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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1903
Page
3
The pope plans to close his jubilee year with major rites at St. Peter's. The note adds a local joke about personal humor, citing Atchison Globe with a light aside on jokes.
Henator W A Clark Paris Gibson Representative Joseph M Dixon state city Mayor B F White City Attorney Eewin Norris Treasurer A B Johnson Police Magistrate Wm Cushing Chief of Police Fred L Stone Aldermen
Trading on the Chicago board of trade was light with no feature. July wheat slipped slightly, corn and oats eased or held, and September products in provisions fell 5 to 6 cents. Cash prices for various wheat and corn grades and oats were listed alongside futures quotes.
Chicago report shows cattle receipts at 31 000 with price ranges from 1.60 to 6.25 for various classes led by good to prime steers at 4.00 to 5.00 and Texas fed steers at 4.00 to 4.75. Hogs receipts 40 000 with prices 5.71 to 6.80 for mixed and butcher grades. Sheep receipts 20 000 with wethers 4.75 to 5.25 and lambs up to 7.10 in Western and Native markets.
Kansas City market report shows cattle receipts 4500 with ranges from steer prices 4.50 to 5.25 for choice beef and 2.50 to 4.75 for stockers. Hogs receipts 6000 opened 10 cents lower, tops around 6.45, natives and packers mix. Sheep receipts 12000 with lambs 4.00 to 7.30 and ewes 3.70 to 5.20.
South Omaha reports cattle receipts around 1800 with steady price levels. Native steers bring 4.26 to 5.20, cows and heifers 3.25, calves 3.00 to 6.00, hogs 5.00 to 6.00, and the bulk sold between 6.25 and 6.50. Sheep receipts near 4500 with yearlings 5.00 to 5.73, wethers 4.75 to 5.30, ewes 3.76 to 4.75, lambs 5.75 to 7.25.
May 18 cattle and hog receipts at St Joseph steady to lower. Cattle natives and cows and heifers priced from 2.25 to 5.40 for cows and 4.25 to 5.40 for some categories. Stockers and feeders 8.00 to 8.80. Hogs light mixed 6.15 to 7.85, medium and heavy 6.30 to 6.55, bulk 6.80 to 7.25, pigs 5.40 to 6.10.
The Greek Archivalogical Society plans to restore the Doric Temple of Jupiter at Nemea near the Nemean lion site. After earthquakes the edifice now has three standing columns, with fallen shafts mostly intact. restoration and entablature reerection are feasible if debris is cleared before excavations begin.
In the senate marble room a blackboard shows weather from colored chalk. Senator Wale, backed into the board and later covered in dust, is told by Senator Dubois he is sick. An Idaho senator jokes he is hot and cold, needing a doctor. Nearby reports note 40,000 birds, mainly sandpipers, killed on the North Carolina coast for millinery use.
Admiral Schley arrived in El Paso Texas on May 19 after traveling through Mexico where his journey was met with continuous ovations from American colonists in each city visited.
Sofia report states M. Petkoff leader of the Stambuloff party failed in his bid to form a new Bulgarian cabinet. The attempted coalition did not come together, ending the effort.
May 18 Bridgeport Connecticut reports a violent clash when nonunion trolley workers were brought in. Police sheriffs and Mayor Mulvihill faced a stone assault as streams from a fire hose dispersed crowds of up to four thousand. Twelve strike breakers on six cars were injured, with roadmaster and officers struck. Authorities warned of state troops if peace could not be kept.
Denver reports little change in the local strike with the state board of arbitration seen as the sole hope for settlement. The Allied printing trades accuse several Citizens' alliance publishers of breaking contracts and threaten to join the strike if arbitration is not agreed by tomorrow night. The board requires reinstatement of locked out workers, which the alliance has refused.
Mayor Doyle ordered Old Colony Street Railway to halt street work in Newport Rhode Island after a riot call was sounded when crews resumed laying tracks in defiance of the ban. Citizens quickly deserted the streets.
Captain Clough Overton of the Fifteenth Cavalry and Private Harry Noyes were slain by insurgent prisoners they guarded at Sucatlan Mindanao. Private Hartlow was wounded as the four guards were overwhelmed and attacked after the prisoners seized bolos. Lieutenant Cameron pursued Flores after the breakout. In Manila Major Pershing is relieved of command of the Lanao expedition with Lt. Col. Rogers to assume command.
The United States reports Chinese officials oppose opening Manchurian towns in commercial treaties due to Russian opposition, a stance contested by Russia as M. Paul de Lessar returns to Peking. Washington plans to press for extra port facilities for American commerce in Manchuria amid the dispute.
An outbound Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf train derailed on a fifteen foot embankment near Hot Springs Arkansas, wrecking all cars except the Pullman sleeper and sending many to hospital. Fireman Joseph Riley died, Engineer John Ryan was fatally injured, and about twenty others were hurt as heavy rains are blamed for loosening the embankment and causing the rails to spread.
W Montgomery, sought in Nebraska Iowa and Oklahoma for bigamy and charged with killing a Guthrie jailer, was recaptured May 19 after being found under Mrs Kate Wyeth’s residence. He was wounded by gunfire, shot through the left lung and the right groin, during the jailer's death.
Testimony before a St Louis grand jury alleged a $10 000 boodle payment to defeat a bill reducing the excise commissioners fees. Funds were said to be distributed in $500 blocks. Witnesses included W T Carrington state superintendent of schools and R P Thompson chief deputy excise commissioner. A compromise later gave the excise head 40 percent of office income. Who paid the boodle remains undisclosed.
The Reims chamber of commerce reports champagne production for the past year at 32,000,000 bottles, with about two thirds exported. Twelve million bottles were sent to the United States.
Rebourné May 19. The railroad workers who walked out vote by ballot to resume work under government terms by an overwhelming majority. Their decision ends a prolonged labor action and sets the pace for post strike operations after negotiations.
May 16 New York report on initial steps toward a nationwide employer organization in the building trades. In Manhattan at the Building Trades club about 700 employers attended with overflow rooms. A Brooklyn branch formed the Employers League of Brooklyn. Meetings across Chicago St Louis Pittsburg Boston Washington sent telegrams. Leaders vow to bar walking delegates and to act to keep contracts and defend business interests.
President Roosevelt with John Muir and others camped in Bridal Veil Grove near the Merced after a day touring Yosemite. He described the experience as the one day of his life and recalled a prior snowstorm on Glacier Point while praising the Sierra forests.
The national convention of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen begins a ten day secret session in Denver with about 2,600 delegates expected. Estimates say at least 25,000 visitors will come to the city for the event as delegates choose a site for the trainmen home among Los Angeles Buffalo and Denver candidates.
St. Paul May 15 The committee men of the Great Northern trainmen and conductors and General Manager Ward signed a formal agreement on all points at issue and there will be no strike.
Paris May 18 dispatch reports Henrik Ibsen the Norwegian dramatist in desperate condition. Doctors and friends fear a fatal outcome as his health declines in Copenhagen.
An advertisement claims Acker's Blood Elixir improves facial appearance and health by curing blood diseases, contrasting it with cheaper sarsaparillas. Central Pharmacy asserts a positive guarantee on every bottle.
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