Roosevelt's son refuses to shoot buffalo on hunting trip
Sioux Walls, S. D., Oct 1 Captain Seth Bullock says Kermit Roosevelt declined to shoot buffalo during a South Dakota hunt. He passed up rare sport to avoid depleting nearly extinct game, despite an offer to shoot two stray old bulls if found.
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Sioux Walls
S. D
Kermit Roosevelt
West
South Dakota
Seth Bullock
Bullock
Aberdeen
Captain Bullock
Democrats Get Ticket Placed On Ballot
Attorney General Clarke says the good government ticket may file by petition and allows any combination under a party head to appear on the ballot. The ruling settles the legality of placing the Democratic petition ticket on the ballot in Pierre.
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Pierre
S. Cp
Clarke
Monster rattlesnake killed with lariat in Juayman county
Brook Taylor, a rancher, riding across the prairie in Juayman county, killed what observers say is the largest rattlesnake this season. The skin measured 55 inches after the head and initial body were removed, with the snake felled by Taylor’s lariat.
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Lariat Murdo
Brook Taylor
Juayman County
Min Aerasy
Taylor
Sioux trio fined for beating white man at Lake Andes
Three Yankton Sioux, Reuben Spotted Eagle, Wm. Spotted Eagle, and Wm. Highrock, came to Lake Andes to assault Patrick Miles over a horse trade dispute. Miles defended himself with a pitchfork handle as the town marshal arrived. all four were arrested and fined in local court.
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Lake Andes
S. D
Reuben Spotted Eagle
Spotted Eagle
Highrock
Patrick Miles
Miles
Ethel Barrymore Escapes Train Wreck Near Springfield
A southbound Illinois Central special derailed near Diver non, 20 miles south of Springfield. Engineer A. J. Shell and Fireman Edward Taylor from Clinton were injured while a 7 year old, Elizabeth McGuire, died from debris. Actress Ethel Barrymore was pulled from the coach by a porter but unharmed. No passengers were hurt and she could not reach a replacement to St. Louis.
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Springfield
Illinois Cenutiols Faust
Divernon
A. J. Shell
Edward Taylor
Clinton
Elizabeth McGuire
Chas. McGuire
Ethel Barrymore
St. Louis
Drunken man shoots woman then kills self in Dakota tragedy
In Bryant South Dakota the drunk George Quarts shot Mrs. Carl Schumacher during a dispute over food then shot himself. He had courted Schumacher, who rejected him, and the incident shocked the local community as the area’s first murder suicide.
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Bryant
Hauer
Schumacher
Quarts
Mother James Rescues Child From Icy Cistern
Mrs. Wm. Miller plunged into a cistern to save her child after he fell in. She remained up to her shoulders in frigid water for two hours until her other children returned from school and authorities freed them both.
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Pyndall
Spuriously mapped towns and Indian allotments flagged in Tripp county
In Pallas South Dakota on September 30 Judge J W Witten clarifies that no interior secretary reservation for townsites exists yet and the General Land Office has not recognized proposed sites. The government will reserve tracts for future townsites as needed and survey and auction after appraisal. An official map will later show lands open to occupation and Indian allotments, including the government town sites.
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Judge Witten
Act of Congress
General Land Office
Tripp County
Commissioners Adopt Grain Grades and Spelt Rules
Sioux Falls, Sept 29 The state board of railroad commissioners re adopted last year’s train grades and regulations for the coming year It also set a Velvet chit wheat grade No 1 to No 4 with specific weights No 1 not less than 67 pounds per bushel No 2 66 pounds No 3 54 pounds and notes focus on speltz as a rising South Dakota feed crop The Wagner Avon sidetrack order favors construction by the Milwaukee railroad and a car shortage complaint is the only report A D H Smith will attend the National board meeting in Washington October 6
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Sioux Falls
S. D
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
South Dakota
Milwaukee Railroad
Reliuanee
Kennebec
Lymane County
National Board of Railroad Commissioners
Washington
Chandler Wilcox Gift to Vermillion City Park and Hotel
Mrs. Chandler Wilcox of Pasadena California offers to donate the Chandler House property and several lots on Chandler Hill to the city of Vermillion for a public park and preserve the old Chandler House hotel on the bluff above the Vermillion and Missouri rivers. The donor, a Vermillion pioneer, says she wishes to leave an enduring monument to the Chandler name before her death. The plan would create a park and maintain the historic hotel building as part of the city's heritage.
