South Dakota Crops Lead In Banner Spring Wheat Output
A South Dakota crop roundup shows spring wheat as the banner crop with 44,133,481 bushels and an average 18.7 bushels per acre, worth about 27.57 million dollars on the farm. Corn yields 61,614,739 bushels valued near 16.0 million dollars, potatoes planted on 35,71 acres yielding 96 bushels per acre and weighing 3,386,816 bushels worth 1.28 million. Total harvest across listed crops reaches 142,280,845 bushels valued at 60.27 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ranid City
S. D
South Dakota
Census Bulletin Indicates Growth in South Dakota Industry
A Census Bureau bulletin reports a substantial rise in South Dakota manufacturing. In advance of 1905 the state had 685 establishments, employing 191 workers directly in production and clerical staff, with total product value about $13.08 million compared with $9.52 million previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South Dakota
Snow limits slow Rosebud region weather impact
Gregory S D Jan 10 reports six inches of fay fall in early days but it does not hinder mails or freighting teams. Mild weather continues with a west northwest wind. Settlers arriving recently are less prepared for cold yet those here earlier than October are comfortably housed with sod or plastered frame homes. Trade remains solid with holiday purchases and prices for wood and staple crops noted. A business boom is underway as Murphy adds two thousand dollars in stock and Dixon plans lumber yards. local bankers Johnson Gardner prepare a bank with C F Brown as manager.
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Gregory
S. D
Fay
Ime
Murphy
Rosebud Lumber Company
Wm. Kristler & Co
Dixon
S. D. Johnson & Gardner
C. F. Brown
Union County Reports Five Deaths and Seventeen Births
In Elk Point South Dakota on January 10 the Union County records show five deaths and seventeen births for Desentes month. The year’s birth rate rose compared with the death list and the census law requires all deaths and births be reported to the clerk of courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Point
S. D
Desentes
Union County
Typhoid cases rise in Ethan S D with no deaths
Typhoid fever has been prevalent this winter in Ethan South Dakota with several cases reported. Some illnesses are serious but all are recovering. Two cattle cars bound for this area were delayed by a Sioux City inspector requiring yard disinfection. The O K restaurant in Ethan has been sold to Henry Stopfer who has run a Hawarden Indiana business for the past year.
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Ethan
S. D
Sioux City
O. K
Henry Stopfer
Hawarden
Escaped prisoner Morenous captured near St Cloud line
J J Morenous alias J M Allen an escaped prisoner from St Cloud Minnesota reformitory was taken off the westbound freight here by Sheriff Ed Clark and jailed to await officers from St Cloud Morenous is deaf and dumb and was serving time for grand larceny He had ordered goods and contemplated starting a blind pig invias a little town west of here He escaped from prison last June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
S. D
J. J. Morenous
J. M. Allen
St. Cloud, Minn
Ed Clark
St. Cloud
Morenous
Vias
Fire at Elr Point Burns King Elevator with Grain
A massive fire at the M. King grain elevator at Elr Point destroyed the structure and about 12,000 bushels of grain. The blaze also damaged the nearby grist mill but caused no major further losses. Insurance coverage was limited, amplifying the financial impact on King who operates multiple elevators in South Dakota.
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M. Point, & L
King
South Dakota
County Example Boosts Tax Returns Across South Dakota
Vermillion January 6 South Dakota counties urged to imitate Clay County’s tax return methods. Clay County audited moneys and credits, levied on mortgages, and court rulings upheld the levy. If adopted statewide, total unreported moneys and credits could raise county and city revenues significantly.
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Lay County
South Dakota
Vermillion
S& D
Boards of Commissioners
Clay County
Smith
Supreme Court
City County
Salmer
Rural Mail Routes Lengthened in Clay County
Vermillion South Dakota January 6 a general shake up of rural routes out of the city will take effect February 1. All four routes are lengthened from two to five miles adding new territory for carriers. New routes include two from Burbank one from Meckling and one from Wakonda. After February farmers in Clay county gain rural free delivery access.
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Vermillion
S. D
Burbank
Meckling
Wakonda
Clay County
Charges About Poor Farm Lead to County Inquiry
Yankton county commissioners ordered a public investigation into conditions at the Poor Farm eight miles east of Yankton, supervised by George Stiger. Citizens allege superintendent abuses two inmates and mismanages the farm causing a large deficit for taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton County
Yankton
S. D
Board of County Commissioners
George Stiger
Sioux Falls Men Plan Electric Interurban to Parker or Marion
Sioux Falls citizens form the Sioux Falls Interurban company with Dr. R. I. Brown as president and George A. Pettigrew as secretary to build an electric railroad south westward to Parker or Marion Junction. Construction to begin as soon as spring weather allows and land rights are secured.
