The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-02


- Mortal combat between Il. T.. Will
Jams and Stanley Miller in Red
Ledge. Joe Hancock accidentally
killed by a companion near Helena
Initial session of court in Anaconda,
the new county seat Of Deer Lodge
Nine men held up in a G. ~ lodging
car near Meadervilie by four high
Waymen.
23-Representative Whitaside's minority
report of the capitol commission Gre
ates q sensation in Helena. Butte's
new High school building investi-
gated by grand jury Opening of
the Montana Fruit Growers fair in
Missoula.
Smith appeals TO the leg
islators to quit talking and do some
thing.
45-The ear highwaymen operating in
Butte captured hy the police
pa. j Davis elected pt ,iden- Of the
First Nj tiora al bank OF Butte
27-Lehrkinds brewery ia Boze,nan
burned. Macarthur. The ;iallatin
county criminal captured in Benton
by Sheriff Clary.
3S-Butte jobbed by brilliant foot race
fakir.
4-RepresentatiVe Buckley expelled
from the legislature. Passage of the
anti-gambling bill. So To H. Ad-
journment Of the legislature amid
intense excitement. Jerry Shanahan
killed in the St Lawrence, Butte
Cashier Hatcher Of the defunct
Northwestern bank of Great Falls
arrested in that city.
5-State populists meet in Helena.
6-Anacondans hear Sousas band. Ed
BTophy killed on the b.. A. e. T.
near Butte. John Gushing killed in
the Bell mine, Butte. Butte in the
throes of a squabble among mayor,
police and disreputabe women.
S-Thomas +. Butler. veteran poll
tician of Missoula county, dead :
y. Swiggett Of Helena resigns as
register of the state land Office aud
Harry Moore Of Missoula steps in.
Two new wards created in Anacon-
da. Sensational report of the grand
jury on its investigation of BGte's
Bgh school building affairs
9-Michael Thll killed at the Butte
Reduction works.
lo--Sacretary Bloor of the senate roasts
Governor Smith. Ruthless slaugh-
ter of elk near Drummond.
death Of Willard Creveling
in the Alice mill at Walkerville
Tony Harris Of Anaconda throws
Mike Dooley Of Butte, at Anaconda.
Montana range cattle suf-
fer in deep snow. Governor Smith
appoints a new capitol commission
Bible stolen from the Presbyterian
church pulpit in Anaconda and sold
To secondhand store Al. Will
Jams commits suicide in a road
house near Butte.
14-Sutte's water. eompany promises to
clean out its reservoir. Landusky
in the hands af a IaWless element
l5-The Pomeroy Smith iudgeship CON
test thrown out of court in Helena
and the latter is seated in the EleV-
enth judicial district, Luther Ben
son. a travelling temperance lectur-
81, too drunk 10 till a Butte engage
ment.
l6-P, 5. Harrington nominated by the
Butte democrats fer mayor.
THREAT crowds read Standard bullet
ms all over the state from Carson
giving details of the fight in which
Fitzsimmons wrenched the cham
pionship from COrbett News of the
death of Big Brad" Of Anaconda at
Carson. NeV. st. Patriek's day gen
orally observed.
1S-The governor visits the reform
school. The municipal campaigns
begin to warm up. Theodore Beck
man. kills Frank Payette in Mis-
soula.
19-Butte elects a new board of educa-
tion. Philipshurg does likewise
20-Al. Stanley Of Butte drinks cyanide
of potassium. by mistake. and dies.
2l-Teton County's court house destroy
ed by fire.
22-John Formanieh of Anaconda sends
bullet through his brain.
% Missouia fruit growers organize for
mutual benefit Chinodk welcomed on
The Northern Montana stock ranges
2i-Alderman Edwards Of Helena sues
the Herald Of that city for libel.
feels the weight of tax
alton and wants to disineefporatc
y Great Falls jury finds Welcome
the murderer Of Nieau, guilty Of
manslaughter.
26-The superintendent Of the reform
school resigns. Washouts delay
passenger trains in Western Mon
tana. Death Of Mrs. W. W. Hig-
gins Of Deer Lodge en- route to Mis-
souri,.
27-Ex-County clerk and Recorder
Charles q. Johnson ~ Butte de-
camps and his accounts are in bad
shape.
2S-Suddcn death If John steadman. a
pioneer of Helena.
29-Secretary of the Senate Blaor ar
rested in kaiispell upon indictment
by the Lewis and Clarke grand jury,
charging him with secrctine public
records. Representative Buckley
arrested in Helena, charged with
accepting a bride for his influence
In support of the Rosebud county
bill
S0-Death AT Billings Of 'Skookum Joe. "
the diseaverer Of the famous spot
ted Horse mine and Il resident ~
Montana since 1871
3l-Tae state beard Of land commits
Sjeuers refuse to confirm the ap-
poiutmenl Of Henry Nriu as land
agent. Death If Architect j. G.
Paulscu AT Helena.
April
2-Arid land commission ~ the stat.
resigns. Tom Doalcy killed by Tho
ears near DEummUud
3-AraiSm receives its death bluW IN
Butte and new school board Is
elected. Msspula endorses its old
school board Hamilton \. z. \.
band dies
a-P : Harrington elected mayor "a
Butte Br E.ez--r uf Anaconda pr
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