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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
8
Official order from United Mine Workers of America ends the Birmingham district strike started July 6. The climax cited the Alabama governor’s ban on tented camps and public meetings in mining regions. Mines will operate on a non union basis as operators readmit all workers except those who violated laws.
The August meteorological record from the U S Weather Bureau station at Huron covers 28 years. Highest temp 97 on the 2nd, lowest 40 on the 22nd with a max daily range of 40 and a min daily range of 7 on the 14th. Mean temperature for the period 69.6 degrees. absolute max 108, absolute min 33. Total precipitation 1.38 inches, with a 24 hour max of 1.40 inches on the 2nd and 3rd. Records list yearly totals and monthly notes. Number of clear days 15, partly cloudy 9, cloudy 7. precipitation of 0.01 inch or more occurred on 9 days.
The forty second national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic opens in Toledo with a welcome from Mayor Brand Whitlock. Taft, Foraker and Harris will attend the parade on Wednesday with a Lincoln club reception. City decorates heavily as veterans lodge in hotels and homes and rain dampens grounds.
Butte Montana September 1 coal mines in Wyoming shut down leaving 7000 men idle after operators and United Mine Workers of America failed to agree on a wage scale following two days of talks. An earlier sub committee deal between John J Hart and Thomas Gibson was repudiated by the miners. Operators accused the miners of bad faith.
Detectives have begun an investigation to locate a collection of valuable jewelry stolen from the summer home of Postmaster General Meyer in Hamilton Massachusetts. The items include a diamond necklace black pearl set a diamond pin and several other gems.
In Seattle on September 1 two grounds keepers at the Seattle Tennis Club, Harry Long aged about 35 and an unknown man around 30, were found asphyxiated in the club house. Their bodies were discovered by three boys arriving to play tennis.
The Commercial Club secured free street attractions for state fair visitors. Hall LaCattella and LaFollettee Milly star in a comedy gymnastic act with first rate apparatus work. Imhof the crazy cyclist performs a one man comedy cycle act. Gus Henderson delivers a comedy tumbling act on a tight rope. The committee spent a month selecting shows and promises entertainment.
The Dode Fisk pony and dog show attracted good morning and evening crowds. The show featured the trained horse Bobbie and included a prize cow drawn by Roy Tredway. The Commercial Club raised $55 from ticket sales and the drawing was overseen by a child drawing a single ticket from a box.
Peking reports the Chinese government is considering recalling Wu Ting Fang the minister to Washington amid disclosures of alleged indiscreet remarks. Wu says he has heard nothing about the matter. Liang Tun Yen is named as the leading candidate to succeed him.
Washington reports Minister Wu denies recall rumors and says he did not speak the words credited to him. He doubts any indiscretion and notes lies in Japanese press claims. Wu mentions many may want his post but cannot name replacements and says he did not seek the assignment in China.
Torrential rain flooded the Canadian Pacific division near Winnipeg washing away hundreds of yards of track between Winnipeg and Kenora. Dozens of trains were halted with no crossings possible and heavy losses to the company. The surrounding rocky terrain contributed to water pooling and rails becoming dangerous for traffic.
A fire that started at Brinville and Chartres streets ravaged three blocks of the commercial district in New Orleans. It burned wholesale houses, manufacturing plants, and smaller stores up to Conti Street and toward Royal. The damage was about $1,400,000 with sixty two firms badly damaged or destroyed.
Des Moines reports Governor Cummins in a message to a special session outlines its purpose and urges amending the primary law to permit Republicans to nominate a senator this fall. He notes the legislature must elect a successor to the late Senator Allison for the short term. without a choice the state has no senator until the next legislature.
In Toronto on August 31 it is reported that outside interests aim to urge the Dominion government to recruit a third party, likely Professor Shortt of Queens University, to mediate a swift and amicable settlement of the Canadian Pacific railway strike.
Berlin reports the Asiatic cholera eastward march into Lodz in Russian Poland. German health authorities tighten border surveillance with hundreds of medical inspectors stationed along the eastern frontier.
In Beadle County Court the estate of John Morse deceased seeks Letters of Administration to C. M. Henry. A hearing is set for September 5, 1908 at 11:00 a.m. in the Huron court room. Any interested party may appear and show cause. August 19, 1908. Judge A. A. Chamberlain. Brust & Morais, attorneys.
On the first and third Tuesday of each month the Attalia Development Company runs popular excursions from Minneapolis to choice fruit and farm lands in southern Washington. Fare will be refunded to all purchasers. For full details write R C Dahlhjelm manager 225 Railway Building Minneapolis.
Blake and Scott offer a limited 30 day sale of building lots inside property with or without shade trees. Rates are described as very reasonable given the location. Call 957 Third St. for details.
The Wranghams and Kettlesen families express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for sympathy and the beautiful flowers at the burial of their daughter and sister, Mrs. Bessie Kettlesen.
N H Brown of Pittsfield VI endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills saying they remove stomach liver and bowel kinks with no fuss. Guaranteed satisfaction available at H Wheeler s drug store for 25 cents.
Long distance offer publicized to call central for rate of 1 to the Twin Cities. Connections available to all points in North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Iowa Nebraska and as far east as Chicago. Dakota Central Telephone Company.
Mrs. Chas. Barrows and Mrs. J. B. Cogan left for Minneapolis on Sunday. Mrs. T. F. Kester and her two daughters Nellie and Maude departed for Cedar Rapids Iowa on Friday morning for a brief visit. W. H. Thompson of Rapid City, formerly a member of the board of railway commissioners, arrived in Huron on Wednesday.
Burton B. Jarvis a 26 year old Terre Haute contracting teamster died after two days under a shade tree east of Los Angeles near an ostrich farm while red ants swarmed his body. He had tuberculosis and had come to California two years earlier for a pleasure trip. The incident followed his Sunday departure from a hotel and a daybed under a tree until help arrived Tuesday night at County Hospital. The report also includes a long summons notice from Beadle County South Dakota regarding a real estate title dispute dated 1908.
North bound train No. 206 on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad known as the Southeastern limited derailed two miles north of Brandsville Missouri. Fireman James S. O'Neill of Springfield was killed and engineer H B Colvin of Springfield was fatally scalded. A mail clerk was likely mortally injured and several passengers sustained serious injuries.
New York dispatch reports counsel for Peter C. Hains Jr and T Jenkins Hains notified by district attorney that the slaying case against them will be tried on the opening day of the October term, expected to be October 5. In Youngstown Ohio an explosion at Burton Powder Company works at Quaker Falls killed one man and fatally burned two others with a third seriously injured.
In the county court in South Dakota the next of kin and heirs at law of Pacnea Tene You are notified that Lucy P. Weaver filed a petition for Letters of Administration for the estate of Edward A. Weaver, deceased. A hearing is set September 317 at 10 o'clock before the court. Taubman, Melee & Beet are petitioners’ attorneys.
Real estate pitch from L. B. Arnold land agent for C R I Pac Rail offering hardwood timber lands along the new Sea Line into Duluth. Awaiting inquiries for detailed information and sample parcels.
Nine year old Louis Weiner dies after two days in county hospital from savage torture by two tramps in city yards. Police report details are guarded as investigation continues.
Rev. I. B. Miligan of the First Presbyterian Church in Canton shoots himself with a shotgun. The act, described as either accidental or deliberate, leaves the cause and motive undetermined.
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