The Butte Daily Post, 1908-01-07, p.6

6 THE BUTTE INTER MOUNTAIN. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1908. ## Column 1 # INTER MOUNTAIN'S ANACONDA BUREAU [spans columns 1-3] Office 109 East Park Avenue. Telephone 7. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. # SETTLES DOWN TO BUSINESS ## CITY COUNCIL DISPOSES OF ITS WORK WITHOUT DELAY. # HEALTH REPORT RECEIVED ## Bell Telephone Company Must Comply With Terms of Franchise. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—The city council ground out a grist of work last night in a business-like manner, and from an amateur debating society threatens to settle down to a regular board of directors style of disposing of affairs. They met promptly at 8 o'clock and were through with the session by 9:15 o'clock. Those present were Mayor Evans, Alderman Carriher, Marchion, Clinton, Devine, Davidson, Munson, Faley, McGreevey and Emerson. Clerk O'Leary of the school board presented a communication asking the council to locate fire alarm boxes in the Lincoln and high school buildings, and the matter was referred to the fire committee. Frank Butler presented a bill for $100 damages alleged to have been caused by the flooding of his cellar at 412 Locust street last March. The claim was sent to the judiciary committee. Health Dfficer Dr. Stephens presented the report upon the health of the city and its sanitary condition, which has already been published in these columns. He also filed a communication with reference to the meeting of the state board and asked instructions in the matter of attendance, and after some discussion it was ordered that $25 be allowed to cover the expense of the trip to Helena. Alderman Carriher called attention of the council to the increase in the duties of the health officer under the new laws and favored the increase of the pay of the office to an amount of $50 a month for his services, which were four times as great, he said, as when Dr. Stephens was appointed, involving a great amount of bookkeeping and time. Aldeman Davidson opposed any change in the salary at this time, and finally the entire question was sent to the finance committee to be taken up at a future meeting. The finance committee recommended that additional counsel be engaged to assist in the defense of the damage suit of Mrs. Morse against the city, and that J. H. Tolan be engaged as the attorney at a fee of $300, which should cover the expense of the case as far as may be necessary to take it. The recommendation was adopted. The street and alley committee filed a report that the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company had not conformed to the provisions of the franchise in the matter of drop lines and also in that the wires are strung on poles that are only twenty feet high, whereas the report stated they should be twenty-five feet in height. The committee asked that the fire chief be instructed to notify the telephone company to comply with the terms of the franchise and the report was accepted and it was so ordered. In the matter of the change in the sidewalk assessment prayed for by Gus Oleson at the corner of Main and Front streets, the committee reported that the sidewalk had dropped at one place, but that it was caused by the ground settling and not by fault of the contractor, and therefore it was ordered that no change be made in the assessment. Resolutions authorizing the assessments in the improvement districts Nos. 44 and 48 were adopted and passed. The cost of the paving of Park avenue and Main street amounted to $1.25 a front foot to the property owners and is con- sidered as very reasonable. Maple and Birch streets were set apart for the children as coasting places and the chief of police was instructed to enforce the ordinance sliding on the sidewalks. Council adjourned to meet in two weeks. # HOW'S THIS? [advertisement] We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 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Admission.....10c 119 Main St., Anaconda ## Column 2 # RETIRING PRESIDENT CHARMED ## STANDIFORD CAN AFFORD TO STAND FOR THIS JOSH. # AT NATIONAL UNION SOCIAL ## Faithful Officer Remembered by His Admiring Friends. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—The National union held an annual installation of officers at their hall last evening. For three terms Ed Standiford has been the president of Copper City lodge, and in that time he has missed but one meeting, and that was due to sickness in his family. No more faithful officer has ever served a society than he and consternation and pained surprise came over his countenance when at the close of his term and the new president, J. A. Dragstedt, had been inducted into office, J. W. James arose and read formal charges agtinst [sic] the retiring president. The accusations were in formal shape and accused Standiford of every thing on the criminal calendar from petty larceny to high treason. A trial committee was appointed and what had been a pleasant evening seemed to be thrown into the deepest gloom. Then the situation changed and the clouds surcharged with seriousness rolled away, when Secretary James, from an accuser, began in a second speech to praise