New Public Land for Homesteads Opens Vast Sioux Territory
Le Beau March 25. A vast 3 000 000 acre tract on the Chesenne and Standing Rock reservations will be opened to settlement next fall after a government cession. Sioux freighters and traders fear but hope the deal benefits their future holdings as winter pow wows discuss profit from the opening. Prospective settlers are already gathering, though formal access awaits opening day.
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le Beau
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Chesenne River
Standing Rock
Major McLaughlin
Sitting Bull
Little Ble Horn
Westevever Custer
Miner Benjamin Phillips Dies by Hanging near Terry
Lead S. D. reports Benjamin Phillips a 60 year old Cornish miner ended his life yesterday afternoon near Terry. He was single and had suffered rheumatism for some time.
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Lead
S. D
Benjamin Phillips
Terry
Matrimonial Chances Go With Newspaper
Butler, Med. 25. A weekly paper, the Butler Herald, once edited by Miss Bessie Lancaster, is described as a matrimonial avenue. A young woman familiar with newspaper work could become the next editor and potentially secure a husband, given the paper’s social role and retirement of Lancaster.
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Butler
Butler Herald
Bessie Lancaster
Herald
General O O Howard to attend South Dakota G A R encampment
Sioux Falls reports General O O Howard has accepted an invitation to attend the South Dakota Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Sioux Falls June 22 to 24. The Burlington Vermont native, age 77, will be present all three days, likely boosting attendance for the event as one of the last gatherings attended by the famed Civil War commander.
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Sioux Falls
O. O. Howard
Burlington
South Dakota Grand Army of the Republic
Thos. H. Brown
G. A. R. Post
Howard
South Dakota
Man and Wife Narrowly Escape Gas Poisoning
Clear Lake South Dakota March 25 Mr Will Arnold woke ill and returned to tell his wife to call a doctor. Mrs Arnold fainted and Ramharter the store owner enter the stairway and alerted aid. Ramharter summoned Dr Harvey and prevented a deadly gas exposure by timely action.
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Clear Lake
S. D
Will Arnold
Hotel Fire Destroys Wind Sor Hotel in Cornwall
A hotel fire in Cornwall Ontario destroyed the Wind sor hotel early today. One man died, three people are missing, and two were injured as guests slept and efforts to evacuate were hampered.
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Cornwall
Ont
Windsor Hotel
Young Boy Found Dead Near Roadside in Burbank
Dwight Vincent a 13 year old son of George Vincent was found dead in a muddy roadside ditch between Burbank and his father's home. Authorities say he appeared intoxicated at death. An inquest led by Dr. McGrumpty of Vermillion is scheduled to determine the cause.
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Burbank
S. D
Dwight Vincent
George Vincent
Presho Prepares for Chicago Rosebud Colony Homesteaders
Presho business men in South Dakota plan for the Chicago Rosebud colony to settle on Tripp county land. The Commercial club secretary travels to Chicago to attract homeseekers, arranging contracts and low rates for claim setup, livestock, freight, and supplies. Presho aims to become the nearest rail town to the best Tripp county lands.
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Presho
N. D
Chicago
Tripp County
Tom Roberts Heads Homecoming Movement
Aberdeen will host Dakota HomeComing week in the third week of next June with Tom Roberts, the South Dakota newspaper man and former secretary to Senator A B Kittredge, in charge. The Aberdeen Commercial club assigned Roberts to lead the preparations, promising an organized push to finalize plans under his experienced guidance.
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Aberdeen, LL. D
Aberdeen Commercial Club
Tom Roberts
South Dakota
A. B. Kittredge
Dakota
Aberdeen School Board Sues Over County Collection Fee
The Aberdeen school board asked the county commissioners to recover 17 308 92 dollars claimed as illegally retained funds since 1890. The board asserts the county overcharged for collecting district funds, charging 4 percent instead of 1 percent.
