announces a Sunday February 25 start for its Chicago Special departing Denver 9 4 minutes after. The train reaches Chicago and St Louis by 2 15 p m next day with sleepers diner library and chair cars. One sleeper runs through from San Francisco enabling travel from Utah to Chicago without car changes.
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Burlington
Chicago
Denver
St. Louis
San Francisco
Utah
B. R. Watson
Gen
B.F. Neslen
Trav. Pass. & Freight Agt
South West
Temple St
Salt Lake City
Burlington Route Timetable Notice
Burlington Route announces a new timetable with a Chicago bound special leaving Denver at 9 00 p m and a vestibuled flyer departing Denver at 10 00 p m for Chicago Kansas City and St Louis.
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Chicago
Denver
Kannas City
Populist Convention Date May Change Considered
Sioux Falls may move the national Populist convention from May 9 to a later date due to weather concerns. Sioux Falls organizers hope the shift would provide better conditions and allow fusion talks to occur before the Democratic gathering in June. Fox of Sioux Falls notes the city can accommodate about 12,000 attendees.
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Sioux City
Sioux Falls
M. L. Fox
South Dakota
Allan Liner on the Rocks California Goes Ashore at Portland
The Allan Line steamer California ran aground on Ram Island ledge near Portland Maine after departing at midnight. All passengers are safe aboard though the ship may be unsalvageable with the vessel valued at 3 million dollars and cargo at 300 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Allan Line
California
Ram Island Ledge
Mil ler Continues Idaho Labor Trouble Testimony in Capitol Hearing
Levi R. Miller pressed his case before the House military committee outlining Idaho labor unrest. A key exchange noted several men arrested for flying with those unfriendly to mining companies. Sioux Falls reports a late February snowfall and ground conditions hindered by snow first this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Washington
Levi R. Miller
House Military Committee
Leander A McCormick Will Filed In Probate
Leander TI McCormick's will filed in probate sets an estate valued near 4 185 000 with lawyers pegging it no less than 5 000 000. Trusts to R Hall McCormick as executor for 20 years with annual 20 000 annuities to each surviving heir pending division among heirs or their children. Surviving heirs listed are R Wall McCormick Leander Hamilton McCormick of Chicago and Mrs Nettie L Goodhart of Hadlow Castle Kent England.
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Leander A. McCormick
Omcaco
Leander TI. McCormick
R. Wall McCormick
Leander Hamilton McCormick
Chicago
Nettie L. Goodhart
E. Goodhart
Hadlow Castle
Kent
Eng
Fatal Powder Smoke Tragedy in Leap, South Dakota
In Leap near En glewood two tunnel workers Henry Waldschmidt and Walter Morezic suffocated by black powder smoke during lime rock mining. Contractor Ed Hanschke entered the tunnel after them, was overcome by gas, and lies unconscious with Waldschmidt and Morezic dead. Hanschke may die.
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Leap
S. D
Lime Rock
Englewood
Henry Waldschmidt
Walter Morezic
Ed Hanschke
Waldschmidt
Morezic
Hanschke
Freight Through Wabash Bridge Tragedy At Terre Haute
Big Four freight train No 96 eastbound plummeted from a bridge over the Wabash river at Terre Haute injuring and killing crew. Fireman Ruddle of Indianapolis died and Brake man John Whiteman of Mattoon Illinois perished. The 49 car train carried cotton lumber and wheat with 80 cars in the river, losses estimated at no less than 200000 dollars.
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Bridge
Indianapolis
Big Four
Wabash River
Terre -Haute
Ruddle
John Whiteman
Mattoon
Ill
Archbishop Hennessy’s Condition Deteriorates Again
DusvugguE February 27 The archbishop’s condition is thought to be worse rather than better after a restless night in the hospital.
