Psychological Test Fails to Prove Hog Ownership A dispute over a stray pig ends in arbitration
In Beckham and Miller areas a $100 dispute over a hog leads to a grand larceny warrant for Jake Lyon. Arbitrators Bennett Silkins Hagman and Buss rule Lyon keeps the hog and Sanger receives $5. Sanger plans new action as the case stalls. Meanwhile Carl Lentz, a Potter county farmer, is committed to Yankton asylum after failed suicide attempts and a guarded vigil by his wife and neighbors.
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Jake Lyon
Miller
Charles Sanger
Sanger
Lyon
Ed Silkins
Barney Hagman
Charles Buss
Beckham
Lyon Ranch
Carl Lentz
Potter County
Yankton
Porter County
William Mann
Neiehbe
Iis
Noble Woman Sherrard Dies at Sioux Falls Home
Elizabeth Hazleton Sherrard, widow of W. K. Sherrard, founder of the South Dakota Children's Home Society, died after a short illness at nearly seventy nine. Foster mother to over 1300 children, she devoted her life to child rescue and charitable work, beginning in Clark County before moving the home to Sioux Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Sherrard
Sioux Falls
Elizabeth Hazteton Sherrard
William K. Berrard
South Dakota Children’s Home Society
Sherrard
Mrs. Sherrard
Clark County
Children’s Home Society
Vast Belle Fourche irrigation project boosts 100000 acres
Government reclamation engineers near Deadwood South Dakota announce a massive irrigation system on the Belle Fourche river creating 125 miles of canals to water about 100000 acres. About 500 families already settled with 1000 more farms possible by 1909 1910 as 50 000 acres are public 45000 private and 6000 state lands.
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Belle Fourche
Deadwood
Government Reclamation Service
Black Hill District
South Dakota
Lead
Black Mills
Reclamation Service
Rolle Fourche Water Users’ Association
Setlers
Wrong Man Held Up In Night Drive Incident
Rol Geophart of Watertown argues the hold up of a banker clerk and a high school teacher was not pardoned by the apology for mistaken identity. The next morning he found the rifle and received his watch and money in the mail with the apology. The tale prompts a joke about lanterns to reveal faces on evening drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rol Geophart
Watertown
St. Geophart
Security National Bank
Blacksmiths stockton and coroner Cramer fatal quarrel
W. R. Stockton shot Coroner C. R. Cramer of Hot Springs in the groin severing an artery and causing hemorrhage and death in half an hour. Both men were blacksmiths. The trouble arose from a drunken quarrel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. R. Stockton
C. R. Cramer
Hot Springs
Yankton Educator Named Springfield Normal School President
Prof. G. G. Wentlaff, county superintendent of Yankton County schools, has been appointed president of the Springfield state normal school by the board of regents and has accepted the post. He previously served on the Yankton College faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. G. Wentlaff
Yankton County
Springfield State Normal School
Board of
Regents
Yankton College
Wall Street Editor to Address South Dakota Bankers
Sereno S. Pratt of New York will address the South Dakota bankers at Deadwood in July. He will illuminate Wall Street methods and their intricacies before the annual convention. Other noted speakers and prominent national financiers are also slated to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sereno S. Pratt
New York
South Dakota
Wall Street
Deadwood
Serene 3
Groton Keeps Dry After Ballot Irregularity Ruling
Groton votes to sustain injunction and recounts determine that discarding all irregular ballots would affect both sides evenly. The council thus allows the injunction to stand and Groton remains dry for the coming year.
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Groton
Anid
Odd Fellows Adjourn Without Site Decision for State Home
At the South Dakota Odd Fellows grand lodge session in Sioux Falls the location of the proposed state home was discussed but postponed. The board of trustees recommended delaying the decision to Deadwood's meeting next year, and the grand lodge voted to take no action now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Odd Fellows
Board of Trustees
Deadwood
Grand Lodge
Miner Survives 70-Foot Fall at Lead Mine
Peter Lamberg a miner for Homentake Mining Co. at Lead survived a seventy foot fall despite multiple broken bones a badly cut head and internal injuries physicians say he will recover Lamberg ignored a shift boss warning and attempted to lower himself without help collapsing unconscious on a lower level his condition prevents him from speaking.
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Tatruc
Peter Lamberg
Homentake
Lead
Lamberg
Attorney General moves to oust Webster lumber firms
The attorney general, S. W. Clark, begins charter forfeiture actions against Lampert Brothers Lumber Co. and John W. Tuthill Lumber Co. after a detailed probe suggests an illegal combination to restrain competition and raise prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
S. W Clark
Lampert Brothers’ Lumber Company
John W. Tuthill Lumber Company
Davis county crop outlook plans larger corn plantings
Davis county reports a favorable crop year with wheat acreage down at least 15 percent from last year. Corn planting has begun with about 86 percent sown and expected to be 15 percent higher than last year. Flax sowing steady while barley acreage rises 10 to 15 percent amid continued moisture and warm weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Third Battalion of Sixteenth Infantry Arrives for Camp Practice
The Third battalion of the Sixteenth Infantry under Capt Ridenour reached Watertown last week by special train from Wort Croek Nebraska and set up on the state military reservation east of Lake Kampeska. They will stay thirty days for rifle range practice, after which they will be recalled and another battalion sent for duty. The battalion typically has around 400 officers and men, but this unit numbers 225.
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Sixteenth Infantry
Ridenour
Watertown
Wort Croek
Nehb
Lake Kampeska
Platt Wins as Miss Wood Is Jailed in Perjury Case
In New York, Mae C Wood faced trial for absolute divorce from U S Senator Thomas C Platt. After defense questioned the marriage documents a judge dismissed the complaint and ordered Wood jailed in Tombs on perjury charges with 5000 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mae C. Wood
Hose
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Triial
Supreme Court
Tombs
Justice O'Gorman
Platt
Senator Platt
Miss Wood
Miss Wool
Jnation O'Gorman
O'Gorman
Mina Wood
Dynamiters wreck Harlem branch bridge in Baychester
A bridge under construction on the Harlem branch of the New Haven Hartford railroad at Baychester was wrecked by a dynamite blast of about fifty pounds. Two watchmen were knocked down. the attackers fled as windows shattered and chaos followed. Repair may take two months or more.
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New York
Harlem
New Haven
Hartford
Baychester
Harlem River
Summons Iowa Strikers Issued In Des Moines Court
Judge McPherson in Des Moines issued a citation ordering the strikers on the lows Contra road at Marshalltown to appear and show cause why an injunction should not restrain them from interfering with employees who had taken their places after the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
McPherson
United States
Marshalltown
Farmers Hard Hit by Severe Storm in Iowa
Westfield Iowa May 23 twelve farmers near town suffered near total losses of buildings and crops and some livestock after a severe storm tornado and flash flood swept through the area no lives were lost according to local report from the section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westfield
Iowa
Editor Indicted for Murder in El Paso
J F Atteh proprietor of the El Paso Evening News was indicted by a grand jury in a special session for the murder of M M Harrell in El Paso Texas on May 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
J. F. Attehin
el Paso Evening News
M. M. Harrell
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