Pierre land office quarterly report shows extensive filings and sales
The Pierre land office records for the quarter ending September 30 reveal filings on over seven townships of government land, including six homesteads, 22 reservoir declaratories, and 18 soldiers' declaratories. Final proofs reached 429 with value and residence requirements. fees totaled 314,026.04 and receipts 45,586.63. Contests exceed 400, indicating high perceived land value, as one notable sale moved to Towns Juites with a $9,000 purchase of a 50 acre farm near Pierre.
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Pierre Land Office
William Sechoner
Pierre
Land drive reshaped by rainfall and desert land ruling
The case before the Rapid City land office pits Charles Rudel against Tyita Sundquist over northeast of Belle Fourche land near the irrigation project. Rudel contends the parcel is desert land under the 1887 act, while Sundquist argues it can yield native grasses and crops. A decision could affect many settlers who have thrived under the desert act amid unusually wet recent years.
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Rapid City
United States Land Office
Charles T. Rudel
Tyita Sundquist
Belle Fourche
General Land Office
Washington
Sundquist
County Board to Decide on Point Drainage Project
Union county plans a major drainage project near Wik Point with eight mile main ditch and eight minor laterals cost estimated around 25000 dollars. The board of county commissioners meets at the courthouse on November 6 to decide funding apportioned to benefiting landowners by acres drained. The project would drain low wet bottoms and improve spring land conditions after heavy rains.
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Ik Point
Union County
Board of County Commissioners
Court House
Wik Point
South Side Irrigation Project Cuts Work Over Landowner Interest
Officials say about 400 feet of the Belle Fourche River siphon on the government irrigation project near Belle Fourche is already finished and further south side work may halt without new congressional funding. More than 400000 dollars remain to complete the south side, and the initial 2100000 dollar appropriation is insufficient for both river banks. The reclamation service will not authorize more south side funds until landowners show stronger interest, a contrast to other big projects.
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Belle Fourche
Congress
Reclamation Service
Wakes Up Blue Laws in Deadwood Battle
Mayor Adams clashes with the L B Marty Billposting Co over Sunday closing hours and billboard rules amid strict state blue laws. The dispute cites Belle Fourche practices and potential train stoppages if enforced, with the mayor auditing fire limit structures and alleged law compliance gaps.
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Adams
Deadwood
Belle Fourche
Barly Company
Lemmon to Move Town to Permanent Site Near Railroad
The town of Lemmon will relocate from its temporary site to a permanent location found by the railroad within days. Substantial buildings will rise and preparations for winter will begin. The move covers only about a quarter mile, requiring minimal expense and time.
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Lemmon
Fires Start By Children With Matches In State
Fire marshal reports for the first quarter show 107 fires statewide under the three month law. Most fires are due to unknown causes with 29 listed. lightning accounts for 15. children with matches for tew fires. gasoline 13. kerosene 4. gas leaks 4. electric wires 1. Incendiary cases total three, with one certain case linked to an insane man. Tramps blamed for two. Defective chimneys and stove pipes cause eight. one overturned stove. one car stove. Engine sparks and fireworks each credited with four. four from other buildings burning. Careless smokers two. hot grease, spontaneous combustion, and meat falling into fire one each. One prairie fire reported. such blazes now common west of the river and not required to be reported. Incendiarism cited as probable in several fires, but no evidence sustained under the law to file charges.
S. D. Barley Report Ready
Deane Robinson estimates the state barley yield at 20,438,820 bushels from 874,964 acres, about 4,000,000 bushels below last year, with a $7,000,000 price gain over autos. Fire marshal law three months shows 107 fires, main causes include known causes 29, lightning 15, children with matches 10, gasoline 13, kerosene 4, gas leaks 4, electric tent wires 1, incendiary 3 with one certain.
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Deane Robinson
Belle Fourche Proclaims Sunday Closing Of All Businesses
Following a Sunday closing of saloons, Belle Fourche's mayor issues a proclamation ordering all stores and businesses to close Sundays except drug stores and outlets for essential household supplies. Butcher and grocery shops may open limited morning hours before closing for the day, with livery barns included and the town declared "dead" on Sundays. The mayor pledges no favoritism and insists all comply if saloons do.
