Black Rust Drainage Plan Aims to Save Lowland Crops
Farmers and landowners in Brown county contemplate drainage canals to remove surplus water as they tour the wheat belt. G C Garvin of Winona Minnesota and General Samuel Percy report fields showing red rust and damp weather but no black rust so far. They remain optimistic a good wheat crop may come to South Dakota.
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Aberdeen, &. D
G. C. Garfvin
Winona Minn
Samuel Per
Brown County
Tlemen
South Dakota
Clay and Yankton Counties Consider Drainage Ditches
Vermillion South Dakota July 1 Clay county board will hear a petition asking for drainage ditches on river bottoms to relieve farmers from constant flooding this summer A similar petition is circulating in Yankton county The plan includes three ditches deepening the creek widening a channel east of Gayville and a route from west of Gayville toward the Vermillion river The project would be modest in cost but large in benefit draining land along the Missouri river and improving fields now submerged
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Clay
Yankton
Vermillion
Clay County Board “Commissioners
Yankton County
Carj
Gay- 7
Gayville
Missouri
Missouri River
Tiveness
Not Favorable for Corn Says Rain Delays Harvest Prospects
Vermillion July 1 The past week has been poor for farmers as rain fell nearly daily and cooler spells hindered field work. Crop experts fear only a half crop this fall unless hot weather arrives soon. Fields need cultivation but wet soil slows effort and early frost threatens top yields.
Courthouse project in Yankton moves to completion
Yankton county takes over the half finished courthouse after bid disputes and contractor death. The county ends its agreement with Des Moines architects W J Parsons & Sons and replaces the contractor with Fore Reed as foreman. Webster Tomlinson of Chicago oversees ongoing work.
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Matt
Yankton
Engelbreth
D. Palmer
W. J. O Parsons
Webster Tomlinson
Chi
Coalition
Fore‘Reed
Tonitea States Post Office
Thrice Tried to Die in Unfounded Cupid’s Altar Tale
A young man named Cooper of Yankton South Dakota attempted suicide over alleged unrequited love. He drank carbolic acid but was stopped by Miss Nelson. He then tried to drown himself in a river and later hanged himself with rope but was again prevented. Severe electrical storms touched the region, including a lightning strike that damaged Dan Brooks’s home but caused no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton
St. Helena
Neb
Aeph “Cooper
Nelson
Cooper
Te River
Dan’ Brooks
Flooding Reaches Foothill Streams As May Floods Persist
May and June rainfall saturates foothill regions with fourteen inches of water. Ravines become torrents, flat lands form pools and lakes, and drainage ditches are overwhelmed. Artesian well crews plan to relocate sites to avoid flooded areas. crops except corn suffer in impacted counties.
Mitchell Guilty in Oregon Land Fraud Case
In Portland on July 6 Senator John H Mitchell was found guilty of taking pecuniary compensation for lobbying before federal departments. The verdict was announced amid fireworks and court din as Mitchell faced sentencing. Born John Mitchell Hipple in 1835, he later adopted the Mitchell surname and built a long Portland career as a lawyer and public official.
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Portland
Oregon
United States
John H. Mitchell
Mitchell
Washington
de Haven
Slayden
Senator Mitchell
Washington County
Pennsylvania
John Mitchell Hipple
Hipple
California
John Hipple Mitchell
Ore
Corporation Attorney
Senate
Oregon Land Frauds Indictments Tie Mitchell Hermann
Washington reports that in December indictments were returned against Senator John H. Mitchell and Representative Binger Hermann of Oregon in connection with long running Oregon land frauds. The case centers on Hermann’s knowledge as former land commissioner and ties to the Mitchell machine as investigations probe actions pre Roosevelt era. Hermann resigned in 1903 after a lengthy tenure in the land office and four terms in Congress.
