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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1910
Page
3
A fire at Peterson and Holst hardware sparked when a clerk lit gasoline in the rear oil shed. A flash and explosion hurled a small tank, setting the frame structure alight. Firefighters saved the stock with water damage likely under $100 and no insurance coverage noted.
Pierre South Dakota state game warden Bancroft faces an unspent $11,000 in the game fund due to lacking specific appropriation. He plans to introduce 100 pairs of Chinese pheasants from Washington and Oregon next spring, placing them with county caretakers who will release them later. He also studies Hungarian partridge and debates whether sage hen qualifies as prairie chicken under the law amid widespread sage hen populations in the northwest.
In Omaha and western territories the long heat and dry weather push ranges toward collapse with scarce pasture. Cattlemen fear light winter feed and higher beef prices as grasshoppers devastate forage. some seek forest reserve grazing. Bernie Brennan visits Sioux City jail inmate John Brennan on petty larceny charge.
Observers reported a bright meteor near ten o clock Monday night moving from the zenith toward the northwest. It appeared unusually large and illuminated the earth, breaking apart near the end with a cannonlike report heard miles away.
Bishop Busch presided over a large Indian congress at Cheyenne River Agency in South Dakota with about two thousand attendees from all reservations. Priests Lindebner Grote Ambrose and Bede joined, reports showed funds raised, nine teen baptisms and seventy seven confirmations, and plans for committees and a Sam Charger delegation to New Orleans. Next meeting set for Pine Ridge. Fort Pierre Episcopalians plan a $15,000 church.
South Dakota plans two large irrigation projects highlighted by State Engineer Lea. Clark County proposes a drainage ditch over 100000 dollars with a deep 30 foot section. a reinforced concrete tunnel may replace the deepest ditch to save land. East of Rapid City envisions a 2 million dollar system storing Rapid Creek water with a 25 mile canal to a storage reservoir for irrigation and year round use.
Classified notice offering for sale on easy payments bar fixtures new and second hand billiards and pool tables and bowls.
Advertises for a first class porter with requirement of experience at the Milwaukee Lunch Room. No further details provided.
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