Northwestern freight wreck at Canning kills engineer
Engineer Frank Booth is dead and Fireman McNabb severely scalded after a Northwestern freight wreck at Canning South Dakota caused by High water on Medicine Creek. The bridge weakened by flooding collapsed under the train as the engine plunged into the river. Booth lived in Huron and was one of the railroad’s oldest engineers. conductor Simms was in charge of the train.
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Heaven
S. D
Frank Booth
Piremiain McNabb
Canning
Medicine Creek
Hughes County
Tosseau
Higineer Booth
Ele
Huron
Northwestern
South Dakota
Wootties
Aifferty
Steamer Beaches and Ferry Sunk in Ice Deluge
Report from Yankton ia that Captain Joseph Leach lost his steamboat Bachelor and ferryboat to river ice, with losses running into thousands. The Josephine floated from winter quarters and lies high on the bank. At Sioux City the ice damage was heavy, and eighteen pontoon boats worth 1500 were washed away near Yankton as the Jim River swells toward flood stage.
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Yankton
Joseph Leach
Bachelor
Sioux City
Leach
Josephine
Teistey
Yinkton
Huron
Morecaster Reed
Death of Miss Mary Bridge Ties Wedding Plans to Illness
Miss Mary Bridge daughter of UCL Mark Bridge died of consumption in Sioux Falls. Engaged to Frank Patten, their wedding was postponed due to her health and was to occur next spring. She was born November 18, 1881, in Sioux Falls and is interred at St Michaels pro cathedral. Prime line notes a separate claim that farmers will replace an elevator burned recently in Vergonto after stockholders vote 142 to 386 for a new storehouse.
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Sioux Falls
S. II
Mary Bridge
Teatseet Ucl
Mark Bridge
Ferank FE
Patten
Minneapolis
Misseid
Patenees
Sioux Mullis
St. Michaels Pro-Cathedral
Governor Crawford Reunites With Mrs Crawford After Surgery
Governor Coe Crawford and Mrs. Crawford left Rochester Minnesota after her appendicitis operation three weeks ago and returned to Pierre. She is reported to have fully recovered and to be at home with the family.
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Mrs. Crawford
Prominent Sioux Falls Lodge Leader Dies at 66
Rank Kunerth a German American resident of Sioux Falls died at his home aged 66. He leaves a widow and three sons Charles and John in Jamestown North Dakota and Rank in Sioux Falls. A Mason and Elk, he helped found the Germania Verein and was a charter member. Funeral services were held at Massone temple with large lodge attendance from Masons Elks and Workmen.
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South Dakota
Seid Webs
Isrank Kunerich
Charles
John
Jamestown
N. D
Rank
Sioux Palls
Kunerth
Eik
Codd Kellow
Germania Verein
Hilternoon
Massine Temul
This Vy Ws
Elks and Workmen
Missouri Law Pen: Governor Fies 2-Cent Fetk
A misspelled line notes a Missouri law issue with a governor proposing a two cent tax or fee. Details are unclear due to OCR corruption but indicate legislative action or proposal affecting state revenue. Names and local context are unreadable in the fragment.
Flood Devastates Vermillion Farm Areas Waver Sioux River
Flooding along the Missouri river near Vermillion hits farms hard. Hundreds of hogs drowned, grain and hay losses mount as three to four miles of track wash out. Families flee, robbing livestock and property, while rescue crews and rural telephones aid alerts.
Hogs Float on Straw Stacks Amid Missouri River Flood
Water from the Missouri River flood reaches within fifty rods of the Milwaukee and St. Paul station at Burbank South Dakota. Farmland and livestock suffer as hogs ride a straw stack downriver and drown when the straw gives way. Six miles away farmer W. Devoe loses property and hogs. three feet of water fills his house. widespread loss of wood and hay. town on higher ground expected to escape severe damage.
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Missoni
Tee Park
Milwaukee and
Yankton
Sioux City
Aberdeen
Thomas Walker
Ben Waterman
Sheldon
Martin Wrickson
Willia Gunderson
William Goding
Richard Wherry
Burbank
Devoe
Carriers Resign Over Low Pay in Butte Mont
Washington editor reports carriers in Butte Montana quit due to salaries limited by law at 850 dollars per year. The post office department cannot raise pay for 29 carriers, who resign after rejecting current pay and promises in the pending appropriation.
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Washington
Hutte, Mont
Post Office Department
Butte
Senate Naval Committee Approves Warship Funding Plan
The senate committee on naval affairs moves a favorable report on the naval appropriation bill. Increases include 3,000,000 more for new battleships, totaling 12,000,000. House provisions for two Dreadnaught type battleships remain unamended.
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Washington, D
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs Today
House
Government rejects Betsy Ross House purchase
The public buildings and grounds committee issued an adverse report on Representative Moon's bill to buy the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. The panel cites a long standing policy against acquiring property for historical or sentimental value, similar to earlier refusals to buy Lincoln's death site or Mount Vernon.
