Through Service From Black Hills to Chicago Begins Dec 1
The Milwaukee line starts daily passenger service from Rapid City to Chicago beginning December 1, with a day coach, smoker, baggage, express and mail cars leaving Rapid City at 8:30 p m and arriving Chicago next morning. A Rapid City to Mitchell sleeper runs to Sioux City via Yankton, with Mitchell also getting a Hills sleeper through to Chicago. A mixed train serves along the new line each day. Julius Abbot of Sioux City was fined $40 plus costs for peddling without a license in Sioux Township near Elk Point, and Sheriff E B Sherman ordered deputies to arrest unlicensed peddlers in the county.
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Black Hille
Milwaukee Railroad
Chicago
Rapid City
Mitchell
S. D
Sioux City
Yankton
Hills
Canton
Mascon City
Town
Julius Abbot
Rie Sioux Township
Elk Point
E. B. Shermain
Educator Miller D D Noted South Dakota Career
Miller D a veteran educator in South Dakota noted for over fifty years in teaching. He has spent twenty five years in the state and a total of fifty two years in the profession without a break.
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Miller
South Dakota
Civil War Veteran and School Official Seeks Artifacts
The man, once a Zouave with General Lew Wallace, preserves a photo from that era in loose uniform. He values the relic highly and would not sell for a thousand dollars. He recently began a winter term teaching twenty five miles from Miller and has served two terms as county superintendent.
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Lew Wallace
Fatal Cabin Fire Claims Mrs. Rose Courtney at Fort Mead
Mrs Rose Courtney aged over sixty died in a cabin fire at Fort Mead after moving in the day before under government housing. The cabin was set alight and burned to the ground with both arms burned to the elbows and both toes to the knees. Post St Mary burial followed. her husband Mr Courtney died years earlier in a runaway accident.
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Rose Courtney
Fort Mead
Courtney
Handsome Granite Church to Replace Pioneer Mitchell Edifice
The Holy Family Church society will dedicate a new granite church in Mitchell, begun two years ago and costing over 45000 when finished. The 62 by 122 feet structure with a 170 foot tower will be debt free at dedication, likely in January, and features oil paintings of the Annunciation and Holy Family. A pipe organ costing about 3000 will equip the church, with a history of local priestly leadership dating to 1880.
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Mitchell
Holy Family Church Society
Marty
Father McCarty
Father Nolan
Father Hennessy
Flannegin
Constantine
Father Sheehan
Hikton
Father Ahern
Father Maher
Father Hogan
Father Shea
Holy Family
Business Man Teaches In Arlington School
J H Cross, a Arlington business owner and school board member, closed his elevator business to teach at Arlington High School due to a sudden faculty vacancy. United States Indian Bureau reps distributed nearly 20000 dollars in cash to Sioux Indians along the Missouri River in Charles Mix County who declined checks.
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Arllington
J. H. Cross
Arlington High School
Cross
United States Indian Bureau
Missouri River
Charles Mix County
Miner Survives After Ten-Ton Rock Collapse
John Holmes escaped a tunnel collapse with a dislocated leg and cuts after timbering a tunnel for the Norfolk Gold Mining company of Keystone. His partner Frank Thompson assisted, as workers removed the last of ten tons of rock and earth from the site.
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John Holmes
Holmen
Frank Thompson
Norfolk Gold Mining Company
Keystome
Goldfield Braces for Bloodshed as Mine Row Deepens
Goldfield Nevada Dec 11 The Mine Owners Association issues an ultimatum halving wages and reopening mines Thursday bringing 500 replacements for strikers Troops to guard mines Gov Sparks to arrive The clash pits union and non union forces amid rumors of intimidation and violence as authorities caution patience and division of troops to multiple camps
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Goldfield
Nev
Goldfield Mine Owners Association
Thurssday
Sparks
W. S. Wayne
Coeur d'Alene
Co. Reynolds
Mine Owners’ Association
American Federation of Labor
Western Federation
Industrial Workers of the World
Seventy-Eight Bodies Recovered From Monongah Mine Disaster
At Monongah West Virginia eighty corpses were removed from two mines after a deadly explosion. Rescue work continued despite delays and a forecast that nearly a hundred victims may be recovered by daylight. Officials doubt a company count of two hundred sixty workers present.
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Monogah
W. Va
Monongah
Ltta
Emperor William Arrives in London for Sightseeing Visit
Emperor William of Germany, after completing a rest cure at Highcliffe, arrived in London for a three day sightseeing visit. He lunched with King Edward at Buckingham Palace and then moved to the German embassy where he will stay until Wednesday. He appears in splendid health.
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King Edward
London
Emperor William of
Germany
Highcliffe Castle
Buckingham Palace
John Goodnow Dies in Spain Former Shanghai Consul General
John Goodnow, former consul general to Shanghai, China, died in Malaga Spain on December 11. He once lived in Minneapolis with business interests and active Minnesota politics around 1896. He was appointed by President McKinley to the American consulate in Shanghai in 1897.
