Pakota Huronite announces January 1 1903 issue
The Pakota Huronite newspaper under John Longstaff, publisher, published on Thursday January 1 1903. The brief item notes the new year edition of the local paper.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
4
The Pakota Huronite newspaper under John Longstaff, publisher, published on Thursday January 1 1903. The brief item notes the new year edition of the local paper.
The piece describes South Dakota facing its harshest winter with coal shortages and high prices for soft coal and wood. It blames mine owners for the strike and urges government action to prevent a repeat, noting Roosevelt’s role in ending the strike and criticizing Congress for inaction. It also mentions Judge Seney as a patent holder and plans for motor manufacture by a new stock company.
A claim from Ohio describes a heating system using crude oil as the sole fuel that would keep a ten room house heated for under ten dollars annually. Professors and New York financiers speculate the invention could revolutionize energy costs and industry.
Ida M Tarbell argues the standard oil case highlights the need for government ownership of railways. The essay links rebates and discriminations to the broader trust issue and claims true resolution requires railroad control by the state or government.
The Huronite clarifies it does not object to Burke fighting for his town. It condemns repeated moves to sacrifice Republican interests for Pierre. It states it has criticized Burke only for such actions and otherwise offers kind words for him as congressman.
The National Society of Equity of North America is the last trust organized. This combination aims to limit crop products and fix prices with J. A. Everitt of Indiana as president. Consent of the trust will be needed to plan sowing and harvesting. Promoters do not promise to control yield per acre or apple blossoms.
Lincoln County has long backed capital removal with every legislature member from the county voting in favor for a decade making the anti removal position appear misleading.
Aber deen citizens host the Fourth Biennial Banquet for northern state legislators at the Sherman House New Year's evening. Huronite plans to attend, Bear Tracks from Fall River County gains attention, and Pierre faces a heated fight over state capital location amid cold weather coal shortages and insurance woes. Bryan tours Mexico urging free silver amid winter.
Poetic lines celebrate night and day as rites of confession prayer and renewal. Each sunrise brings a new year born from the old, linking nights from old to new and mornings of hopeful gladness.
Tangier dispatch reports rebels utterly defeated imperial troops in a recent battle with about two thousand killed or wounded. The sultan reportedly fled to Fez with artillery and ammunition and fortified the palace as rebels threaten an attack while Spanish garrisons tighten along the Moroccan frontier.
The Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg railroad announced a seven percent wage increase affecting about 1200 employees across its operations in Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh.
Tangiers reports the sultan’s army crushed by the pretender near Taza with about 2,000 killed or wounded. Survivors fled toward Fez leaving rifles and war matériel. Fez faces a short siege and may declare for any ruler offering protection from pillage as tribes negotiate to join the pretender.
Madrid reports the government mobilizes forces in three southern ports to reinforce Ceuta and Mellilla in Morocco if needed. A Spanish cruiser is sent to Tangier. Dispatches say Moroccan sultan’s troops retreated to Fez gates while Europeans plan to leave Fez.
A remark notes it costs 300 dollars weekly to satisfy John L. Sullivan and suggests he would be an effective legislative lobbyist. The line hints at reform era politics and the influence of prominent figures in public policy debates.
The annual midwinter meeting of the South Dakota Press Association will convene in Sioux City on January 15 and 16. Prominent editors and journalists will attend to discuss industry concerns and set the association’s agenda for the coming year.
The President has not yet decided whether to pass up arbitration of the Venezuelan issue, delaying a public determination and leaving the dispute in diplomatic limbo.
An Alexandria newspaper expresses clear support for removing capital status. The piece argues economic and political benefits, urging readers to back reform and relocate the seat of government for efficiency and growth.
A Tangier dispatch reports English women missionaries depart Fez and Tetuan for the coast. The note does not mention American missionaries or English male missionaries at Fez or Maq uinez.
Aberdeen News reports late information that the North Western railroad and allied interests will not block a constitutional amendment to move the capital from Pierre. They plan to direct strength to Huron, leaving the contest now to Huron and Mitchell.
The Huronite argues Pierre’s capital removal movement loses momentum as a Minneapolis paper shows Pierre as central on a map card. Salt is not the remedy for the underlying political issue and the town remains a focal point in the debate.
There is more Catarrh in this region than other diseases and it was once deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is promoted as the only constitutional treatment taken internally. It offers a $100 cure guarantee and is sold by druggists for 75 cents along with Hall's Family Pills as complementary.
In St Petersburg the government faces a famine crisis with 15,000,000 peasants hungry across many provinces. Commissioners are sent to appraise districts while funds are shipped, including 1 million dollars in rye and 7.5 million dollars in rye and wheat, yet doubts persist about reaching the right hands. Cattle losses mount as spring plowing prospects look bleak, signaling vast relief needs to keep land in cultivation.
London dispatch reports trade leaders pressing for a dedicated minister of commerce as the Board of Trade is deemed ineffective. Sir Albert Rollit to present the chambers of commerce views to Parliament when it reconvenes in February.
Navy dispatch from Captain Wise in Key West says diphtheria broke out on the training ship Buffalo after arrival at Pensacola. Two sailors died from the illness.
The Rev E G Smith pastor of Greensboro Ga testifies Peruna cured his family catarrh of the lower bowels after two bottles and he endorses Peruna as a near perfect tonic. M Rossman a Greensboro merchant also reports kidney catarrh relief after using Peruna and recommends it. Readers are urged to write Dr Hartman for free medical advice.
Two robbers used nitroglycerin to blow open the Bank of Union vault around 1 to 2 am. About fifty shots fired to deter locals as the vault and safe were wrecked and $15,000 taken. The pair fled on foot east after finishing the job. no clues available.
A Vienna dispatch reports a plot to assassinate Count Lamsdorf, Russia’s foreign minister, who arrived in Soja on his way to Vienna. Several Macedonians were arrested for alleged involvement in the conspiracy.
Lincoln detective Malone found four bundles of $500 near the holdup site, believed to be part of the Burlington No. 41 robbery proceeds. He suspects Cramer Doe and Standish, the three suspects under arrest, buried the money as officers search for remaining plunder.
Famed composer Pietro Mascagni must defend himself in a Chicago court after warrants allege he appropriated and held $5,000 from his manager Richard Heard. Authorities served the papers at Mascagni’s Auditorium annex rooms while he dined with the Italian consul. Hotel staff intervened to prevent arrest.
Moscow dispatch reports Armenian millionaire Jambarov murdered in a Moscow church after being kidnapped in the Caucasus months earlier. He had been released after promising a ransom, which he did not pay, prompting the captors to kill him in revenge.
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