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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
6
A fragmented notice lists bale items and farm products for sale on easy payments. Mentions new and second hand goods, billiard and bale choices, crops on several acres from a Minneapolis connection.
President Taft in Washington, D. C. received the engrossed copy of the Canadian reciprocity agreement signed by Vice President Sherman and Speaker Clark. The measure awaits Taft's signature to become law. In Olympia, J. P. Wilson confessed to murder, claiming amnesia, after detailing to the prosecuting attorney a killing with an axe of Archie Coble and his bride in their bed three weeks prior.
The Dakota Farmer tallies crop conditions from 400 correspondents. Reports show wheat oats and barley prospects poor in many areas while corn stands out as exceptionally tall and in need of rain in parts. Weather variability and misreporting have inflated fears. overall wheat leading regions show better conditions.
Virgil and Wessington Springs residents report repeated telegraph outages prompting a railroad commission hearing. The hearings will assess if the complaints show good cause for lack of service and are scheduled at each town on dates to be announced.
Former Senator Aldrich told the Senate investigating committee he and President Taft had no preference for Lorimer and denied authorizing Hines to claim White House support for Lorimer. Hines testified Aldrich said Taft favored Lorimer. Lorimer’s election followed. Brandeis to aid Alaska probe on Controller Bay scandal.目的 investigate improper influence for Guggenheim Morgan terminal property.
Commissioner of Corporations Smith refuses to produce for examination the confidential information gathered by agents for the United States Steel Corporation probe. The data underpins his report on the United States Steel Corporation.
Shelbyville Indiana recounts repeated marriages of Mary Luther Smith to Cary Smith. First ceremony at Greensburg with her mother aid. license obtained. Second wedding in Indianapolis after eloping when the ceremony was performed by a man falsely claiming to be a minister. Luther deserted her. he serves in the regular army.
Bishop W A Quayle announces a so called soul hospital to aid reformers in Chicago and near Des Plaines at a Methodist Camp meeting ground. He calls Chicago wicked aggressive and plans a final battle to treat sin and uplift daily life.
A speaker argues for a new therapeutic institution for girls and boys facing temptations and spiritual illness. The plan would offer refuge through prayer, kindness, and guidance to promote right living, noting only physical ailments now have places to seek help.
The South Dakota railroad commissioners ordered machinery and repaired goods returned to manufacturers or dealers to be charged at half the minimum freight rate starting August 1. They urged railroads to grant low special rates west of the Missouri River to ease drought hardships, and scheduled a White Butte station hearing for July 25.
The state board of assessment of railroads finished the 1911 assessment with values mostly unchanged from 1910. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul coast line from Aberdeen west rose to 9000 per mile, up 740 from last year. New lines from Belle Fourche to Newell and Gettysburg to Blunt and Milwaukee extensions in Cheyenne river reservations were set at 4000 per mile.
A Gardner Bros traction engine and separator broke through a steel bridge over the James River at Yankton South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon. The engine and outfit were wrecked with a loss of 2000 dollars. Engineer Earl Redelson went down with the engine but surfaced, was rescued, and taken to hospital. he is not seriously injured and expected to recover.
New York City report to Congress claims the sugar trust gave $10,000 to the 1892 Republican fund to influence Benjamin Harrison’s election over Grover Cleveland. John E. Parsons argues corporations have right to campaign funding and warns against limiting capital and prices. He criticizes Gary plan as socialist and counsels against restricting trade.
Charles Strohm of a homestead southeast of Winner Dakota recounts catching a large rattler in a steel trap after holes were blocked. He leaped back in alarm when the serpent snapped at the trap jaws, lifting the rattle from the hole and losing balance in the shock.
The state superintendent reports no shortage of teachers for fall and winter. Certificates are arriving from farmers real estate men and others long inactive in teaching, and districts now expect ample teaching staff with no scarcity in the state.
Aberdeen South Dakota Pickler son of the late Congressman John A Pickler who recently bought the Faulkton Advocate denies plans to seek a state office He also says he does not back Lieutenant Governor Frank M Byrne of Faulkton for governor and rejects the report in a local paper
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