Notorious Joe Blackbird Acquitted in Dakota Cattle Case
Grand jury at Chamberlain, S D, returns indictments against cattle rustlers. Joe Blackbird, a Sioux quarter breed, is acquitted in the latest term after witnesses link his land and brands to the stock. Blackbird, long described as dangerous, has a history including a 1898 marriage to Estella Kinkade and four children.
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Smith
Peter Bergland
Blackbird
Laterneau
Fort Randall
Tobacco Mouth
Fort Totten
Lower Brule Reservation
Estella
John Kinkade
Missouri River
B. H. Brady
Missouri
Pocahontas
Kinkade
Jack Sully
United States
Grand
Jim
Chamberlain
Result in Divorce in South Dakota Banking Family
Sioux Falls reports a settlement will grant a divorce between George Schaetzel and his wife after the required period. Schaetzel, long a prominent South Dakota banker with ties to Sioux Falls and Beresford, faced a scandal involving another woman in New Orleans before the settlement was reached. The divorce will proceed as planned. Expelled From State. Pierre notes Insurance Commissioner Shober in Kansas City ordered Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance of Kansas City revoked from operating in South Dakota and a receiver appointed.
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Sioux Falls
George Schaetel
South Dakota
Beresford
Schaetzel
New Orleans
Detective Bureau
Supreme Court seeks action in Kelly receiver case
The South Dakota Supreme Court ordered the case Edward S. Kelly vs Levi McGee judge and others be returned January 3 to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue. It involves E S Kelly as receiver and his refusal to turn over funds. Brookings regents also met and accepted new horticulture and mechanical laboratories. Aberdeen normal school rebuilding will wait until spring due to cold weather.
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Supreme Court
Pierre
S. D
Judge McGee
Seventh Circuit
E. S. Kelly
Kelly
Fall River County
Edward S. Kelly
Levi McGee
John F. Parks
Frank Reeder
Brookings
South Dakota State Regents
Aberdeen Normal School
Several Dakota Corporations File Articles of Incorporation
Pierre South Dakota December 23 Articles of incorporation filed for multiple companies including Bryant Mining and Milling of Deadwood with 100000 capital and Frank S. Bryant W. H. Bonham and John Barclay as incorporators. Crawford Cattle Company of Huron with 100000 capital and Coke Crawford O S Crawford and J C Crawford. Rock Castle Coal and Lumber of Pierre with 1000000 capital and Willard A. White John Farrell and Oscar Nelson. Union Land and Loan of Huron with 15000 capital and W Turner D G Merbury and W S Davis. Copper Mountain Development of Pierre with 2500000 capital and Edgar M. Wilson Charles L. Pierce W E von Johansen L L Stephens and F A Stephens.
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Herman L. Vrieze
G. W. Jagenink
Rock Castle Coal and Lumber Company
Pierre
Capital
Willard A. White
John &. Farrell
Oscar Nelson
Union Land and Loan Company
Huron
D. G. Merbury
W. 38. Davis
Parkston Harness Company
W. E. von Johansen
L. L. Stephens
F. A. Stephens
Judge appoints receiver for Germania Live Stock Insurance
United States Judge Carland named F. H. Hollister of Sioux Falls as receiver for Germania Live Stock Insurance of Sioux Falls after the state insurance commissioner revoked its charter for alleged illegal practices. Also notes local newspaper acquisitions and a fatal mining accident in Lead.
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Carland
Sioux Falls
S. D
United States Court
F. H. Hollister
Germania Live Stock Insurance Company
State Commissioner of Insurance
Sheds His Skin in Unexplained Medical Case
George H. Welch a 52 year old Goshen printer lies in a Oneida hospital as doctors study a rare condition he calls shedding his skin. Welch reports yearly attacks since boyhood after a desert snake bite in Arizona that left him near death though scientists have not confirmed a link.
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Goshen
N. Y
George H. Welch
Oneida
Welch
Arizona Desert
Respite From Cold Predicted for Northwest
Chicago and the northwest faced ongoing severe weather with icebound railroads coal shortages and cold suffering. At 10 oclock the temperature was 20 below in Chicago 6 below in St Paul 4 below in Kansas City and 10 below in St Louis. A warm blast from the northwest was forecast to moderate conditions in the extreme northwest.
