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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
5
A speaker denounces a lumber trust alleged to fix prices and proscribe territories from Minnesota to Texas, describing retailer and miller associations that discipline dealers, blacklist independents, and choke competition to inflate profits.
A confidential report lists wholesalers and lumber dealers across Minnesota Iowa and nearby states with notes on their yards stock and business practices. It includes names such as Mian en wman W G Hollis Burkholder Lumber Co Henry Nugsex and I J Colburne with remarks on yards stock and shipments to Parkston and Tama. A blacklisted correspondence shows mills changing orders to meet carload minimums and a January 1906 Commerce and Labor reply.
A historic discussion notes that a January letter hints at evidence of a lumber trust and its price manipulation. Cincinnati and Kentucky flood reports describe 15,000 homeless and extensive property loss, with relief funds approved.
MinnzaPous Minnesota January 9 1906 letter states the mill refuses to ship a single car of hemlock to the customer or the seller. They claim business relations and will not load any car despite ownership of the timber. The firm plans to seek a workaround or load it themselves if required.
Backwater from the Scioto flooded Portsmouth Ohio breaking the flood embankment in the North End. Threatened families fled as the sick were moved with great difficulty. Water rose past fifty nine feet threatening Broadway and West End areas while the town district flooded and shops submerged.
The Dakota Huronite notes a Buffalo New York firm Booths Miona Company inviting readers to request a free mail prepaid sample of Miona stomach tablets and a booklet about indigestion cures. The remedy is claimed as a permanent cure for stomach diseases and weak digestion urges readers to respond.
Dense fog and a failure to heed block signals caused passenger No. 28 to collide with a west bound freight on the Big Four line near Fowler Indiana. Fire followed the crash and burned many passengers beyond identification. About forty injured. three not expected to survive.
Louisville reports no improvement in the flood situation as the dyke protecting the upper east end weakens slightly. Repairs are underway with patrols along the banks. Forecasts indicate the Ohio River will rise and hold at Louisville and Madison, Indiana for several days after recent heavy rains.
Shawneetown Illinois reports continued Ohio River rise with the levee holding. Citizens patrol the levee day and night after a crack was found and sandbags deployed. Refugees head to the bluffs as Governor Deneen aid tents and provisions have not arrived. no fatalities reported.
Columbus Jan 21 Weather Forecaster Smith issues flood alert as the Scioto River climbs more than four feet overnight. Residents in lowlands are urged to evacuate and movers are busy relocating household goods.
Walnut River and Red Timber creek flood the bottoms of Winfield Kansas causing many families to evacuate. The water levels exceed those seen since the town’s founding and threaten the business district though the highest flood point has not yet been reached.
A freight train on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe derailed after an explosion on a bridge near Desoto Kansas. The locomotive No 6 and fourteen cars plunged into the creek. Engineers F W Bartell and W W Bartch and brakeman H Shaw of Argentine were killed and buried under wreckage.
New York dispatches state Lascelles & Co. received two cables from their Kingston partner C. BE. de Mercede. Jan 18 message says no tremors in twelve hours Emilies sheltered plenty food press exaggerates conditions except Kingston no damage no fires.
A Rock Island train 337 struck a washout west of Bureau Illinois on January 21 injuries occurred to the engine baggage chair car and passengers all were brought back to Peoria Illinois for treatment or assessment of injuries.
In Scofield Utah on January 21 Mrs Sylphia Earl widow and former town president was killed by a Black barber. The incident appears to involve motor and political connections as authorities investigate motive and identity of the assailant.
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