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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1912
Page
3
Conference of leaders to be held in four days to plan a possible presidential bid for Roosevelt. Organizers push for a coordinated effort across party factions to back his candidacy.
Edwin W. Sims reports a nationwide Roosevelt confab will launch the Roosevelt boom in Chicago on Saturday. Leaders hope to draft Roosevelt and seek a letter of position while La Follette backers stay loyal until withdrawal. Milwaukee and Lincoln dispatches note Wisconsin and Aldrich endorse Roosevelt, amid intraparty maneuvering and draft expectations. In separate item, Mrs. Noble dies, her husband is Walter Suydam Suydare, and reports say she attempted suicide after marital estrangements.
Mrs Louise Suydam who wed plumber Frederick Noble five weeks after fleeing a millionaire husband said the wages of sin are death. The couple were found dead in their New York apartment beside a gas range with suspected suicide notes. Friends say marriage unhappy from the start.
El Paso reports a junta seeking to place Gomez as president through rebel action against Madero. The group says it will not seek U.S. aid and asks Taft to refrain from intervention as the revolt spreads. Col Steever says thirteen armed Mexicans were captured near here en route to Mexico.
Various updates from Mitchell and area towns report staged horse sale details near Us City, insurance agent W.O. Rathbun handling Royal Insurance, and Milton Cook purchasing a residence on Fourth Avenue East. Church events note new members, Sunday schooling, and plans for cottage meetings precede upcoming revival services.
Seven masked men robbed a express train at Hurlburt Arkansas early this morning taking a sack of registered mail. A later report says they opened a safe and escaped with around 60000 dollars. Horseback officers pursued a special investigative train to the scene.
Ethan Kihan notes the Ladies Aid meets February 7 with Mrs Edward Cook. Ipworth League pledges a fall gas lighting project and plans a March 1 banquet and concert to raise funds. Florence Setterstrum is seriously ill but improving. Imma Setterstrum returns home. Little Carpenter and cousin Bessie will help W H McKeehan family due to Mrs McKeehan's illness and a sister's death. Mrs Bert Palmer, born Sioux Falls May 4, 187?, died January 20 at age about 33. funeral at home with Rev T W Bradley, choir selections, burial at Alexandrina. community offers sympathy.
In Pierre the South Dakota Democratic conference showed 130 for Wilson, 11 for Harmon, 11 for Bryant and scattered votes for Clark and Folk. Ben Wood of Rapidity led as chair. debates touched proxies, recall of judges, and a push for a state convention recall proposal.
Eriest H Hessenius, a young German, is jailed in Cherokee on a murder charge after the burial of his wife. Autopsy confirms strangulation. husbands story of a fall rejected. The couple, childless, had recent quarrels over money. mixed family views on guilt persist. February 12 formal hearing planned.
Indications are that the Meade County bank, closed by the state bank examiner, will reopen within weeks. The bank’s affairs are not as bad as feared, due to crop failures and troop withdrawals. Depositors sign a plan to draw funds quarterly and renew time certificates, with Sioux Falls capitalists expected to back a recapitalization. the examiner hopes to resume and pay depositors dollar for dollar within nine months.
Commercial clubs in the Black Hills urge Washington to restore a $100000 forest fire fund cut from the forest service bill. They warn removal would leave the Black Hills and other western forests to rely on local resources as guards and firefighters may be discharged. Telegrams push for quick action and House reinsertion of the item.
Charles W. Morse once a New York ice magnate is released from prison and creditors say his health has improved. He plans to appeal to Taft or Congress to remove his felon stigma and regain full citizenship.
In a statewide straw poll, LaFollette leads among Republicans with strong showing outside Mitchell while Taft slips to third. Democrats favor Wilson. Ballots received from lawyers, physicians, bankers, merchants, and farmers statewide show varied support with readers urged to vote as polls stay open briefly.
Rapid City South Carolina reports a new ruling from Commissioner Dennett of the general land office. Isolated tracts may not be auctioned unless at filing time the land has been homesteaded at least two years after surrounding land was entered filed upon or sold by the government. One tract per sale application.
The South Dakota immigration department reports high demand for information lists it prepares for distribution. Commissioner Deets says real estate dealers need not buy such lists from others at any price. Residents may apply to the department to receive the lists at no charge.
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