Senate Defeats Anti-Treating Bill in South Dakota
The SD senate failed to pass the anti treating bill by one vote short of a constitutional majority, with seven absentees possibly swinging the outcome on reconsideration. House approval came for adding two supreme court districts. Both chambers plan to adjourn Friday March 5, while Governor Vessey and others attend a reception for Senator elect Crawford in Huron. Approximately 150 new bills were filed on the session’s final day.
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Huron
Crawford
Man Hater Refuses Coin Yet Receives Queen Victoria Head
Harriet Evans an elderly spinster of Hackney died as natural death. She feared men and would not handle coins bearing the king's head, throwing them away, and would only deal in money with Queen Victoria's head. She refused to enter a newspaper office unless a woman mediated. An ad she published called for a house without men.
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London, Inc
Harriet Evans
Hackney
Queen Victoria
Rush Mr Guggenheim East to Save Life
Daniel Guggenheim head of the American Smelting and Refining Company is being rushed east aboard a special train to save his life. He became dangerously ill after visiting Mexico due to altitude and dilation of the heart. The train carries Dr Dennette T F Guggenheim and W Potter to the sea level border for urgent care.
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City of
Mexico
Daniel Guggenheim
New York
American Smelting and Refining Company
Mr. Guggenheim
Laia
Aguas Viallentes
Dr. Dennette
T. F. Guggenheim
W. ©. Potter
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Lives Quiet Life in Small West Thirty-third Flat
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw reports a simple, secluded home on West Thirty-third Street in New York near Fifth Avenue. She rents in her brother Howard Nesbit’s name, dedicates time to reading, rhetoric, and art, and studies drawing in an attic studio, keeping away from public life and restaurants.
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New York
Ieeb
West Thirty-third Street
Fifth Avenue
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Philippine Constabulary Band Arrives for Taft Inauguration Parade
The Philippine Constabulary band, featuring over 60 members, arrived in San Francisco today aboard the transport Buford to lead the Washington parade for President Taft's inauguration set in January.
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San Francisco
Philippine Constabulary
Washington
Taft
Buford
Rosebud lands to be offered at public sale in Gregory S D
Public sale of Rosebud Indian Reservation lands in Gregory county South Dakota begins March 25 1909 under James W Witten open to purchase at $1 per acre cash. Buyers limited to 640 acres. Unsold lands may be privately sold after the sale in Gregory Isregory South Dakota. Land described as rough grazing suitable for pasture not cultivation. About 30 000 acres to be offered.
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Gregory
S. D
Washington
Rosebud
Gregory County
South Dakota
James W. Witten
Register and
United States Land Office
Isregory
Press Association Elects Officers
The mid winter meeting of the State Press association concluded in Pierre South Dakota on February 17 and officers were elected CC M Day of Sioux Falls as president W I Bancroft Water Town as first vice president R O Schamber Hudson as second vice president John T Cogan Sioux Falls as secretary H O Sturges Beresford as treasurer and J I Halladay BE J Senn and George Schlosser as executive board members
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George Schlosser
Minister's Evidence Convicts Own Father
Rev Frederick Loose, a Yale Lutheran pastor, was convicted of murder in New York City where his testimony linked his intoxicated father to the killing of the minister’s sister and the shooting of the minister. The case drew wide attention in Yale and surrounding areas.
North Dakota prison cruelty hearing shocks lawmakers
A legislative committee toured the penitentiary in Bismarck and heard prisoners describe cruelty under Warden Bouches. Testimonies recalled a severely beaten man believed to have died, stretching punishments, and inmates suspended by wrists from hooks, with one man hanged for an hour and a half.
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Bismarck
N. D
Bouches
Nine years in disguise as a man ends for Winters
St Louis report reveals William Winters, a brown eyed brunette, lived nine years in male clothes starting in Galveston Texas. She worked as a bill poster and teamster, joined secret fraternities, and was treated as a man in Quincy. She says she never made love and led girls to think she despised women.
