Alleged Murderer Goes to Trial at Selby
B F Stephens faces a Walworth county jury in Selby on the murder charge for the Dec 11 1909 shooting of Cade Mackenzie son of cattle king Murdo McKenzie. The defense has funds raised by supporters and names A H Smith P C Morrison I B Harkin VanSlyke in the prosecution.
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Aberdeen
SL. D
Dode Mackenzie
B. F. Stephens
Walworth County
Selby
Murdo McKenzie
Stephens
Mackenzie
LeBeau
Cade Mackenzie
A. H. Smith
P. C. Morrison
Mobridge
United States
Goodman
I. B. Harkin
VanSlyke
Smith
Victor
Christie
Brown County
County line plans whirl Stanley county bid
The western Stan ley county faces a split into multiple proposed divisions as towns push for new counties and county seats. Philip Midland Milesville Kadoka Cottonwood Quinn Wall and Pennington county areas figure in various plans causing ongoing dispute and delaying Stanley county’s status as the state’s largest.
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Milesville
Stanley
Kadoka
Cottonwood
Stanley County
Pennington County
Cheyenne River
Quinn
Wall
Local Bishop Hare Memorial Committee Names Members
Lead March 10 Rev. Marshal F. Montgomery rector of Christ Episcopal church joins Bishop Frederick F. Johnson Sioux Falls and four others on the committee to plan the Hare commemoration in Sioux Falls April 20. The group will meet March 10 at Sioux Falls to map the program and arrange a memorial day program at the Auditorium with a mass meeting and addresses by Governor Vessey and others.
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Lead
S. D
Marshal F. Montgomery
Christ Episcopal Church
William H. Hare
South Dakota
Frederick F. Johnson
Sioux Falls
Hare
Johnson
Robert Doherty
Flandreau
Edward Ashley
Niobrara
B. S. McKenzie
Yankton
Vessey
Indians Buy Motorcycles At Sisseton Sioux Agency
At Sisseton Agency South Dakota nine Sioux Indians have ordered motorcycles from a Webster dealer, with more expected. Wealthier members plan to buy automobiles so families can travel in white man style.
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Sisseton Indian Agency
S. D
Boy Walks A Mile With Bullet In Head
Kyle Woodward a 13 year old resident near Ericson South Dakota was wounded when his rifle discharged while he carried it to school. The bullet entered the upper lip pierced the left eye and lodged in the cranial cavity. He walked to the Bickerdyke ranch where a doctor was called and he was taken to Camp Crook hospital. Surgeons plan a delicate operation if the ball is not found.
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Belle
Lignite to Briquets Could Fuel South Dakota
A federal survey estimates South Dakota lignite at 10 billion tons. Colonel Pattison McClure of Pierre notes German briquetting methods that convert lignite to hard coal quality briquets, potentially worth five dollars per ton locally. He urges state capital to back a full mineral survey and briquetting venture.
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McClure
South
Rural carrier praised as hero after death in service
Frank Marston rural carrier No. 5 from Watertown South Dakota died after collapsing from a ruptured blood vessel while aiding his team amid heavy winter drifts. The 56 year old unmarried employee was found slumped across his wagon tongue after hours of struggle to help his stalled horses. Farmers who had relied on him helped drag him into town where doctors could not save him. He served despite road conditions that crippled the county for a week.
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Watertown
S. D
Frank Marston
Civil Service
Marston
Farmers Lumber Company to Perfect Organization
Sioux Falls March 9. Following a successful state convention, the farmers' lumber companies plan to form a state association. The first annual convention will be in Sioux Falls on March 16, called by Thomas Hanson of Baltic and W H Menzie of Geddes, acting temporary president and secretary.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Thomas Hanson
Baltic
W. H. Menzie
Geddes
Wheat and corn exports from U S and Canada rise
New York reports weekly exports for the week ending March 3. Wheat including flour totals 2 045 807 bushels, up from 1 946 382 last week and 2 679 577 a year ago. Corn exports reach 733 466 bushels, vs 729 824 last week and 760 550 in 1909.
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New York
United States
Canada
Trade Outlook Hinted By Irregular Spring Markets
Bradstreet notes irregular trade as spring business develops unevenly across regions due to weather and price uncertainty. Reorder activity and first-hand purchases are restrained while cotton and print cloth prices move, and wool markets wait. Despite flaws, overall trade remains brisk with hopeful prospects for spring.