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Washington
John H. Mitchell
Binger Hermann
Oregon
Portland
Oregon Ring
Mitchell
Hermann
Congress
Department of Justice
Hitchcock
Department
Mitchell Machine
Secretary of the Interior
A. R. Greene
Lawrence
Kan
Roosevelt
McKinley
Land Office
General Land Office
Representative Tongue
Family seeks to break will of automobilist La Roache
Philadelphia reports that Frederick A. La Roache's widow faces a challenge to a letter written days before his July auto race. The surrogate in New York will hear the case next Thursday. The letter left Ira Roche $138,000 and racing assets, with no provision for his wife.
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Philadelphia
New York
Frederick A. la Roache
Ira Roche
la Roche
Russia hints at armistice as Washington talks proceed
The article notes Russia would readily quit the war if Japan agrees to pause until the Washington peace conference. Roosevelt resumes efforts to broker an armistice with delicate negotiations yet an overall hopeful outlook. Russia’s consent hinges on Japan’s willingness to sheath the sword during the talks.
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St. Petersburg
Washington
Roosevelt
Japan
Russia
Japanese Army Dispatch From Manchuria
A Tokyo dispatch reports initial July 1600 actions near Kangpin and Finniu river with Japanese repelling cavalry and mounted infantry attacks. It notes enemy losses over 400 and Japanese losses at ninety, plus further dawn engagements near Nor Omok and Yusyong with continued enemy retreat.
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Tokio
Manchuria
Pinniu River
Kangpin
Shishiku
Finniu River
Nor- Omok
Purgorg Road
Yusyong
Linevitch Reports Victory Over Japanese Battalion
General Linevitch telegraphs the emperor reporting the annihilation of a Japanese battalion on July 1 near Suavaitse, sixteen miles south of Liao Choupen, St. Petersburg dispatch July 6.
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Linevich
St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Suavaitse
Liao Choupen
Mutiny and chaos at Odessa after Potemkine uprising
The Official Messenger account outlines June mutinies by the Kniaz Potemkine sailors and socialists in Odessa, mobs looting harbor warehouses, fires and hundreds of casualties. It notes later clashes with Admiral Kruger's squadron and the Podiedonosetz's attempted submission to the mutinous faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Odessa
Associated Press
Revolutionary Committee
Kniaz Potemkine
Black Sea
Potemkine
Kruger
Odessa Pier
Georgi Pobiedonosetz
Sebastopol
Pobiedonosetz
Jeanes
Snel
Gregorieff
Podiedonosetz
Kniaz Potemkine Pursued by Torpedo Boats
In Odessa on July 6 reports say several torpedo boats hunt the Kniaz Potemkine to sink her. The crews include volunteer stokers, ensuring obedience and intent to destroy the renegade ship.
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Odessa
Kniaz Potemkine
Massive Philadelphia raid shuts down 150 joints
In Philadelphia on July 6 a massive police sweep shut down 150 houses from massage parlors to opium dens and speakeasies. About 2,000 people were arrested, 400 police were involved, fines totaled around 5,000 dollars, and bail for proprietors and inmates neared 100,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Law and Order Society
Take Divorce Census Seeks Marriage and Divorce Data
The census bureau will finish field work on the manufacturing census and then gather marriage and divorce statistics in states and territories. At the president’s request, results are to be submitted to Congress early in December, detailing laws, numbers of marriages and divorces, and common divorce grounds.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Congress
Controversy Over Mississippi Textbook Arithmetic
A Jackson Mississippi dispute erupts after the state board selects a textbook with a sample showing a math problem about 200 white children and 20 colored pupils. Posters printed in the book provoke unpalatable digs at the South, prompting uncertainty about future action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Jackson
Miss
State Board
Acquit 14 Year Old Girl in Minnesota Murder Case
Antoinette Seldensticker, 14, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart Herman Shipp last May in Wheaton Minnesota. Jealousy drove her act as she confessed discovering Shipp with other girls and two suicide attempts followed.
Bishop Joyce Stricken at Red Rock Meeting
The Rev. L. W. Joyce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church for Minnesota, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a Red Rock meeting. He developed a paralysis and his condition is listed as serious. he is 69 years old.
