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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
3
McNamara four hours from Los Angeles when the Times building explosion killed 21. McManigal admits sixty nine dynamiting jobs worth 4 million dollars since 1909 and says McNamara paid associates and used a clock bomb. Burns denies he aided McManigal. Darrow calls the arrest a kidnapping and cites Moyer Pettibone parallels.
Washington DC bill increases the House from 391 to 433 members based on the recent census, granting South Dakota a third seat. The measure resembles the Crumpacker plan. amendments to centralize power with governors or cap the size at 433 were defeated as Republicans led the push. The Crumpacker 430 proposal failed 178 to 99 with Democrats opposing.
At Guild Hall London leaders of all parties including Premier Asquith endorsed President Taft's proposal for a general arbitration treaty between Britain and the United States. Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Vesey Strong presided as Asquith announced the meeting marks a major step toward universal peace and pledged London's support.
McIntosh editor Parker of the McIntosh Chief sues Chas. Hardy of Morristown for $8,000 claiming false imprisonment during a county seat fight last November. Parker says the brief jail stay harmed his feelings and reputation.
In Watertown, the state supreme court reversed a lower court ruling and granted a new trial in the J. K. Gorman versus P. H. and W. C. Madden case. Justice Whit ing wrote the opinion, with Judge Marquis at Watertown previously directing a verdict for the defendant.
Progressive and reform-minded voices gain momentum as New England leaders advocate public supervision of corporations. Figures from Bell Telephone, Continental and Commercial National Bank, and Rock Island lines join Stuyvesant Fish and Henry Mudge in calling for national oversight and Boston harbor municipal ownership, signaling a shift from staunch standpatters to broader regulation.
Indianapolis detective William J. Burns travels to Chicago saying a big surprise awaits the public and labor leaders regarding the McNamaras and McManigal detained for Los Angeles Times dynamiting. He asserts he can convict John McNamara in half the states if Los Angeles clears him.
John L McNamara and his brother James B McNamara and Ortie McManigal, the men accused of blowing up the Times plant last October killing twenty one, are in the county jail in separate cells with extra guards. A separate trial is planned and arraignment will await the defense.
A fast special train arrived in Aberdeen South Dakota at 7:30 carrying the married daughter of Marcus F Daly of Butte. The train, averaging 50 miles per hour, was bound for New York for treatment by a noted specialist. The Milwaukee line’s speed record was set as it left Butte Tuesday night and reached Chicago by 12:40 today with Grand Trunk connections to New York.
President Taft named officials for the U S land offices at Timber Lake and Lemmon South Dakota. Registrars are Paul Kribs and Edwin C Colman. Receivers of public money are Samuel W Hutchinson and Jacob L Harrett. Also named were James A Fowler Ernest Knabel and Samuel Adams to senior Interior Department posts.
President Taft refused to pardon Nebraska cattlemen Bartlett Richards A G Comstock Charles C Jamieson and Aquila Triplett convicted of land frauds along the Wyoming border. They used devices to secure lands belonging to homesteaders and must begin prison sentences.
Several hundred Sioux warriors in Tripp County gathered to receive interest money from U S government agents. Each Indian got between five and twenty five dollars as interest on funds in the United States treasury. Merchants in Winner report brisk trade as funds are spent on merchandise and clothing, including an Indian woman who bought a stylish go cart for her papoose and enjoyed whiling away the hours wheeling the child through the street.
Mrs. Margaret Daly Brown eldest daughter of Marcus Daly copper magnate and wife of Baltimore banker Henry Carroll Brown dies in New York after a dramatic sea level transfer. The journey began in Butte Montana and tied trains from St Paul Chicago and Lake Shore to reach New York City. Doctors at the bedside offered little hope as altitude related illness and heart trouble were suspected.
In January 1901 in Maryland the Brown family takes a new turn as Mr Brown enters the brokerage business in New York. The couple now have two daughters Margaret Price Brown and Frances Carroll Brown.
State Game Warden Bancroft in Pierre arranged purchase of about two hundred pairs of Chinese pheasants for statewide distribution and planned elk and mountain sheep releases in the Black Hills. He argues for using the game fund to propagate all game, not let it accumulate, and notes future protection will boost big game hunting once law changes.
Chinese rebels clash with loyal troops in Canton. rioters sack and burn the viceroy residence while Admiral Li leads forces to disperse them. Gates close, telegrams cut, ships detained as rebels aim to seize depots for arms and spread revolt.
The post office department announces 48 postal savings banks have proved successful and will extend on May 1 to 45 more cities including New York Chicago Boston and San Francisco with possible additions in South Dakota.
State superintendents in Pierre discuss uniform high school curricula so credits transfer between schools. A committee will classify schools and form accredited lists ensuring same work each year and seamless credit transfer for moving pupils.
President Taft argues for immediate reciprocity with Canada to support tariff policy. He says talks of annexation are nonsense, defends the pact as not harming farmers, and warns against broader concessions without Canadian counter-moves while stressing protective tariff aims.
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