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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1903
Page
10
An advertisement claims the elixir cures all blood diseases. It asserts impure blood shows as pale skin and pimples and promises a positive guarantee with every bottle sold at Hiley's Drug Store.
Five hundred armed men including sheriffs pos es scour the Lightning creek area near Converse county Wyoming seeking a Sioux band led by Charlie Carries Elk. Reports say ten Indians were killed and eleven captured in a first clash, with Sheriff Miller and one deputy among the dead.
Fire raged in the Vatican near the hall of inscriptions and an adjacent art gallery last night at 8:30. Firemen and Rome troops worked to control it, the flames under control by 11:15. No lives were lost though damage estimates were not available. The pope visited the scene and stayed until firefighting was arranged.
W C Fleming national organizer for the Brotherhood of Railway Expressmen announced the Pacific Express strike failed. Striking workers seeking reinstatement were told to reapply as if never employed and to resign from the union, with Fleming citing desertions at St Louis as the key factor.
A Simla dispatch to the Daily Mail reports Tar shise in Persia leveled by a quake killing 350 people and injuring many. One hundred eighty four carpet factories were destroyed and only thirty two stalls stood in the great bazaar as the town was practically demolished.
Melville Wheeler assistant cashier of Cumberland Telephone company was assaulted in his office and the safe robbed of 3000 dollars though Wheeler was not seriously injured in Nashville Tennessee with Navy involvement noted.
Thousands view the funeral of Emma Booth Tucker, widow of William Booth and Salvation Army leader, killed in a Dean Lake Missouri train wreck. Services at Carnegie Hall were led by Col E J Higgins with hymns and life tributes. Commander Booth-Tucker sobbed as the crowd wept. General Ballington Booth declined to attend.
Marie Layton pleaded guilty to two indictments of larceny from the United States Playing Card company of Cincinnati and received an indeterminate sentence of one to five years in Albany state prison. She fainted when the sentence was pronounced. The company’s loss is placed around $35,000.
Chicago receipts and prices show December wheat slipping as selling pressure eases. live cattle and hog markets mixed with steady to lower sheep. Cash grain quotes liste No 2 red wheat around 84 cents and corn around 44 to 45 cents with oats near 34 to 38 cents. hogs, cattle, and lambs vary by grade and region.
Cattle receipts 10,000 steady to 10 cents higher with top choice beef steers at about 4.50. Stockers and feeders 2.50 to 3.75. Western fed steers 3.65 to 4.50. Hogs receipts 5,000 with higher prices. top 5.40, most sales 5.15 to 5.32. Pigs and lighter categories show mixed shifts. Sheep receipts 10,000 steady. native lambs 3.25 to 75.25, western lambs 2.00 to 6.00, fed ewes 2.30 to 3.75.
Cattle receipts 11 500 slow steady demand natives Cows and heifers 2 75 3 75 western steers 3 00 4 40 Texas steers 2 75 3 60 range cows 2 00 2 75 canners 1 25 2 00 stockers 2 50 4 00 calves 3 00 5 25 bulls stags 1 20 2 75 Hogs receipts 2 800 steady heavy 4 85 5 00 mixed 4 95 5 00 light 5 10 5 25 pigs 4 99 5 25 bulk 4 90 5 05 Sheep receipts 17 000 slow to fair western yearlings 3 40 3 75 wethers 3 30 3 50 ewes 2 75 3 10 common stockers 2 00 3 40 lambs 3 75 5 00
In St Joseph on November 2 cattle receipts reached 2970 with steady natives priced around $3 while cows and heifers moved from $4.50 to $10.00 stockers and feeders ranged $2.50 to $9.74 hogs totaled 1750 with lights $5.15 to $5.45 and others $4.39 to $5.15 lambs sold at $5.00 sheep $3.75 and ewes $3.25.
New York reports detail Receiver James Smith Jr on the United States Shipbuilding Company with alleged misstatements and fraud in its organization and fundraising. The report urges suits against promoters, plant vendors, Schwab, and others to recover funds and full debt payments. It also seeks a Bethlehem Steel receivership to assure dividends, labeling the shipbuilder as an artistic swindle and alleging deliberate value misstatements and stock transfers.
Washington reports the annual land office review shows a surge in fraudulent land entries, citing 10 000 suspended entries under a timber and stone act order and 125 unlawful enclosures covering 2 605 390 acres. Commissioner Richards urges a larger field force of special agents to curb violations and protect public lands for home builders.
Guadalajara Nov 2 reports say Charles J. Kratz will return to America as confidence in him wanes after arrest under general extradition laws rather than treaty terms. Authorities expect a swift formal process and Kratz has reportedly approached St. Louis officials about returning.
Chicago on November 2 reports that the Halloween revelry sparked the killing of Morgan Park Chief George A. Airio by Mack Wrlie, a young Black man. A fierce confrontation between police and a white mob nearly produced a second lynching in the unrest.
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