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St. Louis
Wiliam" Winters
Galveston
Texas
Quincy
Bill Poster
Steel Trust Plans $14.5 Million Superior Plant
United States Steel corporation will build a new city modelled on Gary Indiana near Superior Wisconsin. A $14.5 million steel plant to rise on the St Louis river within three miles of Superior with blast furnaces on the Minnesota side and auxiliary works on the Wisconsin shore. 1,600 acres have been cleared on the Wisconsin side. $14.3 million has been allocated. construction crews from Gary will start when spring opens.
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Steel Trust
Superior
Wis
Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
St. Louis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Steel Corporation
Ernest Randall Is Given Liberty
Rapid City South Dakota February 15 After nine months in jail for the murder of W F Bright Ernest Randall is free on his own recognizance Honor bound to appear at the next term of court but it is not probable that he will go to trial Prosecuting Attorney Chauncey L Wood has concluded there is no chance for conviction and rather than add costs allowed the prisoner to be turned loose The motion for the release of the prisoner was made by Boyd and Soule before Judge Levi McGee this week At the last term Randall was tried for his life The defense showed that the cartridge that killed Bright was different from the one remaining in the prisoners gun This ended the prosecution and the jury stood 5 to 7 in favor of acquittal Unless new evidence is found the case will not again come to trial.
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Rapid City
S. D
W. F. Bright
Ernest Randall
Chauncey L. Wood
Boyd and Soule
Levi McGee
Randall
Bright
Missouri claims another toll on frozen river crossing
Pukwana South Dakota february 15 G A Crown and J N Hoover of Bijou Hills drove across the Missouri river where a herd had crossed. The buggy broke through the ice and the team valued at about 450 dollars drowned, but the occupants escaped by jumping from the buggy with help to pull it free.
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Pukwana
S. D
Missouri River
G. A. Crown
J. N. Hoover
Bijou Hills
Girl 14 Dragged to Death by Saddle Horse
From across the river comes the sad news that Fannie Barber aged 14 was dragged to her death by a horse while returning home from school. She died soon after the horse stopped at the farm of L W Barber, her father.
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Yankton
Fannie Barber
L. W. Barber
Platte waterworks bonds approved for new system
Platte WD Feb 15 A dispute over the legality of bonds for a municipal water works system has been settled. The Chicago bidder asserts the bonds are legal and will accept them. Eighteen thousand dollars in bonds were approved and the contract awarded, with construction to begin this spring.
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Platte, S. WD
Platte
Chicago
Cattleman Dies in Snowstorm While Aiding Sheep
Belle Fourche South Dakota February 15 W J Chiesman a wealthy cattle man of this section lost his life sixty miles northeast of here while seeking to rescue some sheep from the storm.
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Belle Fourche
S. D
W. J. Chiesman
Here
Flagman Peter Hill Killed At Teton Station
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 15. Peter Hill was instantly killed at Teton while flagging a train. A snow plow projection struck him and severed his head as the train passed.
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Pierre
S. D
Peter Hill
Teton
Ort Pierre
Yankton Offers 75 000 for Local Bridge
Yankton South Dakota on February 15 held a railroad meeting where representatives of the Yankton and Norfolk line pledged progress on a 1 000 000 bridge at Yankton and to Norfolk. A bonus of 75 000 is requested and will be raised.
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Yankton
S. D
Yankton & Norfolk
Norfolk
Tripp County Townsites Finally Located
Washington reports the locations of four government townsites in Tripp county. First Townsite lies in the southwest quarter of section 26, township 95 north, range 76 west. Second Townsite is the east half of section 9, township 97 north, range 76 west. Third Townsite covers the north half of section 21, township 100 north, range 78 west. Fourth Townsite is the northwest quarter of section 34, township 102 north, range 74 west.
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Washington
Tripp County
1969 blizzard reports stir South Dakota towns
Inland reports detail bizarre storm effects during the big 1969 blizzard. A 20 foot steel culvert in Blunt moved downhill across fence and tracks, a cat froze to death while tangled in a fence, and a shed collapsed near Reliance killing over a hundred sheep. In Brookings Jed Stoltenburg awoke to find the same sleeper car in Minneapolis as he slept, and in Beresford two men nearly suffocated by gas after closing a stove damper too tightly.