the ex-president and closed by presenting him in behalf of the members with a handsome watch charm bearing the emblems of the order. The sudden change was too much for the honored ex-president and in a voice shaking with emotion he said all that he could say was: "Thank you, boys!" Then came a banquet and hearty toasts were drunk to his health and prosperity and a merry, happy initiation given to the opening of another year. The new officers installed are as follows: J. A. Dragstedt, president; Ed Standiford, ex-president; D. R. Fraser, vice-president; H. H. Logan, speaker; J. A. Schroeder, treasurer; J. A. Johnson, financial secretary; J. W. James, secretary; Noel Jette, sergeant-at-arms; G. S. Sparrow, usher; T. P. Fitzpatrick, doorkeeper; Ed Standiford, senate deputy; D. Cohen, Sr., H. H. Logan, A. G. McLean, trustees. # NEIL COLLINS NEW PRESIDENT ## CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL OF ANACONDA HAS ELECTED A SET OF OFFICIAL GUIDES. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—The Central Labor council of Anaconda, at the meeting last evening, elected the following officers for the new term: Neil Collins, president; J. H. Schwand, vice-president; E. M. Clark, recording secretary; J. F. Hogan, financial secretary; J. E. Clifford,, Albert Kline, J. C. Hendrick, trustees; Mike Cox, sergeant-at-arms. # A FIRE EVERY DAY THIS YEAR ## Anaconda Department Averts Several Serious Conflagrations. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—Fire destroyed a two-room cabin in the rear of the Monogram saloon in Mainville last evening between 8 and 9 o'clock. It was the property of W. L. McLaughlin and was occupied by the saloon porter and a Chinese cook. The blaze is supposed to have originated from an overheated stove and the loss was about $500, partly covered by insurance. The high wind caused the fire to spread rapidly and the building was a mass of flames when the department arrived. Not a day of the new year has yet passed without an alarm calling out the department, and one day four runs were recorded, and at all of them calling for their services, the firemen have done all that was possible, and in several cases have prevented dangerous conflagrations. # ANACONDA BRIEFS Fine line of box candies at Tesher's. L. F. Verbeckmoes, jeweler, 114 E. Park ave. Our stock of watches includes all the high grade standard make. Prices reasonable. Keppler's. Misses Margaret and Emma Walsh, sisters of Mrs. Charles Stoffell, have gone to Livingston to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Elkins of Silver Lake are in the city and guests at the Montana hotel. Chauncey Beal has received news of the death of Joseph L. Jolly at Miles City. Jolly was a former resident of the valley and well known here. No particulars as to the cause or circumstances of his death have been received. E. J. Boxer has gone over to Great Falls on business. R. J. Murphy left this morning for Seattle. W. H. Hibbard went over to Butte this morning on business. Charlie Collins has secured a position in Butte and left for that place this morning. William Madge went over to Great Falls this morning and may locate there. W. R. Allen is in Helena on business today. W. D. Rodgers is in Butte today on business. Mrs. C. A. St. Clair is visiting friends in Butte. W. C. Lattimer left this morning for Missoula to accept a clerical position. Leslie Carpenter withdrew the prosecution of Sam Cutler that he started in Justice Neal's court some days ago. He alleged that Cutler was guilty of assault. When the trial came up today he withdrew the action and paid the costs of the case. Mrs. F. A. Jones left today for Battle Creek, Mich., to be with Mr. Jones, who is ill with rheumatism in that place. ## Column 3 # PURSIMMINS B'GOSH IN A BOX ## MISSOURI CLUB THROWN INTO A FRENZY OF EXCITEMENT. # GIFT FROM JUDGE WINSTON ## "Every Leap Year Always Jes' Spoons" Says Bob Crosswhite. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—"Pursimmons! b'gosh!" exclaimed G. Winnie Sparrow yesterday afternoon as he carefully removed the wrappings from a small package that arrived in the mail. The back room gang—there was Charlie Harrison, Bob Crosswhite, Charlie Tracy, Joe Weir, Tom Kerlin, Bob Mentrum, Peter Levengood, Ben Mahan and a few other Missourians present—arose as one man and crowded around him while Winnie passed the box around and every man of them took a sniff. "Darned if they ain't the real thing!" "Gee, Williker, them look good!" "Hain't seen any o' them fer nigh twenty years!" "They're a leetle mite squashed, but by the great horn spoons they be 'simmons all right, all right!" were just a few of the appreciative comments made by the gang. Then they chorused, "Who sent 'em? Where'd they come from?" "Hang blame me if I know; wait a minnit. Hyar's a note." Then Winnie read aloud: "Dear Winnie—Dr. Hough and I drove ten miles out in the country to get these. I climbed the tree myself and knocked them down and as I am sending them to an old Missourian I need not tell him what they are, but they are not paw-paws. Yours truly, G. B. Winston." "Well durn me if that ain't just like the judge, always a thinkin' about us exiles out here while he is back