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Chandler
Chandler House
Chandler Hill
Missouri
Vermillion
California
Beemer Man Starts Lamro Index in Tripp County
Howard Seerist of Beemer Nebraska launches the first Lamro newspaper in Tripp county Lamro with the Lamro Index to publish its initial issue next week in the town’s new paper venture.
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Tripp County
Dallas
S. 10
Howard Seerist
Beemer
Neb
Lamro
Lamro Index
Sale of Phone Company Cuts Out Stockholders
Sioux Falls buyers New State Telephone of Iowa won the Citizens Telephone of Sioux Falls at a public auction for 94700 dollars under Judge Carland. The system will stay independent. bondholders recover back interest and about 32 percent of bonds while stockholders receive nothing.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Carland
United States Court
Citizens Telephone Company of
New State Telephone Compiany of
Lowa
New State Company
Iowa
BE. G. Kennedy
Citizens Telephone Company
Armour and Others Nip Corn Deal Short Squeeze
Chicago traders who held September corn long from July and August brace for gains as shorts responsible for over 3 million bushels race to deliver or settle. September corn opens at 80c with shorts having sold 60 to 90 days ago at 65c or less. J Ogden Armour W H Bartlett and a Patten partner are named among large shorts who sold for September at 15 to 18c below market.
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Chicago
Shorts
J. Ogden Armour
W. H. Bartlett
Pattens
Manila Postpones Welcome to Fleet Over Cholera
Manila announces a formal reception to the American fleet battleships is postponed until November due to cholera in the city.
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Manila
Thaw Denied Jury Trial on Sanity Hearing in White Plains
Justice Mills denied the application for a jury trial to decide Thaw sanity but promised a personal hearing before himself in White Plains New York on September 29.
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White Plains
N. Y
Justice Mills
Herry K
Tripp County townsites prepared for opening dates
Dallas reports preparations for Tripp county opening from October 4 to 17. Five government townsites are laid out in Gregory and Tripp Counties with Major Edward B. Kelly and Colonel J. H. Scrivens overseeing selection. Judge J. W. Witten will set up registration offices in Dallas with government clerks arriving from Washington.
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Dallas
Tripp County
Ongath
Gregory
Tripp
Edward B. Kelly
Osebud
Major Kelly
J. H. Scrivens
J. W. Witten
Washington
Meade County land sale funds building program
In Priize South Dakota a public building in Meade county was sold to private buyers at ten dollars per acre. Proposals are under way that will likely take most of the land and use proceeds to sustain the building fund without state appropriation.
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Priize
Meade County
Roosevelts Hunting Party Returns From West Trip
Pierre South Dakota dispatch reports Kermit Roosevelt and Seth Bullock arriving after a west of the Missouri hunting trip. The president's son left today for the east. The party describes the expedition as a good trip with fair success.
Physicians Declare Against Commissions in South Dakota
Yankton reports a South Dakota State Medical Association vote to expel members who solicit or pay commissions for patient referrals. The meeting denounced rebates as grafts harming patients and discussed publicizing nonmember offenders to curb the practice.
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Yankton
S. D
South Dakota State Medical Association
Sioux City
Sioux Walls
Preserving the Proportions in a Lunchbox Query
A Success Magazine vignette tells of a Scottish boy asking his grandmother if her glasses magnify. She answers a little, and he quips that she could take them off when packing his lunch to better gauge the size of the wheel he imagines.
