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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
10
Mrs L A Fitch of Suerrrman Montana offers 715 unmounted herbarium specimens at 10 cents each, 105 species including rare Montana plants and 30 grasses named by Dr Kelsey. List of counts provided on inquiry. Weight 1814 pounds. purchaser pays transport. inspection by inquiry.
There is one railroad operating electric trams on the Omaha to Chicago block system. It lights its trains by electricity, uses an electric berth reading lamp, and runs steam heated vestibuled trains with private compartments, library buffet, smoking cars, and palace drawing-room sleepers. Parlor cars, free reclining chair cars, and top dining car service are offered with lowest eastbound rates via ticket agents or L. L. Downing, Commercial Agent, Salt Lake City.
Havana May 20. The committee’s majority report adds to several Platt clauses. It permits intervention to preserve order without creating sovereignty, fixes Isle of Pines via treaty, and limits naval stations to defense of waters. It also proposes a reciprocity treaty and land sales points for Cuba. The move surprised many observers.
Hon Edwin F Uhl former assistant secretary of state died in Grand Rapids after a year of illness including Brights disease He was born in 1841 near Avon Springs NY came to Michigan as a boy graduated from the University of Michigan at twenty He served as Grand Rapids mayor from 1890 and later held federal posts as ambassador to Germany and assistant secretary of state He is survived by a widow and three daughters.
Springfield May 17 The supreme convention of Royal Neighbors of America elected officers for the ensuing two years Supreme oracle Mrs E D Watt Omaha reelected supreme vice oracle Mrs Susie M Roas Carthage Mo supreme recorder Mrs Winnie Fielder Peoria supreme receiver Mrs Myria B Enright Kansas City supreme marshal Mrs Eva Child Hanover Wis supreme physicians Dr Susan McSnyder Council Bluffs Dr B Frank Morrell Chicago Dr Elenora Gilson Whitmore Blue Rapids Kan
W N of Denver was elected fourth vice grand master of the Brotherhood of Trainmen as part of an amended constitution. The next biennial convention will be held in Denver with Grandmaster Morrissey announcing W G Lee of Lawrence Kan as his assistant. The fifth biennial convention ended with a brief address by the grandmaster. In Victor Colorado a flood damaged dams on the Victor Water company and carried away a trestle on the Cripple Creek short line. no lives reported.
May 20. Church services were held yesterday by all denominations in tents near burned edifices. Military companies patrol the streets but there is no danger of disturbance.
The Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado Midland railroads offer the fastest eastward journey with three daily through trains. Passengers can ride in Pullman Palace and Tours cars, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Observation Cars and a perfect dining car service to Chicago and St. Louis without change. Send for folder and info to W. C. Mc Bride in Butte or Geo. W. Heintz, General Passenger Agent.
Mr Elliot Brown a 45 year old banker retiree with two sons and a daughter marries into quiet life while his rural verses gain sudden fame. A fan named Miss Annabel Leigh in Boston flirts by mail, tests his honesty, and prompts a comic entanglement ending with suspicion she borrowed lines from Tennyson.
Dr Sawyer of San Francisco publishes Nerve Waste a practical guide praised for wisdom and sincerity. The Chicago Advance endorses it as a remedy for nervous impairment, with a sample chapter available by mail from The Pacific Publishing Co San Francisco Box 2658 at postpaid price one dollar.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to stop a cold in one day with no cure no pay. An old patent medicine advertisement states price at 25 cents and promises swift relief from coughs and colds.
Reports from San Francisco say Mrs. McKinley rested well and showed favorable symptoms with slight fever subsiding. She sat up briefly as General Shafter visited the president, who attended to callers and remained home most of the day. Secretary Long and Cortelyou issued bulletin noting good day and progress.
Washington report says Lulu I Bonine, 82, a hotel guest, admitted she fired three shots that killed census clerk James Seymour Ayres in the Kenmore hotel. She says Ayres attacked her in his room at 2 AM and that the struggle ended with the fatal shots.
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