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Sioux Falls
Parker
Marion Junction
George A. Pettigrew
Michael Gerin
J. A. Gross
Messrs. Gerin
Gross
Farm hand inherits Irish estate in Bunnhill Gal way
Jas Spratt, a former county poor farm worker in Yankton D. D., has learned he inherits 2,000 acres of property in Bunnihill Galway Ireland. He left the United States to claim the legacy after eighteen months in America, while winter grips Yankton and the river risks freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton
D. D
Jas. Spratt
Bunnihill
Galway
Ireland
Spratt
Boyles & Boulnng
Heavey
Hallo
Refused license delays wedding for Parnell and Sioux Falls bride
Canton North Dakota January 10 The clerk of courts A Brady Beck refused to issue a marriage license to Howard Parnell and a Sioux Falls woman Parnell vowed a mandamus writ but changed plans and the bride left for Sioux City by train. An officer intercepted Parnell at the depot and returned him to Sioux Falls as the bride reached Beloit by train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, & D
Ourts
A. Brady Beck
Howard Parnell
Oehmen & Ovre
Sioux Falls
Parnell
Sioux City
Howard
Beloit
Incendiary Attempt Foiled by Wind at Beresford Lumber Yard
An unknown arsonist saturated laths at the Queal Lumber company sheds with oil and toppled a lighted lantern in an attempt to burn the lumber yard. High winds extinguished the blaze, foiling the plan after a prior mill and electric plant fire in Beresford, South Dakota.
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Beresford
S. D
Queal Lumber Company
Freak of nature reported from Faulkton artesian pond
A strange creature was taken from an artesian pond on William Lively’s farm near Faulkton. It resembles a bullhead fish but has four legs and frog like feet, three lobed skin projections with hairlike tubes, and a long tapering tail. It supposedly appears in local ponds after they are dug and dies when removed from water.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Faulkton
William Lively
Iaulkton
Cresco men consider gas and door plant in Rapid City
A Cresco Iowa party arrived in Rapid City to assess prospects for a gas and door factory. They are optimistic and plan a meeting soon with the Commercial club to set definite arrangements for the new plant.
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Rapid City
S. D
Cresco
Commercial Club
State lands board schedules sales across numerous counties
The South Dakota lands board named counties and dates for spring land sales including Pennington Minnehaha Hyde Hand Paulk Edmunds Brown Dey and Marshall with leases set March 15 for south of the 2d standard parallel and March 22 elsewhere. Lease terms run three years in the south and east and five years in other areas.
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Township 125
Marshall
Gregory
Pennington
Lawrence
Stanley
Lyman
Union
Retail Dealers Meet in Mitchell South Dakota
The ninth annual convention of the South Dakota Retail Dealers association will be held in Mitchell January 28 24 and 25. President Grimm of Parkston and Secretary Tyler of Sioux Falls have drafted a busy three day program with papers from state and out of state experts on topics for retailers including advertising legislation premiums and catalogue house competition.
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Mitchell
South Dakota Retail Dealers’ Association
Grimm
Parkston
Tyler
Sioux Falls
A. I. Grimm
George A. Silsby
Esponse
P. I. Wickham
Alexandria
Ll. S. Tyler
W. J. Andrews
J. B. Goltra
Madison
A. J. Berdahl
Garretson
A. Mittelstadt
Milbank
Elmer Waters
Iroquois
B. F. Cords
Oldham
Adolph Harms
Wentworth
E. E F. Gross
Gettysburg
E. J. Hannix
Commercial News
J. D. Bartow
Plankinton
C. P. Hanson
Bridgewater
E. F. Henry
Flandreau
D. H. Loftus
DeSmet
Oscar Kvalshaug
Beresford
E. L. Meisch
C. T. Broders
Minneapolis
O. B. Anderson
Colton
H. Bennett
Castlewood
P. W
Bank in Trouble at Providence Standards Court
Boston January. The Massachusetts supreme court heard a petition by state savings bank commissioners to restrain Provident Securities and Banking company from further business. A temporary injunction was issued and a receivership hearing will follow. The South Dakota company with 8,900 depositors faced alleged insolvency and poor investments totaling 182000. Samuel Dalton, longtime adjutant general for Massachusetts, is named president.
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Boston
Provident Securities and Banking Company
Massachusetts Supreme Court
State Savings Bank Commissioners
South Dakota
Savings Bank Commissioners
Supreme Court
Samuel Dalton
Massachusetts
Woman Fatally Slain in Chicago Home Attack
Mrs A W Gentry a 26 year old wife of Universal Trading and Supply Co president was murdered at 932 West Avenue Chicago by boarder F J Constantine. She died before making a statement. Constantine fled without hat or coat and is sought by police. Doctor Doherty said the wound severed major neck vessels and was from behind.