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Northwest
Chicago
St. Paul
Kansas City
St. Louis
Death of Judge Fred W. Pettigrew in Sioux Falls
Judge Fred W. Pettigrew brother of ex Senator R. F. Pettigrew died at his family home in Sioux Falls after a December 7 injury that left him unconscious for two weeks. He was Moody county judge and early Dakota settler noted for a quarrelsome temperament and disputes with clients and colleagues, leading some to suspect foul play. His death comes as his family and officials mourn and his brother was notified from Salt Lake City.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Fred W. Pettigrew
R. F. Pettigrew
Senator Pettigrew
Salt Lake City
Washington
Judge Pettigrew
Territory
Dakota
Flandreau
Moody County
George Rice
Another Dewey Victory in Lawrence County Nomination
The Republican central committee and district judicial committee of Lawrence County unanimously recommended H. E. Dewey of Lead for county judge to succeed Frank J. Washabaugh. After ballots showed a deadlock between J. P. Wilson and George B. Thompson, a compromise elevated Dewey as the unanimous choice and likely appointee by Governor Herreld.
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Deadwood
S. D
Republican Central Committee
Lawrence County
District Judicial Committee
Herreld
H. E. Dewey
Lead
Frank J. Washabaugh
J. P. Wilson
George B. Thompson
Thomas L. Redlon
Thomas E. Harvey
G. G. Bennett
John H. Burns
A. E. Frank
Wilson
Thompson
Dewey
A Prosperous Institution at Dakota University
Dakota University closes fall term with high attendance and strong work. Winter term begins January 2 with expected rise in attendance. The college boasts success in state oratorical contests and football, with a new Century Memorial hall to be completed next year. Blackbird acquitted in Oacoma. Berglunds case awaiting new trial.
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Dakota University
Mitchell
South Dakota
Towa
Minnesota
North Dakota
Century Memorial Hall
Rathbun Convicted of Manslaughter in Indiana Case
Newell Co Rathbun was found guilty of manslaughter for poisoning Charles Goodman and sentenced to two to fourteen years in prison. The jury deliberated since Saturday afternoon. Rathbun’s attorney sought a new trial. Goodman was found dead in a Jeffersonville hotel and his body sent to Little Rock, Arkansas, for Rathbun’s wife. The case involved an insurance policy and prior enlistment under another name.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Charles Goodman
Rathbun
Little Rock
Ark
Louisville
United States Army
Evansville
Salvation Army
Shaw Way Get It Governor Shaw may join Roosevelt cabinet
Governor Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa was summoned to Washington by President Roosevelt who offers him the treasury portfolio to succeed Secretary Gage. Shaw hopes Iowa gains with national leadership while intimates say he will accept. reports also say Shaw has tendered the post though White House confirmation is unavailable.
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Des Moines
Leslie M. Shaw
Washington
Roosevelt
Shaw
Iowa
United States Senate
House
Treasury
Gage
White House
Fierce Fighting in Transvaal and Orange River Colonies
News from Johannesburg dated Saturday reports sharp clashes as 200 mounted Britons encounter 300 Boers and armed natives near Haginderen. British losses are described as severe with few details. Other engagements include DeWet against Dartnell and Campbell at Langberg with 20 Boer dead and 12 British casualties.
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London
Kitchener
Johannesburg
Orange River
Transvaal
Haginderen
Britz
DeWet
Dartnell
Campbell
Langberg
Botha
Damant
Tafel Kop
Orange River Colony
Kopje
Commandan Keyter
Transport McClellan Brings Manila Passengers and Bodies
The transport McClellan arrived in New York from Manila with 38 cabin passengers and 246 soldiers. It also carried the bodies of Captain Herbert Draper of the Marine Corps and civilian clerk William B. Tabb from Guam.
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McClellan
New York
Manila
Philippines
Herbert Draper
Marine Corps
William B. Tabb
Naval Engineer
Guam
Barred from Dakota Farmers Mutual Hall Insurance
Insurance commissioner Shober wired from Kansas City ordering revocation of authority for Farmers Mutual Hall Insurance Company to do business in South Dakota and announced a receiver had been appointed for the firm.
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Pierre
S. D
Shober
Kansas City
Farmers’ Mutual Hail Insurance Company
Wee
Farmers Mutual Hall Insurance Company
Britain Ready to Arbitrate Chile Argentina Dispute
London reports say Britain would accept arbitration if Chile agrees, but neither side has asked Downing Street. The MacNaghten commission nears departure to inspect disputed borders, while US officials hint at aid and mediation possibilities. Diplomatic ties remain strained as Argentina withdraws its envoy.
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London
Associated Press
British Foreign Office
Chile
Great Britain
Lord Lansdowne
Alcorta
Foreign Office
Lord MacNaghten
Dr. Alcorta
Downing Street
MacNaghten Commission
Quinion
Washington
State Department
Argentina
United States
Baron Edward MacNaghten
John Charles Ardagh
Thomas Hungerford Mholdich
India
Argentina-Chile
Maclay Demands Trial In Navy Civil Service Dispute
Edgar Stanton Maclay, linked to the Schley case, formally seeks trial under civil service rules after Roosevelt asked his resignation. He argues he cannot be dismissed without charges, trial, and conviction and notes his civil service protections. Admiral Barker forwarded his reply to Washington.
