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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
1
Pierre Southe Dakota legislators face ten remaining session days with focus on appropriations bills. A deposit insurance law is expected, either the house or senate version or a compromise. Iswert's negotiable instrument bill, passed by the senate, meets house opposition and seems headed for defeat. Both houses were in recess and resume sessions.
Pierre South Dakota February 24. The new Tenth judicial circuit forms from the old Sixth and Judge Boucher of McPherson will move to this city because he has no residence in the district he serves. The bill creating the Tenth passed the legislature without opposition.
Belle Fourche South Dakota February 24 A co operative creamery will open about April 1 with capital of five thousand dollars. An ice house is built and filled and the creamery building nearly ready. Machinery will be ordered at once with Kk A Baldwin of Litchfield South Dakota named manager and buttermaker for a year.
Ada Pierson and Ova Johnson, Brown County youths from Clairmont, eloped Saturday evening but were halted in Huron on the way to Minnesota. Officers Barker and Hawley detained them awaiting directions from Ada's father George H Pier son, who asserts she is under age. Johnson, 22, says the woman is competent to marry.
Sioux Falls police arrested Julius Kruger and Bertha Weaver, formerly of Worthington Minnesota, on a statutory charge. Weaver’s husband Jesse Weaver of Nobles County Minnesota says he will prosecute. The couple were found with Weaver’s two young children aged 2 and 4 in the house.
Wenceslas Otto Gorski, Paderewski's stepson, denies filing a claim for part of his mother's wealth. He says their relationship is strained, lives in poverty in a Latin Quarter studio, and seeks a chicken farm in Switzerland where the mother invests. He claims he has only 5 cents and previously left Paderewski after marrying without consultation.
The Outlook will print Mr. Roosevelt's first article as an editorial contributor. An editorial staff suite is prepared in the Kennedy building for the ex-president with stenographer and private telephone. His name will appear on the Outlook office door but not on his suite door to reduce access.
In Sioux Falls, the Milwaukee road leads a group challenging the 2 cent emergency fare bill. Rail lines including the Minneapolis and St. Louis, Rock Island, Chicago Burlington Quincy, Northwestern, and others were cited to appear February 25. The attorney general seeks dismissal of the mandamus.
Totten's Vermillion Seed house reports a new northwest record with an order for 20 bushels of early white seed corn shipped to Russia last Friday. The shipment, made in late February, marks a novel instance in regional seed corn distribution.
In Aberdeen South Dakota on February 24 Mrs William Magee may answer to a murder charge after stabbing Mrs Cora Boyd during a quarrel over furniture. Boyd suffered wounds initially deemed minor but developed blood poisoning and are now deemed hopeless. Both women are colored and lived in adjoining second story apartments.
Evening in Yankton South Dakota February 24 engineer George Monk's train bound for the cement works was flagged by two boys Fisher Scott and Bruce Wallace. The train stalled at the edge of a landslide on a steep down grade preventing a possible wreck.
Philadelphia Feb 24 President Taft says progress is made on selecting a secretary of the treasury though the post remains unfilled The field includes Franklin MacVeagh of Illinois Myron T Herrick of Ohio Both are under consideration and cabinet appointments otherwise are listed with Knox Wick ersham Dick inson Meyer Nagel Ballinger Hitchcock Wilson and Ballinger as indicated
Jacques Mallet of Paris, sent to New York to study American banking, accompanied his sweetheart Nellie Roselle on the same ship when she was expelled as an undesirable alien. He declared his plan to return to Paris, hoping to escape government interference in private matters.
Washington reports Abraham Lincoln will appear on a new one cent piece about a month from now. President Roosevelt approved the plan after it was presented by Mint Director Leach. The Lincoln image uses a bronze medal design by Victor R Brenner of New York.
Pierre S D February 23 The bill to permit the sale of the Only Wooden State House in the United States was amended to require bidding and passed the senate. The house opposed the equal suffrage amendment and now defers coffin nails sales questions to the senate.
Washington February 23. John Iastman of Sisseton South Dakota a full blood Sioux Indian was today appointed as South Dakota's representative of the staff of the grand marshal of the inaugural parade.
Dallas South Dakota February 23 W W Conley of Chicago is leading a plan to build an electric railroad from Dallas via Lamro and Presho to Fort Pierre for passenger and freight service. Senator Sweeney of Presho Dr Livey and Fisher Bros of Fort Pierre and J J Wagner of Lamro have approved the project and Conley seeks Dallas investment.
Sioux Falls reported the release of Rome Glover from the Sioux Walls penitentiary under a pardon by the state board of pardons. Glover, convicted of larceny in Meade county, had neighbors influence delaying his confinement and prompted support for clemency. He served about four months of an 18 month term before pardon.
The town of Cavour nine miles east of Huron suffered a $50,000 blaze at Costello's hall on the Chicago and Northwestern line. The fire, believed to have started at a party, destroyed Costello's merchandise stock and the post office. The Cavour State Bank and Wm. Duester residence were also damaged, with only partial insurance. Huron fire department led by Chief Ritchlag dispatched by special train to assist.
Topeka dispatch notes Governor Stubbe will sign a bill passed by both houses creating an airtight prohibition law. The act makes it a misdemeanor to manufacture sell or barter intoxicants and ends drug store liquor permits. The Senate kept the house ban on physician prescriptions for liquor. Attorney General Jackson led the crusade against saloons.
