13 Mar 1903
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
1
Reports from Lod, March 12, indicate counterfeit nickel pieces with one side blank are circulating. Merchants in Lead and surrounding towns have seen imitations used in nickel slot machines and music boxes, with officers pursuing the source as other denominations are found faked.
Deadwood South Dakota March 12 Francis C Tucker a renowned civil engineer from Deadwood has gone to Wyoming to supervise a vast irrigation program for the Big Iron Development company in the Big Horn region. The plan calls for multiple ditches and waterways to reclaim hundreds of acres for agricultural use.
Immigrants flood through the rail line into South Dakota in a steady spring flow. Most are young men from eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and Illinois, bringing money cattle and farming gear to seek better lands and lasting improvements.
Deputy United States Marshals Carleton and McNamee left Sioux Falls for Kansas City with Bastian Gressman an alleged Missouri moonshiner captured February 2. He had been kept in the county jail as Judge Carland issued an order for his transfer to Missouri for trial.
S Stuver of Kimball named as new member of the Soldiers Home commissioners by Governor Kerreld. Stuver is a veteran of the 112th Ohio infantry, an attorney, and longtime Republican, with twenty years in Kimball and active service in party work.
Sioux Falls figures wire and plan to testify before the governor as Senate Bill seeks to ban life insurance rebates. The bill targets rebate practices tied to risks while new state medical examiners board appointments are noted, listing members from Aberdeen Huron Sioux Falls Vermillion Lead Foxton Water and Hur.
Fourteen unions with 20 000 members in Chicago organize the Shipping Traders' federation to seek higher wages and shorter hours. It covers teamsters longshoremen seamen railway express drivers and others from factories to lake steamers. William W. Murray elected president with AFL endorsement from Samuel Gompers.
Los Angeles March 12. Wallace Hardison owner of the Herald assaulted General Harrison Gray Otis proprietor of the Times during a theater incident. Hardison and his editor fought Otis who was bruised with facial cuts while Hardison suffered torn ear and scratches. Otis will not prosecute.
Washington March 12 Senator Morgan secured the first material concession from the senate in the Panama canal treaty talks by agreeing to attach the Spooner canal act bodily to the treaty. The move followed a request by Senator Lodge and was debated with other senators before unanimous consent. The attachment was deemed not an amendment of the treaty and Morgan spent the remainder of the session examining the issue from multiple angles.
The United States legation reports official recognition of American educational and religious establishments in Constantinople. The Turkish council of ministers agrees to allow American archaeologist Mr Banks to excavate at Tel Abraham in Mesopotamia, site said to be Abraham’s tomb, after three months of waiting.
Canton S C March 11 reports from Pierre reset the death notice of Senator M H Rudolph are false. Rudolph’s condition has improved he can sit up briefly and take nourishment. Strong indications now point to possible recovery.
Senator H. G. Boyland of Walworth county died in Pierre on the eve of adjournment. His body arrived in Aberdeen for a Sunday funeral at the Presbyterian church and lay in state at the public library. Shipped to New York for burial, he was 73 and long a fixture west of Aberdeen. He served in the Senate from the Thirty sixth district and was called the father of the senate. The businessmen banquet planned for last night was postponed.
A morning blaze at Bridgewater Barns, Bridgewater South Dakota, wiped out the Quinn and West livery stable and its contents. Eleven horses burned inside. Fire origin unknown. The building carried full insurance. Calm night aided defense of nearby structures as residents aided in saving others.
Huron South Dakota March 11 The Beadle county March term of circuit court adjourned to March 24 at 2 pm to permit the new ninth circuit bar to confer on a judge's appointment. Judge McCoy presides in Sisseton as the term is postponed for circuit matters and governor to name the judge soon. John Flaherty aged about 75 died at the county farm after a life of fortune ebb and flow. De Whiting Named Judge For Ninth District Pierre South Dakota March 11 Gov Herreid will appoint C I Whiting of DeSmet as judge of the new Ninth judicial district with the appointment to be made Wednesday after old Fifth circuit adjourns in Huron.