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New York
Edgar Stanton Maclay
Schley
Roosevelt
Navy Yard
Barker
Brooklyn
Maclay
Congress
Russia
Washington
Electric car crash near Allentown claims six lives
Six people were killed and several injured when an electric car jumped the track at a curve at the foot of a mountain between Allentown and Coopersburg. The wreck followed wet rails and snow on the new Coopersburg line opened last Wednesday. Names of the dead include Reverend Tobias Kessler and Albert Yeager among others. witnesses describe the car slamming into a pole and tearing off part of the roof.
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Allentown
Jacob Fetzer
Coopersburg
Harry J. Richard
Lanark
A. L. Leidich
Allen Town
Charlies Stocker
C. F. Newcomer
K. B. Hottel
Passer
Stocker
Nhard
Freed
Prof Wortman Quits Hartington High Principalship
Hartington Nebraska December 24 Professor Wortman resigns as principal of the Hartington high school effective late January 1902 He plans to study law in Lincoln saying no weak teachers exist at Hartington and patrons regret his departure. Lincoln Nebraska December 24 Judge S H Sedgwick resigns as supreme court commissioner effective January 9 His successor will be named by the court with J H Barnes Frank Martin A W Lane and S W Christy named as possible candidates.
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Hartington
Hartington, Neb
Wortman
Hartington High School
Lincoln
Neb
S. H. Sedgwick
Supreme Court
J. H. Barnes
Norfolk
Frank Martin
Falls City
A. W. Lane
S. W. Christy
Edgar
Riots in Sofia Target Turkish Commissioner Residence
A revolutionary demonstration in Sofia last night led to clashes as police struggled to restrain rioters attempting to attack the residence of the Turkish commissioner.
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Sofia
Turkey
Sioux City Live Stock Markets Mixed Hogs and Firm Cattle
Sioux City stock yards report hogs at 5.00 to 5.85 for light and common, mixed and heavy at 5.60 to - 30, fat cows and heifers 2.50 to 4.00, stockers 2.50 to 4.00, butcher steers 4.00 to 6.50, yearlings 2.50 to 4.00. Chicago receipts show hogs higher, light 5.10 to 5.90, mixed 5.80 to 6.15, good heavy 6.10 to 6.55, cattle receipts 3,500, market strong. sheep receipts and market steady. Official close hogs about steady, bulk 6.00 to 6.40, cattle firm with top 7.25.
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Sioux City
Chicago
Seibeee
South Omaha
Market report from South Omaha and Kansas City cattle and hogs
South Omaha and Kansas City markets show steady to rising hog prices with strong receipts. Hogs ranged from 5.50 to 6.60 at Omaha and 5.25 to 6.10 for light to mixed lots. cattle receipts around 3,000 at Omaha with steers 3.50 to 7.10 and cows 1.25 to 4.50. Kansas City hogs stronger with heavies 6.50 to 6.60 and lights 5.25 to 6.10. cattle mainly native beef steers 4.70 to 6.50 and calves 3.25 to 5.50. sheep steady with lambs 4.50 to 5.35.
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Kansas City
Grain Market Prices and Cash Quotations Across Regions
Grain and provisions in Chicago and Minneapolis quoted cash and futures prices. Wheat No 3 spring 74 53 7c? No 2 red 82 0? Corn No 2 yellow 66 5c. Oats No 2 42 47c, No 2 white 48 49c. Barley fair to choice 58 14 61 c. Flax seed No 1 1.58, No 2 Northwestern 1.60. Provisions pork 15.40 15.50, lard 9.72 9.75. Butter 14 20c. Eggs 26c. Cheese 5 10c. Minneapolis wheat cash tic May 78c, July 79c on track No 1 hard 80c. No 1 northern 65 siees 76 77c.
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Chicago
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Northern
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Stggemen
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Normal
Crawford
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the Clarion
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A. M. Andrews
Plankinton
Andrews
Daily Republican
Republican
William Price
Lead Opera House
Roy Streeter
Denver
Lloyd Poindexter
Streeter
Poindexter
Chester Arkell
Lake Preston
Lutheran Church
M. A.stubbjner
Oldham
Oacoma
Berglunds
South Africa
Farmers Mutual Hall Company
Washington Administration
Dev
Hay
Santiago de Chile
Prof. Wortman
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