Who Owns Timber on Mining Claims Test Case
Deadwood South Dakota March 26 A looming federal court test questions how far government authority extends to preserve timber on private mining land. Hunsbach owner of the claim sues Garlock and Ainslee over allegedly stolen bug infested dead timber. government agents previously sold the timber and the forest service gathers evidence for the case.
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Deadwood
S. D
United States
Hunsbach
Garlock
Ainslee
Forest Service Department
Herrick Contests County Seat After Lengthy Hearing
The county commissioners after 33 days of sessions ruled Herrick gains the county seat designation on the ballot over Fairfax and Burke. Burke plans to appeal against rulings. The contest featured large petition totals with Herrick 1745 and Burke 1705 as final counts.
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Fairfax
SL. D
Board of County Commissioners
Mondey
Herrick
Burke
Board of Commmissioners
Noted Horsewoman Joins Sioux Falls Divorce Colony
Sioux Falls March 26. Mrs Jarvis Hunt a famed millionaire race horse woman from Wheaton Chicago and New York joined the local divorce colony moving into a six month rental to establish residence. Six of her finest horses arrived from New York after winter circuits in the South. A special car carried the horses and three vehicles with two negro hostlers to care for the property. The stable was enlarged to house the six horses and others she may bring.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Jarvis Hunt
Wheaton
Chicago
New York
South Dakota
Lumbermen Meet to Form Black Hills Association
Rapid City reports 25 leading lumber manufacturers and wholesalers met to form a Black Hills lumber association. They plan to address rail rate issues and market millions of feet of lumber, electing M. W. Hinrichs as president and C. H. Hunter as secretary. A bylaws committee will draft rules for a meeting on the 30th to finalize organization.
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Rapid City
Black Hills
Nf. W. Hinrichs
Lamphere-Hinrichs Lumber Company
C. H. Hunter
Deadwood
G. W. Derr
If. Rugg
Geo. Bennett
Prman Ni
State Treasurer issues warrants payment call in March
State Treasurer Castell calls payment of all outstanding warrants up to a stated number. Warrants to be paid on March 28, triggering payout of over $250.00.
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Pier
Castell
Inked During an Awful Operation
In Belle Fourche South Dakota during an operation on William Winn a focal bartender the surgeons cut and scraped the neck. Winn refused anaesthetic and swallowed whisky during the procedure. After removing the tumor 100 stitches were needed to close the wound and Winn joked that it disproved the saying a stitch in time saves nine.
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Belle Fourche
S. D
William Winn
Winn
Murder charge aimed at Steltz in Sotham case
Sioux Falls reports that John Joseph Steltz alias John J Clark will face a formal murder or manslaughter charge after a coroner jury found felonious shooting of Theodore Sotham at a Big Sioux cabin likely by Steltz. Jury verdict cites circumstantial evidence.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Theodore Sotham
Big Sioux River
John Joseph Steltz
John J. Clark
Steltz
Clark
Bartender Target Not Guilty in Saloon Feud Clash
Vermillion South Dakota March 2 Charles Runyan of Farrington Nebraska and operator of a St James Nebraska mill was found not guilty of shooting at Tony Rose a bartender involved in a dispute over saloon activities in Wynot. Rose taunted Runyan about his opposition to saloons in the town.
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Vermillion
S. D
Charles
Bunyan
Farrington
Neb
St. James
Tony Rose
Runyan
Wynot
Determined to Oust Liquor Law Offenders
Alcester South Dakota reports a citizens mass meeting organized a law and enforcement league with forty two members. Officers include O A Abeel president A P Johnson vice president J A Swensen secretary John Tioard treasurer and an executive committee Mrs J G Hoard Mrs W B Spain and Mrs Hattie Knight. A subscription totaling two to three hundred dollars was raised to back enforcement. If liquor sales do not stop immediately actions will follow against blind piggers and bootleggers under the full force of the law.
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Alcester
S. D
O. A. Abeel
A. P. Johnson
J. A. Swensen
John Tioard
J. G. Hoard
W. B. Spain
Hattie Knight
League
Eastern South Dakota Teachers to Meet in Brookings
The Eastern South Dakota Educational association schedules its annual meeting in Brookings on April 2 and 3. Delegations from ten counties will attend. President John Lindsey of Gary and assistants prepared a program aimed at drawing a large attendance.
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Huron
Eastern South Dakota Educational Association
Brookings
John Lindsey
Gary
Two New Commissioners Appointed by Court
Stonx Falls South Dakota March 25 In order that the people of the western part of the s may be accommodated Judge Carland of the United States court in this city has appointed Oscar EB. Balsch of Brush and Benton W. Lloyd of Scenic commissioners
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Stonx Falls
S D
Carland
United States Court
Oscar EB. Balsch
Brush
Benton W. Lloyd
Scenic
South Dakota records show waves of new incorporations
Pierre March 25 The state department reports numerous filings for new firms. Among them are Mississippi Hill City and Western Railroad Co. at 150 000, Capitolite ty company at 50 000, Hawkeye Oil at 50 000, Life Guard and Automatic Brake Co at 1 010 000, American Tellurian Manufacturing at 200 000, Capitol Land and Developing Co at 25 600, and Farmers Co operative Grain Co of Britton at 25 000, with several other entities listed and dollar values noted.
