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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1897
Page
1
In wartime style dispatches the telegraph reports the Prince of Wales has sold his famous racing yacht Brittannia to James Gordon Bennett Jr. A Kentucky senatorial contest begins with a one vote per candidate ballot as part of the political scene.
Hon W J Bryan spoke before about 30 000 people when the San Marco hotel piazza gave way. A section 40 feet square fell trapping and injuring many but none fatally. Bryan was removed to a physician’s office unconscious but later found not seriously hurt. He returned to Washington April 13 still bruised and suffering from the left side.
In New York on April 10, the wool market shows reduced speculation as duties loom and some shipments from abroad are countermanded. Dealers trade more than half the 12,739,400 pounds sold this week, with six weeks total around 121, y. mills may hold a full year’s supply. Iron ore talks stall prices amid Mesaba ore interests, with expected declines in finished products. Financials show many small business failures, but improvements vs three prior years suggest a brighter outlook ahead.
William Kerr aged 2 is dead after a dynamite explosion near Wood's Creek Oregon. He and two companions used a remaining stick to avoid carrying it over hills. Kerr lit the fuse and died instantly when it exploded as he picked up the stick. A companion twenty feet away was stunned.
The Overland lodging house fire in Seattle at 1 a m spread to the Salvation Army shelter and the Pacific lodging house. No fatalities. a man nicknamed Dago Tony suffered severe foot burns. Officers Grant and Powers risked their safety by entering the burning building to alert inmates and rescue others. Mrs May, an elderly blind woman, was aided but fell stairs as the floor collapsed. Loss is placed at 15000 dollars.
Reports show multiple bond payments in Trout Lake area British Columbia. The Horne Payne syndicate paid 23400 on Broadview Old Sonoma and Phillipsburg while the Great Northern owner paid 10000. Morning Star Wild Man and Alice bonded for 30000 to a Scotch syndicate. Local work at Eureka camp digs 110 feet on Lone Pine ore. A new strike emerges on Star and Crescent near Kettle River with copper pyrites and hematite surfaced above the tunnel at 37 feet. A Pullman group forms to develop claims west of Northport and south of Rossland. An air compressor will aid Black Tall operations once roads allow.
Two companies established to operate in the Cariboo district with bases at Tacoma and Seattle. The Tacoma unit will run at Big Lake, 30 miles northeast of Cottonwood House along the old Fort George trail, using a jetting machine en route to locate deep channels. The Seattle company will operate on Divide Creek about one mile from the Tacoma operation.
In Florence district three rich ore pockets are described on the Higu claim with a 50 foot level strike and a lower tunnel tap 100 feet below. Ozark to start a five stamp mill. Toledo mine gains hoisting works. a two inch streak grew to nine inches with tests indicating about $2000 per ton.
The Boston and Montana Mining Company announces its electrolytic plant at Great Falls Montana will soon produce 3,500,000 pounds monthly. For the year the firm shows gross receipts of 6,413,207 dollars with expenses of 3,504,283 dollars and net earnings of 2,674,350 dollars.
In the Pierre's Lake district the inclined shaft of the Anaconda shows three feet of solid ore. A 100 pound sample sent to the Tacoma smelter yielded a return of 462 dollars.
Stockholders of the Le Roi Mining and Smelting company approve not to raise capitalization from 2500 dollars to 5 million dollars. No change in the firm’s authorized capital structure is adopted.
Word from Gem Idaho reports the Formosa mine has started operations becoming the first new Coeur d Alene mining project to begin shipping this year.
The Prospector reports the first ore shipment year as 1896 with North Star at $200,000 and North Star dump at $360.00, St. Eugene $300,000, Dibble $7,250 totaling $267,250. Development totals 4100 feet across Noria Star 1100 feet St Eugene 00 and Dibble 400 feet others 2000 feet about $212 per foot.
The Dongola group at Camp McKinney Boundary Creek district is bonded to an English syndicate. At Deadwood camp the Goldbug and Hidden Treasure have been bought by an English investor. An English syndicate bonds the King Lead group of claims.
