Rates cut boosts Dakota lumber trade through Northwestern
Sioux City reports a new Chicago Northwestern lumber tariff cutting rates to Deadwood Lead Piedmont and other points by 6 to 8 12 cents per hundred. The move follows Burlington and aims to lower shipping costs, aiding local dealers from Rapid City Hot Springs and beyond. The Northwestern rate takes effect April 1, with gains expected for local shippers and mills.
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Sioux City
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago, Northwestern Railway
Black Hills
Mississippi River
Dakota
Missouri
Rapid City
Deadwood
Hot Springs
Lead
Iowa
Commercial Club
Burlington
Piedmont
Hot Spring
Northwestern
Roosevelt Daughter Ethel Engaged to W Phillips
Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of President Roosevelt and William Phillips third assistant secretary of state of Boston are engaged to be married. Formal announcement expected after Easter. Phillips a Harvard graduate and tennis enthusiast is Wendell Phillips’ grand nephew and Mrs John O Phillips’s son. Miss Roosevelt turns twenty in July and is noted for a bright social season rivaling her sister Alice Longworth.
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Princess Alice
Boston
Ethel Roosevelt
President Roosevelt
William Phillips
Phillips
Miss Roosevelt
Mr. Phillips
Wendell Phillips
John O Phillips
Harvard
Roosevelt
White House
Alice
Nicholas Longworth
Cooper Has An Inning In Carmack Murder Trial
The Cooper Sharp murder trial enters its ninth day of testimony in Nashville Tennessee with a sharp clash between lawyers. The defense claims Colanel Cooper was warned by Edward Craig that Carmack was in an ugly humor prompting them to arm themselves. A novel Tennessee law point was decided by Judge Hart during the proceedings.
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May Vortress
T. Leigh Thompson
Carmack
Nashville
Tenn
Cooper Sharp
United States
Tennessee
Hart
Colanel Cooper
Edward Craig
Cooper
Fobin
Crawford in Washington Sees Flood Hurdles and Tariff Talk
Senator elect Crawford arrived in Washington after a floodbound trip from Coshocton Ohio. He noted tariff views in South Dakota and planned to stay at the Ebbitt House until after the inauguration. He and fellow South Dakotans expect band, weather station news, and支 pending appropriations for Fort Meade and Hot Springs sanitarium.
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Washington, D. C. Mart
Crawford
Coshocton
Ebbitt House
Washington
Mr. Crawford
Senate
Seth Bullock
Cook
E. E. Wagner
United States
Gamble
Watertown
Martin
Deadwood
Federal Building
House
Fort Meade
S. C
Hot Springs
Uprisings in Persia report slaughter near Tabriz
A Persian revolutionary commission statement reports a fierce Royalist battle near Tabriz with over a thousand noncombatants including women and children killed. The unrest in Persia, warned a week ago, appears to be worsening.
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Constantinople
Persian Revolutionary Commission
Tabriz
Persia
Famous Admiral Cervera Nearing Death in Cadiz
Vice Admiral Cervera, famed for Spanish ships sunk by the American fleet at Santiago de Cuba in 1898, is dying in Cadiz. The last rites were administered to him today.
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Cervera
Cadis
Santiago
Standard Oil Case Opens with Holland as Key Witness
In Chicago the government case against Standard Oil for accepting rebates from the Chicago and Alton railroad began to unfold. K S Holland, chief clerk of the railroad, testified as the first witness, noted as an important figure from the previous trial.
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Holland
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Chicago and Alton Railroad
K. S. Holland
Whiting
Indiana
East St. Louis
Taft Takes Office Amid Train Blockades and Snow
Taft begins as president at nine thirty A M nominating Knox as Secretary of State Carpenter as private secretary and Loeb as collector of the port. White House grounds crowded with visitors blocked by storms and snow delays. Inauguration casualties include Samuel Young Norma Stall and Andrew Doran with three deaths and seventy five injuries.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
United States
Knox
Pennsylvania
Frederick W. Carpenter
Wiliam Loeb
New York
Senate
White House
Samuel Young
Norma Stall
Richmond
Virginia
Andrew Doran
Pittsburg
Pensylvania
Young
Stall
Union
Bryan denies novel writing. cites Republican speeches
Lincoln February 26. W. I. Bryan denied reports he is writing a novel. He said he gets all the fiction he needs from Republican speeches and did not pursue a novelist project.
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Lincoln
W. I. Bryan
Billy Sunday Lammed In Pulpit Attack
Springfield reports evangelist Billy Sunday was struck in the Sun Day tabernacle by Sherman Potts a religious fanatic. Sunday knocked Potts down and was defended by bystanders until police jailed Potts who defended his act as protecting women's virtue.
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Springfield
Mar
Sherman Potts
Potts
Sunday
Sunday Tabernacle
Harriman Says No Railroad Extensions This Year
Harriman warned that America cannot expect any railroad extensions this year unless conditions greatly improve. The statement came as San Antonio, Texas reported March conditions affecting projects.
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Harriman
San Antonio
Texas
America
Supposed Murder Victim in Wyoming Remains Alive
A letter from Mullan Idaho reveals Martie John Lumbre g was not murdered near Rin Junction last summer. The claim that his body lay undiscovered until it decayed is disputed and the identity remains uncertain.