there. Come on boys, let's have a 'simmon on the judge," and then he passed them around and there was just enough of the fruit for each to have a taste of the sweet pulpy morsels. "Hold on boys!" explaiced [sic] Sparrow, "let's see if they're forks or spoons this year." The foreigners all wondered what he meant, but every true Missourian at once reached for his jack knife and split one of the small flat seeds in half and looked at the small white germ most critically. "Spoons!" yelled Winnie, and the others chimed in "Same here, spoons it is," and then they told the innocent ones that sometimes the germ in the seed is shaped like a spoon and at other times it is forked with tines like a fork, but said the wise old Bob Crosswhite: "Every leap year they are always jes' spoons!" # CRADDIC CASE UP TOMORROW ## Board of Pardons Will Hear Objections if Any Are Offered. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—The state board of pardons will hear objections tomorrow to the granting of a pardon for John Craddick, who is serving a life term in the penitentiary for murder. He killed Jason Louneenord in a lumber camp near Avon, Oct. 6, 1895. Judge W. H. Trippet of this city was the prosecuting attorney. Craddick entered a plea of guilty, but said he was drunk at the time. Judge Brantley, now chief justice of the supreme court, sentenced him to life imprisonment. Judge Trippet is of the opinion that Craddick has received enough punishment for the crime. He will be represented by Napton & Napton, of Butte, and Attorney James L. Self, of Plains. # BILLY EHLERT IN MISSOULA ## Anaconda Not so Bad as Might be, He Says. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—Billy Ehlert is over in Missoula visiting his sister, Mrs. R. deB. Smith, for a few days. While in the Garden City he was interviewed by a reporter for the Missoulian, and this is what is said about him: "Billy Ehlert is over from Anaconda on a holiday visit with his sister, Mrs. R. deB. Smith, and is enjoying the stay in Missoula, as he always does. He is getting so that he likes Missoula better all # PILES Quickly Cured. [advertisement] ## Pyramid Pile Cure Positively a Marvel of Quick Curing Power. 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The holiday business was excellent in all the stores, and there is no fault found with the way things went before Christmas. It was much better than anybody thought it would be, and the people are having a good, quiet time now; they are not worrying, but are taking things easy till the works start up again.'" # T. P. STEWART'S CONDITION ## Anaconda Attorney May Not Have to Submit to Operation. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anaconda, Jan. 7.—County Attorney J. W. James received a letter this morning from Mrs. T. P. Stewart, stating that Assistant County Attorney Stewart is seriously ill at the home of her parents in Zumbrota, Minn., and will be unable to travel for some days. The physician in charge diagnoses the trouble as gall stones and expresses the hope that an operation will not be necessary. ### CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to the many friends and to the members of Mountain View lodge No. 29 of the Machinists' union, who gave us aid and sympathy during our bereavement by the loss of wife and mother. JAMES M'KAY AND FAMILY. ### HILL OBSEQUIES. SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN. Anacoinda [sic], Jan. 7.—The funeral of the late James Hill will be held tomorrow morning from the undertaking rooms of Lawler & French at 7:45, with requiem high mass at St. Paul's church at 8 o'clock, unless advices from his father in Pennsylvania, asking for other arrangements, are received. # PUBLICITY VERSUS A SHINGLE ## Mrs. Hurley Believes in the Former as a Means Toward Reform. "Is this the city editor of The Inter Mountain?" asked a small woman with big gray eyes. She was told that it was. Then she proceeded to business without delay. "James Hurley will be 12 years old the 16th of next month," she said. "He lives at 828½ North Montana street, and I am his mother." "Yes," said the newspaperman sympathetically as there was a pause. "Is—is he dead?" "Oh, dear no; not so bad as that. He picked up a heavy spoonholder and threatened to slit my head with it—and I his own mother!" "O, yes; and you have had him arrested and want it kept out of the paper?" "I haven't had him arrested, and I don't want it kept out of the paper," replied Mrs. Hurley. "He is getting to be a bad boy a[nd?] I told him that if he didn't behave I would have it put in the paper and he said that I coludn't [sic] do it. I just wanted to show him I could. He runs out every day to look it over, and I want him to see it in print." And Mrs. Hurley, satisfied that publicity would work a reform in the case of her son, smiled and left the office. # MONUMENT AT SAN DIEGO ## Shaft Dedicated to Victims of the Bennington Disaster. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. San Diego, Jan. 7.