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Maxwell
Belle Fourche
Husband Dies Suddenly At Wife's Funeral
In Muscatine Iowa on October 13 Herman Dollman collapsed and died as the funeral cortege returned from the cemetery after interring his wife. He had been aging for some time.
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Muscatine
Town
Herman Dollman
Lightning Cuts and Welds Wire Fence on Brookings Farm
A freak lightning strike on Louis Hermanson’s Brookings county farm split top fence wire into short eight to ten inch pieces and welded some ends. The bolt then ripped into a coiled portion, nearly halving the roll and leaving brittle, oxidized strands that can be whittled.
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Brookings County
Louis Hermanson
Hermanson
Missing Spurling heir sought for Cleveland fortune
Arthur Spurling, now grown, is being sought nationwide to claim a substantial estate left by his grandmother in Cleveland. The case ties to the 1892 Deadwood Baptist church fire and the murder of Clem Spurling, known as Slim the Barber, and follows his mother Lotta’s divorce and disappearance with the boy from Deadwood to Lincoln.
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Arthur Spurling
Cleveland
Young Spurling
Deadwood
Spurling
Baptist Church
Clem
Maria Kelley
Arthur
Young horse thieves from respectable families head on crime
Jesse James style youths John Rhinehart and Ed Wheeler, from well regarded homes, begin a criminal career as horse thieves and hold up men. They ride toward Montana with Deputy Harper pursuing and cattlemen ready to prosecute. They first stole two horses from Peter Markuson near Belle Fourche and killed one horse on the way. A rancher named Osgood was robbed at gunpoint of his horse saddle gun and money. No further news, but arrests are expected daily.
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Jesse James
John Rhinehart
Ed Wheeler
Montana
Harper
Peter Markuson
Belle Fourcche
Powder River Country
Osgood
Heir to Fortune in Kansas City Estate Battle
George Drips of Wagner Kansas City area is named as one of four heirs to a $900,000 estate tied to a central Kansas City landholding used as a race track and park. Alleged heirs contest the claims, and a heated legal battle may delay division as Drips and his wife travel to Kansas City to press their interests.
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Wagner
George Drips
Kansas City
Drips
No More Kingdom Declared by Kerry Men’s P Association
Dennis J. Buckley president of the Kerry Men’s P Association says the people of County Kerry Ireland have decided to repudiate the title Kingdom, which has hung to it for 1 720 years.
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Dennis J. Buckley
Kerry Men's P
B. Association
Kerre Ireland
Record Flight Reaches 23 046 Feet In Himalaya Trisctul Summit
Dr Longstaffe scales Himalayan peaks with two guides and an officer reaching the summit of Trisctul at 23 046 feet setting a high altitude record. The party completes the ascent amid challenging weather and rugged terrain.
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Longstaffe
Himalayas
Trisctul
President changes his camp at Monticello crossing
Roosevelt camp at Monticello crossing of Bayou Tensas moves toward Bear Lake then to a new site near Newellton Tensils parish. No bears were seen or tracked, yet letters from Newellton claim many bears nearby. The president and entourage accept the situation philosophically as they relocate for the journey ahead.
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Stamboul
Roosevelt
Monticello
Bayou Tensas
Bear Lake
Newellton
Tensils Parish
Iron Mountain
Minister Sees Murder in Serbian Prison Killings
Belgrade Oct 18Former police prefect Zerovics publishes a disclaimer of responsibility for the deaths of Maxine and Milan Novakovics who were killed in a jail fight with guards on Sept 29 They had campaigned against the regicides of King Alexander and Queen Draga Zerovics claims Interior Minister Petrovic was personally responsible for the crime present when the men were killed
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Belgrade
Serbia
Zerovics
Maxine
Milan Novakovics
Alexander
Draga
Zerovies
M. Petrovies
Royal Swedish Yacht Club Delays Reply On AmERICA Challenge
The Royal Swedish Yacht Club discussed New York Yacht Club's reply to the Amorica challenge. The key issue, whether the racing yacht length could be fixed at seventy feet, remained unresolved after a lengthy debate. A further meeting was set for October 21 to settle this point.
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New York Yacht Club
Stockholm
Royal Swedish Yacht Club
Amorica
New York Club
National Railway Officials Fault Federal Control Scheme
Washington Oct 13 after a four day session the nineteenth annual convention of the National Association of State Railway Commissioners adjourned. Commissioner Staples of Mayo ng ta submitted a report on rates and rate making that antagonized federal control of railroads and suggested lodging control nearer home. the report was adopted.