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Hennessy
Dusvuggue
Archbishop Hennessy
Herbine advertised as quick remedy and tonic
An old time newspaper item promotes Herbine for quick relief from overindulgence with a 50 cent price at Williams Drug Store. Local notes report steel and iron shipments for a Montana railroad extension from Martinsville. A burglary at O G Brubbs in Helena netted 85 dollars, with the door and safe forced. A Manhattan advisory mentions wind damage to a paper mill wall needing prompt repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams Drug Store
Livingston
Montana
Martinsville
Manhattan
Sunday church topics and services listed
Sunday topics include Mary Magdalene for morning and The Twentieth Century Church in the afternoon. Activities at M. E. Church Annount sementa feature Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning preaching at 11 a.m. Class meeting at noon. Junior League at 4 p.m. Epworth League at 6 30 p.m. Evening service at 7 80 p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7 50.
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Idaho and
Sebree Streets
Henry F. Cope
Epworth
Evénsity Pea
St James Church Schedule Rev D H Hooker Rector
Services at St James Church led by Rev D H Hooker. Sunday Holy Communion 11 am on first Sunday. other Sundays 7 am 8 am 9:45 am with morning prayer at 11 am. Young people meet 6:45 pm and evening prayer 7:30 pm. Saints day and holy days 10 am.
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D. Hooker
Presbyterian Church Services and Local News Briefs
Morning services at 11 o clock and 7 30 p m with Sabbath school at noon C E at 6 45. The Great Northern orders 50 steel ore cars of 100 000 pounds capacity from pressed Steel Car and 200 overcars from Has Kell Car. prepares to build 100 steel cars at its shops. Engineer E R Chase found dead in Butte Friday coroner rules natural causes. Rumor links marriage to Emma Nevada. BAL LARD S HOREHOUND SYRUP advertised at 25 and 50 cents. Coal discovery in Aldridge described as lignite vein over four feet wide with signs of inexhaustible deposit.
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Beesich
Mon
Masonic
Knights of Pythias
Bad Fellows
Maccabeag
Workmen
Woodmen of the World
Forresters
C—Jest Public Library
Dillon
Great Northern
Pressed Steel Car Company
Haskell Car Company
E. R. Chase
Butte
Emma Nevada
Aldridge
Park County
Republican
Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets Candy Cathartic
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for constipation with a promise of refunds if a druggist fails to satisfy. It markets a candy cathartic product claimed to permanently end constipation and mentions a price of 26c.
Beaverhead ranch for sale near Dillon with 1400 acres
The Bliven Live Stock Co. ranch about ten miles north of Dillon in Beaverhead valley spans 1400 cultivated acres with good improvements. It can produce 1000 tons of hay. Title is perfect. For terms inquire of B. F. Waitra.
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Bliven Live Stock Co
Dillon
Beaverhead Valley
Beaverhead County
B. F.waitra
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Proprietress
Granite Street
Bute
Scott
York
Ballard
Price
Uintah
Echo
Brooks Locomotive Works
Panyias
Pene Teroed den
Madison County Matters
Geo. Burns
John Swanstram
Ernest Maurer
Swanstram
James Garrison
Alder Gulch
Bannack
F. M. Dawson
Don McClurg
D Co
W. Nyhart
Point of Rocks
Lucerne County
John Bb. Carruthers
Knight Templar
Gilbert H. Rue
Geo. Goblin
Jie
Rue
Leiter
Easton
Thomas Thexton
Mr. Thexton
Tom Deyarman
White
League of American Sportsmen
National Committee For
Allan
Harbor of Portland
Sioux Fall
Josiah G. Willis
Holland, Mich
O. G. Brubbs
Helena
Sep Tree Sagen
Dillon Public Library
Dillon Information Gard
Nott
Beaverhead
Balt
Erwang Be
D. W. Callahan
R. Bears
General Blacksmith
Wegon
Wooton
E. P. Dungan
Crown
First Baptist Church
Church
M. E. Church Annount
R. P. Surtu
St. James Church
Presbyterian Church
C. E
Flaaters
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