Raiders 30000 Miles Cruise Ending at Hampton Roads
The German cruiser Mitel Fried rich and crew, after a long raiding voyage from Shanghai to the Atlantic, bagged prizes including the Jean and Kilaton, sank several ships for coal and provisions, then limped to Hampton Roads to land passengers and repair, with the captain recounting the journey from a journal.
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Newport News
Shanghai
China
Itel
Schargest
Witel
Jean
Cardiff
Wiel
Huel
Kilaton
Aster Island
Waster Island
Mindt
Admiral Cradock
Cape Horn
Atlantic
Isabelle Brown
Raine
William P. Frye
Pierre Loti
Jacobsen
Dunkirk
England
Dix
Brazil
Winerby
Ile Argentine
Hampton Roads
Cneh
Ieen Mand
Man Attacks in South Dakota After Reading Menace Publication
James Huison a Gregory county homesteader becomes violent after allegedly reading the Appeal to Reason. Neighbors pursue and capture him after a desperate struggle, detaining him until authorities arrive. Huison, 37, single, believed God summoned him to avenge deaths and wielded a large pocket knife in the spree. He terrorized near S G Smith's home and moved toward Lucas before capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlock
James [Huison
Gregory County
Hilison
S. G. Smith
Smith
Iueus
Lucas
Beheld Death Defying Loops Of Air Acrobat Art Smith
John B. G. Haines of Mitchell watched Art Smith perform in Chicago, looping a Curtis biplane twenty times at 3,500 feet and, after a perilous string of spins and dives, righting near the ground. Haines plans to return to make his home in Mitchell with his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John BG. Haines
Mitchell
Gong
Champaign
Art Smith
Mr. Haines
Smith Filis
Chicapo
Smith
Curtis
Mr. Taines
Vermillion May Vote on Return to Commission Plan
Vermillion South Dakota residents may vote on returning to a commission form of government if no legal entanglements arise. The measure could place the question on a forthcoming ballot pending approvals.
City Commissioners to Review Petition on Commission Government
A petition signed by residents asks that the question of adopting a commission form of city government be submitted. The city attorney will study legal questions before the commissioners act next Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Council
King Named Secretary of Charities Board Meeting
Sioux Falls South Dakota state board of charities and corrections held a session in this city after arriving from Redfield. Five prisoners were paroled as Warren Green of Hazel was elected president and King of Mitchell became secretary. The group reviewed employment plans for about 50 men made idle by shirt factory closure, with delays in farm work and stone quarry restart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
S. C
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Redfield
W. W W. King
Hay shortage hits ranchers as snow drifts block stock feeds
North of Pierre South Dakota ranchers report scarce hay not reachable due to deep snow drifts. Sled teams must unload from the tops of piled stacks, hoping weather breaks to settle snow and reveal the hidden forage. A driver named McGruder vanished with a sleigh load, wandering home hours later, while his sled remains buried under prairie drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
S. D
McGruder
Okobojo
Emergency Use of the Emergency Clause in Iowa Sessions
Pierre summarizes how the emergency clause was applied across three sessions. In 1911, 265 laws were enacted with 120 classified as emergencies. In 1912, 871 laws with 154 emergencies. In 1915, 315 laws with 105 emergencies, amid sentiment against attaching the clause without a real emergency.
Ticket Agent Leaves Road
Wallace A. Darling city ticket agent for Milwaukee system resigns after four years, including two as current post. He will start with Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is praised by travelers as an efficient popular railroad man with a purse gift after a hospital operation at St. Joseph’s a year ago.
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Wallace A. Darling
Milwaukee Stytiem
Darling
Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company
Joseph's Hospital
Ann
Cleaning Gun Fatal at White Butte Home
North of White Butte at the Jerry la Plant residence, a shotgun accident killed Mrs. La Plant, 26, as her husband cleaned the gun before rabbit hunting. A physician arrived too late. she left five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zelle Fourche
Lemmon
White Butte
Jerry la Plant
Mr. la Plant
Mrs. la Plant
Byrne Endorses Expense Funds for State Officials
Governor Byrne defended expense payments for state officers and judges as a legitimate public cost, arguing salaries are low and travel and living costs are part of serving the state. He cited examples in North Dakota and urged policy over constitutional questions, noting past recommendations to require residence at the capital. He backed rent for a governor’s residence and a per‑diem style allowance for railroad commissioners, insisting the actions serve the public interest.
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Miget
Supreme Court
Cpital
North Dakota
Perro
Byrne
Contimeus
Sion
Mitchell Wins Double Debate in Northern League Event
Mitchell high school debaters won both rounds defeating Huron and Aberdeen. The Huron clash ended in a margin, while Aberdeen fell to Mitchell by a unanimous decision. The Mitchell affirmative team was Gustav Victor Braden Hill and Harvey Coacher on their home platform.
