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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
4
Comptroller of the Currency Lawrence O. Murray orders every bank examiner to hold a $20,000 bond and to take an oath. Examiners must inquire into bank asset values by consulting officers and directors, verify via independent sources, and confer with managing officers on any uncertainties.
Dr. T A Jones a leading East Lake physician is under arrest for murder following a coroner led probe into December 1 death of John Baker from arsenic poisoning. Suspect Bertha M Taylor daughter of the deceased also arrested. Baker had large policies payable to Mrs Taylor.
In Wytheville Virginia Chief Walter McClintock and robber B A Cregger died in a pistol duel on Main Street after McClintock mortally wounded Cregger. A deputy captured Dave Cregger as E A Cregger opened fire when confronted by officers with a warrant for robbery.
The anti foreign movement in Canton grows after the death of a coolie on the Falshan, allegedly kicked by a Portuguese watchman aboard. The situation prompts a British torpedo destroyer Hart to Canton for protection and to avert further violence.
An explosion Sunday morning at Seventh Street and Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri sparked a fire that caused $50,000 in property damage.
An earthquake hit Notre Dame in France on Sunday causing panic among residents but causing no material damage. Authorities reported no casualties and are investigating aftershocks in the region.
Saturday's Sioux City live stock market quotes show Beeves at 36.00 with a 7.00 range and Top hogs at 5.50 per hundredweight. The brief market snapshot records prices for cattle and hogs traded locally.
The family of N. F. Richardson, six members, became violently ill Sunday after dinner at their Kansas City Kansas home. They suspect pork and beans contained ptomaines.
A house owned by Ed ward Toner near Traverse City Michigan burned Saturday night killing two young children who were cremated in the blaze.
The Colombo Sri Lanka banquet by the Chamber of Commerce and Planters Association honored the United States Atlantic battleship fleet. Governor Sir Henry Edward McCallum praised the fleet and U.S. aims, while Rear Admiral Sperry spoke of shared interests and neutral benevolence in conflict. Tea gifts and praise highlighted ties between nations and free tea trade.
Judge Kunkel sentenced J. H. Sanderson W. P Snyder W. L. Mathues and J. M. Shumaker to $500 fine and two years in prison for conspiring to defraud the state in the wooden furniture contract for the new state capitol. Bail pending appeal. superseders sought. They were convicted of defrauding the state of 19308 dollars in the wooden contract. metal furniture charges yielded acquittal.
Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, flew 1 hour 53 minutes 59 seconds at Le Mans, surpassing the prior 1 hour 31 minute 51 second record. He averaged 24 feet height with a distance of 614% miles officially logged, but oil issues forced his descent.
Dr. Pierce B. Wilson Jr. sues Rev. Dr. Robert S. Copeland rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension Baltimore for 25000 damages. Wilson also sues his wife for divorce naming former United States Senator Wellington as co respondent in a title suit with no stated cause of action.
Delegates from various states at Washington urged uniform state weights and measures laws or a federal law on the subject, expressing a consensus at the national conference of inspectors of weights and measures of the United States.
Billy Griffiths of Cincinnati KO ed Jack Morgan of Indianapolis in the thirteenth round of a scheduled twenty round bout at the Champion Athletic club in Springfield Ohio.
James Jenkins John Portella and Lee Chung were executed by hanging on the same scaffold at the provincial jail in New Westminster B C on Friday for their murders.
The Turkish sultan inaugurated a new constitutional government as parliament opened with 200 deputies and dignitaries present. Kiamil Pasha led a public route through Pera and Stambouli to meet the people, signaling unity amid cheers from troops and women filling streets and balconies.
J. P. Pritchard of Newell Indiana, a well dressed man carrying a sizable sum, registered at a Kansas City hotel. He was discovered Thursday night in his room with pistol wounds. He had asked not to be disturbed Thursday morning and appeared to have killed himself during the night while en route to Oklahoma City.
Seven sailors from Port Morien Nova Scotia arrived after eight days of toil at pumps and thirteen hours in an open boat. They reported the French schooner Marcelline of 250 tons with seven crew members foundered off the Cape Breton coast at midnight Tuesday while bound from Calais to St. Pierre with a salt cargo.
Adolf and Fritz Eberbach reputed hotel promoters have been arrested. The two men face charges of misappropriating two million dollars from a hotel trust they founded. Court filings allege dummy directors and a large capital base with offices in Hamburg Berlin and Bremen. The trust collapsed leaving shareholders paid only 2 percent.
