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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
3
Advertisements offer a 46 inch tubular boiler for sale and a good horse suitable for single driving or farm use. A residence property with seven rooms, large lot, barn and outbuildings is offered at a bargain in Huron South Dakota with inquiries directed to J. H. Miller and John W. Miller.
The United States Health and Accident Insurance Co. of Saginaw Michigan announces entry into South Dakota with liberal contracts for territory to first class organizers and producers. Offers approved industrial and commercial health and accident policies with new features. For details, contact the company in Saginaw Michigan.
The extension of the C M and dt P railroad west of Evarts opens the richest part of South and North Dakota for homestead entry. Land is coal rich timbered along streams and level prairie. Merritt Brothers run monthly excursions and offer government plats with locating charges and information from 159 Dakota avenue.
Santa Barbara May 14 32 people died in the Shriner special wreck at Honda on the Southern Pacific. Most victims were Ismalia temple Buffalo and Rajah temple Reading members with 145 travelers from these two fraternal groups. Twenty residents of Reading among the dead and nine from Buffalo Cleveland and other Eastern towns. The crash followed a defective switch at fifty miles an hour smashing the engine diner and Pullman and igniting coal fires before passengers aided the fire.
May 14 at James town exposition opens with a 17 gun salute from Fortress Monroe for General Baron Kuroki and staff arriving at Old Point Comfort. A review of American and foreign warships followed, with President Tucker speaking and a parade of troops and sailors alongside noted dignitaries. A noon 809 gun salute marked the 1607 English settlement landing. Races highlighted day’s program.
Chicago May 14 Wheat jumped at the opening with gains of 1% to 8 cents led by December delivery up to 1.03 as buyers swarmed the pit. Strength spread from Chicago to Liverpool and Minneapolis as traders bet the Northwest drought and green bug damage would curb supplies. By late morning prices cooled but the market remained volatile with July 95% cents, September 97% cents, and December around 99% cents, closing higher on the session.
Omaha grain men report wheat damage of about 10 percent in southeastern Nebraska due to green bugs and drought with Kansas areas near 40 percent. A fifty member special train committee of the Omaha Grain Exchange relayed findings after touring Nebraska and Kansas wheat fields.
Report notes a threatened walkout of steam crane and shovel engineers at the Panama Canal. Workers express dissatisfaction and some have returned to duties while many refuse to work, risking delays as crews threaten to strike.
Eugene V. Debs will publish a critical attack on President Roosevelt in the Appeal to Reason issue of May 18. He will present sixty eight questions to the president arguing Roosevelt favors capital over workers and labels Debs and others as undesirable citizens.
New York May 14 due to high demand for raw material for steel all import records were shattered in April 210780 tons arrived through New York and eastern ports marking an 80 percent rise from March imports. Ore sources included Cuba Europe and Africa pig iron came from Russia and China Sweden sent 3540 tons marking first Scandinavian iron import.
Japanese resident general Marquis Ito rebukes Japan's policy in Korea from Seoul. Obituaries include civil engineer Charles Haines Haswell in New York at 88, lawyer Charles H Kimball in Parsons Kansas at 61, and newspaper man H B Fairall in Milwaukee. Hungari an bill bans state railroad workers from strikes. Heavy rains in Havana end drought. other islands see showers. John A Matthews, longtime Winona mayor, dies at 83. Detroit molders strike for nine hours and 30 cent wage. John Duryea of New York dies in Staunton at 81. brother of General Hiram Duryea.
Market quotations show May 13 with Wheat July at 98 and Sept at 98. On track No. 1 hard at 1.01, No. 1 Northern 1.00, No. 2 Northern 0.98, No. 3 Northern 0.94 to 0.96.
St Paul market update lists cattle from good to choice steers at $5.50 to $6.25 per hundred weight, fair to good at $4.00 to $5.00, good to choice cows and heifers $3.50 to $4.75, veals $4.25 to $4.75. Hogs $6.25 to $6.37 and 4% to 4%? Sheep wethers $6.50 to $7.00, 800d to prime lambs $7.75 to $8.65.
