The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-02
THE YEARS STORY IN MONTANA
In Brief Page the Record Of the Leading Events for
1897 in the States History Can Be Entered


mits suicide in Salt Lake city.
2-Missoula goes down before the Deer |
Lodge football eleven at the latter /
city. Judge Mediation retires from |
the Silver Bow judicial bench. |
George Thompson penitentiary |
convict. pardoned outright 10y Gov |
ernor Richards.
3-Death of +. G. Maclay Of Great |
Falls on the train between Benton |
and Big Sandy. Peter August |
Johnson, a penitentiary convict, |
pardoned by the state board Of par J
dons.
4-Both houses Of the legislature or
gained Robert b. Smith inaugur-
ated governor of Montana. Funeral |
of II. A. Niedenhofen at Butte. The |
A. p. \. Examiner dies at Butte. |
Old county commissioners of the !
state retain their Offices.
5-Governor Smiths first message
read in both houses of the legisla |
-tuTe.
1.-THE STANDARD publishes opinions of
prominent men of Montana of the
governors message. Funeral of +.
c.. Maclay at Great Fans.
House committees named by Speak
er Kennedy and President Spriggs
of the senate also names commit
tees. Snow delays passenger trains
for Montana Meeting of the Mon
tana Society Of Engineers at Great
/. Falls.
S-Senate contests disposed of and
Sigh, Cooper and Floweree seated.
Edgerton no longer receiver of the
First National bank of Helena.
Reorganization of the Montana Wool
Growers association at Helena.
Butteites see spots on the sun.
Opening of another chapter in the
Butte opera house troubles.
10-James O'Connell and p. w. Nilsson
fall from G. \. bridge near Butte
and sustain fatal injuries. The
Timberline coal mines close indefn-
itely.
Injecting at Helena OF the state
municipal convention.
12-Wiliam Billiard shot by eX-Police-
man Whitacre at Helena. Cashier
Warneman of the G. n. at Butte
commits suicide by shooting
Twelfth annual session of the State
Bar association at Helena. The
town of Havre in the hands of ruff
fans
15-Second anniversary or the great
powder explosion in Butte. Ed Day
ton whips John Agoe in a Butte
prize ring. The Gallatin county
contest for clerk and recorder won
by FL. p. McNaughton. AntiGam-
bling sentiment finds expression in
the Legislature.
16-J. Sam Brown of Kansas appointed
receiver of the First National bank
Butte go to the rescue of a band of
starving Indians near town. Mis-
soula harbors a gang of worthless
hoboes The mine cage bill intro
duced in the legislature.
11-Galatin authorities in hot pursuit
of the murderers of Deputy Sheriff
Allen. fight pulled off near Belt
and Freeman knocks Egan out.
Jerry Duane pounds the life out of
James Johnson with q gun In Ana
conda. Ed Stanton, barkeeper in
Butte, sends bullet through his
heart.
1S-Associate Justice Buck returns his
first opinion, First bill of the Firth
legislature passed, regulating hours
of labor on public works.
20-Members of the state stockgroWerS
association meet and discuss pro-
posed legislation.
2l-.Iohn Noien killed in the Bell mine
at Butte.
23-Sudden fall of temperature in Butte
and other west side cities
24-County records and other parapher-
MALTA removed from Deer Lodge
to Anaconda. the new county seat.
26-J. d. Dodge ends his life by taking
poison in Butte.
27-Female shoplifters invade Mssoula.
Death Of the initiative and rcferen-
DUN bill in the house.
! PSI. T. Harrington killed in the
Mountain Con mine in Butte.
| 3l-ReV. John W. Brodie of Teton coun-
ty goes to the insane asylum.
February.
Tim Mccarthy killed by a blast in
the Green Mountain mine in Butte
/ Deer Lodge county commissioners
lease the city hall of Anaconda for
county purposes. The free text
book question appears in the legis-
laturc. Indications of coal found
near Missoula.
| 3-Rosebud county bill passes the
house. The celebrated Burnt Fork
case i'm Mssoula county settled out
of court.
! 4-The anti-gamhing bill passes the
! senate. committee of the whole. The
Helena race track and grounds sold
by the sheriff To- satisfy Judgment,
Big fire in Sand Coulce.
! 5-The Northwestern National bank of
Great Falls closes its doors. The
Powell county bill killed in the leg
islature.
6-Mrs. Robert Cort browns herself and
three children near Big Timber.
/ Brutal murder of Mrs. Mary Nc
Donagh a feeble old woman Of Ra
sin Rosebud county bill defeated
in the legislature, +. " Debs ar
rives in Butte.
Richard Lombard killed in the
J Mountain Con. Butte Date Of the
! much talked Of insulting conduct OF
Shelby Junction cowboys towards
female members of the Columbia
| Opera company.
! S--Death at Livingston IF Jacob Red
ding, pioneer Montanan. Debs adj
dresses a Butte audience. Seventh
! annual reunion of the Particular
/ Consistory of Eastern Montana \
T. d \. NJ. Scottish Rite bodies "A
Livingston Frank Brennan found
dead in his cabin in Deer Lodge.
9-Thc woman suffrage bill the feature
IF the day in the Legislature.
| 10-Death of W. W. Walton, a pioneer
IN Helena. T. L. Collins falls dead
in the Anaconda posioiiice.
! 12-The headleSs body a Henry Miller
found in a tunnel near Virginia
! City.
I 13-The Merchants National bank "
I Helena closes its doors. Ernest
Prudent killed In a Belt coal mine.
f5-Debs speaks ia Anaconda. Meetius
In Helrna II III M4ntaaa Wool