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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
2
A digest of diverse items: France’s aero plane controversy and army orders. U S school funding and safety rounds. radium prospects in Canada. land loss at Missouri University. Shakespeare’s popu larity in Germany. Uncle Sam’s origin. forest service motorbikes in the Black Hills. circus recollections. coyote pack mystery. divorce case. medical and natural history notes. world trade, wireless, and navigation observations.
Petitions circulated in western Lyman County seek to move the county seat from Osacoma to Presho for the upcoming November vote. Osacoma has long held the seat since the county’s organization, with past division attempts shaping local sentiment.
Firemen from Point 8 D returned Saturday from Parks to claim state tournament honors. A depot welcome by the Commercial club citizens and Boy Scouts, with the Point band, featured a speech by State's Attorney Ellis and a reply by Aigor McDonald. A banduet later honored them at the Commercial club rooms.
Mrs Wellin McMahon who was tried in 1910 for the killing of Attorney David P Thomas died of cancer in Greeley Colorado. She claimed her lawyers framed the insanity plea and was committed to an asylum before later being released to friends. She returned to Burerts, faced arrest on insanity charges, escaped to Colorado and remained there until her death.
The leading Christian Endeavor workers will address the state convention in Mitchell from June 26 to 28 hosted by local churches. Speakers include Roy H. Rotmann of Portland Rev J O Buswell of Minneapolis Rev George Hempstead of Jamestown and Rev Sam Burritt of Kentucky with other South Dakota clergy on the program. The event opens with delegate registration on Friday June 26.
Emerson Ullyot saved Fred Bronson from gas in a well during farm work near Clare. The report details wrecks near Moon Pleasant and Bitter, a barn fire from a storm near Hommes, and various notices on land sales, public meetings, and local officials across South Dakota towns including Garden City, Brookings, and Madison with multiple community updates.
Minnehaha county state’s attorney filed murder charges against Mrs. Ally Werner of Sioux Falls after a newborn’s body was found in a suitcase at the Salvation Army building. The coroner’s jury blamed both spouses, but authorities say the husband was not involved and the mother hid the birth from him. The woman remains hospitalized and will be arrested when fit.
Dean Perisho from the state university faculty has been elected president of the South Dakota agricultural college at Brookings to succeed Robert E. White. Perisho is noted for work in agricultural fields and is regarded as an able educator and organizer. The Brookings campus will benefit from his leadership as head of the institution.
Brookings June 22 The sixth annual South Dakota State Grange meeting at the state college June 17 19 passed resolutions for fewer battleships and greater transport aid by federal action. It urged stronger farmer co operation in buying and selling, expanding initiative to benefit farmers, and organizing granges in country school houses. Officers elected include Master Geo W Dixon Watertown Overseer H Manning Altamont Lecturer Mrs F W Faulkner Brookings Steward J W Poor Watertown Assistant Steward P Foust Flandreau Chaplain Mrs F R Angle Clear Lake Treasurer GB T Morgan Wagner Secretary L R Foust Miandreau Gate Keeper FR Angle Clear Lake Ceres Mrs J W Wilson Brookings Pomona Mrs W R Mack Dixon Flora Mrs P Bent son White Lady Assistant Steward Mrs P L Foust Windread Member Executive Committees C Sorenson Lucas.
Yankton South Dakota June 20 Robert Ferris of Yankton has been nominated Class B director representing group No 1 district No 9 Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis. The election will be held at the next district banks meeting. Ferris is manager of Yankton Electric Light Co and connected with Watertown and Osage interests.
June 22 report says a trainer Hmerson D. Dietrich was killed when five young lion cubs and their mother attacked in a freight car cage. Miss Adgie Castilio, a vaudeville performer, owned the animals and said Dietrich was her fiancé. An inquiry will decide if the animals are to be destroyed.
Supreme Court voided patent clauses that tried to reserve oil lands to the government if minerals were found. Railways argued such land was outside mineral scope, but justices held oil lands are mineral. Decision notes government claim time to attack patents expired and outlines broad impact on railroads holding vast lands.
Washington June 22 Conferees on the agricultural appropriation bill agree to the Kenyor amendment raising the federal allotment for farm demonstration and county expert work in northern and western states to 400 000. Many counties in Iowa and elsewhere are eager to use the measure.
The case centers on whether lands claimed by Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific are oil rich and thus not subject to patent. Burke and others press for oil land rights while the government argues oil status can be claimed post patent. The dispute involves tax valuations and wider implications for railroads and land titles.
The Supreme Court denied Louisiana’s bid to stop the treasury secretary from granting a 20 percent sugar import preference under the Underwood tariff. It also reversed an Eighth Circuit ruling that Catholic orders’ vows of poverty were void as contrary to public policy.
Schenectady authorities search for 11 year old Faust missing from home over three weeks, possibly connected to a river murder case. A vest fragment and cloth piece were found with a body retrieved from the Mohawk River, body parts severed. investigators press on with river drag and clues.
A launch on the Oswego canal capsized after hitting a log, drowning twelve of the nineteen aboard. The dead include Mrs. George Wm Adams and three children, Mrs. Harry Welle, Katherine Welle, John Mogg, Florence Dainer, Early Dainer, Charles Shultz, Miss Mabel Tibbets, and Moward Crane. Seven others reached shore. The disaster occurred south of Mud Lock near Onondaga Lake, isolating the area.
Chicago June 23 A conference between Macko Hoyne states attorney and Daniel Harkin state bank examiner was set to renew the inquiry into the LaSalle Street bank and other Lorimer group banks. Hoyne said the guide would study Harkin's report to the state auditor and then summon bank employees for examination. Harkin focused on four affiliated state banks.
Mrs. Edith Horn aged 21, a bride of six months, died by suicide at Melbourne. She drank carbolic acid. despondency is given as the cause. Husband John T. Horn is a farm laborer.
In Rome on June 23, the Most Rev Jeremiah J. Harty archbishop of Manila Philippines was given a private farewell audience by the pope.
Heavy rains in eastern Kansas wash out railroad tracks and halt several lines. The sixteenth wettest June in 28 years. June 1914 saw notable precipitation with no rain in June 1813, contrasting market conditions.
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