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New York
Bradstreet
Northwest
Southwest
South
United States
Canada
R. Dunn & Co
Review of
Pnay
Philadelphia
Aged Woman Leaves House Full of Cash in 100000 Fortune
Miss Elizabeth Hays an 86 year old Burlington resident died suddenly amid a staggering secret fortune. Heirs and executor Reginald Branch found hundreds in purses, bed linens, and a parlor Bible loaded with twenty dollar notes. Coins and gold scattered through old bags and boxes. The cash totals topped six figures.
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Burlington
N. J
Elizabeth Hays
Auburn woman joins Six Nations after 14 years study
Mrs Helen Troy of Auburn New York is received into full membership of the Six Nations. She has spent the last fourteen years studying and researching Iroquois traditions.
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Helen Troy
Auburn, N. Y
Six Nations
President of D. A. R. faces impeachment fire
Washington reports impeachment talk against Mrs. Julia G. Scott president general of the D A R. The dispute centers on Miss Agnes Gerald a dismissed clerk and confidant of Mrs. Donald McLean. Gerald seeks an investigation aided by attorney I Cabell Williamson amid factional clashes ahead of the national convention.
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Washington
Julia G. Scott
Scott
Agnes Gerald
D. A. R. Headquarters
Donald McLean
Miss Gerald
Amos C. Draper
William Cumming Story
Length of hatpins to be limited by Chicago council
Chicago officials enacted two transportation and apparel measures. The city council accepted a report showing all street car companies agreed to lower car steps by one inch, and approved an ordinance to cap hatpin length within city limits with the limit to be set by the committee.
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Chicago
Committee On Local Transportation
University of Wisconsin Cleared Over Goldman Visit
The Wisconsin board of regents adopts a report exonerating university authorities from blame for Emma Goldman and Parker H. Sercombe's visit. It states no anarchistic doctrines are taught. Sociology professor E A Ross takes leave to study in China after referencing Goldman.
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Madison, Wis
Board of Regents
University of Wisconsin
Board of
Emma Goldman
Parker H. Sercombe
A. Ross
Goldman
China
Board of Visitors
E. Ray Stevens
Madison
Thomas R. Lloyd Jones
Fond du Lac
Charles F. Lamb
Goldman and
Sercombe
Goldman and Sercombe
Ellis in Favor for National Chairman
Wade Hampton Ellis of Ohio, soon to head the Ohio school of applied politics, is being groomed for the Republican National Committee chair. Taft favors Ellis after Hitchcock exited. Ellis and Arthur Vorys nominated Taft. their Columbus, Ohio circle steered conventions and funding, shaping platforms and the Chicago draft.
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Washington
Wade Hampton Ellis
Ohio
School of Applied Politics
Republican National Committee
Ellis
Taft
Frank H. Hitchcock
Wade Ellis
Arthur Vorys
Mr. Taft
Pioneer of '76 Dead in Deadwood at 70
Josiah C. Stout, a longtime Deadwood resident and Civil War veteran, died after a long illness caused by frostbite suffered during a Montana blizzard. Born in Cincinnati, he moved to Colorado in 1859, worked as a freighter, served in the Denver police, and later mined in Deadwood since 1876. He leaves a widow and a stepson, Elmer Rose, Deadwood police justice.
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Deadwood
S. C
Montana
Josiah C. Stout
Mr. Stout
Cincinnati
Ohio
Colorado
First
Denver
St. Joseph
Elmer Rose
Express Companies Score Big Victory in Federal Court
Sioux Falls South Dakota March 5 Judge Carland ruled the railroad commission had no authority to set express rates in South Dakota dismissing its Different Tariff No 1. The decision voids the commission move to enforce new rates and overrules its demurrer finding lack of jurisdiction.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Carland
Railroad Commission
South Dakota
Express
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Storm and wolves hold Forestville teacher captive
A fierce storm and wolves kept Miss Blanche McDuffee, a Forestville schoolteacher, in the schoolhouse overnight. The wind died down by morning and she was rescued, hungry but unharmed after her terrifying experience.
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Aberdeen
Blanche McDuffee
Forestville
Northwestern to Renew Railroad Building
Hurson S D reports the Hitchcock Onida branch of the Chicago Northwestern railway will resume work as weather allows. The line’s been stocked with building material and 30 plus concrete bridges and culverts are being built, replacing wooden ones with reinforced concrete. Medicine Creek bridge at 85 feet and a 1 300 foot canal were added to straighten the creek against spring floods. The railroad plans to hire many workers for the coming season.