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Sioux Palls
S. D
Blunt
Garretson
Derry Plahn
Reliance
Missouri
John R. Casey
Brookings
Jed Stoltenburg
Minneapolis
Watertown
Beresford
Andy Anderson
Charles Flynn
Anderson
Will Watson
Flynn
Legislature Backs Electric Headlight Bill in House Vote
In Pierre South Dakota on February 18 the house rejected further postponement of the electric headlight bill after Morris of Minnehaha criticized tactics. The measure passed 82 to 18 with minimal amendments. An amendment to lease state lands for agricultural use also advanced from the house. Morris and others pushed re enactment of the primary law and a bill to make drinking on passenger trains a misdemeanor.
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Larsens
Englesby
Fowler
Warner
Senate
House
Morris
Christian Girls Sewing Society Organized at Cheyenne Agency
A sewing society for Indian girls at Cheyenne agency is formed led by Lizzie Chasing Hagle as president with Jessie Dogarm as founder. Members include Lucy Holly Horn, Sallie Shoots Off, Emily Ghost Dog, Annie Fish, Louisi Brown Thunder, Aledia Brown Wolf and others. The group meets Fridays after school to learn sewing and engage in religious activities.
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Sewing Society
Milter
S. D
Cheyenne Agency
Jessie Dogarm
Lizzie Chasing Hagle
Lucy Holly Horn
Sallie Shoots Off
Emily Ghost Dog
Annie Fish
Louisi Brown Thunder
Aledia Brown Wolf
Mail car burns on Northwestern east-bound train
The mail car on the morning eastbound train from Pierre South Dakota caught fire near Highmore and the contents were destroyed.
Sculptor wrecks months of work over criticisms
Oscar Mundhenk a young Cincinnati sculptor reportedly wrecked his marble sculpture The Ascension begun for St. Mary's church Marietta Ohio costing over 250000. Commissioned by church officials Mundhenk had worked for months and nearly completed the piece. The article notes material choices with Norway pine and other woods.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Oscar Mundhenk
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Marietta
Mundhenk
Publicity wave sweeping Wall Street reports
Publicity is popular in Wall Street as firms reveal reports to shareholders. Unlisted companies open books voluntarily, led by American Sugar Refining then American Smelting and Refining. Guggenheims adopt policy for all properties, starting with Yukon enterprises and Guggenheim Exploration.
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New York
Wall Street
Department of the Stock Exchange
American Sugar Refining Company
American Smelting and Refining Company
Guggenheims
Yukon
Guggenheim Exploration Company
Eight Hangings In One Day In Louisiana
Baton Rouge reports eight men are to be hanged on March 5, the largest single day execution total in years. Authorities say stays are unlikely, making the expected day the focus of statewide attention.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Egan Disbarment Upheld By Supreme Court
In Pierre South Dakota, the Supreme Court sustains a lower court ruling disbarring the attorney Egan. The decision cites Egan’s ignorance of part of the duties of an attorney and not learned in the law, dispelling the presumption of competency. The opinion, by Justice Whiting, notes the importance of legal ethics.
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Pierre
S. D
Wean
Supreme Court
Egan
Adamson
Bean
Whiting
Supporters claim ties in held law count and seek reconsideration
Pierre D D reports that backers of the statewide held law claim an error in secretary roll call made the 20 to 24 vote a tie. Led by Hare they plan a quiet reconsideration to fix the count or pursue an investigation if needed. The house passed Fowler mining property lien law and Arnold partition fence bill after a sharp debate. the state depository bill moved through with little opposition. Whiting introduced a bill to halt insurance statements in circuits where agents are located.
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Pierre
Senate
Hare
Fowler
Arnold
Whiting
A Natural Result of Compromising
Pierre South Dakota February 12 The compromise report on the electric head light bill shows the usual outcomes of compromise. Old engineers who run passenger trains opposed the bill as too hard on eyesight while young engineers and firemen supported it. The compromise mainly benefits those who did not want the bill, leaving the eager supporters to go without.