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Washington, D. C
Betsy Ross
Philadelphia
Committee On Public Buildings and Grounds
Representative Moon
Congress
Lincoln
Mount Vernon
Washington
House conferees agree on immigration measure
Washington report states that House conferees approved a conference report on immigration with 187 voting yes and 101 against. The action follows agreement in the committee and moves toward final passage.
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HOUSE
Washington, D. C
South Dakota Adopts Statewide Primary Law Reforms
The article notes a statewide primary law with an option feature eliminated. It highlights four reform measures including anti-pass monopoly and anti-corporation gift bills enacted into law and draws attention to Wolf bounty initiatives resurfacing.
South Dakota Legislature Advances Reform Measures
The South Dakota legislature has passed several reform bills including a comprehensive primary election law an anti lying law an anti pass law and a prohibition on for profit corporations contributing to political committees or candidates.
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South Dakota
Ante Treating Bill and 2 Cent Fare Move in South Dakota
Pierre South Dakota February 20 The ante treating bill stalls at the ban while the anti treating measure faces a Senate vote with party lines tight Dowdell's school text bill also battles to survive Amid conflicts the wolf bounty and herd law extensions to Lyman and Gregory counties move forward Senate and House pass several bills including county and city ordinance reforms tax and trust provisions and licensing changes from the state board of agriculture and banks.
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Gregory
Senate
Dowdell
Dillon
Carroll
House
Bill eNaniner
State Library
Robertson
Egee
Sioux Falls
Goodner
Perkins
Deering
Wise Dillon
Smith
Marshall County Court House Fund
Price
Cable
Railway Committee
Railway Commission
Whittemore
Tuca
State Board of Agriculture
Board of
Lumber trust probes to target retail dealers in state
Feb 20 report says Senators Schlitz and Miion and Representatives Itinan Whittemore and Smith will investigate the lumber trust shaping retail dealers. They may work pro bono and board themselves. The Dill bill passed the House and is expected to sail through the Senate. The committee includes three Democrats one independent Republican and a prohibitionist.
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House
Senate
Wittreape
Ponca Valley Press Association Formed In Bonesteel
Editors from Boyd and Keva Paha Nebraska and Gregory South Dakota counties organized the Ponca Valley Press association at Bonesteel S D The officers elected were President Mrs A M Armstrong Butte Gazette Secretary Opie Chambers Herrick Press and Treasurer W F Kinney Burke Gazette The next meeting is slated for Verrick in May.
Great Northern Adds Gravel Rich Land Near Sioux Falls
The Great Northern Railroad spent about 50,000 purchasing property in Sioux Falls over the last years and has just bought another fifty acres. The tract contains a heavy gravel deposit and includes the site of the new depot building.
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Great Northern
S. D
Great Northern Railroad Company
Sioux Falls
Open Rosebud lands in Tripp county for settlement debated
In Washington on February 19 Representative Burke and Senator Gamble steered Indian land bills through their committees. The measures propose opening Rosebud lands to settlement in Tripp County at escalating prices and include a $165,000 appropriation for state school lands and new allotment provisions for children born since the last division. If approved this session the lands would not open for a year or more.
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Washington
Burke
House Indian Committee
Gamble
Senate Indian Committee
Rosebud
Tripp County
South Dakota
sSuike
MecLaughlin
South Dakota county treasurers face 1 or 4 percent tax fee dispute
Sioux Falls reporters note Judge Jones hears a case on whether county treasurers may retain 1 or 4 percent commission for collecting city and school taxes. The 4 percent rate has been standard since 1877 under a general law, while Salem board of education attorneys argue section 1265 limits it to 1 percent.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Jones
Salem Board of Education
Cattle Survive Snow Despite Heavy Sheep Losses
Belle Fourche South Dakota reports show cattle losses lighter than sheep as snow and deep drifts hamper grazing. Cattle remain slender but resilient. many sheep flocks have suffered significant or total declines in the cold spell.
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Belle Fourche
Gra
Rapid Me
Indians Rescue cattle from river ice using lariats
In Greenwood Nebraska on February 16 a herd on Missouri River ice broke free when a large cake detached. Indians on the bank used lariats to rope cattle drifting downstream and pull them to shore, saving all but nine animals.
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Greenwood
Missouri River
Oan
Vermillion Van Hardware Dealers Elect Officers at Session
The state retail hardware men met in Mitchell in executive session to discuss association work. Officers named for the year include President T. D. Hawkins of Vermillion and first vice president Otto Muller of Aberdeen. An increased membership was reported but no member list was released. The next annual convention date was to be decided this afternoon.
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Mitchell
S. i
T. D. Hawkins
Vermillion
Otto
Muller
Aberdeen
I. J. Pixley
Montrose
H. V. Johnson
Redfield
B. (. Wattson
Chamberlain
B. I. Gregory
Alexandria
B.S. Girkinbine
Scotland
J. 4. Roper
Parker
H. VT. Johnson
B. G. Wattson
J. Rummell
Sioux Falls
O. C. Steensland
Beresford
W. ©. Webster
G. W. Serench
Ilk Point
Milliner Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition in Sturgis
Sioux Falls records show lla c Morris of Sturgis, a milliner, filing a voluntary bankruptcy petition. She lists liabilities of 3327 dollars and assets of 75 dollars.
