23 Aug 1912
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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
1
A historical report recounts the struggle over farmland valuation, detailing the personal hardships and community impacts as farmers fight to achieve fair land assessments and equitable taxation. The piece centers on affected families and local voices.
Governor Aldrich urges the state banking board to raise valuations to cover legislative appropriations. The Assessment Board proposes raising land values in 51 counties by 5 to 20 percent while lowering 7 counties by 6 to 10 percent. Citizens call it a heavy, painful round of stories as they condemn increased valuations and question land worth. The governor argues higher valuations can reduce levies to fund state and local governments, if counties cut taxes accordingly. Adams county assessor Gritt Evans warns a 10 percent rise could make him politically vulnerable.
The adjutant general announces an encampment of the Second regiment at Grand Island from August 21 to August 28. All companies except G of Omaha and K of Schuy ler will join the camp.
C M Penny a member of the teachers state examination board and a prominent Nebraska educator died at his Lincoln home after a period of illness. He had been unable to attend to duties for eleven weeks before his death.
State entomologist Myron H. Swenk notes green insects destroying Fremont area corn probably belong to a plant bug species long known in Nebraska. Reports from Fremont claim pests are alarming for corn. Earlier green bugs attacked Nebraska wheat in spring 1907 but were believed to be a different species.
Pacific Seeks Reversal of shippers damages in two stock injury cases. Robert W. Ralston, a stock shipper, claims cattle were damaged due to delays and car defects on two trains from Denver to Lexington and Willow Island, Nebraska, seeking 500 dollars in each suit. juries awarded 536.64 and 164.40 respectively. The company appeals to the supreme court.
A violent cloudburst around Niles Michigan dropped fourteen inches of rain and flooded three miles of surrounding area. Two people died and many were injured as seven railway bridges were washed away and miles of tracks ruined. The Big Four and Michigan Central trains halted. The Chapman Power dam on the St Joseph river teeters and workers race to save it. The Cantrell Moor dam at Nilea burned as nearby buildings flooded. Cars full of circus animals stalled in water and interurban service ceased amid heavy telephone and telegraph damage.
According to J. L. McBrien of Lincoln, who returned from the Progressive convention at Chicago, R. L. Metcalfe of Lincoln might have been Colonel Roosevelt's running mate had his consent been obtained.
Lieutenant F. C. Test and Adjutant General Phelps brought the guard back after a successful Pole Mountain exercise. The eighteen mile march to Laramie lasted five hours and forty minutes with six men falling out for ambulances. Some feet were blistered but the unit held up well.
The state banking board notes that promoters in other states organize banks on the commission plan and then move on to earn more commissions. No such cases in Nebraska have been noticed, but at its last meeting the board adopted a resolution directing Secretary Rouse to withhold charters where organization methods are incompatible with safe banking.
A Washington order directs heavy cavalry from Fort Hobinson and Fort Meade to maneuvers at Hot Springs in early September. The two forts, long sources for county fair detachments, will not supply troops for exhibitions this fall as feared by organizers.
J. W. Connell alias W. T. Dorzon, sent up from Douglas county for robbery in April 1909, asked the Board of Pardons for a pardon but was denied. He is connected by marriage to Charles Morley linked to a penitentiary outbreak at Hot Spring and was jailed for holding up Laula Parsley at his Omaha business. Parsley forced to surrender $120 cash and an ewer coat at gunpoint.
The federal government filed a civil suit in Philadelphia on August 19 to dissolve the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company. Ten major moving picture firms are accused of combining to monopolize the business and manipulating theater numbers, with each defendant alleged to exceed the lawful monopoly granted by patents. The petition seeks cancellation of interlocking license restrictions and notes more than 100 million dollars invested across the industry.
In Juarez six policemen are disarmed by a rebel woman leading ten soldiers. They ride away on the cops’ horses as the town experiences a brief upheaval before calm returns.
In Toledo on August 21, a bold daylight robbery at the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company office netted nearly $1,000 in currency and rent checks. About an hour later the thief returned $100 to the company via a third party.
The island of Stromboli in Italy suffers a violent eruption with inhabitants panic stricken as ash showers pour from the volcano. Reports describe the explosive activity blowing ash high and forcing residents to flee or seek shelter. Authorities warned of ongoing danger and possible further eruptions.
