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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1894
Page
4
In this column the progress and daily activities at the local mining camp are sketched. Workers extract ore, machinery runs, and new claims are staked as the community reports on production, nearby operations, and prospecting chatter.
Townsend 10 The Front reports mining outlooks improving in Diamond Hill Tom Cummings Glorietta and Blacksmith lode with ore in sight and new mills planned. Coal mines at Toston Boston and Duck Creek areas show progress and a thriving camp with roads and mill foundations advancing.
Reports include Hevi P Morton’s Republican governor nomination in New York, Silver Bow fees for final citizenship papers, a $12,000 defaulter at Western Ironworks in Butte, and a drowned Montana police sergeant in Minnesota. Also covered are domestic gunfire incidents in Helena, a Bozeman suicide, Wilkinson’s Montana journalism legacy, mounting city club activism, Mullen tunnel progress, Chilliwack highwaymen, a Butte miner’s fatal beating, Northern Pacific August receipts rise, a Pocatello suicide, and a Denver sighting of Jack the Ripper.
A sweeping digest covers Newfoundland annexation sentiment, a Mississippi sandbar fight, Breckenridge and Owens in Kentucky races, the Ping Yang battle and Chinese losses, a Utah murder, Louisiana sugar interests, a broken pacing record, editor Frekial Wilkinson's death, a Kansas murder trial, Minnesota and Iowa unrest, rail bandits near Corbin Missouri, and various political candidacies and local incidents across states.
Peter Gallagher, a Ren ton area rancher, hosts a curious menagerie on his secluded Seattle area farm. A three hundred pound black bear visits his stockyard daily and eats with cattle, while a pair of fawns roam with the herd and even lodge in the stable. Ducks and geese also alight in the yard, unafraid of Gallagher. He forbids hunting on the property and keeps his unusual pets close, insisting they are harmless.
The article notes Halley’s Comet's historic passages and forecasts its 1911 return, with calculations by Prof. Glasenapp and the Russian Astronomical Society. It then analyzes U S Cuba trade, highlighting sugar reliance, export values around 60 million dollars, and a large trade deficit, urging expanded American manufactured exports and better market outreach in Cuba.
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association secured a Washington coach after a yearlong search. The coach, once sold to Forepaughs Circus for fifty dollars, was traced from circus warehouses to a wrecked train in the west. Negotiations began, but Mr Brownfield reserved the right to present the coach to Mount Vernon.
David Johnson of Alliance possesses a centuries old violin tied to his father Ellis N. Johnson. The instrument features a carved bust, inlaid Italian town design, pearl-mounted keys, and a Latin inscription. It surpasses two centuries in age and resembles the Moretta violin in form and tone. A separate note describes a rainmaking rocket in India using ether to induce cooling and a localized shower.
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