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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
2
Prairie fires sweep the range between the Grand and Mis drivers in Carson and Dewey Counties. The blaze destroys pasturage forcing cattle to move to new locations.
The report states that engines on the Puget Sound line used light Montana coal spreading cinders along tracks. It notes heavy damages feared for both white residents burned out and Indians on government allotments who share the losses with their white neighbors.
Pierre S D report details failure of the state board of regents to notify the state land department about a proposed state experiment station near Cottonwood. Leases were issued to M L Mouser, making workers trespassers until the lease was cancelled and Mouser asked to refund his lease money through the county auditor. Mouser indicated willingness to settle rather than seek refund.
Dr Hoyt of the state board of health urges county superintendents to file complete monthly reports for the biennial state summary. Only a handful report regularly. many fail or do so irregularly. The board operates on six hundred dollars yearly, funding two meetings and all expenses.
Ethan S D Buettmer long associated with Hunting Elevator returns to South Dakota visiting this week with the boys. He has secured an elevator at Mt. Vernon for the coming year. Annie Clement hosts three Iowa cousins through Saturday. Mrs. O M Rosenquist leaves on a business trip. A gasoline can fire in Ed Donk's barber shop causes minor alarm but is controlled. Miss Mary Hunter visits Rose Hill Iowa for a month. Mrs. Jonas Nelson and son Howard return from Rock Rapids Iowa after a month away.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota a police officer is shot and wounded a special officer is seriously wounded by a gunman who later is killed by a second officer. The assailant William Brown a negro fired on officers after a confrontation outside a saloon on Phillips Avenue. Police and volunteers pursue across the city and a final confrontation near the Illinois Central track ends with the assailant killed by a shot from Officer Herman Weins.
Secretary Ness of the corn palace committee returned from Chicago with contracts for acts. Conway's band will headline the building with the Lyric Sextet and the Lamont trio of acrobats, plus two vaudeville acts to be added later. Conway's band began in Willow Grove and ends in Atlantic City before coming to Mitchell.
Paris physician Prof C X Darsonval announces a method to amputate limbs using electricity without surgical knives. He asserts the process can remove legs or arms, presenting a radical non surgical approach to amputation.
Sheriff Platner sealed the Palmer Piano Co. on lower Main Street after a suit by C. A. Lee and others totaling 1200 dollars. Palmer and wife left for Chicago two days earlier, with liens on household goods possibly covering debts. Palmer had recently relocated from Omaha and pursued Interstate piano sales before drought slowed business.
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