United States gunboat Annapolis under Capt Warren J. Terhune reaches Managua with 11 officers and 514 Marines, arriving in the capital on Friday in Nicaragua.
William Burke former common councilman and ex convict plans to come back to the city within a week after confessing his criminal past to escape former prison mate blackmail. Mayor Blankenburg and other leaders urged support to help him regain an honorable place, Burke says sleepless weeks end and he can pursue an honest livelihood now.
President Taft signed the $160,000,000 pension appropriation bill. The pension office dispatched telegraph orders to eighteen outlying agencies to start payments, marking the first overall act Saturday.
Aug 20 dispatch reports part of a new American wharf at Panama collapsed Sunday, and two electric cranes toppled onto the Pacific mail steamer Newport, causing it to sink. Blasting had weakened the pier foundations.
In Michoacan 210 alleged rebel sympathizers were executed without trials as federal forces recapture Puruandiro after a rebel raid led by Jose Mora. Twelve victims were under fourteen. In Washington, officials pledge to trace those who killed civil engineer Rowan Ayres. Maj. Sedgwick Rice’s Third Cavalry detachment in the Big Bend region is reinforced and to stay put to curb smuggling amid 1600 Mexican rebels across the river.
New York reports John Jacol Antor VI la as the most expensive baby ever born with Dr. Edwin Bradford Cragin in charge for up to six weeks. Cragin receives 1000 dollars daily, potentially totaling 40000 to 50000 dollars, as Mrs. Astor aims to start her son in a healthy life with no relapse risks.
Captain Hicks Murray of the Gordon Highlanders shot his wife and three children then killed himself in Eastbourne on Monday. After the shootings he poured petrol on the house floor and set it ablaze.
Washington August 81 The conference on the panel appropriation bill reached agreement to authorize the construction of one new battleship at a cost of 15 million dollars including armor and armament.
Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, is acquitted by a Los Angeles jury on a charge of attempting to corrupt a prospective juror in the McNamara murder trial. The verdict came after a 24 minute jury deliberation on the second count, with the first bribery count dismissed. Another indictment against Darrow remains for bribery of Bain, the first juror sworn in the McNamara case. The district attorney said the prosecution would continue.
Sam Schepps, linked as paymaster in the Rosenthal killing, was rushed to a West Side station cell after two kidnap attempts by police. He, held as a witness, told District Attorney Whitman on a train and in custody that he saw killers paid for the murder and implicated Police Lieutenant Becker.
Washington notes the senate approved the conference report on the Panama canal bill by 48 to 15 and refused to pass the steel and wool bills over President Taft's veto. Six Republicans joined Democrats on the metal veto, and a substitute favoring an experimental parcel system passed 148 to 86. The House declined to override Taft's veto on Wyoming subcontractor compensation in government work by 198 to 78.
Five killed and two injured when a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train collides with an outing party of eight on the Western Maryland railway extension one mile west of Frostburg near Borden water station. The accident occurred on August 20.
Three people died when a car carrying Mr and Mrs Edward A Horling of Huntington Valley Pa and their chauffeur John Kilroy overturned Friday near Graybrook two miles from White House New Jersey.
William Gue tayvua Fischer a renowned hymn writer died at his home 203 North Thirty-sixth street Philadelphia after a brief illness He passed away on Wednesday leaving a world of Christian readers and church musicians in mourning This obituary notes his global influence and longstanding residence in Philadelphia.
Edwin Austin Abbey, the American artist who died in London on August 1, 1911, left an estate valued at $144,050. His widow May Gertrude Abbey is named the sole legatee.
Adjutant-General William P. Hall, West Point graduate and long-time US Army officer, earned the Medal of Honor during a 1879 White River expedition against Utes. He led a four-man party in a dangerous reconnaissance, drawing fire to allow Weir and a scout to reach safety, with Weir and the scout killed and Hall escaping unharmed. Hall’s career spanned posts across the west and culminated as brigadier general in 1904.
A fragmentary wartime exchange records Scotty of the Eighty-fifth Massachusetts being captured. A comrade warned not to move, while Scotty retorts that moving is a matter of life, reflecting a terse field communication amid capture.
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