02 Jul 1886
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1886
Page
1
Four years after prohibition began in Iowa, a wave of political references fills the page. Mentions include Senator Allison, Beecher, Gladstone, and Sioux City development. Reports cover local deaths, murders, and civic projects, plus editorial moves in Sioux Falls and Huron and college milestones at Dakota Agricultural College and Mitchell University.
Major T. S. Free reports from the soldiers reunion in Mitchell that a large turnout enjoyed the event. He notes it as the best gathering in years with many old soldiers present and all having a splendid time.
Judge Gifford urges Dakota citizens and officials to send plain, factual letters describing how the land office policy under Sparks harms honest settlers. He requests concrete examples, losses of final proofs, cancelled filings, contested patents, and higher costs to secure titles.
A Jamestown couple rowed the Jim River from the Missouri near Yankton to Ypsilanti, averaging 25 miles daily with provisions and tent. This marks the first extensive white settlement voyage along the river, highlighting white exploration progress in the region.
The Sioux City Journal notes Mitchell hosted a large, satisfied crowd with full hotels from cellar to garret. Sanborn house fed 250 attendees. Bond hotelier praised for solid service. Weather was fine, sickness minimal, and locals showed ample capacity to care for visitors. Salem Register discusses support for the C St P M O railroad through Mitchell and shifts in opposition.
The Kingsbury County W C T U met at the DeSmet Baptist church with strong turnout from Arlington Lake Preston De Smet and Hartland. In the evening a rising vote adopted a preamble and resolution pledging support and cooperation with other groups to secure quick state admission under the Sioux Falls convention framework and the people’s last election.
David Davis dies in Bloomington after a comatose decline from Brights disease. Blaine heads to Bar Harbor for campaign prep. Beecher and wife arrive in Liverpool to hear Gladstone. Beecher to lecture. Alexander Miller and wife killed by a train in Lafayette. Ottawa denies Canadian fisheries relaxation. Canada to enforce laws against U S vessels. Prince Luithold named Regent of Bavaria during King Otto’s occupation. Nail mill strike ends in Bellville with wages set at seventeen cents per keg. Crops improve in Hawkeye and Horse Shoe valleys as rain returns. Washington confirms Desmond for Iowa, EWing for Illinois US attorney. post office inspectors dropped.
The nation reacts to the expulsion of Bonapartist princes while labor unrest continues with Lake Shore switchmen on strike in Chicago and a Pittsburgh nailers strike settlement granting partial concessions. They report a Kansas real estate man R H Lawton found dead in Cincinnati and a warehouse fire in Peoria. The Senate panel reports against Payne bribery probes and the president vetoes 30 pension bills. misses Rose Cleveland edits a Chicago literary life. George Davis executed near Montgomery for the 1918 murder.
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