Bristol Buries Third Victim in Poisoned-Drink Tragedy
Northern South Dakota towns reel from a July excursion to Evarts ending in mass poisoning. Bristol, Andover, and Webster report deaths amid typhoid fever among nearly 100 excursionists. Lemonade, chicken stews, and ice water blamed as victims multiply. Evarts may be abandoned by the Milwaukee road.
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Bristal
S. D
Bristol
Andover
Webster
Milwaukee Road
Ivarts
Evarts
Twenty-First Annual State Pharmaceutical Convention Set in Sioux Falls
The State Pharmaceutical association will hold its twenty first annual convention in Sioux Falls August 22 23 and 24. The event will feature about fifty contests with prizes for druggists traveling salesmen and ladies. Field sports will be at the palisades near Garretson with special excursion train service arranged by the Great Northern railroad.
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Sioux Falls
State Pharmaceutical Association
Wilk
Bent
Palisades
Wool deliveries in Belle Fourche exceed last year's total
In Belle Fourche South Dakota on August 8 figures show Gass Uhler warehouse receipts at 1 185 709 pounds and Adams Pettigrew storage at 60 000 pounds totaling 1 245 709 pounds through the market this year. The 1905 total was 915 000 pounds indicating an increase of 330 709 pounds at an estimated 23 cents per pound delivering about 286 518 07 dollars to local wool growers.
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Belle Fourche
S. D
Gass & Uhler
Adams & Pettigrew
Man is Put in Yorkton State Hospital for Insanity
Howard Schultz, son of prominent locals near Howard, suffered two violent rages at 11 PM on consecutive nights. He was restrained, returned home, then again became a danger to others. The Board of Insanity ordered admission to the Yorkton state hospital for treatment, with heat blamed as a likely trigger.
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Howard
SL. D
Schultz
Board of Insanity
State Hospital For
Yorkton
Accident Restores Hearing for North Dakota Girl
In Sisseton South Dakota family of W J Towles reports their 12 year old daughter Iva, a deaf mute, regained hearing after a car accident last Sunday. The shock gradually returned her hearing over the week, now she hears rain and music and is learning to talk, previously reliant on sign language. The town celebrates Eva’s remarkable recovery and bright future.
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Sisseton
W. J. Towles
Iva
Eva
Larron in Jail Confesses Sins in Letter
Aberdeen S D reports Larron alias Alexander Lignon once sought in Canada for horse theft and murder now confesses regret and seeks reform in a letter to Rev A J Tiffany. He is jailed in Washburn N D on grand larceny charges after extradition proceedings failed and earlier escape from North Dakota penitentiary.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Alexander Ligron
Canada
George Turner
North Dakota
Larron
A. J. Tiffany
Jesus
McLean County
Washburn
N. D
Wargo
United States
Larvron
MacLean
Sharron
Tiffany
Ay A
Corsica to Celebrate First Anniversary Festivities
Corsica Nebraska will mark the town’s founding with a two day celebration on August 17 and 18. Elaborate preparations include contracts for attractions and plans to draw the largest Douglas county crowd yet to the Armour extension town. Delegations from neighboring towns are expected to join Corsica in the event.
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Corsica Ls. D
Armour
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Douglas County
Corsica
Notable Visitors Arrive in Hot Springs South Dakota
Visitors in Hot Springs include J J Buck state manager for Aetna Life Insurance John M ONeill special agent for Queen City Fire Insurance E R Purcell editor of County Chief Yankton Mrs W P Oldman M P Oldman Jr Mrs J Stakle Catherine Stakle Alfred L DuPont large DuPont Powder owner residing in Sioux Falls General Manager Bidwell of Chicago and Northwestern railroad with Mrs Bidwell and Mr and Mrs White M M Kirkman Northwestern VP who spent weeks there in private car W J Smith and Emil Hargens Hot Springs residents contested Black Hills championship match with Hargens winning 92 to 85.
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Hot Springs
S. D
J. J. Buck
Aetna Life Insurance Company
John M. O'Neill
Queen City Hire Insurance Company
Sioux Falls
E.R. Purcell
Broken Bow
Neb
W. P. Oldman
M. P. Oldman, Jr
J. Stakle
Catherine Stakle
Yankton
Alfred L. DuPont
DuPont
Big
DuPont Powder Company
Bidwell
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
White
M. M. Kirkman
Northwestern Road
Chicago
W. J. Smith
Emil Hargens
Black Hills
Mr. Hargens
Smith
Monster oat crop yields ninety bushels per acre in Minnehaha County
W W Clough threshing near Sioux Falls reports a forty acre field on Andersons farm three miles south of Dell Rapids yielding an average of ninety bushels to the acre. The grain is first class and Clough personally measured the crop, indicating a strong Kansan level of oats this year in the region.