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Sioux Balls
S. D
Lla
C. Morris
Sturgis
Twenty Chickens Kill For Lost Diamonds
In Deadwood South Dakota on December 16 Walter Miller slaughtered twenty chickens in his yard to recover two diamonds he lost there. After a thorough search without success he suspected a chicken swallowed them and found both jewels in the crop of the twentieth fowl, an old hen.
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Deadwood
S. D
Ireb
Walter Miller
Farm sale near Bridgewater buys Gage farm for $11,000
Bridgewater South Dakota February 16 M H Tiyan of this place has bought the Gage farm consisting of 158 acres adjoining the town site for 11000 the highest price for land sold in this locality
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Bridgewater
S. D
M. H. Tiyan
Gage
Wright Arrested on Sioux Falls Embezzlement Charge
Philadelphia report states Huartley G. Wright was arrested on a Sioux Falls warrant charging embezzlement of 1400 dollars from the Bee Hive company of that city. The arrest occurred last night in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Sioux Falls
Huartley G. Wright
S. D
Bee Hive Company
Medora Newell Honored by Hungary as Nation Guest
Miss Medora Olive Newell, Chicago Postal Telegraph operator, earned a Hungarian state welcome after aiding a shipboard wireless message to congratulate the ruler on his birthday. She joined 102 members of the Lindbergh peace commission aboard a liner, then enjoyed three weeks of feted hospitality before returning to her telegraph key.
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Chicago
Anthony Hope
Medora Olive Newell
Postal Telegraph Company
Market
Adams Streets
Chance
Miss Newell
Iingle Peace Commission
Washington
Wife No. 1 Drops Suit After Out of Court Settlement
Sioux Falls, Feb 18 The suit by Frederick W Sallet's former wife seeking a decree of divorce granted last May will not go to trial. The parties have settled differences out of court and the first Mrs Sallet has instructed her lawyers to withdraw the suit alleging he procured the divorce by fraud. Sallet had married Elizabeth Goetz, his former bookkeeper, after the divorce.
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Sioux Walls
S. C
Frederick W. Sallet
Yankton
Sallet
Mr. Sallet
Elizabeth Goetz
Merrll
Wis
Rate bill killed in South Dakota legislature
In Pierre on February 18 the house rate bill drew a crowd yet was quickly disposed of. Browne overturned a motion to reconsider and table the senate bill, action followed by a deferral request and then the bill's rejection. Dowdell’s uniform text book bill advances to the senate’s next stage before a long pause.
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Pierre
S. D
Browne
Senate
Narroll
Dowdell
Dudley
Labor in Black Hills to Join in Protest
The Trades Assembly met with Hills unions and voted to hold a protest meeting against the alleged abduction of Heywood Maeyer and Pettibone by Idaho and Colorado officials. The Miners' Union opera house will host the service next Sunday with a large turnout expected.
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LABOR
Black Hills
S. D
Trades Assembly
Hills
Hey- Wood, Maeyer and Pettibone
Idaho
Colorado
Miners’ Union Opera House
Lawmaker says capitol bill kept dealer power in check
J F Halladay, former state auditor, disputes press claims that the capitol bill favored South Dakota stone. He says the bill was amended to require other suitable material if home stone cost more than five percent above alternatives. The change removes strict like quality limits to curb quarrymen influence.
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Troquois
S. D
J. F. Halladay
State Auditor
State Capitol
Pierre
State Senate
South Dakota
Mr. Halladay
Drainage Gains Attention Over Irrigation in Legislature
In Brown County area farmers recall how opposition to a drainage ditch from the Marshall County line to James River shifted from Brown to Marshall County lands. The current legislature shows far more interest in drainage bills than irrigation projects.
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Aberdeen
Brown County
Desert
James River
Marshall County
Barnet Takes Charge of Standard Oil Interests at Deadwood
Vermillion South Dakota February 18 W M Barnett of this city has left for Deadwood to oversee Standard Oil Company interests in the Black Hills. Barnett previously served nine years as agent at Milwaukee depot here.
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Vermillion
SL. D
W. ML. Barnet
Deadwood
Standard Oil Company
Black Hills
Barnett
Milwaukee
Murder Left by the Jury A Deep Mystery
Canton South Dakota February 18 Michael Caffery of Sioux County Iowa was acquitted of the murder of J M Burns at Hudson last December after a twenty two hour jury deliberation. Four men testified they were asleep when a shot killed Burns. One of the four, Michael Caffery, was arrested and bound over for murder.
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Canton
S. D
Michael Caffery
J. M. Burns
Hudson
Ivo
Sioux County
Iowa
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Hungary
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Standard Oil
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