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Deadwood
LeMoon
South Dakota
Tare Tsu On
Pierre
Commonwealth Investment Company
Sioux Falls Trunk Company
Sioux Falls
Hawkeye Oil Company
Sisseton
Artesian Elevator Company
Artesian
Bethlehem
Congregation of the Reformed Church
Gregory
Port Pearl
Bishop Foss Taken Ill At Home In Philadelphia
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, retired head of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is seriously ill at his Philadelphia home.
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Philadelphia
Mch
Cyrus D. Foss
Methodist Episcopal Church
Railroad offers Evarts abandonment deal to town residents
Aberdeen South Carolina March 24 residents of Evarts on the Missouri river face a special election to approve Milwaukee railroad plans to abandon the town and move the branch. The railroad would pay off debts and offer new lots in towns along its coast extension with a one year selection period. The vote requires a two thirds affirmative result to proceed.
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Aberdeen
S. C
Evarts
Missouri River
Here
Milwaukee Railroad
Harry F. Hunter
Milwaukee
Missouri
Mobridge
Glenham
Feyarts
Thief Seeks Prison Benefit In South Dakota Case
Abe Cause a single man from the Missouri bottom stole a team at Gayville and sold it at Elk Point. He was arrested for grand larceny and is believed to have planned the act to secure a term in the state penitentiary. Cause suffers a war era illness and relies on a government pension.
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Vermillion
S. D
Abe Cause
Missouri
Gayville
Elk Point
Abe
State Penitentiary
Cause
Platte to vote on system of waterworks
Platte South Dakota March 24 a petition signed by a large majority of businessmen has been filed with the city council asking it to submit to the voters the proposition of issuing bonds for a municipal system of waterworks and sewerage.
Pukwana Plans Commercial Club Organization
Pukwana South Dakota March 24 Local business men have started a project to organize a commercial club and a mass meeting of citizens will be called to complete the organization.
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Pukwana
S. D
Washington Irving High School Approved After Mind Power Appeal
Chicago March 24. The board of estimates approved 600000 for a new Washington Irving high school after 2000 students used mental telepathy to urge action. Land had been purchased. funds were the remaining hurdle.
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Chicago
Board of Estimates
Washington Irving High School
This Marriage Was a Lottery in Asheville
In Asheville a superior court suit seeks to set aside the marriage of J A Brokshire and Kathleen Jentry arguing the union resulted from a straw drawing at a dance. The complaint states the couple were taken to Asheville, a license issued, and the ceremony performed, but they never lived together. Kathleen Jentry is listed as 11 years old.
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Asheville
N. C
J. A. Brokshire
Victoria
Kathleen Jentry
Clark Suspected of Cabin Murder Near Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls S. D. March 21 Pending the coroner jury verdict the case of John J. Clark the young man suspected of shooting and killing Theodore Sothman his employer in a cabin on the Big Sioux river northeast of Sioux Falls remains in the county jail Officers testified Clark warned this would look bad for him He had just learned he was a suspect The coroner jury has heard from witnesses in the vicinity and from Mrs Hoffman and her daughter who described Clark’s flight and the number of shots claimed to have been fired with conflicting accounts
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Sioux
S. D
Whch
John J. Clark
Theodore Sothman
Big Sioux
Sioux Talls
Clark
Charles Johnson
Sioux Falls
Hillis
Sothman
Johnson
Henry Johns
Hoffman
State historian claims Lincoln broke pledge
Pierre South Dakota March 21 The present debate on whether Abe Lincoln was a teetotaler uncovers a 1891 remark by state historian Doane Robinson. He cited a dinner with Justice Shannon of the Dakota territory supreme court where Lincoln boasted he would break his principles to pledge a glass of wine to Shannon, a man who cared not for office. The wine bottle remained with Shannon until his death.
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Judge Shannon
Europe
Lincoln
Inhuman Father Sentenced Eight Years in Penitentiary
Judge Whiting at a special term in S D sentences James Anderson formerly of Cherokee Iowa to eight years in the pen at Sioux Falls for family mistreatment. His daughter was the complainant and her child is in the Sioux Falls orphans home. A record municipal vote followed with all old officers reelected and License carrying 111 to 55.
New River Bridge Opens Across East River Amid Festivities
Tim Sullivan leads a delegation across the Blackwell Island cantilever bridge as champagne is broken on the rail and a flag is raised. The $25,000,000 structure, under construction since 1901, will be the world’s largest cantilever when finished, spanning 1,182 feet between towers and 8,449 feet overall with a dual deck.