—In the presence of thousands, including the officers and sailors of the Pacific squadron and citizens of San Diego and of other southern California cities, who gathered here to witness the ceremony, the memorial monument to the Bennington dead, was unveiled this afternoon at the National cemetery on top of Point Loma. The plain shaft stands within the plot where are buried the most of those who lost their lives in the disaster of July 21, 1905, and is composed of 74 slabs of San Diego granite, roughly dressed and towering 60 feet above the concrete base, capped by a pyramid of polished granite. The National cemetery is almost at the top of the promontory, so that the monument looks in one direction out over the Pacific and on the other, over the waters of the bay. The principal address was made by Rear-Admiral Goodrich, commandant at the Brooklyn navy yard, who was the commander of the Pacific squadron at the time of the accident on the Bennington. ### A GOOD BEVERAGE. If you want the best bevarage [sic] sold in Butte, you should ask for, and insist on having, the celebrated Centennial beer. It is made from the best hops and malt and by experienced brewmasters. It has that soft, mellow taste enjoyed by people who drink beer. ## Column 5 # JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN ## HE SENDS MURPHY TO THE POOR FARM, AN INVALID. # BOYLE GOES TO THE ASYLUM ## Two Strong Men Brought to Sad Ends by Drink. Patrick Murphy and Barney Boyle, alleged insane persons, were examined before Judge Donlan this morning and the former was sent to the poor farm, while the latter was found insane and committed to the asylum at Warm Springs. Patrick Murphy answered questions in a rational manner. He has sustained two strokes of paralysis and also was injured about the head in a mine accident, which has left him weak and sickly, and he has been unable to provide for himself and his wife and says that her circumstances are such that she is unable to look after him at present. He gave his age as 50 years and has been an invalid for eleven years. He was formerly a bartender and came to Montana twenty years ago. ### A Hard Drinker. Mrs. Murphy said that her husband had been a hard drinker and that since he had a paralytic stroke he has been helpless and whenever he gets drunk he is subject to fits and once had three in a single day, but has not had any now for over a year. Mrs. Murphy also stated that the children teased him and he has threatened to set fire to the house. Maggie Murphy, a niece, and Mary Sullivan, a sister of Patrick Murphy, testified to the same facts and Drs. Schwartz and Renick, who examined the man, stated to the court that they did not consider him insane, but thought he would be better at the poor farm and he will be sent there. Barney Boyle, who has just finished a thirty day sentence in the county jail on a vagrancy charge, was examined by Drs. McIntyre and Heine and found insane. Barney has a poor memory and frequently got tangled up in his stories. He gave his age at 46 years and is probably nearer 60. Dr. Tremblay stated that he had known Boyle for about seven weeks and from what he noticed, he did not believe it was safe to have the man at large. ### The Effect of Liquor. Under Sheriff Howard Bailey said that Boyle was just getting over the effects of a protracted drunk when he arrived at the county jail and suffered from delirium tremens for several days. He said that Boyle did not even know his own name or where he was at, and, in fact, showed an utter lapse of memory. Mr. Boyle, when questioned, said that he came from Kildare, Ireland, and had been in the United States but six months, having lived for many years in Canada. He said that he injured his head about seven years ago by being thrown from a horse and volunteered the information that he was sane. He also said that when he was released from the jail he went to the old country and has just returned, which is impossible, as he was out of jail less than an hour. He stated he had three brothers and that his mother is still living, but that his father has been dead for many years. # TWO SUSPECTS ARRAIGNED ## Will Plead Before Judge Hunt in Federal Court Next Monday. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Helena, Jan. 7.—Charles McDonald and George Frankhauser, the alleged Great Northern train robbers, who are charged with the theft of $40,000, consigned from St. Paul to the postmaster at Spokane, were arraigned in the federal court here today, the state having relinquished control of the case without resistance, although desirous of prosecuting them for the hold-up because it involves a heavier penalty. Counsel for the prisoners not being present, Judge Hunt fixed Monday as the date for pleas to be entered. ### HOPED TO BREAK JAIL. George Frankhauser and Charles McDonald, two of the men charged with the Great Northern holdup at Rondo have confederates out of jail. When they were returned from Kalispell where they had a hearing they were searched by Marshal Arthur Merrifield. A hack saw, a foot long, was found in McDonald's shirt. # 35,000 HANDS GET WORK ## Cheering News of Renewed Activity in Leading Cities. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Bristol, R. I., Jan. 7.—Operations have been resumed at the plant of the National Rubber company, after a shutdown of one month. More than 1,500 operators were given work. Northampton, Mass., Jan. 7.