In Slocan Country claims such as Little Daisy and Golden bond for 35000 dollars while Get There Eli and Bachelor on Ten Mile creek employ 16 men to open new workings. The Two Friends has shipped over 10 carloads of ore this winter with 23 workers, the Regina in Arlington basin employs five. Alma group bonded for 50000 dollars uses five men on development as a Lily B tunnel strike yields 130 ounces silver and 2 ounces gold per pound samples. A crosscut and 100 feet further down road slated next week with Currie to receive a four drill compressor.
The Palmer Mountain Tunnel Company has ordered a five drill compressor plant to speed work on the Okanogan country tunnel project. A complete steam plant will also be installed to power the drills and lighting. The equipment will be on site and operating by June.
Seventeen miles north of Trail and eight miles south of Robson on the Columbia east bank lies the new town of Waterloo with about 40 houses. Numerous claims dot the area and the Lil liooet, Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Fields of Vancouver holds a bond on the Erin Apache and Waterloo groups. Fifteen men work on the Erin group.
A March entry notes an export from Nelson valued at 322 in ore terms. The sentence preserves the archaic spelling and monetary expression while identifying the location Nelson and the time period March.
An item from Nelson B C notes copper matte valued at 5540 percent a shipment. In the Stillagua district the Forty Five consolidated mine reports ten inches of rich packing ore struck in the Cascades region.
Two Davenport men plan to launch a boat below Fort Spokane and drift up the Columbia River prospecting for placer ground along the east bank. The Cedar Canyon district sees active development with Deer Trail No 2 yielding over 100000 in ore returns.
The Agriculture Department reports 40 000 farms across Mississippi Arkansas Missouri and Tennessee submerged as waters cover 3 800 000 acres. About 1.5 million acres of cotton and corn are underwater last year with over 3 750 000 dollars in crops left on hand, cotton making up two thirds of this value.
Government relief steamer Ogemawa lies right side up and sunk in about 12 feet of water seven miles below Grand Forks North Dakota after starting down the river last night on a relief expedition.
Speaker Steel says Harry Wilson offered $1000 for affirming the two thirds rule to advance the school book bill and $2500 to defeat it. He recounts a $100 bill placed in his lap. Senator LeWel ling, Senator Jumper and others testify of offers to swap votes on the text book and railroad bills. Tucher, arrested earlier, is named in the bribery probe.
Constantinople reports to ambassadors three circulars dated April 5. Turkey offers to withdraw the Crete garrison if Greece withdraws first and powers guarantee pacification. It also seeks evacuation of Crete, opposes a European governor, and protests disarming Cretan Muslims while Christians keep arms.
Minnesota Sugar company organized with capital of 2 million dollars to challenge the sugar trust by creating a sugar beet industry in the northwest. A 250 thousand dollar factory will be built at Hastings Minnesota, with more to follow as farmers grow beets. Railroads aid the effort and county auxiliaries will form in suitable soil regions.
At the sixth biennial YWCA congress in Detroit on April 9 the chairwoman Mrs. D L Wishard of New York presented the International committee report. It noted split focus on city and college work, urged $15 000 for college and school effort, and logged 344 associations in two years with 29 new groups formed and 24 college plus 59 city organizations remaining active.
Seaman King of the cruiser Philadelphia is dead and two other sailors are dying after drinking wood alcohol laced with condensed milk they found in a medicine chest during the night. Several more are in precarious condition from the tainted liquor.
New York April 8. The steamer Fuerst Bismarck will take out 100000 ounces of silver tomorrow.
The Senate adjourned at 12 45 PM after meeting to honor ex Senator Voorhees of Indiana. Funeral services were held at St Johns Episcopal Church with many officials and social leaders in attendance. The procession moved to Sixth Street station and the remains travel to Terre Haute for interment Friday.
Spokane police officer Dugald D. McPhee was shot on Sprague Street while searching a suspect. The assailant, Arthur Chappel, fled, later shot himself after being pursued. McPhee remained in serious condition with a fighting chance of recovery.
Washington April 11 reports that democrats silver republicans and populists in the senate reached a final agreement to coalitate for committee control. the pact aims to secure eight vacancies for the alliance while limiting republican influence, with no intended interference with tariff passage.
Governor Rogers outlines the clemency limits in Olympia on April 12. He says the pardoning power is for miscarriages of justice and not to override laws. If a judge and prosecutor seek commutation it will be granted. otherwise the sheriff must act. He notes six men await execution later this month including R H Straub and William Carey.