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New York
East River
Blackwell's Island
Timothy YP. Sullivan
McClellan
Long Island
Sullivan
Pistol Battle in Blind Pig Raid Leaves One Dead
Aberdeen South Dakota dispatch reports a Marmath North Dakota blind pig raid that triggered a pistol duel. Richard Traversie was killed, Charles Prendergast wounded in the foot, and several others hurt amid arrests and ongoing tensions between the Prendergast brothers and party patrons.
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Blind Pig
Aberdeen
S. D
Marmath
N. D
Richard Traversie
Charles Prendergast
Prendergasts
Traversie
Wert Prendergast
Charles
Prendergast
Bert Prendergast
John Wanamaker to Speak to South Dakota Traveling Men
Sioux Falls March 20 The executive committee of the South Dakota Traveling Men's association will meet to plan the June convention in Sioux Falls Colonel R J Woods president will preside An invitation has been extended to John Wanamaker Philadelphia merchant prince and former postmaster general to address the traveling men.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
United States
Pencil Pushes Plan for Summer Outing in Hills
Sioux Falls dispatch reports South Dakota Press Association officers plan a midsummer outing at Sylvan Lake in the Black Hills. Members would camp for about two weeks and travel by one railroad extension to the hills and return by another, a several hundred mile journey across western South Dakota.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota Press Association
Sylvan Lake
Black Hills
Missouri River
South Dakota
Fire damages two South Dakota stores and grain
A telegraph report from Ordway says the Van Dusen elevator and five cars of wheat plus one car of flax were burned. Another message says the James Calder general store at Wetonka burned to the ground, starting in a Calder family bedroom. Estimated loss is $6,000 with about one third insured.
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Aberdeen
S. D
van Dusen
Ordway
James Calder
Wetonka
Calder
Trains Run To Miles City On Milwaukee Coast Extension
Passenger service now operates from the Twin Cities to Miles City Montana over the Milwaukee coast extension. The morning train departs at 6 35 and arrives at 10 50 p m the same day with plans for a faster schedule to Butte Montana once the route opens further.
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Miles City
Mont
Aberdeen
S. D
Twin Cities
New Coast
Milwaukee Railroad
Butte
Farmers Elevator Company Organized In Hayt
After several stockholders meetings the Farmers Elevator company is formed with sufficient stock sold to begin immediate construction of necessary buildings.
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Hayt
S. D
Farmers’ Elevator Company
Duke Engagement Rumor Surfaces in Royal Talks
King Victor Emmanuel held conversations with a royal aide regarding reports that the Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of the King, planned to wed Miss Katherine Elkins of West Virginia. The King neither confirmed nor denied the rumor as cipher cablegrams continued between the Duke and the King.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Elkins
West Virginia
Weither
Duke of Abruzzi Engagement Rumors Stir Rome Washington
Rome learns from reliable sources that King Victor Emanuel may grant nobility to Senator Elkins and promote the duke of the Abruzzi to vice admiral after marrying Miss Katherine Elkins. Washington reports say the duke traveled to New York to seek a marriage proposal, with no formal engagement disclosed and Senator Elkins denying any engagement.
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London
Central News
Rome
Victor Emanuel
Elkins
Duke of the Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Naples
Venice
Washington
Duke of Abruzzi
New York
Miss Elkins
Mise Elkins
Senator Elkinna
Mire Workers Adopt New Wage Scales
The United Mine Workers of America national convention in Indianapolis adopts the scale committee report with no changes. President Mitchell sends two members to Washington to back repeal of Sherman anti trust labor clause. Delegates pledge support for labor allied offices and adjourn after singing My Country Tis of Thee.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America Today
Scale
John Mitchell
National Body
Washington
Congress
Mitchell
Milwaukee Man Kills Wife then Shoots Self Over Love Interest
George Willoughby 50, manager of Jewell and Sherman coffee and spice mills, shot and killed his wife at their Milwaukee home. He then killed himself with two chest shots. He confessed jealousy over a Chicago woman he had supported for years and described a planned murder and suicide for months. He chloroformed his wife and attempted to mislead police by staged burglary.
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Milwaukee
Wis
George Willoughby
Jewell & Sherman Company
Coffee and Spice Mills
Willoughby
Chicago
Willoughbys
Mr. Willoughby
Divorces Granted After Husband Accused of 300 Drunken Years
In Chicago on March 23 Judge Barnes granted a divorce to Mrs. John T. Reddington of Norwood Park after she testified her husband had been intoxicated 300 times each year since their August 10 1598 marriage. The court noted nearly 3 000 drunken episodes.
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Chicago
John T. Reddington
Sugar Advances Again
New York on March 23 saw all grades of refined sugar rise by 10 cents per 100 pounds.
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New York
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H. Loonon
J. F. Anderson
J. I. Kilms
Warrisburg
I. PF. Westfall
Salem
J. W. Chapin
Winfred
Yankton
Oecruit Growing
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Armour Telephone Company
Armour
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Bishop
Platte
Tim Sullivan
New River Bridge
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Italy
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