The body of Cohin H McKinley was found in his cabin above Lead South Dakota with a Colt 44 revolver nearby and bullet holes in the walls. An inquest found death by self inflicted wound while despondent and partially intoxicated. He was 35 and employed as a hoisting engineer for Horseshoe Mining and left two sisters Mary McKinley of Nemo and Mrs James Summerville of Central City.
London March 12 Captain Sir Archibald Berkley Milne is appointed commodore of the royal yachts replacing the Hon Hedworth Lambton who becomes second in command of the Channel squadron. Milne had been involved in a public dispute with William Waldorf Astor over invitation claims at an Astor party.
Chicago drainage officials reject Dr. Armand Ravold testimony about 200 barrels of germs placed in a sanitary channel at Le Mont. They claim the imported bacilli mirror a familiar lake Michigan variety and do not prove an effective test for the case before the Supreme Court in St Louis.
William J. Bryan addressed Michigan Democrats at the Light Guard armory in Detroit urging unity while criticizing elevating factions. He recalled charges of preventing harmony and contrasted Cleveland with McKinley remarks, and Judge George L. Yaple was unanimously nominated for supreme court justice.
In Washington on March 12 Senator Cullom, chair of the foreign relations committee, sought to discuss the Spanish version of the Pan American canal treaty after requesting a copy. The session quickly moved to executive session as Allison moved to close the doors, drawing laughter from the gallery. Senator Morgan arrived with papers and resumed discussion, criticizing the Spooner-law preamble issue in the treaty.
The Mediterranean steamer Floramania from Marseilles Palermo and Naples was detained at Quarantine New York on March 12 after two crew members and four steerage passengers died on the voyage. All died within the same symptoms cramps nausea and collapse. It is suspected they were poisoned by noxious gusts from the cargo.
Arthur R Pennell a key figure in the Burdick murder inquiry died when his electric car plunged from a stone quarry edge on Kensington Avenue Buffalo Mrs Pennell was fatally injured and rushed to Sisters Hospital where surgeons feared she would not survive Both witnesses saw the tragedy with uncertainty and the cause remains unclear.
In Toledo on March 12 a mob of 400 strikers attacked non union drivers and a truck manager while threatening a general strike that would halt all Toledo freight. Police escorted targets to safety as authorities warned of employer provocation and possible militia deployment.
The London Times condemns U S banking habits calling them economic debauch and notes large 1902 Q4 net deposit reductions result from transfers to European capitalists seeking profit. It cites U S youth in business laws as delaying reckoning and warns of American trade gains in British colonies and Canadian ties growing via Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk railways affecting Bristol port.
Socialist candidates yielded remarkable showings in Amesbury and Stoughton where they captured key offices, signaling a growing challenge to Republican and Democrat fusion forces. The state’s early 1900s political shifts prompt warnings to major parties from Lieutenant Governor Guild.
Justice Buckley ordered the official receiver to criminally prosecute Whitaker Wright, promoter of the London and Globe Finance corporation, after its collapse. Wright led a meteoric finance career, selling questionable investments to peers, prominent women, and others before the firm failed for huge sums with scant assets. Prosecution is expected to cause another London sensation.
Grace Snell Coffin later known as Mrs Perkins A Layman has married five times. Daughter of Amos Snell linked to the Willie Tascott mystery, she wed Riverside California resident Layman after a life of multiple unions and divorces. She plans to live in Los Angeles and pursue travel and writing.
Naples March 11 Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, suffering intestinal trouble, is reported in critical condition and may die. The Rothschild fortune is estimated at two billion dollars with branches across Europe. The family owns vast debts of Spain and lives in diverse residences including a four room desert house near the Egyptian pyramids, surrounded by tents for servants.
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