Burlington Offers Low Fares for West Tours and Colorado
Cheap one way to California and Puget Sound in April with $63.90 Sioux City round trip. Tours via Yellowstone Park Gardiner route or Salt Lake Colorado options for 1908. Home seekers excursions to Western Nebraska Colorado Utah and Big Horn Basin with irrigated land drawing May 12. Burlington promotes main line routes and descriptive leaflets.
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California
Puget Sound
Pacific Coast
Sioux City
Shasta
Yellowstone Park
Wonderland
Gardiner
Park
Salt Lake
Colorado
Nebraska
Utah
Big Horn Basin
West
Wyoming
Oregon Basin Canal
D. Clem Deaver
Burlington Landseekers’ Information Bureau
Omaha
Scenic
Denver
Black Hills
Burlington Main
Inter State Commission Sets Lumber Tariff Reforms
The interstate commerce commission orders broad cuts in lumber rates west of the Missouri river and about a five percent reduction in eastern advanced rates. It restores former pricing west of a line from Pembina to Port Arthur and allows parts of the eastern increase to remain. The cases involve Oregon Washington, Pacific Coast, Northern Pacific and related lumber firms with shifts from Willamette Valley to San Francisco and eastern markets.
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Washington
Missouri River
Interstate Commerce Commission
Willamette Valley
San Francisco
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
British Columbia
Oregon and Washington
Pembina
N. C
Grand Forks
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Sioux City
Port Arthur
Tex
Kansas City Southern Railway
Williams Resigns Minority Leader Post in House
Congress man John Sharp Williams of Mississippi resigns the House minority leadership effective December 1. He cites a desire to aid the Democratic party and give a successor time to gain experience, hoping the party will prevail if the upcoming campaign focuses on last session issues.
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Eufaula
Ala
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
House of Representatives
H. D. Clayton
Clayton
Washington
Williams
National Republican Committee Organized in Chicago
Powell Clayton of Arkansas elected temporary chairman of the new Republican national committee. Elmer Dover re-elected secretary and W S Stone sergeant at arms. A five member sub committee led by ex Governer Herrick was appointed to go to Cincinnati to confer with Secretary Taft about the national chairman.
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Chicago
New
Republican National Committee
Powell Clayton
Arkansas
Elmer Dover
W. S. Stone
Herrick
Cincinnati
Taft
Taft to Decide Campaign Manager After Conference
Chicago June 20. A Republican national committee chairman will not be chosen now. The decision is deferred until after a conference with Secretary Taft to ascertain his wishes on the campaign manager. Several men have been suggested, but Taft’s preferences are not yet known.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Taft
Tragic streetcar crash near Baker Town kills Mills
In Meadville Pennsylvania on June 20 twenty passengers were injured and one killed when a passenger car telescoped a freight car on the Meadville and Cambridge Springs line near Baker town. The dead is M. C. Mills, superintendent of the traction line.
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Meadville
Cambridge Springs
Bakertown
M. C. Mills
Judge rules horse race betting unlawful in Colorado
In Overland Park cases Judge Carlton M. Bliss of the district court declares betting on horseraces illegal under Colorado statutes and dissolves the writs of prohibition against the justices who issued warrants for bookmakers.
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Denver
Overland Park
Carlton M. Bliss
District Court
Colorado
Ore Movement Expected Light This Year
Superior Wis June 18 ore movement from the head of Lake Superior will reach about 22,000,000 tons, a little over half of 1907. It is expected the steel fleet will be in full swing within a week.
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Superior
Wis
Lake Superior
Debates Over Royal Estate Funds Shake Portuguese Parliament
In Lisbon the Portuguese parliament grills the finance minister over advances to the royal family. It emerges that a large part of funds for late King Carlos went to lift mortgages on the Braganza estates placed by King Luiz. Espregueira admits 1904 loans. $700,000 unlisted in official accounts draw Republican fury and calls for selling the Braganza properties to repay the treasury.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Luiz
Braganza
Espregueira
Castro
Balloon lands after exciting Vermont flight
The Boston balloon after its initial ascent from Pittsfield landed safely on a Vermont New Hampshire border area between Putney and Dummerston. Owner Charles J. Glidden and aeronaut Leo Stevens faced rifle fire and a bull charge during the escape, with two bullets striking the bag but not penetrating the silk.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Boston
Putney
Dummerston
Vermont-New Hampshire
Charles J. Glidden
Leo Stevens
New York
Brattleboro
Week of Real Soldiering Wears Ninth Regiment
Worn out by a week of real soldier life nearly half a hundred men of the Ninth regiment New York national guard collapsed during a five mile march from Fort Wadsworth. On reaching New York by ferry several were rushed to hospitals and about fifty more lay exhausted in Battery Park. Surgeons and citizens provided cooling drinks and ice to aid recovery.
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New York
Ninth Regiment
New York National Guard
Fort Wadsworth
Staten Island
Battery Park
Bodies Found in Park In New Philadelphia
The bodies of Miss Arline Knisely fifteen and Charles Stack fifty were found in the city park. Both were shot in the back of the head. Stack managed a moving picture show in Akron and the girl acted as his cashier. Police have not determined if the deaths were a suicide pact or a murder.
