The Great Sioux Reservation Land Open for Settlement
W J Hovey describes the proposed opening of nearly nine million acres ceded by Indians in the Great Sioux reservation. He outlines opening terms, prices, and limits, plus the diverse soils and farming and grazing potential along the Missouri, White, Bad, and Cheyenne rivers, with towns Chamberlain and Pierre as rail access points.
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Great Sioux
Missouri River
South Dakota Line
Misouri River
Cannon Ball River
Black Hills
Cheyenne River
White River
Belle Fouche
Elkhorn Valley
Chamberlain
Pierre
Dakota
Missouri
Bad Lande
Bad River
Ohio
Bega
Excent
South Fork
Cheyenne
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Bad
Cheyenne Rivers
Missouri Valley
Fort Bennett
Fort Sally
Sally
Big Muddy
Cherry Creek
Bluff
Fort Pierre and
Cheyenne River Reservation
Northwestern Stage Company
W. J. Hovey
Lead Mine Cave Find Stuns Aspen Visitors
In the Minnie mine Friday three men Taylor Gilfillan and Maclay opened a blast on the 500 foot level. They found a cave system with crystal lime and lead formations and a petrified stone man with flint ax and bowl. The figures crumble if not handled gently and are believed to predate Indians. Physicians from Glenwood Springs examined the figure. The mine drew hundreds of onlookers eager to explore.
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Aspen
Colo
Minnie Mine
Taylor
Gilfillan
Maclay
Haggard
Glenwood Springs
Early Life of Gounod Music Dream Starts
Albany Express recounts how a young Gounod faced parental doubt and school skepticism. A master challenged him to compose a new air from Joseph. Gounod produced a vivid draft during noon recess, moved the headmaster, who proclaimed the child would study music despite early doubts.
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Albany Express
Gounod
Charles
M. Poirson
Joseph
Aready
Weill
Illinois Striking Miners Warlike Mass Meeting In Streator
In Streator Illinois a small but fierce miners meeting saw Kangley delegates dominate over moderates A compromise on 75 cents was passed then reconsidered The six delegates will attend a Joliet conference to accept 77 1 2 cents as a settlement basis Coal Run miners then agreed to stand by the award and return to work The operators remain rigid and uncompromising
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Streator
Ill
Kangley
State Board of Charities
Joliet
Coal Run
Crows Enjoy Mr Chapman's Sunday Dinner Feud
Seven crows at Ridgewood Park New Jersey feasted on a hind quarter of spring lamb left cooling in an outside ice box. A dog dragged the meat inside but the crows outran the animal and continued the feast, waking Mr Chapman of Charles Chapman's residence with their crowing.
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Charles Chapman
Ridgewood Park
N. J
Chapman
Mr. Chapman
New York Evening Sun
Waterways Convention Resolves for Deep Water and Locks
At the Weet Superior Wisconsin Waterways Convention resolutions urged a twenty foot ship canal to be undertaken by Congress. They called for full appropriations for a new lock and Hay Lake channel improvements and deeper harbors to handle twenty foot water. They urged a careful survey of Great Lakes connecting waters and government support for light ships buoys and navigation aids.
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Weet Superior
Wis
Great Lakes
Hay Lake
St. Mary's River
Secretary of War
Congress
Mississippi
United States
South Dakota Convention Nears End in August Meetings
The 1890 South Dakota constitutional convention nearly finished its work on August 30 by reconsidering and adopting a proposal to move state and county officer elections to November. It also approved a larger debt limit of 100000, funding for bonds, and praised Sioux Falls hospitality while detailing the bloody 1876 beef killing at Standing Rock and Fort Yates with a dramatic eyewitness account of Wild Bear and Crooked Neck's deadly duel.
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South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Judge Carson
Edgerton
Territorial
Missouri
Standing Rock Agency
Fort Yates
Custer
Burke and Cronin murder case breathes with confessions feared
Chicago officials reveal private conference with State's Attorney Longenecker Chief Hub bard and officers and friends of Dr Cronin amid pressure for Burke to confess. Burke reads a letter from Ireland, breaks down, and is left with Winnipeg's Chief McRae for 15 minutes. Longenecker says Burke will confess or face execution, claiming irrefutable evidence against Brake Coughlin Beggs and O Sullivan and predicting dramatic admissions at trial.
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Longenecker
Hubbard
Cronin
Chicago
Burke
Ireland
Chief McRae
Winnipeg
McRae
United States
Longnecker
Zallows
Brake
Coughlin
Beggs
O'Sullivan
For 700 Bogus Shares Eben A Allen Faces Fraud Charge
Eben 8. Allen president of the Forty second Street Car company was arrested in New York for forging stock certificates of about 700 shares. He admits to defalcation of roughly £125 000 to $130 000 and says a failed patent fire escape investment pushed him to issue false stock. He forged signatures of the treasurer and secretary and sold the bogus shares. Directors convened after a broker noted duplicate share numbers. Allen confessed after arrest. he was esteemed in business circles and faces prosecution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eben
Allen
Forty-second Street Car Company
New York
Pawlins
Europe
Tragedy Near McNeill Shocks Coyington County
A widow, two daughters, and a 12 year old son in McNeill endure a brutal attack by eight young men who also wreck property. They later killed an elderly Black man nearby by beating him after shaving his head. his son witnessed the assault and heard four pistol shots. Dispatches report 10 Serban amid remote conditions.
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Coyington County
Alabama
McNeill
Serban
Counting His Coup in a Dakota Duel
An eyewitness account describes a tribal duel where Wild Bear kills Crooked Neck and then claims the trophy by striking the corpse with a coup stick. The scene shifts to aftermath as Wild Bear joins agency police, keeps his grudge, and the Yanktonnais mourn the fallen warrior.