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Shanghai
Malaga
Spain
John Goodnow
China
Mr. Goodnow
Minneapolis
Minnesota
McKinley
Tragedy in Hannibal: Lineman Kills Woman and Kin Then Self
Isaac C. G. Wilcox a telephone lineman shot and killed Mrs. Wilkinson and her brother Cotton Hanson before taking his own life with a pistol. Mrs. Wilkinson was a widow and Wilcox had been a former suitor for her hand.
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Self
Hannibal
Nec
Isaac CG. Wilcox
Zulu King Surrenders in Natal Crisis
Dindlulu the Zulu king surrenders in Pietermaritzburg Natal ending the threat. The surrender follows days of tension as authorities sought to defuse the standoff in the region.
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Pietermaritzburg
Natal
Dindlulu
Lower rates boost profits in South Dakota railroad case
The state board of railroad commissioners files a return in federal court in Sioux Falls seeking to make permanent a temporary injunction blocking the planned rate cut from 3 to 2 1/2 cents per mile on all standard gauge lines. The reply argues operating expenses are not excessive and the rate reduction would increase cash fares and net earnings by stimulating passenger travel within the state.
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State Board of Railroad Commissioners
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
P. W. Dougherty
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Carland
Dougherty
Watertown High Faces Class Strike Over Flag Incident
Watertown school board battles a junior class strike as 27 students protest suspensions of seven boys who raised a pennant over the school in defiance of a board order. Twenty girls walk out in solidarity, disputing the ruling as board delay leaves action uncertain.
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Watertown
Farmers Protest Costly Lake Poinsett Rise Plan
South Dakota farmers protest a proposed three foot rise in Lake Poinsett level to support power storage. They value flooded lands at a quarter million dollars and filed formal protests after state engineer Lea heard their concerns in Pierre. Ta will delay ruling pending his on site inspection of the affected tracts.
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Hamlin County
Lake Poinsett
Pierre
Lea
Tie
End Teacher Shortage Nearing Resolution In State
The state superintendent’s office reports receiving many papers from the November teachers examinations. Results show several applicants for certificates and the state’s average passing rate should fill the teacher supply, reducing the fall shortage to a minimum.
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S Force
County Board Wins Appeal Over Superintendent Ransom
Judge Frank B. Smith denied a mandamus motion by Spink County Superintendent F A Ransom against the county board. The court ruled the board may decide on salary and office needs, discharging the writ. Ransom plans to appeal. case highlights county property discretion.
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Spink County
Frank B. Smith
Circuit Court
Redfield
Board of County Commissioners
F. A. Ransom
Ransom
Country Board
Wheaton Plans State Drug Suit to Test Pure Food Act
Commissioner A H Wheaton of the state pure food department said the delay in suing under the patent medicine clause stems from efforts to obtain a friendly suit from an outside drug house to settle the interstate question. He will soon sue a local druggist to test the law within the state while leaving interstate issues to future action by an interested firm in U S courts.
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Wheaton
A. H. Wheaton
Pierrs
United States
Money for Crouch Road Relief From Eastern Capital
A telegram from C. D. Crouch, president of the Crouch railroad between Rapid City and Mystic, says Eastern capitalists have advanced 50000 dollars to cover heavy losses. Of this sum 16000 dollars is available immediately and the rest within ninety days in installments. The funds will meet reconstruction payrolls and settle outstanding time checks after washout damage and rebuilding cost the line over 160000 dollars, with two wrecks and other losses included.
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C. D. Crouch
Crouch Railroad
Rapid City
Mystic
Corn School Set At Mitchell Show With Bowman
The second annual corn show of the South Dakota State Corn Growers and Breeders association will be held in Mitchell December 17 to 19. Prof M L Bowman of Town Agricultural College will conduct a corn school on the first two days. Other speakers include Prof J Cole Hon H C Warner Prof W A Wheeler Hon A B Chamberlain A J Wimple John Brenner and Dr Robert Slagel. Entries close December 10.
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M. L. Bowman
Iowa
Mitchell
South Dakota
W. A Wheeler
A. B. Chamberlain
Brookings
A. J. Wimple
John Brenner
Robert Slagel
Brookings Agricultural College
Pardon Recommended for H. E. Edmunds in Manslaughter Case
The state pardon board recommends clemency for H. E. Edmunds from Clay County on a first degree manslaughter charge. The pardon would take effect December 24 after Edmunds served part of a five year sentence for killing William Williams with a baseball bat over a wage dispute. The board rejected other applicants Ed Davis John Kapaling and Elmer Dahl.
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State Pardon Board
H. E. Edmunds
Clay County
Ed Davis
John Kapaling
Elmer Dahl
Edmunds
William Willams
Meckling
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J. H. Snoddy
Courtney Burns
Fort Meade
Pioneer Church
County Board
Crouch Road
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