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Aberdeen, LL. D
Aberdeen School Board
Brown County
Railroad motor car service to link Watertown and Wentworth
The South Dakota Central will soon start a motor car service between Watertown and Wentworth. A Chicago built car will run Wentworth to Watertown in the morning and Watertown to Wentworth in the evening, linking with the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Chicago Northwestern at Wentworth and Arlington. The service will allow residents of smaller towns along the line to visit Watertown and return the same day.
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Watertown
SL. D
South Dakota Central
Wentworth
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago & Northwestern
Arlington
Gregory County land office stays. Ballinger rules
Washington report states Secretary Ballinger will not reopen the Gregory Ballinger land office dispute. The office remains at Gregory unless the town breaks its contract for a building and a national bank. Messrs Patterson and Jackson depart for home tomorrow.
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Washington
Gregory County Land Office
Ballinger
Dallas
Messrs
Patterson
Jackson
Gregory
Paderewski Abandons Tour Over Rheumatism
Ignace Jan Paderewski arrives in New York after canceling three western engagements due to rheumatism in his right hand and arm. He played through a Minneapolis concert before withdrawing, with losses totaling about 10000 dollars and plans to seek specialist care. He remains hopeful the ailment is temporary.
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New York
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Minneapolis
West
M. Paderewski
Paderewski
South Dakota Ties Referendum Threat to New Anti Treating Law
South Dakota liquor dealers plan a referendum against the newly enacted anti treating law set to take effect July 1. Prohibitionists hail the measure as a natural temperance step and push for strict enforcement and anti treating societies. Businessmen complain that treating fuels social pressure in saloons, supporting the law as relief and enforcement steps.
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Hinron
South Dakota
Indians Buy Coffins Anticipating Death on Rosebud
Standing Horse, an Indian from the Rosebud reservation, went to Presho for a coffin after being accidentally shot and fearing nonrecovery. George Pony, whose wife suffers tuberculosis, also sought a coffin in advance.
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Bierre
Maren
Rosebud
Standing Horse
Presho
George Pony
Chaplain Daley Leaves Dakota for Wyoming Mission
Rev. Charles M. Daley and wife depart from South Dakota after over two decades as Congregational Sunday School and Publishing missionary. He is Willow Lake’s first pastor and served as chaplain of the First South Dakota regiment in the Spanish American war. They will reside in Doughlas Wyoming where he becomes assistant superintendent of the Congregational Home Missionary and Sunday School societies for the state.
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Congregational Home Missionary Society
Congregational Sunday School Society
Bowen Trial On At Highmore In 1907 Murder Case
The Bowen murder trial opens in Highmore South Dakota March 16 for Aurelius Bowen accused of killing Katherine Kille on December 2 1907 in Stanley County. Prosecution by Hughes of Ft Pierre and O'Brien & Johnson of Highmore. Defense by Gaffey & Stevens of Pierre. The case hinges on circumstantial evidence and Bowen is noted for prior violent incidents in Iowa. The trial is expected to last a week to ten days with over 50 witnesses.
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Aurelius Bowen
Katherine Kille
Stanley County
John J. Hughes
Ft. Pierre
O'Brien & Johnson
Highmore
Gaffey & Stevens
Pierre
Miss Kille
Bowen
Smithland
Watson Declines Porto Rico Governorship and Cuba Post
Washington March 23 Former Representative James E Watson of Indiana declined the governorship of Porto Rico after losing the race for governor. He also declined to become minister to Cuba. Oscar Lawler of Los Angeles accepted the post of assistant attorney general for the interior department. Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles visited the White House for the first time in about a decade.
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Washington
James E. Watson
Indiana
Porto Rico
Cuba
Department of the Interior
Oscar Lawler
Los Angeles
Nelson A. Miles
White House
New Law Places Bank Receivers With Has Beens
Public Examiner John L. Jones explains South Dakota banking code changes. The state ends receiverships, shifts control to the department with deputies paid five dollars a day, restricts officials from borrowing from banks, tightens reserve and deposit rules, raises small bank capital requirements, and requires three directors to live in the bank’s county.
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South Dakota
Jones
Girl Wounded by Tumbling Rod Near Wolsey
Florence Ostland aged about years, daughter of Mr and Mrs FE Ostland five miles west of Wolsey, narrowly escaped death when her clothes were caught in a tumbling rod at a horse power corn shelter. She was whirled several times before the horses could be stopped and is slowly recovering.
