Court Sustains Law for Filling of Dry Lake Beds
Judge Frank Rh. Smith of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of South Dakota ruled that reliction lands within the meandered Red Lake lakebed belong to the state and that county funds may be used to sink artesian wells to refill the lake. The ruling upholds state ownership and allows the $10,000 project despite an injunction from nearby landowners.
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Circuit Court
Smith
Red Lake
U. S
State of South Dakota
South Dakota
Clark 5
Rowe
Asst
O’brien
Kimball
S. D
Brule
Supreme Court opens April term with nineteen takers
The April term of the supreme court opened this morning with nineteen applicants for the bar exam including one woman. Opinions issued include Weller v Pratt reversed, West v Middlesex Banking Co modified and aided, Piper v Jisven reversed, Clement v Rowe affirmed, and Noble v Mutual Life affirmed.
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Supreme Court
Smith
Irank Weller
J. E. Pratt
Clark
Whiting
Jane KH. West
Middlesex Banking Co
Illinois Women Vote Split as Chicago Ballots Ebb and Flow
Chicago turnout under 100000 of 217614 eligible women affected council races. Marion Drake lost to Bathhouse John Coughlin in First Ward while suffrage groups hoped to unsettle Kenna and Coughlin. Bond issues and subway plans failed, baths votes tight. rural areas went dry with several cities retaining dry status.
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Chicago
Marion Drake
John Coughlin
Coughlin
Miss Drake
John
Michael
Hinky Dink
Kenna
Election ‘Commission
Harriet Vittuim
Northwestern University
Ilinois
Springfield
Waukeegan
Rock Island
Moline
Mississippi River
Rockford
Canton
Galesburg
Bloomington
Galva
Kewanee
Lockport
Decatur
Monmouth
Freeport
Nebraska saloon licensing results show mixed city votes
Nebraska towns weighed saloon licenses with wet and dry results. Emerson stayed dry after 20 years, St. Paul voted to reopen saloons, while Hickman and several others voted against license. Fall City ended 45 years of saloon status, and Wahoo backed dry by seven votes as pool halls and Sunday baseball also influenced outcomes.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Neb
Emerson
St. Paul
Hickman
Ponca
Dorchester
Tekamah
Walls
Oakland
Lyons
Grenwich
Sterling
Havelock
Roca
Columbus
Homer
Craig
Fall City
Wahoo
Dry years fail to gain with Sheldon vote rise
Hand Sheldon stayed in the wet column this spring by a larger majority, while Sterling voted to retain saloons and for Sunday baseball. Fairbury and other larger towns favored licensing by about 50 votes, and Harvard Alma and Orleans voted to continue high license.
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Hand Sheldon
Sterling
Fairbury
Harvard
Alma
Orleans
Prohibition Forces Sweep Minnesota Fourth-Class Cities
In yesterday’s municipal elections, Madison Marshall Laverne and Canby voted to go dry by small margins. Litchfield and Mentorville joined the dry list, Cannon Falls stayed dry, Sauk Center and LeSueur approved prohibition, and St Peter a long established saloon town joined the dry column by 40 votes amid anti liquor jubilation.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Madison
Marshall
Laverne
Canby
Litchfield
Mentorville
Cannon Falls
Sauk Center
LeSueur
Historie
St. Peter
Wilson Democrat Loses in New Jersey Seventh District
Dow Drukker a Pas s aiee contractor and Republican won the New Jersey seventh district seat to succeed the late Robert Bremner by over 5 000 votes over James O Bayne who backed the president s policies. Drukker opposed Wilson administration legislation. O Byrne urged voters to support the president s policies.
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Wilson
New Jersey
Paterson
N. J
Dow Drukker
Passaiee
Robert Bremner
James O'Bayne
Drukker
O'Byrne
Congress
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Madison
Marshall
Laverne
Canby
Litchfield
Milwaukee
Wis
Gerhard Bading
Emil Seidel
Plan to shrink southern delegation at 1916 GOP convention
New York political figure Charles D. Killes announced a plan to cut southern and territorial voting power in the 1916 Republican National Convention from about 35 percent to under 16 percent. The proposal calls for four at large delegates per state plus one per district and extra delegates where 1908 or 1914 margin meets 7,500 votes, potentially reducing representation in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi New York North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. The plan, drafted by a special committee, allows states to use direct primaries and elect delegates in various combinations to avoid past contest dissension.