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Minnehaha
Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Minnehaha County
W. W. Clough
Dell Rapids
Clough
Anderson
South Dakota Guard Cancels Fort Riley Trip For Encampment
The South Dakota National Guard will skip Fort Riley maneuvers and hold an eight day encampment at Lake Kampeska near Watertown from August 3 to 16 due to cost. Congress funds for camps prompted revised plans, with transportation and subsistence budgets set and options considered to send a single battalion instead of a full regiment.
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Watertown
S. D
South Dakota National Guard
Fort Riley
Kas
Guard
Adjutant General
Lake Kampeska
Congress
Regular Army
United States
South Dakota
Western Passenger Association
Sabbath Baseball Test in Yankton Courts Sparks Blue Law Debate
Sixteen Yankton youths and others face Sabbath breaking charges after a Sunday baseball game in a 40 acre Mission Hill field. The case highlights South Dakota’s strict blue laws prohibiting public sports and many Sunday activities with neighbors protesting and law enforcement stepping in.
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Yankton
Mission Hill
South Dakota
Track extension stakes first spike near Watertown
The Minneapolis and St. Louis extension from Watertown reached the first spike at 8 PM July 31. A crew of 150 is laying 2.5 miles of steel daily at 25 feet per minute during working hours.
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Watertown
S. D
Minneapolis and St. Louis
Lyman County Fines Boost Treasury At Circuit Court
The Lyman county treasury gained 2205 dollars from fines levied by Judge Frank B. Smith during a recent regular and special term of the state circuit court in Oacoma South Dakota. More cases await trial with similar penalties, and the next term is expected to yield comparable collections from county residents.
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Oacoma
S. C
Lyman County
Frank B. Smith
State Circuit Court
Prisoner in Sioux Falls Commits Suicide in Four Months in Custody
Benjamin Wenzel a 48 year old inmate at the Sioux Walls penitentiary hanged himself in his cell after about four months of confinement. He devised a method using a small card tied to a ventilator cord securing the neck and slowly strangled. He was serving a four year term for criminal assault sentenced from Hand county.
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Sioux Falls
Benjamin Wenzel
Sioux Walls
Wenzel
Hand County
South Dakota Editors to Visit Arnold’s Park Iowa
Charles F. Hackett announces the South Dakota Editorial association will hold its summer outing at Arnold's Park Iowa. The group had planned a Canada northwest trip but failed to secure transport and instead will travel next winter to Florida or Cuba. The Okoboji lake outing occurs in the last week of August with editors gathering August 22.
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Okoboji
Parker
S. D
Charles F. Hackett
South Dakota
Florida
Tuba
Lake Okoboji
Curious Railroad Narrow Escape Near Pierpont Bridge
A trio of visitors to a railroad bridge one mile north of Pierpont witnessed a file driver at work and barely escaped serious injury when braking failed. Dr. T. W. Murphy, R. L. Folsom, editor of the signal, and H. G. Raffelson, manager of Pierpont Lumber, were aboard the tender as the engine backed into the pile driver, crushing the rear of the tender and twisting the pile driver. The track was torn up about twenty feet and all aboard were drenched but uninjured beyond shock.
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Pierpont
S. D
Here
T. W. Murphy
R. L. Folsom
The
Signal
H. G. Raffe
Sioux Falls Referendum Circulates on Waterworks Sale
Sioux Falls activists circulate a referendum petition to force a special election on selling the municipal waterworks to the South Dakota Water Company. The measure requires 5 percent of last election voters to sign and could trigger one of the nation’s hottest local elections on the matter.
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Sioux Falls
S- App Cie
South Dakota Water Company
Sioux Walls
Marshall's New Court House in Marshall County
The county awards a $57,955 contract for a stone court house with Sandstone walls from Sand stone Minn and Bedford red stone trimming. Expected completion by September next year. Described as one of the state’s handsomest and most substantial county buildings.
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Britton
S. D
Marshall County
Sandstone
Minn
Indiana
Drowned Swimmer in James River Near Yankton
John Bucknam a 24 year old son of Henry Bucknam a retired farmer drowned in the James river near the Daugherty ranch thirteen miles east of Yankton after cramps pulled him under while swimming with companions. Bucknam was a Mission Hill businessman and his family is well known in the area.
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Yankton
S. D
John Bucknam
Henry Bucknam
James River
Daugherty
Corn yield expected to exceed all prior county records
Weather this season has been ideal for crops and small grain already harvested. Corn looks superb and with continued fair weather through September 10 the county anticipates an enormous yield and high quality.
Lake Andes plans ferry service across Missouri river
Lake Andes South Dakota August 8 The businessmen here have concluded arrangements to establish a ferry boat across the Missouri river at Fort Randall. With many settlers on the west side it is expected better trade will be drawn to Lake Andes through improved river access.