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Wolsey
S. T
Florence
FE. Ostland
Here
Second Trial for Death of Katherine Kille Opens
Highmore South Dakota March 22 The second trial of Aurelius Bowen of Stanley County for the murder of Katherine Kille 12 miles south of Fort Pierre began this week The first trial ended in a disagreement The girl was found in her claim shanty shot through the head by a $2 revolver Bowen had pressed on her and she feared him but kept silent until her departure for her old home.
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Bowen
Ane
Conductor John Connors Retires on Service Pension
Huron March 22 After 35 years with the Chicago and Northwestern Railway John Connors resigns due to failing health He began with the company at 15 in Madison Wisconsin and has been honored with a pension He will remain in Huron where he has lived for about 25 years
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Huron
8. D
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
John Connors
Connors
Northwestern Company
Madison
Wis
Dallas seeks rerun of land office site contest
Ernest Jackson and Kk. O. Patterson of Dallas seek to reopen the Gregory county land office location dispute. Dallas argues for Dallas, cites petitions from homesteaders and claims the decision should revert from Gregory to Dallas. Senators Gamble Crawford Martin Burke weigh in as Ballinger will hear merits.
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Washington
Ernest Jackson
Kk. O. Patterson
Dallas
S. C
Interior Department
Gregory County
Gregory
Roosevelt
Gamble
Ballinger
Gregory-Tripp County
Mr. Patterson
Martin
Burke
Crawford
Dennison Arrested on Seduction Charge in March Case
Hudson S D March 20 Dennison was arrested Tuesday by Sheriff Quien on seduction charges. Miss Clara Tverberg says he is the father of her baby born Monday morning. Dennison is bound over in 750 dollars to a preliminary trial here in three weeks. He denies the charges.
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Hudson
S. D
Dennison
Quien
Clara Tverberg
Investigations Reorganize Land Fraud Field Divisions
Washington March 20 changes in the field service divisions of the general land office aim to speed land fraud investigations in the West. North Dakota is separated into a new division headquartered at Jeargo with W S Wade as chief. South Dakota forms its own division with HQ at Huron under Henry C Cullom.
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Washington
West
General Land Office
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Jeargo
N. D
Wade
South Dakota
Huron
Henry C. Cullom
Principal Resigns Due to Health Crisis in Kimball
Professor Brandstetter of the Kimball schools resigns after medical advice and treatment in Sioux City for a complete nervous breakdown. He cannot return to finish the school year, prompting a change of occupation per his physician.
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Kimball
S. D
Brandstetter
Kimball Schools
Sioux City
Board of Education
Tripp County Organization Quietly Under Study
Fairfax S D March 20 It is understood proper steps are being bulking quietly looking to the early organization of Tripp county but nothing definite has yet publicly developed
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Fairfax, S. D
Tripp County
FORGER IS CAUGHT ON SECOND FRAME-UP
John H. Larkin, who vanished from Sioux Falls after forgery charges, has been arrested in New Orleans. Deputy Eugene Reiley traced him to the city and brought him back. Larkin previously served a term for forgery at Belle Fourche and had worked as a stenographer for attorney W. U. S. G. Cherry.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
New Orleans
John H. Larkin
S. G. Cherry
Eugene Reiley
Sioux Walls
Watk
Belle Fourcche
Cherry
Stanley County Fair Dates Held This Year
Kadoka South Dakota March 20 the Stanley County fair association will hold its third annual fair September 22 23 and 24 1909. Premium lists and information available from secretary Krank Coye Kadoka SD.
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Stanley County
Kadoka
Stanley County Aie Association
Krank Coye
Kakoda
Watertown Lieutenant Williams Ordered to Philippines
Watertown South Dakota March 22 Lieutenant Losey Williams son of Mr and Mrs J A Williams of this city heads this evening for the Philippines to join the United States constabulary He is a Watertown boy and has been captain in the South Dakota National Guard for two years He took the regular army examination last July and earned his commission on merit.