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Wild Bear
Crooked Neck
Red
Bear
E.R J
Weather and Crops Report Across The Midwest And South
Weather and Crops notes describe weekly temps near average in the South and Missouri valley with cooler readings in the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes. Rainfall remains above normal from the South Atlantic to the Gulf. Northern states see mixed results. Crop conditions show corn near 94.5 percent, spring wheat down, oats strong, and localized hail or frost impacts in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Dakota regions.
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Missouri Valley
Dakota
Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
Lake Regions
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
Iowa
Minnsota
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
New York
Florida
Arkansas
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Oregon
Washington Territory
Michigan
Hisinen
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Neraska
Civil Service Reform Talk on Merit and Open Examinations
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman spoke to the Six Oclock club on reform. He urged evaluating personnel, argued against a bureaucratic aristocracy, favored top appointments for heads, merit-based promotions, and open examinations for lower-grade positions to improve the civil service. He stressed evolution through the people, not abrupt orders.
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Washington
Civil Service
Lyman
Six O'clock Club
World Population by Regions and Living Conditions
The document estimates a human population around 1.45 billion, with Asia home to about 600 million and Europe 320 million. Africa 210 million, Americas 110 million, and islands about 10 million. It divides people by clothing and housing: 500 million well clothed in furnished homes, 700 million semi clothed in huts or caves, 250 million practically naked and bar varous. It notes a vast range from highly civilized to naked savagery, with at least three-fifths below the line of human condition.
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Asia
Europe
Africa
America
Man Takes a Fit to Ease the Workday Grind
A foreman sanctions a laborer’s intermittent fits as the youth explains he once could not take them at a butcher shop where business came first. The worker continues to toil with pick and shovel, taking a fit now and then like others drink water.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
New States’ Constitution Talks Against Trusts
The Detroit Evening News notes that conventions drafting constitutions for new western states oppose trusts and price fixing but warn laws may harm legitimate activity. It argues repeal of restrictive laws, asserts free competition would topple monopolies, and declares liberty, not restriction, as the cure.
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Detroit Evening News
Champion Egg Eater Gusmani Bets On Eggs In Capitola
P Gusmani a San Francisco fish dealer visited Capitola for health. At Herman Gehrings cabin he ate 16 eggs then won a $1 bet by eating two dozen more eggs. He later claimed he could eat 50 eggs at the table and consumed 40 eggs with bread a half chicken and coffee.
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P. Gusmani
San Francisco
Capitola
Herman Gehrings
Gusmani
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Finlander Dalquist Wins $600000 Louisiana Lottery Prize
William Dalquist, a West End saw mill laborer in Duluth, drew a fiftieth of ticket 61 605 securing the $600000 capital prize. He intends to send money to Finland to support his parents and marry one of Finland’s fairest daughters. His winnings total about 15000 after tax and expenses.
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William Dalquist
I. A. Gray
West End
William
Dalquist
the Tribune
W. A. Foote
Finland
Duluth
Minn
Tribune
Husband Visits Coffee Shop Over Delayed Postal Order
A wife urges her husband to scold Coffee & Co. for a postal order delay. John plans to see Mr. Coffee about the two day overdue groceries, carrying the card in his pocket. The Epoch reports the exchange.
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John
Coffee & Co
Tragic Palmer House suicide plot recounted as 13th anniversary nears
The Palmer House marks thirteen years since Frederick Addison Jeffrey of Wyckhoff and Jeffrey Peoria reportedly staged a sensational self destruction. He was found July 5 suspended above a bath tub with kerosene saturated clothes burning, a stiletto to the chest and a self inflicted razor and pistol within reach. The coroner’s jury could not determine which method killed him.
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Palmer House
Frederick Addison Jeffrey
Wyckhoff & Jeffrey
Peoria
Jeffrey
Chicago Times
General Pomeroy A Frontier Title Origin Story
An anecdote recalls Samuel C. Pomeroy traveling from Massachusetts to Kansas. His Western companion insisted a name was needed and dubbed him General Pomeroy after noting his past as a Massachusetts General Court member. He bore the title for life.
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Samuel C. Pomeroy
Senator Pomeroy
Massachusetts
Kansas
Pomeroy
Massachusetts General Court
Yee
Notable 19th-century World Milestones Primer
A compact list highlights major 19th century breakthroughs and events. It notes the electric telegraph, photography, transatlantic cables, telephone, emancipation of slaves in the United States and Russia, ocean steam navigation, German unification, and Nile sources discovery.
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United States
Russia
Germany
Castoria Remembered and Public Notices From The Era
When Baby was sick we gave Castoria. When she was a child she cried for Castoria. Mrs became Mrs and clung to Castoria. When she had children she gave them Castoria. Samuel L. Taggart of Iowa named chief of division in the pension office. Old smokers prefer Tansill's Punch Cigars. William Anderson the St. Louis wife murderer is respited to Sept 13. Five cents saved on soap, five dollars lost on rotted clothes. No 5 cents difference between poorest and best soap. Dobbins Electric cited.
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Castoria
Samuel L. Taggart
Iowa
Pension Office
William Anderson
St. Louis
Dobbins
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le Minn
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Ala
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David's Island
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Mass
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Minneapolia
St, Paul
Frans Chemical Co
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Ingraham, D
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All
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Loomis & Nyman
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Curtiss College
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Harrison the Tailor
E. Seventh St
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Michigan Avenue
Benton Waldo
Mann
Dloxe
Newapa
Pioneer Press
Aberdeen, Dak
St, Paul, Minn
A. J. Lowe
Boston
Northwestern Conservatory of Music
Pia Chas
H. Morse
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