Wheat to arrive on track with No 1 hard 1.01 dollars No 1 Northern 1.00 No 2 Northern 0.99 May 99e July 1.00 Sept 1.08 Flax to arrive and on track 1.25 dollars May 1.25 July 1.274 Oct 1.27.
Wheat May 93 4c July 95%c Dec 99c. Corn May 52%c July 52% 52%c. Oats May 45%c July 44 44% Pork May 16 75 July 16 95. Butter 18 23c. dairies 18 21c. Eggs 14%c. Poultry turkeys 11c chickens and springs 13c. Cattle Beves $4.30 6.50 cows $1.80 4.85 heifers $2.60 5.80 calves $4.25 6.00 prime steers $5.40 6.45 poor to medium $4.30 5.30 stockers feeders $2.90 5.35 hogs light 6.40 6.60 mixed 6.35 6.60 heavy 6.15 6.50 rough 6.15 6.30 pigs 5.90 6.40 good to choice heavy volume. Sheep 85.
Justice Holmes announced that the court sustains the eight hour law of 1892 but excludes dredge workers on river and harbor projects from its reach. The seven Massachusetts cases tested labor on dredges. Moody dissented. The ruling affects contracts for 87 million dollars in river and harbor work and clarifies status of dredge crews as seamen not covered by the act.
Street cars operated through San Francisco to the ferry at Market Street with no disturbance on the early runs. The board of supervisors threatens to force railroads to serve the public if operations do not improve. The company says it now has enough staff and more workers are arriving from the East to run the system.
Salt Lake City May 14 The American Smelting and Refining plant at Murray reopened under guard of seventy five deputies after last week’s shutdown that left 1200 workers idle. Most striking workers returned at a roughly ten percent wage increase accepted by the company after previously being rejected.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on May 14 V Van Camp and his sweetheart Rosa Wright drowned after a small skiff capsized in a thirty mile gale on the Mississippi. Their friend E O Ellsworth escaped by clinging to the overturned craft as waves four feet high lashed the river.
In Minneapolis on May 14 a crack squad used dynamite to blow open a Crescent Creamery office safe, escaping with $90 and papers. Neighbors heard the blast but police learned of the theft at daylight.
An Evening Wisconsin special from Madison reports politicians in the statehouse anxious over alleged money influence to secure a United States Senate seat. Two assembly members reportedly admit they have been approached or believe they have been.
Premature blast on the South and Western railway near Marion North Carolina at Camp 2% results in fourteen deaths. Eight bodies are reported recovered while the others are still missing. authorities investigate cause and location of the explosion.
Corey president of United Steel and his wife left Gotham at 1 30 a m for Hoboken and boarded the Kaiser Wilhelm II for Europe. On arrival they will reside at Chateau Villegenis near Paris until July end. The chateau, a wedding gift to the wife, is valued around 200.
Dublin May 15 Catholics oppose Birrell's Irish bill with Cardinal Logue Archbishop Walsh and bishops of Limerick and Kildare leading denouncements. Nationalists rally around Redmond as Healy and O'Brien push revolt. Healy calls the bill Ireland’s worst day. Mrs Healy mocks drafts under Asquith Grey and Haldane influence.
Washington May 15 The senate committee of military affairs resumed its investigation into the shooting affray. Thirty three witnesses have been called mainly at Senator Warner's request. Testimony is expected stronger against the discharged negro soldiers though earlier hearings favored the defendants. The inquiry may run at least two weeks with Senator Foraker pressing on behalf of the dismissed men.
A bomb made from a thick gas pipe exploded on the mantelpiece of the main room at Offenbach police headquarters in Frankfort on the Main, Germany, on May 15 as acts of revenge by anarchists.
San Francisco reports show United Railroads lines on the Twentieth Street route added to those pred ated with 500 noth lously over duty across routes. Early day indications were few and unclear.
A New Bedford manufacturing group votes to raise wages for about ten thousand operatives in the city. The action reflects labor talks affecting workers and local industry.
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