Death by own action or murder near Deadwood
William La Mear was found dead in Cyanide by his son Louis with a rifle shot to the forehead. Police doubt the suicide theory due to lack of muzzle marks and motive, while others point to prior quarrels and possible inheritance delays. Coroner's jury later ruled death caused by rifle in his own hands.
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Willian LaMear
Black Hills
Louis la Mear
Young la Mear
Louis la Meur
Deadwood
D. C. Hansen
Montgomery
Reliance
Booth
William la Mear
Louis le Mear
Wiliam la Mear
Louis
My la Mear
Mike Russell
Peatwood
Spearfish Canyon
Spearfish Mining and Mil Company
Portland
la Mear
Oregon
Rapid City
Peterson
la Meur
New Liquor Regulations Begin Quietly in Deadwood
At eleven oclock last night all liquor sales venues in Deadwood and nearby areas closed as sheriffs and local attorneys enforced a capitol directive. Patrons had only twelve minutes to purchase drinks, and saloons began removing screens and preparing to stock up.
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Emil Lehio
Mill Street
Justice Court
Patsy Carr
Green Front
Plantets
States’ Attorney
Capitol
Deadwood
Tew
Injunction to Test Fractures marital silence in Chicago case
Bernard J. Flynn files a bill of injunction to restrain his wife Norah K. Flynn from talking writing or communicating with him friends customers and employees. He cites marriage in New York a year ago and lists property claims in New York Parkersburg and Milwaukee as part of underlying dispute.
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Chicago
Bernard J. Flynn
Pinckney
Norah K. Flynn
Parkersburg
Flynn
Milwaukee
New York
Fears To Tell News Casper River Tragedy
Casper witnesses a drowning on the Platte as 6 year old Harry Wyatt, paralyzed by fear after seeing his playmate Clarence Smith sink, delays reporting for four hours. Smith, described as a negro, clung to the ice for a minute before being swept away. Recovery attempts failed as the body drifted downstream toward spring thaw.
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Casper
Wye
Platte River
Harry Wyatt
Clarence Smith
Wyatt
Harvard President Eliot Plans South and Southwest Tour
President Eliot of Harvard will retire soon and leads a two month speaking tour beginning February 7, visiting the South and Southwest to promote the university. He will attend events in Buffalo Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Dallas Nashville Memphis and major Texas and Louisiana campuses before returning to Cambridge in April. The Harvard Alumni Association organized the trip with notable tributes at a Boston Harvard Club banquet tonight.
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Boston
Sim
Harvard
Harvard Club of
Eliot
Elihu Root
Eben
Draper
Massachusetts
William Lawrence
Faunce
Brown University
Cambridge
Buffalo
Chicago
Religious Education Association
Minneapolis
St. Paul
University of Minnesota
Hamline University
Dallas
Nashville
Mephis
Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College
University of Texas
San Antonio
Galveston
Houston
New Orleans
Lousiana State University
Baton Rouge
Tulane University
Alabama
Georges
Washington
Palmiere
Morristown
Harvard Alumni
Robbers Blow Bank At Hadar Nebraska
The Farmers State Bank of Hadar was dynamited and robbed last night, about $1,935 taken. A rear entrance and vault were smashed with a crowbar and dynamite, tools stolen from a railroad shed. Sheriff Dwyer hunts a suspicious character seen nearby. a wagon team heard near the bank at about 1 am.
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Hadar
Neb
Farmers’ State Bank of
Dwyer
Norfolk
Julius Kuehl
Famous College Burned in Alabama Fire
Springfield college long noted as the oldest Jesuit institution in the United States was destroyed by fire in Mobile early today. No lives were lost though several students had narrow escapes. The loss is felt citywide and across the South.
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United States
Mobile
Ala
Springfield College
SiP in Babies Sent From Orphan Home
A car load of seventy five babies arrived in New Orleans from an orphan’s home in New York. The babies had been contracted for before delivery and were met at the depot by foster parents awaiting their arrival.
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New Orleans
New York
Graft Sweep Expands in Pittsburg Bank Officials Arrested
Pittsburg reports forty more bankers and officials will be arrested today charged with graft in the city administration as the anti corruption drive widens.
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Pittsburg
Young Girl Killed by Jealous Suitor in Sturgis
Miss Elba Roberts 19 is slain at Mrs White's millinery grove by a revolver in the hands of Oscar Jacobs a discarded suitor. Jacobs claims the girl fired first. coroner's inquest findings support a homicide. He is jailed awaiting preliminary hearing as public tension rises.
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Elba Roberts
Sturgis
Jacobs
Miss Roberts
R. H. Roberta
Reads
Surgis
Read
Water Town
South Dakota
Oscar Jacobs
Watertown
Elba
North Dakota
Stirgis
Fiwe
Mrs White
Mi. White
White
Pir
Cooner
Mr. White
Oneara Cobs
Two Cent Pottage Rate In Effects Noted By Post
Post office officials received notice that the two cent postage rate to all points in the British empire has taken effect. It applies only to first class mail and does not cover newspapers or other classes. The rate began between the United States and Great Britain some time ago and covers Ireland Scotland Wales and Britain.
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United States
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Mining Measure Introduced for Government Stations
Washington June AI Introduces a measure by Representative Martin of South Dakota to create mining experimental stations in states with precious metal deposits modeled after agricultural stations. The plan aims to develop research and demonstration facilities to study mining techniques and resource extraction.
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Washington
Jun
Representaive Martin
South Dakota
Theovernment
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South Lead
Juliee Mardin
Court
Lead Daily Call
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Naftene
Germany
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