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Chicago
A. W. Gentry
Universal Trading and Supply Company
F. J. Constantine
Gentry
Constantine
Polica
Ge Ea Constantine
J Bent Vy
Constanti
David J. Doherty
Mrs. Gentry
Doherty
Mr. Gentry
Earthquake Felt Across Kansas Missouri Nebraska Border
A distinct north south quake lasting 23 seconds to a minute was felt across western Missouri eastern Kansas and southern Nebraska around 6 17 pm. No major damage reported though plaster fell in Kansas and people fled to streets. Lincoln Nebraska also felt a strong shock at 6 30 pm shaking chandeliers and globes with no damage.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma and
Indian Territory
Salina
Kan
St Joseph
Joplin
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska City
Syracuse
Financiers Split Over Shaw Aid For Government Funds
The Tribue day notes a split among two powerful financier groups in New York over securing Secretary Shaw to place government funds locally. One faction led by National City Bank and linked to Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb, and Harriman pushes for deposits here while the other block including First National, Chase, Liberty and Rockefeller associates advocates home rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jacob H. Schiff
Chamber of Commerce
Shaw
National City Bank
James Stillman
Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb & Co
E. H
Towns Try Novel Plan to Reincorporate Land Strip
Selby plans to annex a two rod wide strip five and a half miles long reaching to the Bangor court house in Walt Worth county to become part of its municipality. If two thirds of affected landowners consent the move is legal and could reshape county seat control. Bangor residents vow to counter the strategy before spring elections.
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Court House
Bangor
Aberdeen
S. D
Selby
Walt Worth County
Hearst Mercantile gifts holiday workers at Homestake mine store
The Hearst Mercantile Company in Lead, D. distributes holiday gifts to employees in line with Mrs Phoebe Hearst’s wishes. Department heads receive 25 dollars each while clerks drivers and others get 10 to 20 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. D
Hearst-Mercantile Company
Homestake
Phoebe “A. Hearst
New York
Mercantile Company
Hog Cholera Strikes Davison County Farms
Reports from Davison County indicate hog cholera widespread in Tobin and Baker townships with dealers suffering heavy losses. A farmer counted over 100 fat hogs dead after a sudden outbreak while officials warn the disease may spread via migrating crows amid a mild winter across the state.
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Salem
Davison County
Tobin
Baker
South Dakota Railroads Report Sets State Mileage And Taxes
The South Dakota board of railroad commissioners reports 36 698 miles total for lines, with 3033 31 miles operated in the state. Railroads paid 324 718 01 in state taxes last year.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners
W. H. Stanley
South Dakota
Fort Pierre Drillers Strike Water and Gas at 1100 Feet
Fort Pierre South Dakota January 8 drillers in the artesian well at Fort Pierre struck a flow of water and gas at about 1100 feet. The success spurred the organization of a company of leading city businessmen with a capital of 250000 to fund a deep test well for oil or dry gas.
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Fort Pierre
Pierre
S. D
Car supply improves as Black Hills move shifts traffic
Indirectly the Northwestern towns gain from a Black Hills movement as cars loaded with ties and bridge material go west then return east full of grain or stock. The result is a broader distribution of cars and a generally met demand for rolling stock in the region.
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Miller
S. D
Black Hills
Chicago and Northwestern Lays Steel for New Grade in Rapid City
Rapid City project reports a force exceeding 100 workers laying the main track and a new siding to Rapid River mills. Six crossings required to cross Milwaukee tracks. Nearly a mile of rails pushed on the new route toward Pierre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
S. D
Chicago and Northwestern
Rapid River Mills
Pierre
Kelley Case Dropped by County Officials
Readable county report states Douglas County commissioners urged no further prosecution of Charles A. Kelley. Kelley was tried three times. two juries acquitted him, one jury failed to reach a verdict. Officials note ongoing charges are deemed harmful to Readle County.
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Kelley
Huron
Charles A. Kelley
Readle
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Soan
Clompett
News OF the Rosebud
Elr Point
Missouri River
H. T. Zimmerman
Miner County
Zimmerman
Puor
James Spratt
Freak OF Nature
South Dakota Board
South Bakeda Association
George L. Dingman
Minnapolis
Minn
E. W. Small
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Webster
B. Nelson
Laverne
St. Paul
Minnesota
H. V. Jones
Commercial Bulletin
Northwest Trade
Minneanoliis
A. E. Young
Boarder
Mrs. Hearst
Davson
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