Ten men are believed missing after a schooner sank off the coast near Vera Cruz during a recent storm. Reports say extensive damage along the coast. The schooner's name is not known.
In New York the trial of Frederick Joseph against Ferdinand Sulzberger exposes a proposed merger of Schwarzchild Sulzberger with Armour Swift Nelson Morris and Cudahy packing firms. Joseph alleges he bought 728.875 shares at 72.51 and turned them to Sulzberger who blocked return amid a 1907 panic and government actions. The stock has since risen, increasing the claimed loss.
The legislature has passed the anti-treating measure and it awaits governor Vessey's signature. Temperance workers celebrate as clubs may serve liquor without licenses, notably the Sioux Falls Elk club. A companion bill to send "dope fiends" to a special ward in Yankton hospital aims to curb the Highmore jag cure.
A 16 year old girl paid $29.50 for goods with a forged check payable to Helen Kelsey and signed Paul Browne. The check failed. the girl headed toward Milwaukee. The father will cover the loss and likely no prosecution. In Rapid City, Peter Hedin, a Swedish homesteader, remains partly paralyzed but conscious after a fall from hogs with neck dislocation corrected by a plaster cast. doctors say he may recover.
Washington reports the sundry civil bill likely includes a $100,000 allocation to build a new water works system on the Fort Meade military reservation in South Carolina. The current plant is inadequate and water supply fears have arisen. Martin has lobbied for the item and expects its inclusion.
A morning blaze in the Sweeney block over Saunders' bakery and grocery in Rapid City 8S Nebraska damaged the building and stock to an estimated 3500, with both insured.
The House yesterday approved a voluntary bank deposit law applying to deposits bearing four percent interest or less. A larger rate carries the same risk as the present system. The measure moves to the Senate for completion with broad support.
In Tyndall South Dakota on February 20 a Great Dane named Severn alerted Mrs J Bouza to a basement fire at her department store. She cut through the floor with an axe and used buckets of water to drench the blaze before firefighters arrived, saving the town from disaster.
Dramatic hearing in Chicago as Col William S Tucker seeks honorable retirement. His wife Mary Logan Tucker her mother Mrs John A Togan and son Capt John Togan Tucker testify against him. The wife filed for separate maintenance amid allegations of infidelity and desertion.
Washington reports brisk preparations for President Taft's March 4 inaugural with a stand being erected before the capitol east portico and a canvas cover ready if rain or bad weather prevails. The last indoors inauguration was Jackson in 1837.
Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich has emerged as dramatist and stage manager translating and staging Schiller's Bride of Messina at the court theater of Tsarskoe-Selo. The performance was presented by the Pavlovsky guards before Emperor Nicholas I.
Chicago reports the death of South Dakota author Will Otis Lillibridge. A. C. McClurg & Co. had just secured a contract for his latest novel The Dominant Dollar, slated for publication this fall, with other works not yet ready for release.
Walter H. Trumbull of Walter H. Trumbull & Co. Boston filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition listing liabilities of 148000 and assets of 50390. The filing cites inability to float bond issues and joint liability with a partner firm already in bankruptcy as the cause.
Pierre Feb 19 The house reconside red and passed Laxson's bill for reinsurance of mutual company reserves. It also amended the senate bill reducing state warrant interest from five to six percent.
Representative Hall appoints Oscar Gough of Canova as West Point cadet. Gough studies at Brookings agricultural college. Hall plans to bring up the Le Bean land district bill for passage in the House this week.
The residence of Herman Anderson was partly destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss likely 600 dollars, partly insured. The Anderson family has faced hard luck, as Mrs. Anderson died last week after a short illness.
Frank Ruffing was arrested in Bonesteel S D and jailed on horse theft charges. The crime dated February 1 involved two horses taken from farmer McIntyre near Carlock and driven into Nebraska. One horse was sold to a party from Town, the other housed in a Newport barn leading to the arrest.
In Poughkeepsie on February 19 at Vassar College the honor girls for the four years course were revealed after chapel. The list includes Katherine J. Gallagher of Geddes South Dakota Helen Wetley of Grand Rapids Michigan and Alice Dorothea of Rockford Illinois.
In Augusta Georgia Recorder Picquet imposes 210 million dollar total fines on seven Black defendants for violating a health ordinance by letting garbage accumulate. Each faces 30 million dollars but the judge suspends sentences if each deposits one dollar with the clerk.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty began testimony in Chicago on the Hill and Harriman railroad dispute. The case asks the commission to force the Northern Pacific to join the Harriman lines in a through rate from Missouri and Mississippi river points to Portland Oregon. The proceedings center on the commission’s power to compel competing roads to cooperate on through rates.
Four Niagara Falls residents completed a historic ice crossing from the American shore toward Goat Island. They faced peril as they slid on ice and narrowly avoided falls, maintaining proximity to the brink while crossing a narrow 12 foot channel.
New York February 19 Mr and Mrs W W Vanderbilt senior sail with Miss Beat rice Rutherford aboard the Kronprinzess in Cer cile. Mrs Vanderbilt smokes a cigarette in interview and dismisses questions about the trip while the couple’s suite is described as the most expensive on the ship.
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