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Newspaper
Huron Weekly World
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
7
Nuvice invites readers to list land with emphasis on timely business. The notice references multiple states including Iowa Wisconsin Nebraska and urges fast action as large land parcels become available.
Fragmented ad style text references ongoing sales in Illinois and calls for many agents to buy items quickly. It mentions an old stand and urges prompt action for big bargains, with unclear details on location and timing.
A special election planned for Sept 5 in Sioux Falls on leasing the municipal waterworks to the People's Water Co. has been called off pending a U S Supreme Court ruling. If the court rules against the city the issue may be revived after the decision, expected in October.
Washington reports depict South Dakota politics as acute with Kittredge under fire for owning a stake in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader affecting its stance. Efforts to oust Gamble from the Senate for a foreign post and replace him with Martin fail as Betteres stance remains unclear. Railroad presidents are said to be tied to bid to curb regulation.
The next state Republican convention will use caucus law limiting the nomination to not less than 685 votes, a change from last year’s 1,014 delegates. Fees for most counties rise under the law, with a few counties seeing reductions.
Mrs W D Scott of Sioux Falls formerly Mrs Roland B Molineux of New York left Sioux Falls with her husband and their young son, heading to an unspecified destination. The note suggests a family relocation or departure details within the city report.
Deputy Warden Martin reports the new shirt plant at Sioux Falls penitentiary produces seventy dozen shirts daily. Convicts and machines work satisfactorily and the industry pleases the workers. Some inmates quarry stone daily and haul it for use in the proposed binder twine plant at the prison.
Former State Treasurer Kirk and Phillip named as receivers for Midden Fortune Mining, based in Denver with Black Hills properties. Miners liens totaling 36000 dollars held by multiple creditors amid the company’s failure to pay semi annual bond interest. The firm shows no cash, assets uncertain. Unlawful fencing charges against Meade County rancher George B. McPherson. He was arrested on a federal warrant for fencing 2000 acres of government land near Clarke ford, Meade County, waived exam, released on 360 dollar bond to appear in Deadwood federal court next session.
The state board of review reduced the original assessments by 15 percent on telephone values and 10 percent on Western Union Telegraph. It also cut the increase on winery lands by 3.5 percent in Lawrence County, 10 percent in Oyster, and 15 percent in Pennington.
Rufus vH Pitcher, one of the last surviving Blackhawk war veterans, died at his home in Custer. He lived to about 101, having celebrated a 100th birthday anniversary last year at the St. Jo exposition grounds.
William A. Russell new American minister to Venezuela presents credentials to President Castro and is cordially received. Assistant Secretary Loomis returns to the State Department to resume duties as acting secretary for several days. Senator W. A. Clark sails for Paris for weeks of recovery and rest.
The opening session of the military life tournament began at Seagirt New Jersey on Thursday. Louis Jae a noted lumberman of Michigan is dead at Manistee at age seventy nine. Fire wiped out the Canadian Machinery plant at Point Edward Ontario and the Lincoln Car plant at Greensburg Indiana causing heavy losses. Western Pacific railroad stockholders vote to raise capital from 59 million to 75 million. Pine Hill Coal breaker boilerhouse and enginehouse at Minersville Pennsylvania destroyed by fire leaving six hundred workers unemployed.
Eduardo Vero the Cuban secretary of public instruction is dead at Havara. The Associated Press notes a new Anglo Japanese alliance has been signed. An imperial edict proclaims that telephones and wireless telegraphs in China are government monopolies. Carl Bailey Hurst is appointed US consul at Plauen Germany, after serving at La Guayra Venezuela. Rainfall in Atting reaches twenty year high with floods damaging banks and outbuildings.
News brief reports the death of actor Lawrence Hanley in Los Angeles after a long illness, with notes of poverty and references to multiple other names and incidents including a jurist and a missing mining expert. The item mentions various unrelated figures such as Waggeman, Morgen, Bethune, and Bobbs in brief notices.
Two year old James Wyrick dies after ingesting canned beans while berrying with family in Rapid City. The incident leaves no other serious illness in the party. Separately railroad bodies report reduced oil rates from third to fourth class, boosting consumer competition for independent lines.
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of national banks on Aug 25. The National Firemen's association opened its annual convention at Kansas City with defending and visiting firemen from across the country. Theodore Wallace Todd, head of a long standing New York business, died at eighty. Noah M. Letts, Chicago manager and treasurer of a promoting concern, died by morphine overdose at thirty eight. Samuel A. McClean Jr., president of the National Packing Company, died suddenly in Chicago from indigestion and heart trouble.
A walking party surveys a route for a motor line from Sturgis to the site of the planned government town in the formation district. Officials expect to map the corridor and assess feasibility for the new transportation project.
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