The Anaconda standard., 1899-12-13
STATE SENATOR
ANDERSON DEAD
Was Suddenly Stricken at White Sui
phur Springs-His Loss Will L
Be Kesuly Felt
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Helena, Dec. 12.-The death of State
Senator James r. Anderson of Meagh-
er county, which occurred at White
Sulphur springs to-day, was generally
deplored here when it became known.
The sad news was received first by his
aged mother who is visiting her
daughter, and the dead mans sister,
Mrs. r. H. McGinnis. State Treas
urer T. E. Collins also received a brief
that the senator had died at 6 o'clock
this morning from appendicitis. Mr.
Collins at once communicated the re-
gretable news to Governor Smith and
ther state officials. 1t appears that the
dead man was stricken with the insid-
made rapid inroads. Only few weeks
ago the senator was here in the bloom
of health, which makes his death all
the harder to comprehend The Stand
ard reporter conversed with him upon
current. topics. and he seemed anything
but man who in a short time would
pass away. He conversed entertain
ingly and enthusiastically upon the
possibilities of the Copperopolis mining
district, fifteen miles from White Sui
phur springs, in which he had taken
great interest and of the future of
which he felt assured. He also talked
of the possibility of the Burlington
road building through Meagher county
to Great Falls. and related what steps
had been taken to procure a right-of-
way for that railroad.
The announcement of his death was
a shock to Governor Smith. The gov
ernor lost no time in going to a tele
graph office and expressing over the
wire his sense of coincidence to the wild
ow. In conversation with the stand
ard reporter the governor said:
I'm the death of Senator Anderson
the state has sustained the loss of a
man of high exemplary character and
of more than ordinary ability. He was
man of high public virtue. who could
always be entrusted with conscien--
tious discharge of any duty imposed
upon him."
State Treasurer Collins who has
known the dead man since he came to
Montana twenty years ago, voiced the
sentiments of the governor. Mr.. Col
Inns said in addition that Mr.. Anderson
was a. progressive, enterprisng citizen.
who stood well in the community in
which he lived, and in the state at
large, and who. if he had lived, could
have had almost anything he would
take at the hands of his party.
Colonel Sanders expressed profound
regret over the senator's untimely
death and joined in the tributes that
others paid to his worth.
Henry Klein. who had known him
for years. said he was a good man, one
whose death was generally deplored.
State Senator Riddel also paid a
tribute to the dead.
Many others in Helena can be found
who, laying aside any differences that
might have grown out of the late sem
atorial contest, forget them in an esti-
mate of the mans worth.
James T. Anderson was born in
Homework, Ohio. in 1856. the fourth
in a family of seven. He was a self
made man in every respect. He was
educated at Mount Union college. He
came to Montana in 1877 along with
his brother, E. ]. Anderson. He first
taught school, then was clerk in the
employ of Jonas Higgins of White Sui
phur Springs and later with his broth
er. E. 7. Anderson, purchased the store
of Price & Co. of White Sulphur
Springs. The firm of Anderson Bros.
grew rapidly and at the time of his
death it was one of the substantial.
concerns of the state. He was inter |
ested also in sheep. in mining at Cop
peropolis, and in other industries. in
Guiding clothing store in Helena. |
Besides his mother. who is -. three |
brothers, f. J.. George w. and j. w.
of White Suluhur Springs. as well as !
two sisters. Mrs. r. II. McGinnis ~ |
Helena and Mrs. Il. \. Smith of Ali |
a2ce, Oh.o, and his wife and two chill