In Biennial Session Sheldon Inaugurated South Dakota
The South Dakota legislature opened the biennial session with the inauguration of Gov. Sheldon of Brown County. Lawmakers organized both houses, elected officers, and heard Gov. Mollette outline tax reform, state finances, education, and railroad policy while detailing needs for an exhibit at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition.
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South Dakota
Chicago
Uncle Sam
Congress
Sisseton Military Reservation
Stenam
Black Hills
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Inaugural Ball Opens Legislature Reception in Pierre
The first day of the legislature ended with an inaugural reception and ball at the Loche house in Pierre. About 400 people attended, including roughly half the legislature and state officers. Gov. Sheldon and family arrived with ex Governor Mellette and Secretary Ringsrud, and guests filled the hotel center with dancing lasting until early morning.
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Sheldon
Mellette
Senate
Ita
House
J. W. Cone
A. N. van Camp
A. J. Kupas
W. 8. Ingram
W. A. Crooks
O. H. Johnson
S. F. Lucas
Haler Sater
R. W. Levett
Edward Brush
Col. Sol Star
C. N. Cooper
J. E. Pitcher
J. D. Alderich
David Eastman
Prernz
Ringsrud
Treasures of Land and Sea From Persian Heat to Ocean Gems
Scientific observers note the highest earth temperatures on Persia’s southwestern coast by the gulf. A deep well near Wheeling West Virginia aims to reach a mile without water. Oregon opals pop up in Willamette gravel. some fetch up to sixty dollars. Med sea mussel shells yield textile fibers seven inches by three with half a drachm of fiber per shell.
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State Board of Assessment
Telegraph
Express
Telephone
Western Union Telegraph
James River Valley
Engineer of Irrigation
Dion
C. H. Myers
Redfield
Hitchcock
Beadle County
Mellette
Spink County
Yankton
Excelsior
Fountain Mills
Woonsocket
Springfield
Messrs. Bonesteel & Turner
Irri
Persia
Gulf
Wheeling
W. Va
Oregon
Willamette
Multnomah County
Mediterranean
Cack of Room Argument Pushes Northward Land Frontier
Joserim Sampson, president of Fidelity Loan and Trust Co. of Sioux City, presents a breezy article arguing for Canadian annexation to the United States. He urges preparing for Dominion acquisition, citing coal, iron, copper, and lumber gains, and envisions a North American unity while urging Sioux City to attract 1,000,000 more farmers to northern Nebraska and South Dakota before considering Canada.
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Canada
Josefa Sampson
Fidelity Loan and Trust Company
Sioux City
Jaws
New York Sun
Dana
United States
Dominion
North America
Europe
Manitoba
St. Paul
Towa
Rocky Mountains
Iowa
Inchcate
Nebraska
South Dakota
Mitchell
Dakota
Lincoln
The
Joserim Sampson
Curious notes on speeds and wonders from old times
The piece describes Curios at 140 mph by rail and a Sadawaga Lake floating island of about 100 acres near Whittingham Vermont. It mentions a tiny Prowanuy circular saw used by Tiffany with 4000 rpm and a violent death of Thomas Odell near Greenup Kentucky after ingesting squirrels and other odd behaviors.
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Sadawaga Lake
Whittingham Vt
United States
Tiffany
Thomas Odell
Greenup
Thomas
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Organization OF
House and Senate
Pierre
Cone
Bennett
Brown
James M. Lawson
Everett
Beadle
Daniel Dwyer
J.S. Bean
Lawson
Dwyer
Bean
Ashley
Oficers
H.R. Horner
Robert Dollard
S. A. Kennedy
Mollette
House of Representatives
Soldiers’ Home
School of Mines
Arthur C. Mellette
State Board of Equalization and Assessment
State Board of Equalization
Uis
Commission of Adjustment
South
North Dakota
Dakota University
Supreme Court
Uch
Secretary of State
State Treasury
Superintendent of Schools
Wovernor Rays
School Book Trust
Sisseton
State University
Agricultural College
School of Mines and Normal Schools
State Penitentiary
Reform School
State Board of Charities
Oil Inspector
Labor Commission
Board of Health, Pharmacy Board
Dental Board
Home Stake Group of
Harney Peak
Titus E. Corkhill
Ori
H. J. Rice
Lavyain
James
Missouri Rivers
James River
Day and Clark Counties
Btute
Southakota
Circuit
Supreme and
Circuit Court
Curios
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