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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
1
Evarts South Dakota October reports range cattle movement toward markets with hundreds of carloads awaiting transport. Railroads in range country issue car orders, predicting over 3 000 cattle cars in two months and more than 6 000 sheep cars expected to pass through the state in the next month.
A fire eight miles northeast of Armour, South Dakota, heavily damaged B. N. Renshaw’s wheat crop as threshing operations spread the flames from a spark from the engine. Loss estimated at $1000 with no insurance. Armour Roller mills meanwhile invest about $10,000 in mill improvements including a gas engine, lighting plant, and a 25,000 bushel steel elevator.
Rails laid on the Armour extension of the Milwaukee railway reach Corsica the first town north and daily trains are expected soon. Rapid growth expected as new buildings rise and lumber hauls shorten from Arjour ten miles. Five elevators approved for Corsica with sites granted to several local firms.
Canton S D Oct 5 The first open meeting of the Good Citizenship league at the Lutheran church drew a large enthusiastic audience. The largest church was used and all seats were filled with some standing and others unable to enter. Rev G S Evans preached on The Good Citizen, and organizers plan similar gatherings through fall and winter.
Sioux Falls, Oct 5. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad will upgrade Troy station facilities after a board report urged depot improvements. Citizens petitioned for better accommodations and a telephone for shippers will be installed along with other enhancements.
Dakin Hall at Yankton College narrowly escaped total destruction when a girl lit gas in her room and left. Another student spotted the blaze, found the room ablaze from ignited lace curtains, and the two promptly extinguished the flames before neighbors were alerted.
Farmers in northeastern South Dakota report a new pest attacking corn ears near the tips. The pest resembles a gray cut worm, hatching from a substance in the silk and burrowing into ears to cause rot. Damage extent remains unknown.
The October term in Pierre South Dakota begins with a sizable class taking the bar exam. Sixty two cases fill the calendar including Jewett Bros. & Jewett vs E W Small state pure food commissioner as the test case on labeling the individual packer on products. Wholesale houses oppose branding the packer name as it would affect their brands. Also slated is the Walworth county seat contest for early argument.
The 1911 state census lists extensive production figures across crops, fruits, vegetables, and livestock for South Dakota. Wheat and corn lead grain outputs. hay tonnage and forage crops rise sharply. potatoes, apples, plums, grapes, and berries appear with precise acreages and bushels. Livestock counts include calves, steers, cows, horses, sheep, swine, and poultry totals by category.
Chas Burwick of Detroit representing H V Havemeyer tours South Dakota researching sugar beet factory sites along the big ditch. If soil and conditions suit, the company may build several plants with farmers contracted to supply beets at five dollars per ton. Bounty per acre ranges widely with yield estimates of fifteen to thirty tons per acre on costs near thirty dollars per acre.
Sioux Falls South Dakota October 4. The cornerstone laying for the new Masonic temple is scheduled for October 10. Invitations have been sent to state Masonic lodges inviting delegations to participate in the cornerstone ceremony and related services.
In Webster South Dakota on October 2 the case of Charles Alberts 18 and Mrs Belle Davis 23 tied to an attempted murder of Albert Bryant 60 a cattle seller who kept 165 dollars for safe keeping Alberts claimed Bryant attacked him first citing self defense while Davis testified of her father planning to leave his property to her after a trip from Michigan The assailants fled were captured later and trial moves to the state circuit court with Bryant later changing his will to favor his son in Michigan.
In Beadle county near Cavour, a Chicago and Northwestern freight train ignited prairie grass, burning 400 bushels of wheat and hay for L. Ranny. Nearby, hunters started another fire that consumed additional hay. Joseph Delevaux and L. Ranny report the losses as the season’s first prairie-fire damages.
A five year old boy, son of contractor John Johnson, tried to imitate older youths jumping on moving trains in Sioux Falls. He fell under a freight train on the Omaha road and had one leg cut off below the knee.
