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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
1
Mexican conferees verging on rupture as Villistas gather amid threats of a general uprising along the Rio Grande against Americans. Outlaws reported near FPino, signaling a volatile border scene and potential action.
General Pershing orders greater troop concentration with detachments to Colonia Dublin and others recalled from the south. Secretary Baker informs Wilson that talks between Scott and Obregon will continue, with no conclusive points disclosed. National Guard mobilization grows at Columbus New Mexico while Texas and El Paso see troops moved toward the border under cautious precautions.
Reports describe bandits splitting forces near Glenn Springs and Il Pino with possible counterattacks on Presidio towns. Civil and military authorities brace for a broader Mexican uprising while American troops reinforce border sectors. An anonymous threat to the San Antonio consulate prompts U S patrols and evacuations.
Review of a performance of Everywoman at the Metropolitan. Edna Porter stars as Everywoman with strong support from Frances Simpson as Modesty Helen Mollineux as Beauty and Watel O'Brien as Youth. The play centers on Everywoman's search for King Love guided by Truth, Wealth, Vice, and others.
The San Antonio area gears up under General Funston as army officers plan camps for militia and regulars. Texas militia units and eleven coast artillery companies prepare to deploy, with troop movements toward the Mexican border and reports of a long range clash near Boquillas where Captain Cole notes no casualties.
At headquarters today it was announced that Seaboard points and the Second battalion of the Third field artillery from Tobyhanna Pennsylvania along with five batteries of the fifth field artillery at Fort Sill will move to the border. Batteries to Brent and one battery now on duty at El Paso will join them. Coast artillery companies will be held at Port Sam Houston for distribution along border stations. Funston could not leave El Paso last night but is expected to return soon.
Berlin reports German heavy artillery dominates Verdun operations as French forces suffer high losses and retreat pockets. London also notes Russian success against Turkish positions in Armenia and Austro Italian mine explosions near San Martino amid rising Irish Home Rule tensions.
Five workers were killed and 14 injured when three dynamite mixing buildings at the Atlas Powder company in Landing were demolished by a blast. A fourth mixing house burned, and shock waves shattered windows and dishes for miles.
Preliminary plans outline forming a local rifle club of marksmen in Vermillion. Once organized, it will join the national association and provide members with rifles and 120 rounds of ammunition annually for target work, per federal law.
In Petrograd a 16 year old Italian volunteer earns one of two St George crosses for risking his life to silence a German machine gun. He crawled under fire locating the gun, then returned with rope and dragged the weapon back to his lines without being detected.
In a tense encounter, the gun slipped from German control and was hauled toward Russian trenches. German soldiers attempted to stop the move, suffering casualties as the weapon was finally taken and the march toward the lines continued.
Saratoga N Y The general conference resumes over a decade of ritual revision talk focusing on baptism burial marriage reception of members and ordination proposals call for removing devil from text and altering creed requirements while voting to retire bishops at 73 amid heated debate between modernists and traditionalists.
With the state primary less than two weeks away the Roosevelt committee abandoned the conference planned for this afternoon and returned home. Att orney General Caldwell had ruled that no presidential candidate names could appear on the primary ballot, cooling efforts to swing the Republican convention to Roosevelt.
Berlin acknowledges attacking the Sussex and says the submarine commander has been punished. The note, to Washington, promises reparation. Reports say the Sussex was torpedoed by a German submarine after Berlin investigated the explosion.
A South Dakota section of the American Chemical Society was formed at a University of South Dakota meeting in Vermillion. Dr A N Cook was elected president with A B Dumbar as vice president H I Jones secretary and Harry Hadley treasurer. Dr Oliver Overman named councilor. Vermillion will serve as headquarters. Watertown may host fall meeting with the South Dakota Scientific Society. about twenty chemists attended and papers were read by Jones Cook Overman Clemens Elliott Gushman.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin D. Lane will attend the formal transfer of land patents to 300 Yankton Sioux Indians at the Greenwood agency in Charles Mix County. The ceremony marks twenty-five years since a treaty ceded nearly 200000 acres for 3.75 per acre and the patents will be held in trust for a 25 year period. Dances council addresses and a feast will accompany the event, and Lane is expected to speak to the Indians. The land is valued between 12000000 and 20000000 today.
Vermillion South Dakota report says a chapter of Tau Kappa Alpha the honorary national debating fraternity will be installed at the University of South Dakota soon. The move signals expansion of the debate program with a formal chapter on campus and adds to university honors.
On June 3 the petition was granted for a local fraternity whose members represent the University in inter collegiate debating and oratory. Charter members include Blaine Simons, H. O. Hepperle, J. H. Hill, Ray Pulver, Norwood Brigance, J. C. Eeser, S. D. Roberts, C. M. Davis, C. G. Jesperson and Eric Hellefson.
Political statisticians say 104 April towns with 142 902 people show wets ahead by 1450 votes, yet county totals suggest South Dakota will likely go anti prohibition in November by 6000 to 10000 votes. Gains in March warn that farm areas may not favor statewide prohibition.
Frank M. Rood secretary of state and Republican candidate visited Mitchell on an anti primary tour. He denied any authority over the ballot order, saying county auditors control ballot printing and placement. He urged candidates to petition county auditors for preferred positions, noting alphabetic order may influence outcomes.
Senate judiciary committee to reopen public hearings on Brandeis nomination as it probes his links to a years old merger between United Cigar Stores and the Riker Hegemann drug store chain. Louis Liggeett and George W. Anderson have been summoned to testify Friday.
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