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Joe
Aberdeen
Dela Kjelmyr
Claude Knight
Walter Heyler
Barr
Victor
Braden Hill
Harvey Coxelier
Mitchell
W. J. Wesley
Laurits Miller
W. RK. Ronald
W. A. Wheeler
United States
Joss Moore
George Dell
Wiilter Voigt
Claude Isnight
Hella Kyelmyr
Walter Teyier
M. Stevens
Attlomevn M.C. Lasell
2D. Campbell
J. ©. Woodburn
Mitchell High School
Huron
Gustav Victor
Harvey
Dorhis Burnt
Andrew Allison
Ralph Barr
Gold mine pays employees in paper money for first time
Homestake Mining of Lead, South Dakota pays workers with paper currency for the first time, a move that stirs speculation of a national policy to conserve gold. Banks reportedly hold Canadian drafts for collection while gold likely to rise in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. D.- Wor
Homestake Mining Company
United States
Canada
Rural mail carrier dies on rural route in South Dakota
Kenry Gregory, veteran rural carrier on a Wessington route, collapsed from heart failure while returning home. He fell from his sleigh into snow, died before help could reach him. A pioneer homesteader, he lived in Iowa until 1883, then settled in South Dakota and remained there.
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Wessington
Kenry Gregory
Esaington
Wessinngton
White
Alexander
Tross
Ross
Iowa
South Dakota
Plans for Mrs John D Rockefeller Funeral In Abeyance
Mrs John D Rockefeller died at her home yesterday in Tarrytown New York and funeral plans are delayed awaiting Rockefeller and his son who travel by special train from Ormonde Florida to Pocantico Hills. Services likely in Tarrytown tomorrow with interment at Cleveland where she grew up.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Ormonde
Fia
Pocantico Hills
Cleveland
$100000 Payment to the Rosebud Indians
Federal officials near completion of a per capita payment of $20 to about five thousand Rosebud Sioux on the Rosebud reservation. The roughly $100,000 comes from interest on funds in the U S treasury tied to surplus lands opened to white settlement.
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Colonie
Rosebud
United States Treasury
Mitchell Corn Palace: A South Dakota Community Icon
A Merchants' Trade Journal article lauds Mitchell South Dakota’s Corn Palace as a unique festival draw. It chronicles the building’s corn exterior, its annual weeklong festivities, crowds from near and far, and the town’s collective effort to sustain this public spectacle and boost local business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Merchants’ Trade Journal
United States
T. J. Morgans
Commercial Club
South Dakota
Hoine
Mithell
Corn Palace Committee
Corn Palace
Palace of
Palace
Special Train To Aid Farmers In South Dakota
A dairy silos and hog cholera education train from South Dakota State College will tour towns not reached by prior runs. The program covers dairying milking machines silos hog disease and farmer opportunities with speakers from state college and dairymen associations. Route details list stops along Chicago and Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul lines from March 22 to April 5.
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Brookings
S. D
South Dakota State College
South Dakota
Wilwood C. Perisho
State College
C. Larsen
C. Lipp
Br. W. Merrill
Barge
N. J
A. P. Ryeger
State Dairymen’s Association
Charles McCuffree
Chicago
Northwestern Ry
Waterline
Castlewood
Watertown
Keela
Coluubia
Mansfield
Athol
Crandon
Hitchcock
Broadland
Carthage
Vilas
Canova
Salem
Canistota
Monroe
Wurley
Centerville
Beresford
Alcester
Wakonda
Volin
Mission Hil
Yankton
Milwaukee
St. Paul Ry
Tydall
Wagner
Lake Andes
Geddes
Platte
Springfield
Scotland
Tripp
Byrne Taxation Views Praised by Tax Commission
The Joseph Fels Fund Commission lauds Governor Byrne for proposing tax reform in 1915 South Dakota. It endorses his views on replacing a general property tax with fairer principles and supports a constitutional amendment to classify property and allow income tax. Voters will decide at the next general election whether to adopt the reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrne
South Dakota
Union
Tax Commission
Letcher Forms Commercial Club With Twenty-Four Members
Letcher business men organized a commercial club with an initial membership of twenty four. Frank R. Ward was elected president, W. C. Botkin vice president, and R. H. Todd secretary treasurer. Committees were appointed to pursue town interests.
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Letcher
Frank R. Ward
W. C. Botkin
R. H. Todd
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Raider Eites
Invercoe
Jaden
Marie Ada Short
Sunderland
Blites
Floride
Bahia
Havre
Hon Hadnes
Forser Mitchell Darmer
Vermillion, S. D
Vermillion
King
Charities Board
Pierre McUsp
W. Oa. Darling
Capital
National Publicaption
Corm Palace
Lauds Byrne
Joseph Fels
Commission
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