The preliminary hearing for F. E. Miles in Gettysburg South Dakota revealed a scheme involving the Sioux Falls mayor, a Great Northern telegrapher and Western Union officials to have bogus telegrams tapped from Lebanon to induce a bank cashier to pay Miles a draft. Miles is bound over to the circuit court in $6,000 and jailed in Pierre. prosecutors include H. H. Keith and defense by T. F. Murtha. Miles is also said to be wanted in Colorado and other states for similar offenses.
Vermillion S D Oct 2 The university adopts a campus smoking ban after setting foot on campus no student may smoke a cigar cigarette or pipe. Spitting on sidewalks also carries a penalty. Students expect enforcement and see it as likely to spread with President Droppers guiding the policy.
Sioux Falls Oct 2 Ault former Bonesteel peace officer now in the Sioux Falls penitentiary for killing gambler Kid English seeks a pardon. Ault employs French Orvis Lankton as attorney for the October 17 hearing before the state board of pardons. The pardon effort was led by his wife with signatures from many prominent local citizens.
Freshmen at the University of South Dakota faced ironic tests by upperclassmen. Ready cash bought access to privileges as campus tickets were sold at varying prices. Old time hazing was replaced by easier methods, leaving no bruised heads or limbs but a week of strained nerves and busy restaurants.
Mitchell South Dakota October meeting of fourth class postmasters elected E A Wigton Esmond as president O P Ashley Lennox as vice president E Brown Iroquois J G Lillibridge Blunt Robert Martin Andover elected to executive committee W M Vandely Marion and E A Wigton Esmond named delegates to the National League of Postmasters of the Fourth Class for Washington DC in October Arrangements made to supply finances for the new organization.
A mysterious fatal bed in George Yesser’s home near Bonesteel South Dakota is linked to three prior child deaths. Julius Schroeder and his wife found their 9 month old sleeping peacefully, two hours later the child died. The bed’s deadly mystery remains unexplained.
In Lead, South Dakota, Oct 8, police raided a Leading district home aimed at enforcing a gambling ban. Twenty to thirty prominent women faced arrest. they hurled brooms and chairs at officers, injuring several, including a helmeted cop who left with his hat. Officers vowed resignation rather than return to the confrontation.
Five masked men, after overpowering the night watchman, dug into the First National bank in Howard South Dakota and worked on a safe holding 200000 dollars. The watchman freed himself and alerted the town but the robbers escaped after a gun battle with residents. one is believed wounded and a sheriff hunt is underway.
Aberdeen faces an ice shortage after a local firm with a monopoly exhausted its 300 ton surplus and imported six carloads of thirty tons from Minneapolis. Meat markets and other necessities receive ice, but housewives go without as a warm September stretches into autumn and temperatures stay above 90 degrees.
Aberdeen capitalists F. B. Gannon Charles Eggabroad and Roswell Bottum acquire the Bank of Hecla with its real estate from A. E. I. G. and B. S. Clark. The institution converts to a state bank with capital raised to 10000 dollars and Roswell Bottum named cashier.
Aberdeen South Dakota reports Police man George Harrington attacked by a holdup man who did not recognize him. Harrington overpowered the assailant and Harrington was jailed to await trial.
The state auditors report total county indebtedness in South Dakota at 6 057 874 61 with over half 3 097 192 35 in loans from the permanent school fund secured by mortgages. Assets offset liabilities at 7 199 893 60, counties lacking bonds listed, and small warrant totals noted for Jerauld Kingsbury Miner Spink and Sully.
In Yankton South Dakota a reform movement backed by the state attorney and city marshal aims to shut down gambling dens. Private citizens join, raids expose gambling rooms, some operators flee, and plans to convert the district into a park with a cement palace are discussed as a future development.
Aberdeen reports extreme dryness in northern South Dakota has caused numerous threshing out fits fires. Sparks from engines set flames to grain stacks, burning fourteen stacks in one case and 400 bushels of wheat in another. Ash ton and Mellette also saw two separators destroyed by explosions.
In Redfield a spirited game saw Aberdeen high school beat Redfield 11 to 0. The Aberdeen region reports 647 bushels of wheat from 17 acres by Eugene Libbis of McPherson county and 31 bushels per acre from IE H Kibler near Pierpont. A threshing outfit accident injured John Erickson, sight lost in both eyes.
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