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Watertown
S. D
Losey Wiliams
J. A. Williams
Philippines
United States Constabulary
Williams
Regular Army
Revolving bar injures worker at cement works
Yankton South Dakota March 20 Fred Gates foreman at the cement works was fatally injured last night by a steel bar striking him on a moving shaft during repairs.
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Yankton
S. D
Kfred Gates
Cement Works
Wife of Rapid City Editor Dies
Mrs. Harry Wentzy wife of editor Wentzy of the Gate City Guide Rapid City S D died this morning after a seven day illness A child born March tenth died shortly after birth Remains will be taken to Sioux Falls tonight for interment
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Rapid City
S. D
Harry Wentzy
Wentzy
Gate City Guide
Sioux Falls
Flax Straw and Coal Tar Lumber Project Near Madison
H L Hollister of Minneapolis, inventor of a flax straw and coal tar lumber substitute, visits Madison with a local agent to seal a contract with a stock company. The plant aims for 20 000 feet daily, costs about half pine lumber, and plans 25 jobs for a $20 000 capital, starting around September 1 under the city’s commercial club endorsement.
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Madison
S. D
H. L. Hols Fister
Minneapolis
Hollister
Commercial Club
High Water Dangers In Perkins County
Aberdeen March 19. Heavy flooding in Perkins County hinders travel and tests local resolve. Stage driver J Boland narrowly escapes a swift current while attempting to cross a washed out stream with his team. Homesteader John Jenson uses a boat on a swollen creek. his rope wire gives way, boat capsizes, and he is rescued after being swept downstream.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Perkins
J. Boland
John Jenson
Jenson
Woman Drowns After Falling into Cistern in Dakota
Aberdeen South Dakota March 19 Mrs Carl Olson of Spirit Lake township Kingsbury county lost her life by drowning when she fell into a cistern eight feet deep while drawing water. Her brother inside the house later found her body in the cistern.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Carl Olson
Spirit Lake Township
Kingsbury County
Wild Geese Attack by King of the Air
Armour, S. D., March 19. Two Armour hunters saw a dramatic scene as an eagle tried to kill a goose. The flock mobbed the eagle in a prairie fight, driving it off and saving the endangered bird. The goose lay nearly dead after the clash.
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Armour, S. D
Armour
Lake Andes
Women Find Gold in Chickens Crops Near Grouse Creek
Four women in western Lyman county Midland South Dakota report finding gold nuggets in the crops of chickens and ducks they were dressing for the table. Mesdames Barton Mitchell Creed and Lyden are named and an investigation of the surrounding country will begin when spring opens.
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Midland
S. D
Grouse Creek
Lyman County
Mesdames Barton
Mitchell
Creed
Lyden
Former Legislator John H. Michaels Dies in Watertown
Watertown South Dakota March 19 Hon John H Michaels a three term state legislator from this county has died at his home at age 65 He had lived in the county nearly 30 years and was a well known figure in the region The German Lutheran church will host the funeral today.
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Watertown
S. D
John H. Michaels
South Dakota
Michaels
Dakotans Victims of Race Swindlers
Letters ordering South Dakotans fleeced at Council Bluffs with fake sporting events to testify before the grand jury were sent by Postoffice Inspector Swenson after a St. Louis conference. Named victims include John Bieger Sioux Falls Ed Stenger Hermosa C E Hayward Garden City and M Meyer Bristol. The note urges victims to file complaints to aid indictments against the gang of over 300. Also reports Estelle Finch naturalized in Japan's home department after years with the Yokosuka mission.
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St. Louis
Council Bluffs
Grand
Postoffice
Swenson
South
Garden City
M. Meyer
Bristol
Little Rock
Pottawattamie County
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Missouri River
Blick
Republican
Canada
Colony Business
Rules Ballinger
Wyoming
S.D
Kaufman
Watson
U.S. Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Mans
Department OF Investigation
Madison Stock Company
Perkins County
King OF the Air
Estelle Finch
Home Department
America
Seatman’s
Yokosuka
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