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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
2
Improved farm homes at prices and terms within reach. Purchases include 76 000 acres of hardwood timber land with maple basswood birch and hemlock. Land near roads markets schools churches creameries and wagon routes. Each purchase includes a ready to move into log house priced 5 to 15 dollars per acre with one fourth cash and five annual payments at six percent.
Advertisement invites a buyer with a small portable mill to acquire part of a thousand-acre timber tract offering 7 to 10 thousand feet per acre. Tickets to Cable on C. N. W. Be offered with low land seeker rates and railroad fare refund to land purchasers. For maps and details, address 26tn.
C & N W Ry timetable shows daily arrivals at Huron from the east at 6 00 pm and from the west at 8 10 am 7 40 pm and 10 25 pm listed as express and accommodation. Trains depart Huron going east at 6 25 pm and 6 40 am for points east. North bound express daily except certain weights and south bound No 502 connects at Bronx Valley Junction for Redfield and points east of L H Jowns Agra.
A May 8 report from Muskogee I T details a fierce wind storm across Indian Territory. Owl town 250 miles southwest of South McAlester reports eight dead and about a dozen injured. Nearly every building at Owl is ruined including a church three businesses and twenty residences. Professor Binson fatally hurt and many pupils injured though death not certain. Wires down with missing names and details.
Assistant State's Attorney Olson sought Pennsylvania marriage records to link Johann Hoch to a pattern of abandoning wives and stealing savings. Detective Edward Gorman testified as Hoch’s Philadelphia best man that Hoch, using an alias, wed Caroline Spreicher in 1904, stayed ten days, and then left the state.
John C. Perkins Commissioner of Insurance notes figures for the state. The report lists premiums on risks written and losses paid during the year. It presents totals for risks in force and net amounts of risks in force, with several monetary amounts shown.
Burglars entered L. P. Melbostad Deronda store blowing the safe and stealing about $1,000 belonging to Melbostad Northern Supply and Frank Langenbach. They also took post office funds and destroyed stamps. Drawers were removed to a boxcar and ransacked, with valuable papers lost.
Oscar Sims a farmer and his bride of four months killed themselves by shooting near their home in Springfield Illinois. They had laid out wedding clothes and written letters directing their bodies as investigators found a shotgun by a fence.
Mrs J W Gray, reputed Chicago broker widow and wealthy social figure, shot herself in her New York Hotel Imperial room after a troubled love affair. She was found unconscious before a mirror with a head wound and died hours later in hospital. Letters suggest despair over losing her beloved and lack of will to live despite ample means.
Birmingham May 8 Joseph Chamberlain is ill with a severe chill and could not attend the Queens College reopening ceremony. Ebenezer Parks MP said the illness is temporary and he will be about again soon.
The report details gopher deaths and mentions ground squirrels and other wildlife at a local park. It notes unusual animal behavior and a referenced “love candy” as part of the quirky observation.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Lake Champlain bound from Liverpool to Montreal is reported fast in the ice forty five miles southwest of Cape Ray Newfoundland. The vessel carries 1500 passengers. The steamer Bruce brought the word to North Sydney delivering the news during the day.
An unknown woman was killed and three men injured when a freight train on the Philadelphia and Reading line crashed into a street car crowded with passengers at a grade crossing in Philadelphia. Two of the men were seriously hurt.
A Telngteu dispatch reports twenty five Russian warships seen off Vamlong on the Shantung peninsula with details continuing in the message.
Pat Crowe the alleged Eddie Cudahy kidnapper returns to Omaha after four year absence. He claims Boer War service and says he lived in a Chicago South Side flat and has visited Omaha on three occasions in the last three years. Rewards totaling fifty thousand dollars have been offered at various times for his arrest.
Grand jury in Pekin Illinois returns indictments against two Standard Oil officials accused of pressuring Charles Kersher to falsely swear ownership of a horse and wagon to seize assets for the company. Requisition papers will be sent to Governor Deneen. Names suppressed. The case concerns political or corporate pressure in May.
C H Conover of Hibbard Spencer Bartlett says Chicago employers will lock doors and stall business rather than surrender to the Teamsters union. Sheriff Barrett warns of possible rioting as delivery plans rise. officials plan to keep order and avoid using negro strike breakers. Federation of Labor President Dold says unions have not yet yielded and anticipate a long fight with no surrender.
Chicago May 8 Nearly 10000 dollars was added to the teamsters strike fund by the Union Traction company employer. Street car men had voted earlier to aid the strikers and an agent of their union was on hand when they received their pay.
The document details the South Dakota Insurance Company's 1904 accounts including non invested interest and rents due, gross assets, total liabilities, net risks in losses, taxes, premiums on risks written, and contingent mortuary assets and liabilities. It reports amounts such as premiums on risks written 11 908 00 and insurance written 1 115 500 00 with losses incurred and paid during the year.
Panama dispatch reports Chief Architect Johnson of the canal staff died of yellow fever. Former Illinois Central railroad architect born in Kentucky, he designed buildings for the canal and oversaw repairs. He had been on the isthmus since last July.
Six hundred workers from the Chicago Great Western Railway went on strike in Chicago. They demanded higher pay after earning 2.75 for ten hours of work and called for the same rate for fewer hours. The strikers operate redding and sie and pile machinery in the yard.
An engineer died when the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Southwest Limited train wrecked in Ottumwa Iowa on May 2. Rescue teams and railroad officials investigated the scene as crews cleared twisted rails and damaged cars.
The engine derailed on a curve and ditched after climbing the rail, causing two sleeping cars to derail. Engineer Harry T. Dikes died and Fireman Claude E. Warren was injured in the incident.
Chicago May 1 Wheat May 9 3 4 percent July 83 3 4 percent Sept 94. Corn May 47 cents July 46 1 2 percent Sept 46 4 percent Oats May 28 1 2 cents July 28 percent Sept 28 cents. Pork May 11.76 dollars July 72.07 4 dollars Sept. Flax cash Northwestern 1.40 Southwestern 1.26 May 1.25. None.
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