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Staples
Washington
National Association of State Railway Commissioners
Mtynegota
Mars Is Populated Planet, Prof Todd Concludes
Panama reports Prof David Todd after four months with an expedition to observe Mars. He states that over 7,000 photographs were taken and notes twenty double canals. Todd concludes Mars has been inhabited in the past and is inhabited now.
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Todd
Panama
David Todd
Ckte
United States
Mars
Senator Thothers C. PiLls Divorce Reply Ordered
New York October court order directs counsel for Senator Thothers C. PiLls to file the senator’s answer with the county clerk within ten days in the divorce action brought by Mac Wand. The order states that failure to comply will result in the answer being deemed abandoned.
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New York
Oct
Supreme Court
Blanchaut
Thothers C. Piu
Mac
Wand
Santa Fe Convicted in Rebating Case
In Los Angeles a jury found the Santa Fe Railway Company guilty on all counts of rebating. The trial, connected to charges against the railroad, yields a potential maximum fine of 1,100,000 and a minimum of 76,000.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Afelson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railrroad Company
Bacon Heroic Rescue on Charles River
Assistant Secretary of State Robert L. Bacon aided a canoe incident on the Charles River near Berlin. He jumped from the Harvard launch Verstas and swam to save two boys who capsized. one boy was saved by Bacon and the other by Harvard student J. S. Reed who followed him into the water.
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Berlin
Robert L. Bacon
Charles Miver
Harvard
Xecong
J. 5. Reed
Bacon
Growth of Missouri River Trade Prompts State Waterway Vision
Gov. Crawford of South Dakota addresses the Memphis waterways convention, arguing river commerce checks railroad rates and spurs western development. He traces historical shifts from Pierre to Sioux City to St. Louis, notes rail expansion across the Missouri, and touts Panama Canal and river improvements as essential to cheaper markets, fair competition, and regional growth.
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Stony City
Merre
Pierre
Sioux City
New York
Mississippi
Great River
Verve
Chamberlain
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Milwaukee
Rairoad
Black Mills
Nebraska
Jerre
Rapiu City
Missouri
Upper
St. Louis
Independence
Fort Benton
Mont
Lewis and Mark
Manual Tisa
Pierré Chateau, Jr
George Catlin
Atkinson
Harney
Sully
Crook
Otis River
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
North Dakota
Montana
Upper Missouri
Appalachian
Rocky Mountains
Missippi Valley
United Sin
United States
Mississippi River
Lake Michigan
Gulf of Mexico
Missouri River
South Dakota
Cone Canal
At Lakes
Ippi
Central
South
Panama Canal
Mia- Souri
Can Revoke License In Sioux Falls Saloon Dispute
In Sioux Falls, the state circuit court heard cases challenging city action to revoke saloon licenses. Prosecution argued only regularly constituted courts may intervene, while city councils contend they may revoke licenses when licensees violate liquor regulations.
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Salonas
Jidee Jones
Sioux Falls
Dillman & MrCarmick
Pugilist Johnson Arrested on Check Fraud Charge
Chicago, Oct. 12 Arthur Johnson a pugilist arrested on a charge of obtaining money by passing a worthless check faced arraignment in municipal court. He claimed no knowledge of the check's deceit and the case was barred by the statute of limitations, invalidating the prosecution.
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Chicago
Arthur Johnson
Johnson
South Dakota Baptists Select Pierre For 10g Convention
The South Dakota Baptist state convention chose Pierre for the next annual gathering in 10g. The first banquet drew few attendees as Eben W. Martin of Deadwood and others spoke. During the banquet the South Dakota Baptist workerhood formed with officers including President J. F. Schrader Rapid City Vice President J. Allen Sioux Falls Secretary A. A. Rowan Parker Treasurer P. P. Bliss Colton.
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South Dakota Baptist State Convention
Pierre
Eben W. Martin
Neadwood
South Dakota Baptist Workerhood
J. F. Schrader
Rapid City
J. Allen
Sioux Falls
A. A. Rowan
Parker
P. P. Bliss
Colton
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S. D. Barley
Young Horse Thieves
MR. Platt
Santa FE
Gov. Cor J. Crawford
Memphis
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