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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
4
Sportsmen report abundant prairie chickens this year across northern and western South Dakota aided by a stringent enforcing law. The shooting season opens September 1. Coursing events at Aberdeen are slated for late September with many hounds from eastern states entered.
Gregory S D Aug 4 the new town in the ceded Rosebud reserve has grown rapidly and compares with older cities. Steps toward formal organization under state laws will enable a waterworks franchise, with construction to start once approved. Capitalists stand ready, and rates are expected to drop about half after completion.
Census figures for Lincoln county list a population of 12 723 a five year gain of 562 with 6789 males and 5934 females of whom 2979 are foreign born Canton reports 2279 residents 1129 males and 1150 females. Edmunds county totals 3283 with 2797 males 2486 females and 7169 foreign born. Communities Bowdle Ipswich Roscoe and Hosmer are noted with small counts.
Vermillion South Dakota August 4 county boards of Yankton and lay counties hear arguments for and against Missouri bottom drainage ditches to carry off surplus water. Farmers fear high costs and limited benefits while some value slough water for drought years. A permanent survey is ordered. cost estimates will shape next action with possible bond funded tax.
Widespread showers on Tuesday afternoon and evening delay wheat harvest in Beadie County. Despite adequate help, farmers await warm sunny weather to finish ripening and ready fields for mechanical reaping.
Charles F. Pfeister, a Milwaukee capitalist, is indicted for larceny of $14,000 from the Wisconsin Rendering company. Four others including a state senator and a former supervisor face bribery and perjury counts. Pfeister denies the charges as a sensational case unfolds with 133 total indictments by the grand jury. The panel adjourns to August 22.
In Morgan county Kentucky a mob holds five men after alleged abduction and brutal mistreatment of Levi Phipps’ daughters aged 16 and 12 on Caney creek. Guards monitor the jail as lynching is openly urged, while investigators seek the assailants.
Chicago Aug 9 Congressman William Lorimer begins the 1908 presidential push in Illinois seeking the state's Republican delegation to the national convention. His favored candidate is Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M Shaw with support from James M Kittleman of the Nineteenth district who backs Shaw at Lorimer's urging.
A string of curious items includes a chimpanzee named Mr. Dooley who died after being deprived of cigarettes to avoid anti smoking laws in Indiana. Isle Royale bears are captured by fishing line and a bear hooks its own bait. A council bluffs foreman dies from a horse incident while unloading a team. A Winona drayman dies after a barn fire and horse attack. In Pennsylvania a girl is bitten by a large black snake while making a bed, and her brother kills the snake with a penknife.
The government asylum for insane Indians in Canton, South Dakota houses forty to forty-six inmates as additions are made. The facility, noted as unique, staff say several patients may be cured with good care, fresh air, and regular routines. Inmates include men, women, and even two 90-year-old grandmothers, with patients from various tribes across the United States.
Judge Jones in Sioux Falls granted an injunction against the state dairy and food commissioner barring enforcement of section 11 of the pure food law. Jewett Bros. & Jewett sued to stop the provision requiring goods to bear the names of those who funded them. Attorney General Hall noted an appeal while the state remains restrained from enforcing the clause.
Sioux Falls Aug 7 Justice Fuller affirms Judge Jones ruling that a libel suit may be brought in any county where the paper circulates. The Stevens Taubman case is noted though no indictment followed after grand jury refusal. Lawmakers may seek to require libel actions in the paper’s printing county.
A fire wrecked St Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue and Fifty third Street. The blaze confined to the church damaged nearby Rockefeller and Webb mansions and threatened Rockefeller's home. Defective wiring is blamed with loss estimated at a quarter million. key furnishings including a $20 000 organ were ruined.
New Orleans reports chaos in quarantine amid a state board of health proclamation to curb travel and commerce. Governor Blanchard backs action to use civil powers, with possible militia call and maritime health measures in effect. Fever case totals rise with 60 new today and 625 overall. 117 deaths.
Sterling Illinois August 10 1900 A building contractor Harvey Conaway a Whiteside county politician was shot in the back at midnight at Mrs W H Herricks Coleta home by her 14 year old son Charles. Mrs Herrick believed a thief had seized a cake from Hugh Shannons store and ordered her son to shoot but not kill. No arrests. Conaway a Civil War veteran. Herricks husband away in Seattle.
Boston August 9 W O Robson supreme secretary announces the supreme council will meet at Put in Bay Ohio August 30 to consider development of new rates. Forty two representatives from the grand councils have signed a request to Supreme Regent Wiggins for a special session.
The weekly weather bureau bulletin notes very warm Texas and Oklahoma while the northern lake region stays cool. Rain is needed in parts of Georgia the Carolinas and the mid Atlantic states. Nebraska Kansas Missouri and Mississippi report excess rain. Corn belts show excellent condition though the Ohio valley needs rain. Harvests advance in many states with oats nearly all secured and winter wheat threshing largely complete.
Des Moines reports an ideal week for immature crops with strong harvesting conditions. Corn ripening well, early fields yielding roasting ears, spring wheat nearly finished in the north, and pastures holding steady. Apple prospects drop to about one third of normal. corn and oats show high percentages in August 1 crop estimates.
The weekly crop bulletin from Huron reports warmer than usual weather with early week rains and good harvest conditions. Red rust is spreading and others like black rust, smut, and blight affect various crops, while corn, wheat, oats, barley, spelt, potatoes, millet, grass, and flax show generally favorable progress across counties east of the Missouri River.
Lincoln Aug 10 The Nebraska weather and crop bureau reports a cool first half of the week followed by warmth with highs near 90. Rainfall varied, with heavy showers 2 to 5 inches in places. oats and spring wheat show rust, corn in central and southern counties eats heavily and looks excellent. Fall plowing progresses. haying goes well.
A three story section of John G. Myers Co department store in Albany collapsed during morning hours injuring many and killing at least five. Most victims were female clerks with rescue crews scrambling to reach others trapped under brick and timber.
A switch engine crashed into a waycar attached to an eastbound Santa Fe stock train in Emporia. Ten stockmen were injured, one likely fatally, with victims including A. N. Sanders of Blodgett and Charles Young of Emporia. The wreck occurred after a stop to remove six cars. injured were taken to Topeka.
A bank run on Denver Savings Bank began today in Denver with $2,000,000 owed to depositors. Doors closed at noon and withdrawals limited to 10 percent of deposits after rumors of instability and reports of bad loans.
About 600 mounted citizens surrounded the Waco jail early today and overpowered Sheriff Tilley, the jailer, and deputies. They removed Sank Majors, a convicted man, forced a confession, and hanged him from a local bridge.
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