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Wyoming
Douglas
Wyo
Martie
John Lumberg
Rin Junction
Mullan
Ida
Live Lumberg Mission Reveals North West Wanderer
On February 8 Séd Shide of Douglas Lumberg said he is in excellent health and enjoying roaming the North West though the discovery of a decapitated headless body near Orin Junction deepens the case. The murdered man’s identity remains unknown making the decapitation an effort to prevent identification.
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Séd Shide
Douglas
Lumberg
Orin Junction
Shumway Hanged After Fifth Attempt At Nebraska
R Meads Shumway was executed at the Nebraska penitentiary for the 1907 murder of Mrs Jacob Martin at her Adams County farm. After five prior interruptions by the governor and supreme court, the court did not intervene today, and Shumway faced the end with composure.
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Lincoln
Neb
Stephenson Wins Wisconsin Senate Seat on 23rd Ballot
Isaac Stephenson was reelected United States Senator by the Wisconsin joint assembly on the 23d ballot receiving 63 of 123 votes. The former lumberman from northern Wisconsin and Michigan built a fortune of about 10 million dollars and pledged to serve a two year unexpired term before stepping aside for a younger man. La Follette opposed his reelection.
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United States
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Isaac Stephenson
United States Senate
Joint Assembly
Michigan
Stephenson
Stauch
la Fordette
Spoone
la Follette
Senate
Spooner
Doctors threaten public notices over law on disease
A Sioux Falls letter warns that the South Dakota Medical Association will publish notices naming legislators blamed for diphtheria deaths if a bill to create a state health laboratory fails. Dr. J. G. Parsons, leading the policy committee, vows two years of notices in newspapers and public places to pressure passage of the measure to identify germs and prevent epidemics.
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Bob
Sioux Falls
South Dakota Medical Association
State Board of Health
J. G. Parsons
Pierre
South Dakota Senate Battles Over Anti Trust and Immigration Bills
The South Dakota senate debated an anti trust measure with conflicting votes and an emergency clause, while the house moved to remove immigration duties from the secretary of state and to abolish the immigration bureau. Other actions included passage of a game bill, a standard fire insurance form, and a voluntary bank association proposal with bonds for deposits, alongside a defeated negotiable instrument bill and a general appropriation of 1 856 434 dollars.
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House
Secretary of State
Taylor and
Whiting
Highmore
Senate
Voluntary” Association
Village Mar san near Jerusalem destroyed by quake
A Smyrna telegram reports the village of Marsan near Jerusalem was totally destroyed by an earthquake this morning before inhabitants woke. About 150 people are believed buried, with survivors in deep distress. The disaster is described as the most alarming in years, causing panic across surrounding districts.
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London
Smyrna
Asiatic
Turkey
Marsan
Jerusalem
Death of Robert Malcolm Beloved Scotstone Cutter Dies at 66
The Belle Fourche papers report the death last Sunday evening of Robert Malcolm a well known citizen of Belle Fourche born in Scotland aged 66. He lived in Butte county sixteen years and attended Clan Stewart meetings in Lon. He was a skilled stone cutter with a sizable competence. He leaves five children and his wife died about six years ago.
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Robert Malcolm
Belle Fourche
Mr. Malcolm
Scotland
Butte County
Lon
Encourage River Traffic Seeks Missouri River Enhancement
Work begins April first to widen and deepen the Missouri River near Kansas City for heavy navigation. The project is cited as a key step in improving river navigation nationwide, aiming to ease traffic and commerce on the waterway.
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Missouri River
Kansas City
Werkien
Fuenerease Traff
Rail Delays Linked to Overburdened Railroads
Frequent delays on overburdened rail lines are largely blamed for the slow return to water navigation and concern about disrupted transport.
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Lend
Appropriation Bills Passed as Congress Opens Session
Washington March 3 Congress entered upon the sixtieth congress in better shape than in years. The senate convened at 10 this morning and the house at 11 40. Both houses began debate on subsidy bills for mail steamers. All appropriation bills passed except four but those four were minor, except the sundry and civil bills.
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House
Senate
Washington
Congress
Death in Sturgis Affected Davenport Family
John Davenport fourteen died in Sturgis from pneumonia after an appendectomy. His father J J Davenport and brother left for Denver to meet Mrs Davenport who was en route from Los Angeles. The boy had just fought a severe cold and showed appendicitis signs before the operation. The family awaits word to arrange funeral plans after Mrs Davenport is notified.
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John Davenport
J. J. Davenport
Sturgis
Davenport
Burlington
Denver
Constitutional Amendment Proposed To Change Inaugural Date
Washington reports a storm disrupts inauguration plans and prompts renewed discussion of amending the constitution to alter the inauguration date. Conservatives resist, noting this is the first major weather interference in over thirty years.
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Washington
Theater Panic as Naval Officers Fire in St Petersburg
In St Petersburg last night five naval officers stormed a theater hurling champagne bottles at spectators. Police intervened and officers drew revolvers threatening to shoot. Several shots were fired but no serious injuries occurred as lights were put out and the audience panicked.
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St. Petersburg
Explosives Used in January Reported by Ponsma Canal Commission
Washington reports that the Ponsma Canal commission released its monthly findings. It notes that three hundred twenty seven tons of explosives and gas were used in January, highlighting the scale of storage and material usage.
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Washington
Pons Ma Canal Commission
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