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New
Philadelphia
Arline Knisely
Charles Stack
Stack
Akron
Gould De Sagan banns posted in Paris
Paris reports the marriage banns of Madame Anna Gould and Prince Helte de Sagan published in the sixteenth and seventh arrondissement offices as required by law, marking the public notice of their intended marriage.
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Paris
Madame Anna Gould
Countess de Castellane
Prince Helte de Sagan
Madame Gould
Deep Creek Dam Breach Floods Idaho Valley
A dam break on Deep Creek nine miles above Malad Idaho sent a wall of water twenty feet high through the valley inundating several miles of farmland. Damage is estimated at 50000 dollars and considerable stock perished though no lives were lost due to prior warning.
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Salt Lake
the Tribune
Malad
Ida
Deep Creek
Woman to Die in Electric Chair in Auburn Prison Case
Watertown New York June 22 The jury found Mrs Mary Farmer guilty of murder in the first degree in the killing of Mrs Sarah Brennan Justice Rogers sentenced Mrs Farmer to be electrocuted at Auburn prison during the week beginning August 2.
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Watertown
N. Y
Mary Farmer
Sarah Brennan
Rogers
Four Dead in Mine Explosion at Ellsworth Coal Mine
An explosion at Ellsworth coal mine No. 1 near Monongahela Pennsylvania killed one American and three foreigners and injured one American and five foreigners.
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Monongahela
Ellsworth Coal Mine No
Here
Call for Beadle County Republican Convention 1908
Pursuant to Beadle County Central Committee the Republican county convention will meet July 7 1908 at 11 a m in the Huron court house to fill remaining nominations from the June 9 primary and conduct other lawful business Delegates allocated by precinct votes for governor in 1906 Precincts listing and delegate counts included Candidates for delegates to the county and state conventions may file with the county auditor by May 18 1908 signed by W S D Ma yee and C N McIlvarne Secret ary Chairman.
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Republican County Central Committee
Beadle County
South Dakota
Court House
Huron
County Central Committee
Belle Prairie
Oster
Barrett Hit
Pearl Creek
Richiande
Cavour
Liberty
Milford
Clifton i
le Custerrese
Valley
Ilowal
Lake Byron
Grant
Clyses Whys
Theresa
Mal Fairfields
Pleasant View
Hartland
Broadland
Burr Oak
Sand Creek
Wessington
Whiteside
Nance
Hitchcock
Wolsey Village
Wessington Two
Huron 1St
Democratic County Convention for Beadle County Set
By order of the committee the Democratic county convention for Beadle County is called to meet at the city hall Huron on July 7, 1908 at 2 p m to formulate a platform fill vacancies and transact lawful business. Each precinct receives one delegate and primary election to elect delegates is June 9 1908. James W Thompson Fred C Nutting Chairman Secretary.
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Beadle County
Huron
County Central Committee
James W. Thompson
Fred C. Nutting
New Discovery Promises Life Saving Relief
Naples Maine resident Lester M Nelson credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving his life after years of use for coughs and colds. The remedy touted as a preventive of pneumonia and healer of weak lungs, sold with guaranteed satisfaction at Holland Wheeler’s drug store for 50 cents to 1 dollar, with a trial bottle free.
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Lester M. Nelson
Naples
Maine
Dr. King
Holland Wheeler’s
G A R Encampment Rate to Hot Springs Passengers
A rate of one fare for the round trip is set for attendees of the G A R Encampment at Hot Springs on June 22 to 24. Tickets go on sale June 27. Huron departures at 10 25 am arrive Hot Springs the same night. evening departures require a Rapid City layover and reach Hot Springs Tuesday night.
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Hot Springs
Huron
Rapid City
Advertising for Federal Building Sites in Huron South Dakota
Treasury press notice invites proposals for a centrally located 140 by 140 foot site in Huron South Dakota for a federal building. Proposals due July 7 1908 require site details diagrams and title evidence with vendor bearing conveyance costs and ground rent after construction begins.
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Treasury Bhan
Ashington
D. C
United States
Huron
Kota
Gea
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Ayer
J. C. Ayer Co
Lowell
V. E. Jones City Passenger Agt
Sioux City, la
W. F. R. Whorton
Office World Building
H. C, Durkee
M. J
Physician and Surgeon
D.“O. Root
August Tams
Huron, South Dakota
Atorney
Law
H &. Mouser
Burnham
Trevett Mattice
Porta
J. H. Mahaffy
Chasbers
World Building
Huron Fs. D
Beration
C. S. Jones
Ite
James Valley Bank
Congress
Bull
Moving Picture Show
Gould-De Sagan
Idaho Valley
W S. D. Ma‘ee
C N. McIlvarne
G. A. R. Encampment
Gu, B
Correrrov
U. H. Longstatt
Third Street Druggist
Huron, So
Dak
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