Our Town 100+Years Ago... November 1899 - Part I

November 1899, Jefferson Valley Zephyr. The front page of the November 3, 1899, edition was mostly depressing news. A man in Butte was dead after trying to kill his mistress when she refused to give him money. Death came quickly for a worker at the Anaconda converters from electrocution. Smallpox cases were nearly over at Missoula, and the town lost one of its prominent citizens when he was kicked to death by the horse that was pulling his buggy. The Boer war set a heavy loss of British men with at least 1500 dead. The Butte and Ruby Valley smelter at Twin Bridges once again did not go into pr...