—More than 800 mill operatives who have been out of work since Christmas returned to work yesterday when the Belding Brothers' silk mill and the Northampton Cutlery company resumed operations. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 7.—About 5,000 men were put back on the payrolls of various manufacturing establishments here today. A number of other plants announce that they will increase their working forces within the next week. Cleveland, Jan. 7.—Fully 10,000 employes returned to work in Cleveland as the result of general resumption of commercial activity. Probably 30,000 to 40,000 more men were put to work in the northern part of Ohio. Pittsburg Jan. 7.—The plants of the Republic Iron and Steel company and the Youngstown Steel and Tube company at Youngstown, Ohio, resumed operations today, giving employment to 8,000 men. Hennessy's big store is doing a record-breaking business in men's suits and overcoats this week, and no wonder. All men's high grade winter overcoats worth $25.00, $30.00, $40,000 [sic], $45.00 and over go at anly [sic] $19.00 each. And all regular $15.00, $17.00, $18.50 to $20.00 overcoats are going at only $9.75 each. Also men's high grade hand tailored suits, regularly worth $27.50, $30.00, $35.00, $40.00 and more, go for only $18.75, and men's suits which regularly sell at $18.00, $20.00, $22.50 to $25.00, are going at only $12.75 each. ## Column 6 # EMERGENCY CALL ON WEST POINT ## GRADUATION OF CLASS OF 1908 IS TO BE RUSHED. # WILL LEAVE SCHOOL FEB. 14 ## Said That Vacancies in Army Must be Filled at Once. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Jan. 7.—The first class at the military academy will graduate February 14, in accordance with instructions from Washington. The army is short of officers and the addition to the list resulting from an early graduation will help materially in filling some of the vacant assignments in existing regimental organizations. There is talk in army circles of further reducing the emergency ration, already heretofore reduced from 162 ounces. Next to maintenance of its quality of sustenance the desire is to minimize the weight of the ration to the end that there may be a reduction to the last degree of the burden of the soldier in the field on emergency call. Some of the European nations have emergency rations lower than ours and the opinion is that this may be safely reduced in weight, while at the same time retaining its effect as a diet. The war department has approved suggestions of the commisary [sic] general for an extension of the system of instruction of baking and cooking, so as to include as many as possible of the militia camps to be held during the coming summer. # OFFERS IMPERIAL AMNESTY ## Franz Joseph Will Forgive Many of His Erring Subjects. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Jan. 7.—The Austro-Hungarian embassy in Washington has received an official communication with regard to the amnesty decree by Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria, the king of Hungary, in commemoration of the beginning of the sixtieth year of his reign. This amnesty is extended to all citizens of Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Hercegovina, who being under military obligations, have been declared deserters on account of non-observance of enrollment call. It has no effect, however, on those who have practically deserted the army or navy while performing active military duty. For the latter special appeals for clemency can be recommended. Those wishing to be included in the amnesty are required to present themselves personally to the local military or civilian authorities in Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina, respectively, between Dec. 2, 1907, and Dec. 2, 1908. In order to give better protection in case of arrest and as a means of identification, the Austro-Hungarian consular offices in the United States will issue documents of identification to those who wish to profit by this amnesty. Upon application the Austrian-Hungarian consular offices will provide such persons with detailed information on the subject. If you want the family healthy, strong and active during the winter, give them Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 'Twill surely make and keep the whole family well. 35c, Tea or Tablets. Smith Drug Co., Anaconda; Newbro Drug Co., Butte. # SHE PLEADS NOT GUILTY ## Mrs. Mary Bourquin Will Be Tried Tomorrow Afternoon. There was but a brief session of the police court this morning. J. L. Rose pleaded guilty to creating a disturbance and was fined $20, while Dan McGinty, on a similar charge, was let go. Ben Bank, charged with doing business without a license, was discharged on motion of the city attorney. J. T. Byrne, on a similar charge, was given a continuance until tomorrow. Mrs. Mary Bourquin, charged with creating a disturbance, pleaded not guilty and her case was set for tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Expert watch cleaning, $1.50. Best main spring, $1.00 Warranted. Globe Jewelry Co., 7[5?] East Park, lowest price jewelers. ### NEW CRUISER IS TOO SLOW. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. 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