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Lake Andes
S. D
Missouri River
Fort Randall
Minnehaha County Sunday School Convention Planned
Arrangements are completed for the annual Minnehaha County Sunday School association convention to be held at Valley Springs on August 18 and 19. Leading clergymen and Sunday school workers from Sioux Falls and other county towns will attend to address and assist in making the gathering the most successful yet.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Minnehaha County Sunday School Association
Valley Springs
Captain and crew abandon ship in panic Sirio disaster
Survivors recount the Italian steamer Sirio disaster at Madrid on August 9. The captain fled to a lifeboat crying Everyone for himself as passengers and crew fought for boats. The Espana Nueva cites a Barcelona dispatch alleging illicit Spanish emigrant trafficking aboard Sirio to justify the wreck.
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Madrid
Sirio
Espana Neuva
Barcelona
Espano Neuvya
Counsel Closes Hartje Divorce Case in Pittsburg
The final day of the Hartje divorce suit in Pittsburg saw John M. Freeman for the respondent deliver the closing speech. He criticized Augustus Hartje while praising Mrs Hartje's character as the court proceeded.
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Hartje
Pittsburg
John M. Freeman
Augustus Hartje
Women Suffragists Conference Opens in Copenhagen
The International League of Women Suffragists holds its third annual conference in Copenhagen from August 9 to 11 with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New York presiding. Twelve countries are represented as delegates attend the daily sessions.
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Copenhagen
International League of Women
Sioux City Live Stock Markets Mixed Prices At Yards And Chicago
Sioux City stock yards report hogs good height and butcher prices from $6.25 to $6.40 with heavy and rough categories around $5.90 to $6.20. Cattle show butcher steers from $4.50 to $6.00 and cows $3.50 to $4.50 with stockers and feeders $3.00 to $4.00. Chicago prices list cattle at $3.90 to $6.60 and hogs steady around $6.40 to $6.50, with sheep and lambs also quoted. overall market mixed but showing strength in hogs and cattle.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha Cattle Hogs and Sheep Markets See Strong Activity
South Omaha reports cattle market active and higher with native steers at 34.00 to 40.00 and western, texas steers at 3.00 to 5.00. cows and heifers 2.75 to 4.10. hogs steady with heavier weights 6.00 to 8.25 and most sales 6.18 to 6.30. sheep strong with yearlings 5.00 to 5.75 and lambs 6.25 to 7.40.
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South Omaha
Aug
Texas
Grain and Provisions Prices and Wheat Futures
Grain and Provisions report from Chicago and Minneapolis shows mixed commodity quotes. Flour steady. corn values range with No 2 at about 50 to 51 cents, oats varied around 30 to 34 cents, rye and barley noted, and provisions including pork, lard, and whiskey priced. Butter reported firm. eggs steady at market with firsts around 16 cents. Minneapolis closing prices list wheat and corn futures with No 1 hard at 74 to 74.5 cents and No 2 yellow corn near 73 to 74 cents.
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Northwestern
Wale
Land Offices May Be Abandoned In Aberdeen Move
Rumor in land office circles says Huron and Watertown offices may move to Aberdeen merging with the local office. Officials neither deny nor confirm. reasons cite exhausted homestead entries and high operating costs. Mitchell district reports light activity while Rosebud boosts its figures with 180 new entries.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Huron
Watertown
Sam
Mitchell Land Office
Rosebud
Bonesteel Fair Promises Premiums Races and Sioux War Dances
Bonesteel South Dakota hosts the third annual Gregory County Agricultural Society fair September 19 to 21 with over 5000 in premiums. Featured events include top horses in races two pro team baseball games for a 350 purse and a brass band. One thousand Rosebud Sioux warriors will perform war dances and recount General Custer's Seventh Cavalry massacre.
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Bonesteel
S. D
Gregory County Agricultural Society
General Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Little Big Horn
Destructive storm wrecks barn near Woonsocket
A heavy wind and electrical storm struck Woonsocket with a barn wrecked two miles northwest of town, injuring sleepers in a wagon car. A timber crushed the farmhouse, and another barn northwest of town burned for about $700 after a lightning strike. No crop damage reported.
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Woonsocket
S. D
J. W. Bills
O. C. Vanderpool
Louis Poubers
George Crumnerwall
Mistaken identity in Beresford assault case shocks Centerville
Abe Moffitt, jailed in Centerville on assault charges, is said to have attacked Thomas Brady with a knife in Beresford. Brady, a stranger with an iron hook, struck Moffitt first, leaving him badly wounded. Authorities say the motive remains unclear and Moffitt now faces trial with community sympathy and efforts for acquittal.
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Centerville
S. D
Abe Moffitt
Thomas Brady
Beresford
Brady
Moffitt
Moffit
Komstad
Presho Woman Struck by Lightning in South Dakota
Presho S D Aug 6 Mrs M Jessoe of three miles north was struck by lightning while indoors talking to a neighbor. The bolt burned her shoes and stockings, left her severely burned and unconscious. A neighbor woman was shocked but recovered, and there is no hope for Mrs Jessie’s recovery.
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Presho
S. D
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Bristol Buries
Black Hills County
Riley
Marshall’s New Court House
Ghenw
Grain Markets
Minneapolis
Custer
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