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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
2
A partial OCR shows the Mitchell publication listing publisher Ronald, manager, and subscription rates. It indicates a second class mailing and entry under the 1911 act with prices likely in strict advance terms.
The Interstate Commerce Commission report details Rock Island losses of 20 million dollars due to mismanagement and stock manipulation under the Moore Reid syndicate. Gratuities paid to executives, inflated capitalization, and holding company schemes drained assets while workers and shareholders suffered. Similar plundering at New Haven cited. Calls for harsh punishment.
A historical analysis contends that Germany’s submarine campaign against British ships risks drawing the United States into war. It argues Washington must weigh severing ties with Germany and easing arms shipments to Allies against the grave consequences of a broader conflict.
United Southern papers condemn the Frank lynching, calling Georgia lawless and hypocritical. Editorials decry mob violence, urging state-wide education on law and order. Reynolds, Atlanta Constitution, and others condemn the crime as a national stain and a blow to civilized governance.
Sheriff Wychoff and officers hunted two armed robbers who held up harvest hands aboard a northbound Northwestern freight near Aberdeen on Wednesday night. Victims describe two men, one tall and one shorter, who gathered about 25 to 30 men for a supposed poker game before the theft. The search spanned all day until the party returned last evening.
Eyewitness accounts allege a masked group flashed a light on the crowd, wore ties, and used pistols to threaten seatholders, robbing everyone of their cash. Reportedly the haul totaled about 50.
John Prevus of Sturgis is jailed in Pennington county on grand larceny charges for stealing his wife’s automobile and selling it to Elmer Johnson of Lead for 235 dollars. He spent proceeds on clothing. 164.50 remains. If convicted, he faces a term at Sioux Falls penitentiary after his wife presses the case.
Sioux vats v4 stooping over the death of his wife last fall is believed to have been responsible for Floyd Thomkins a Hyde county man losing his calm He became so violent that his brothers had to summon authorities who are guarding him awaiting definite action.
Government land sale in Lyman County offers about twenty thousand acres in tracts from five to 160 acres. Auction on September 20 at Pierreland office with minimum price of 1.25 dollars per acre. Some tracts up to 820 acres in one body, largest quarter sections. Sale to clear unappropriated land under special congressional act. Cash at purchase. purchaser has until 4 p.m. the following day to complete payment.
Pierre reports a state census indicating South Dakota with two men for every unmarried woman over eighteen, many married men exceed married women, and a notable number of widowed residents. Employment by occupation reveals diverse sectors with farmers the largest group, alongside teachers and professionals. Doane Robinson defends the census as thorough and valuable for planning and business.
Davison County commissioners meet in sessions July 1915 with extensive accounts, salaries and audits. The minutes list numerous road, county poor, and jail expenditures, jury fees, and warrants. A notable action approves a rural extension grant and a kingpin grader purchase agreement for county roads.
A $100 reward is offered by ranchers north of Kinley in the Cheyenne river area for the hunter who kills a large timber wolf blamed for destroying many cattle this summer. Local residents and several hunters are out hoping to secure the final shot at the animal.
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