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Hurson
S. D
Hitchcock-Onida
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Onida
Medicin Creek
Canning
Rosseau
Medicine Creek
Milwaukee Mystic Rail Road Deal Rumor Surfaces
Reports from Mystic South Dakota claim the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway may buy the Rapid City Mystic line. Two Milwaukee surveyors inspected the line and noted roadbed conditions as the company eyes coal traffic from Wyoming. Local circles expect an acquisition and westward extension to Wyoming.
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Milwaukee
Mystic Railroad
Mystic
S. D
Chicago/ Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company
Rapi
Milwaukee Company
Wyoming
Rapid City-Mystic
Huron Elks Elect Officers and Grand Lodge Rep
In Huron South Dakota on March 5 a large Elks meeting named A B Fairbank as representative to the grand lodge with Coler Campbell as alternate. Elected officers include George Kerr exalted ruler Carl S Jones leading knight A A Chamberlain royal knight E W Barrett lecturing knight A P Stowell secretary E L Abel treasurer H H Wibert tyler and trustees E B Dinneen C N McIlvaine and W N Farmer.
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Huron
S. D
Huron Elks
A. B. Fairbank
Grand Lodge
Coler Campbell
George Kerr
Carl 8. Jones
A. A. Chamberlain
E. W. Barrett
A. P. Stowell
E. L. Abel
H. H. Wibert
Tyler
Edwin Cudworth Veteran Civil War Die in Huron Home
Edwin Cudworth, a Civil War veteran, died Tuesday night at his son Fred Cudworths home in Huron South Dakota. The body was taken to Crandon for burial today.
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Huron
S. D
Edwin Cudworth
Fred C. Cudworth
Crandon
Murderous attack on wife shocks Ipswich farmer near death
Ipswich South Dakota March 4 John A Johnson prominent farmer near this place shot his wife late last night as she sewed. The first shot hit her head and he fired three more while she lay on the floor. Her condition is hopeless and Johnson, recently released from Aberdeen hospital after a serious illness, is in custody awaiting sanity examination. The couple had no known trouble and led a comfortable life.
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Ipswich
S. D
John A. Johnson
Johnson
Aberdeen
Prairie Dogs Signal Wave of End to Winter
Ardmore, March 4. Oldtimers say winter is nearly over as prairie dogs in the town and surrounding area venture above ground on sunny days. Residents cite the animals emerging from winter quarters as evidence that winter has essentially ended.
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Ardmore
Woman Dislocates Neck While Housework Near Belle Fourche
Belle Fourche South Dakota March 4 Mrs Roy Taylor wife of a rancher in the vicinity suffered a rare accident while in her kitchen She reached for something at the outside door and a sharp neck pain appeared The injury proved a dislocation of a neck vertebra near the brain Physicians reset the bone but several treatments are needed for full neck use Anesthesia was given and she was taken to a local hospital for care
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Belle Fouche
S. D
Roy Taylor
Stremslon
Belle Fourche
Taylor Agai
Dillon announces candidacy for congress in South Dakota
Yankton South Dakota March 4 State editor Charles H Dillon of this city announces his candidacy for congress He aligns with the Huron conference platform of February 24 1910 and with progressive legislation He plans a statewide speaking campaign before the June primaries If Schrader and McNulty stay in the race the progressives may field three candidates for the seats held by Martin and Burke The move has the approval of R O Richards head of the Republican primary organization.
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Frank MceNulty
Aberdeen
Martin
Burke
Dillon
R. O. Richards
Aberdeen Woman Loses Foot In Trolley Accident
Mrs. L Curtiss wife of Senator Curtiss of Aberdeen California fell from a moving Venice trolley car platform Monday night and had her right foot cut off above the ankle. Doctors say she will recover unless complications arise and Senator Curtiss offered to drag her from beneath the car.
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Los Angeles
Senator Gamble Bill Restores Santee Annuities
Washington March 4 Senator Gamble wins favorable Senate committee report on his bill to restore annuities to the Santee Sioux Indians who were denied funds over participation in the Minnesota massacre of 1862.
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Washington
Gamble
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Patton doubts possible wheat corner this year
New York March 4 James A Patton Chicago wheat operator says he will stay in touch with markets while sailing for Europe on Mauretania He doubts any wheat corner can be achieved this year noting reports of a short crop and predicting a one crop year with potential market prosperity He cites prior attempts and Canadian influences in his assessment
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New York
James A.ton
Chicago
Europe
Mauretania
Patton
Sas
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Northwestern
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