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New York City
Charles D. Killes
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
William J. Borah
Idaho
Henry D. Hatfield
West Virginia
National Committee
Congress
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
New York
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Republican State Committee
Militant Flora Drummond Faces Fine After Hyde Park Riot
In London at Marlborough Street police court the militant suffragist Flora Drummond was fined ten dollars or two months in jail for causing a disturbance at a Unionist rally in Hyde Park. She fought police, hurled a whistle at the magistrate, and was restrained multiple times before the fine was paid.
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London
England
Marlborough Street
Flora Drummond
Hyde Park
Drummond
Weather forecast for Iowa and Dakotas
Fair tonight and Thursday with gradually rising temperatures. In the northwest, temperatures fall tonight then rise by Thursday as the region remains mostly clear. North and South Dakota also enjoy fair conditions tonight and Thursday with increasing temperatures.
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Iowa
Northwest
North and
South Dakota
Colombia Surrenders Free Passage Demand Over Panama Canal
The United States agrees to pay Colombia 25 million dollars for the canal zone portion within Panama. No new interoceanic canal rights or San Andres privileges are included. The treaty ends ten years of negotiations and shifts demand for free passage due to Wilson's stance on toll exemptions.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Colombia
Panama
Canal Zone
Bogota
Thompson
Atrato
San Andres
Providencia
Wilson
Colombian Congress
Columbia
Republic of Panama
Washington
Hague
Taft
Dubois
Knox
Democratic primary canvass totals show strong turnout
The official counts for the recent Democratic primary list top vote getters in state and federal races led by John M. Johnson for US Senate at 11 422 and John T. Heffron for Lieutenant Governor with 13 197. Prohibition results show Calvin Templeton as state chairman with 578 votes and O W Butterfield as US Senate nominee with 582.
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W. J. Toner
Willip. Chamberlain
Ab Batterton
James Ie
Bip
Lewi W. Bicknell
Clas. B. Fousek
Jacob Fergen
Congress
Theo. Bailey
John M. King
Harry Gandy
C. W. Templeton
United States
O. W. Butterfield
C. K. Thompson
J. D. Wilson
H W. Brown
W. J. Hebberlein
John W. Nolt
H. H. Curtis
F. B. Steece
Knute Lewis
K. O. Stake
W. B. Jump
W. S. Hill Reappointed to State Fair Board
Governor Byrne appointed W. S. Hill of Mitchell and W. G. Faulkner of Burkmere to the state board of agriculture, both to succeed themselves. Delegates named to the National conference at Denver include T. G. Orr, F. Walker, J. C. Birdsell, E. H. Gurrell, and K. H. Ely.
Spaniards Faced Deportation Crisis in Mexico
The U S state department says General Carranza will not oppose orders by General Villa to deport Spanish subjects from territory under Constitutionalists. Exiles in Juarez, 600 Spaniards, await guidance from American agent Carrothers while seeking protection under the U S flag. Moving reports say Dena Cecilia near Tampico fell to Constitutionalist forces and Zapatistas active southwest of Mexico City.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
Department of States
Carranza
Department of State
Villa
United States
Chihuahua
el Paso
State Department
Juarez Juarez
Mex
Torreon
George C. Carrothers
Department F of
Wate
Carrothers
Joquin Fernandez
Aroyel Grande
Zapatistas
Mexico City
Unseasonal April Cold Grips Kansas City Area
The cold wave set record low April temperatures across Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and northern Texas. Kansas reports Hayes 11 above Topeka 24 and local Kansas City 26 breaking a 25 year record as the system moves eastward toward the south and east.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Weather Bureau
Hayes
Topeka
St Paul Police Chiefs Begin Indeterminate Sentences
Martin Planagin former police chief and Fred Turner former city detective began indeterminate sentences of one to ten years at Stillwater State Prison for participating in blackmail of women in the underworld. They accepted the sentence after days of legal debate over an appeal to the state supreme court.
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St. Paul, Minn
Martin Planagin
Fred Turner
Stillwater
State Supreme Court
Decomposed Body Found on Missouri Sandbar Near Yankton
The badly decomposed body of a man, identified as Will Holder, was found Sunday evening on a Missouri sandbar about five miles west of Yankton by farmer Hermanson. Holder had disappeared January 31 and was thought to have fallen into an airhole while returning to his bachelor quarters on an island of the Missouri.
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Yankton
S. C
Missouri
Hermanson
Will Holder
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Illinois
Hastings
Broken Bow
Dusty
Ne Des Moines Regist*r and Leader
Mrs. Drummond
Judge
Panama Canal
Hay
W. S. Hill
State Fair Board
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