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Methodist Church
Minneapolis
Minn
L. W. Joyce
Methodist Episcopal Church
Diocese of
Minnesota
Red Rock
Joyce
Devlin's Bank Fails as Topeka Lenders Face Crisis
Topeka July 6 The First National Bank controlled by coal magnate Charles J. Devlin closed its doors amid a lender crisis. Receiver J T Bradley will examine losses, with bank officials noting the trouble stems from overreaching lending to a single borrower, not dishonesty. The bank reportedly holds Devlin's paper at about 1 million, while State Treasurer Kelly notes the bank held 547000 of state funds and Devlin is a bondsman.
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Topeka
Kan
First National Bank
Charles J. Devlin
Col. W. H. Rossington
J. T. Bradley
National Bank
Devlin
T. T. Kelly
Kelly
American Boat Wins At Henley Great Britain Festival
At Henley on July 6 the Great Britain's annual water festival opened with fine weather and strong turnout. In the grand challenge cup heats Vespers of Philadelphia, racing on the inside breaking wind, surged ahead yet Cambridge later spurted to overtake them. Vespers regained pace but finished with a full boat length deficit in the best time across three heats. Both crews wore the effects of the tense race.
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Henley
England
Great Britain
Vespers
Philadelphia
Leander
Jesus College
Thames Rowing Club
Christ College
Buck’s
Cambridge
Fatal White City scenic railway derailment kills two
At White City on the scenic railway an accident at 4 30 p m left one man dead a woman fatally injured and two others severely hurt. The loaded cable car of sixteen passengers derailed on the first incline after the gripman released the cable and the car sped down the plunge crashing off the track and overturning.
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Chicago
White City
Robert Spencer
HAS FAITH IN ROOSEVELT
Governor Blanchard addresses New Orleans business leaders at the first spike ceremony for the belt railroad praising Theodore Roosevelt as head of the Panama Canal project. He says Roosevelt is a strenuous, decisive leader, earning national confidence and admiration for driving canal completion.
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New Orleans
Newton C. Blanchard
Louisiana
President Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Blanchard
Theodore Roosevelt
Fatal Flood In Guanajuato Traps City In Chaos
Floods from a Friday night storm devastate Guanajuato Mexico with 200 to 1,000 dead and over a million dollars in damage. The American consulate building and multiple hotels are submerged or wrecked as panicked residents flee toward the hills and Church of San Diego collapses trapping worshippers. Rescue efforts continue as authorities restore telegraph service and coordinate aid from nearby towns.
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Guanajuato
Mex
Federal
Church of
San Diego
Dwight Furness
Auto Racing Fatalities at Morris Park Session
New York reports a fatal accident during the Morris Park heavyweight auto race as Paul Sartori's 60 HP car struck a fence injuring bystander Joseph Hollihan. Webb Jay wins with a world record mile and two other events carried by fast entries including Louis Chevrolet and Christie contesting the Dr. Thomas trophy amid a strong two day meet.
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New York
Morris Park
Paul Sartori
Joseph Hollihan
Sartori
Roberts
Webb Jay
Chevrolet
Jay
Paul Bruger
Louis Chevrolet
Oldfield
American Automobile Association
Automobile Club of America
Chicago Automobile Club
Christie
Chicago
Dan” Vargis
Reo Bird
Dr. Thomas
Walter Christie
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Fiat
C. J. S. Miller
Dan”’ Wurgh
W. Gould Brokaw
Power Arnault
Guy Vaughan
Major Miller
Parker Heard From at Tammany Fourth of July
New York reports Tammany Society’s Fourth of July observance at the Wigwam with Governor Glenn of North Carolina and Lieutenant Governor Sanders of Louisiana as chief speakers. A letter from former Democratic presidential candidate Alton B Parker urged business divestment from politics.
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New York
Tammany Society
Manhattan
Glenn
North Carolina
Sanders
Louisiana
Alton B. Parker
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Ncourthouse Builders
Hand ‘County
Will
F. A. la Roche Contest Instrument
Green Street
Bureau
Mississippi
Wheaton, Minn
Mexico
Parker
Tammany
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