Section foreman inherits fortune from Indiana grandfather
Draper Indiana Feb 12 Geo Davis section foreman on the Milwaukee railroad received word this week that his grandfather who recently died in Indiana left him in his will a bequest amounting to about 40000 dollars
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Draper
Geo. Davis
Milwaukee Railroad
Indiana
Man Killed in Burning Wisconsin House Hotel
Aberdeen South Dakota February 12 James Mulvihill bricklayer died in a fire that gutted the Wisconsin house frame hotel owned by Mayor S A Aldrich at 3 this morning The blaze started last evening but was extinguished Mulvihill returned to his room and perished when the fire rekindled The loss is about 20000 with 9000 insured during the season's worst snowstorm
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Aberdeen
S. D
James Mulvihill
Wisconsin House
S. A. Aldrich
Mulvihill
Jack Binns Reluctant Hero Returned from Republic
Jack Binns wireless operator aboard the Republic has landed in Liverpool from New York. Cam-era crews awaited him. he hid in a shed until his train to London started. He will receive a gold watch from Marconi directors and proceed to Petersborough for official welcome. If honored, he may become a freeman of the city, a distinction once given only to Andrew Carnegie.
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London
Jack’ Binns
Republic
Liverpool
New York
Binns
Marconi Company
Petersborough
Town Hall
Andrew Carnegie
Lynching of Roby Baskin in Houston Mississippi
Roby Baskin, charged with murdering the Rev. W. T. Hudson, was hanged by a mob of over 300 citizens in Houston Mississippi. The lynching occurred yesterday afternoon, as he was taken from the jail and hanged at a nearby tree without a shot being fired and with orderly conduct noted.
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Houston
Miss
Roby Baskin
W. T. Hudson
Millionaire Foils Desperate Thief at Home Visit
Lawrence M. Jones, head of Jones Bros Dry Goods in Kansas City, battled an intruder who carried a revolver and a dynamite bomb demanding 7000. Jones overpowered the man with help from his son, securing the weapons and summoning police. The suspect, C. H. Garnett, claimed he intended to move Jones to Independence after the ransom.
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Kansas City
Lawrence M. Jones
Jones' Bros.’ Dry Goods Company
C. H. Garnett
Jones
Troost Ave
Mr. Jones
Independence
Omaha
Garnett
D. Jones
Grand Island
Neb
Markets Report from Sioux City and Chicago Hogs and Cattle
Sioux City market notes show hogs heavy and butchered around 6.00 to 6.35 with light and mixed hogs near 5.90. Cattle ranges include dressed beef at 54 to 60, stockers and feeders 3.50 to 6.00, fat cows and feeders around 3.50 to 6.26, and calves 3.00 to 4.25. Chicago and South Omaha data echo steady to higher hogs and varied cattle, with futures listing heavy shipping hogs 6.55 to 6.66 and cattle values from 4.60 to 7.15 in Chicago and 4.00 to 6.10 for native steers at Omaha.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha
Texas
Sioux City Grain Market Prices Report
Sioux City February 17 market updates list wheat at No 1 vel vet chaff 98c new No 3 vel vet chaff 96c No 2 northern new 1 08 per 54 lb No 3 new 1 00 30 lb No 4 new 96c rejected 88c Corn No 3 mixed shelled new 51c No 4 mixed shelled new 49c ear same as shelled 75 lb yellow 50c more than mixed Oats No 3 white new 4c No 4 white new 45c No 3 mixed new 4c no grade 40 Flax No 2 1 53 No 2 1 51 Barley C new 46 lb 52c D new 45 lb 0c E new 44 lb 0c Rye No 3 59e
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Sioux City Produce Butter and Livestock Prices Listing
Sioux City section lists prices for butter packing stock eggs and poultry, hides, tallow, and straw. Includes prices for eyes cases, butter stock, spring roosters, hens and pullets, ducks geese and pigeons, various calf horse and cattle hides and tallow grades, and oat and wheat straw.
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Sioux City
Sec
Usc
Western
New York Plans New Exhibition Salon in Central Park Site
A proposed home for American art is being planned in New York. The project would erect a large, handsome exhibition building on the old arsenal site in Central Park under the National Academy of Design.
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New York
Arsenal
Central Park
National Academy of Design
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