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Success Magazine
State Charities Board urges nonpartisan administration reforms
In its biennial report the South Dakota state board of charities and corrections calls for ending partisan control of state institutions. It asks for long term terms for officers, fixed salaries, a parole officer and night school at the penitentiary, a reform school for youth, indeterminate sentences, and barriers to hiring relatives of managing officers. The board notes solid progress and reports $60,046.59 in available funds to be returned to the treasury, catalogues property worth $1,321,026, and highlights profits from the penitentiary shirt factory and ongoing improvements at multiple facilities.
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Crawford
Penitentiary and Training School
Dr. C. Thomas
Watertown
Wm. M. Powers
Yankton
W. FE. Tipton
Mitchell
Hospital For the Insane
School For
State Hospital
Sata
School
State Penitentiary
Hospital For Feeble Minded
Robbery Claims Against Tramp in Wessington
John Dike of Sparta Wisconsin reports being robbed by Nelson Gibbs a tramp at Wessington. Gibbs was arrested with twenty three dollars found on him and remains jailed awaiting December circuit term trial.
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Huron
S. D
Wessington
John Dike
Sparta
Wis
Nelson Gibbs
Gibbs
Nelson Found Guilty in Illegal Voting Case
In Elk Point South Dakota Ludwig Nelson was found guilty of illegal voting in Beresford. The jury convicted him and fined 25 dollars. The September term adjourned with a new session set for November 5, and co defendants Chris Nelson and Ed Englebreth face hearings in November for allegedly inciting illegal voting.
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Nelson
Elk Point
S. D
Ludwig Nelson
Beresford
Lincoln County
Union County
Chris Nelson
Ten Vetos Overused By City Councilmen
Sioux Falls records show Mayor W T Doolittle vetoed ten measures in a row. Council reconsidered each time and passed the items over the mayor's objections amid ongoing clashes between the mayor and aldermen. The dispute contrasts with a pending Galveston plan vote this fall.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
W. T. Doolittle
A. A. Wagner
L. E. Hendricks
Galveston
Jack the Peeper Again Haunts Scottish Town
After weeks without incident the so called Jack the Peeper returned in Scotland S D and stalks late night district peering into windows unsettling women and children. Residents chase him but he slips away quickly and they vow tar and feathers after catching him.
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Jack
Peeper
Scotland
S. D
Jack the Peeper
Gregory prepares for large crowds as opening rush nears
Gregory details show beds, lodging, and meals planned for 200 bed capacity at the opera house plus 150 meals at a church eating house and 75 more in a rooming house. Culp buys beds in Omaha and Sioux City. private homes will host transients. electric lights and new water well boost city safety. The town adopts city government and vows strong policing to handle crowds.
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Gregory
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. F. Mattison
Monument Remembers Vagabond Hero King Solomon in Lexington
In Lexington Kentucky Governor Willson and other leaders unveiled a monument to King Solomon a vagabond who died 54 years ago. He lived in Henry Clay’s era never sold his vote though often hungry and idle. He aided cholera victims burying the dead during the 1833 outbreak and again in the second plague years later.
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Lexington
Willson
Solomon
Henry Clay
Zion City to Storm Chicago In Planned October Visit
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to John Alexander Dowie, arrives in Chicago to lead a militant 1000-strong march from Zion City to purify the city. He denounces the courts and ministers including Judge Landis and ex-receiver John Hately, vowing a righteous crusade to add thousands of Zion followers.
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Chicago
Zion City
Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
John Alexander Dowie
Sodom
Voliva
Dowie
New York
Vice
Lord
Church of Zion
Whitney Opera House
Landis
United States District Court
John Hately
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Cheyenne
Kermit
Plum Creek
Vermit
Thomas Ae
Porter
James
Medical Association
State Association
Pen
Wisconsin
Doolittle
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