The Desert News prints a claimed confession by J. W. Fetzer, jailed in Dillon Montana, confessing to killing Dr. C H Nichols head of the Washington DC insane asylum in 1873. He says he has 10 or 15 other victims but will not plead guilty unless given a death sentence. Fetzer was arrested for dynamite bomb making and delivered to Montana officials on charges of swindling the state.
John H. Mc Graw former governor and King County sheriff has arranged a settlement with authorities. He will deed $14,000 worth of property to the county in trust to secure payment of $8,710 the discrepancy.
London April 13 two men perished in the Whitewater basin slide. Joseph Kelly 38 a longtime Butte resident originally from Montana and now dead. Edward Callaghan about 30 also a Montana veteran and Coeur d Alene miner.
Chehalis April saw County Treasurer C. W. Maynard file his resignation as the board of county commissioners declined to grant him office assistance at the county’s expense.
Special Master Lorenzo B Sawyer reports in Seattle on April 13 that the Spokane rate case finds for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He says a small tariff cut would wreck NP property under interstate commerce law and that competition at Pacific coast terminals dominates Spokane rates.
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin died after throwing himself from a bridge parapet near his villa. Earlier reports cited aneurysm of the heart as the cause, but officials announced the death was self inflicted after he asked his doctor to leave the room seeking sleep during a high fever.
Colonel W. A. August Ray longtime board of trade operator and former president dies in Chicago. He organized Company F Fortieth Wisconsin infantry and commanded the regiment. He defended Memphis against Confederate General Forrest during Forrest’s famous raid.
Major Harlan of Seattle formerly Ohio resident and Lyman J. Knapp, already a northern territory veteran, campaign in support of the Alaska governorship. The two men press for the post as Alaska moves toward potential statehood.
In the Holy Terror mine four miners James Hopkins John Padland Sherman Dunning and Joseph Everly were badly hurt due to dynamite carelessness. The last two named died from their injuries.
The American commissioners in Washington on April 13 announced appointments to promote an international bimetalism agreement. The selections include Senator Edward O. Wolcott Hon. Charles J. Pain and former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson to serve as commissioners.
Yokohama reports Japan will send two warships to Hawaii and suspend migration. The Japanese press urges the government to adopt a firm stance toward Hawaii and the United States.
East bound Florida special on the Southern railway and a local southbound passenger train collided at Harrisburg twelve miles north of Charlotte. Three persons are dead and several others wounded in the crash.
Two 10 inch 110 ton coastal guns roll through Cheyenne Wyoming on the way to San Francisco to bolster coastal defenses.
Grace Wade, a 3 year old girl, was run over and killed by a street car in Portland Oregon. She was playing in the street and ran in front of the vehicle just before it passed.
London reports from Athens claim Greek insurgents cross the frontier with three bands and Italian volunteers under Colonel Cipriani. The movement stirs fear of a broader war as powers debate Greece’s concessions and Crete autonomy, with Britain reluctant to police Europe and Russia Austria undecided.
About 3000 Greek invaders led by ex-officers and Macedonian chiefs cross borders near Kalabanka and Tempe. They vow Liberty or Death with monks from Mt Athos performing a religious oath service. A second band under Sinsinikos advances toward Karya while Baltino barracks are besieged. The Porte labels the action regular troops and a start of war.
Minister Woo Ting Fong arrives in San Francisco to represent the emperor of China in America Spain and Peru. The party includes nearly 60 consular representatives secretaries and attaches. He is an Oxford graduate who practiced law in Hong Kong and served as police magistrate and director of the Tien Tsin government railway.
In Seattle two national banks resisted city and county taxes in 1891 claiming unjust assessments. The U S Supreme Court ruled the banks must pay the full levy for those years, totaling about $65,000.
In Salem Oregon on April, 78 year old Mrs Catherine B Livermore died by suicide using strychnine. Her grandson jailed awaiting grand jury action on a charge of stealing from his mother. Family troubles cited as cause.
Olympia April 12 The state treasurer has called general fund warrants Nos 14470 to 14680 inclusive and on the fund Nos 2007 to 2010 inclusive. They mature April 20.
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