A blizzard described as the worst of the winter swept Thursday night through northern areas near Milwaukee including Sheboygan Port Washington Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. Heavy wet snow caused extensive damage to telephone and telegraph lines.
The United States Life Saving Service reports 1094 vessel disasters in the last fiscal year. Property losses reached 1,863,790 dollars and 22 lives were lost, per Superintendant Kimball in the annual report filed Thursday.
General Simon, who led the last Haytian revolution that forced Nord Alexis into flight and entered Port au Prince ten days ago, was Thursday unanimously elected president of the republic by the Haytian congress.
Elmer Hill, charged with the murder of Mamie Womack in Adair County Kentucky, was dragged from a Monticello jail to Greasy Creek four miles away and hanged from a tree by a mob.
Jasper Wilson, secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, says no truth to reports that Mr. Wilson will become head of the Colorado Agricultural College.
A hobo named Alex Parker is jailed in Hutchinson County after stealing a consignment from Milwaukee Railroad yards at Parkston. He admitted guilt and faces grand larceny charges with a potential term at the Sioux Falls penitentiary. goods including clothing and jackets were partly sold to a nearby farmer, and Parker awaits trial in Olivet jail.
After a weeklong trial William F. Stockton was found not guilty of murdering R. C. Cremer in Hot Springs last May. The twelve jurors delivered the verdict at 3 a.m. and Stockton was returned to his home from the county jail. The defense argued insanity self defense and the possibility that proper medical care might have prevented Cremer’s death. Public opinion remains divided on the verdict.
Martin Brower of Hutchinson County is thrilled by the discovery of a sister he had been separated from since childhood. He was raised as an orphan in St Joseph Minnesota and later moved to South Lakota. Upon learning of the sister’s location he rushed to Minnesota to be reunited.
William Wallace of Aberdeen has arrived in Dallas to take testimony in a federal case brought by Mrs Sully and heirs seeking allotments in the Rosebud reservation. The suit targets about 10,000 acres valued around 125000 dollars with deadlines for testimony in stages through January and rebuttal.
Insurance Commissioner Basford asserts no exemption for life companies is warranted arguing it would set a precedent for exempting all savings. He notes the tax mirrors levies on homes and other property and urges repeal of the law mandating annual insurance statements. He also backs tighter registration for fraternal societies to protect beneficiaries.
The widow of John Kaeseen will get 5000 from the company after a wreck on the North Western road near Parker. Julius Peterson receives 500 plus hospital expenses for injuries from the incident. The men were moving cattle to Clay county when the crash occurred and the stockman who sold the cattle will also settle.
A man entered a Mitchell bank and exchanged a large bunch of pennies for silver. The cashing led to discovery of a bank robbery as the coins showed explosion damage. Authorities failed to locate the suspect.
Beginning in early January Vermillion hosts revival meetings led by Evangelist R. E. Johnson of Chicago with musical director Prof. L. A. Wenger and personal instructor Olga P. Shaffer assisting. Congregationalists refuse participation.
The new Methodist Episcopal church at Valley Springs near Sioux Falls was recently dedicated to replace the former building destroyed by a tornado weeks ago. The ceremony marks a significant event in local church circles as residents recover from the disaster.
Mitchell reports an eleven inch snowfall that paused rail traffic while cement work at the Milwaukee passenger station continued and trenching for gas mains for a new plant proceeded as scheduled.
Quechner and Orth of St. Paul have won the contract to design a Masonic temple to be built in Huron. Plans will be submitted soon with furnishings excluded. building cost is estimated at $40,000.
Mariy T Hutchinson, son of ex Mayor G Hutchinson and wife of Huron, completes a four year law course at Leland Stanford University Palo Alto California and is appointed a special agent for the United States commission.
Ada May Roberts of Huron, a girl under 12, has been committed to the reform school at Plankinton on her mother's petition.
Chief American Horse, a noted Ogallala Sioux leader, died Thursday at his Kyle home on the Pine Ridge reservation after illness following a Rosebud visit. He was about 88 years old, once a war leader who later aided the United States as a scout and peacemaker. He leaves two wives and a large educated family, with many children educated at Carlisle and Hampton.
One of the largest real estate transfers in Huron recently occurred when Campbell brothers sold their 1600 acre ranch known as the Foster and Thompson farm two miles east of Huron for 80000 dollars. George Edelman, a farmer from northwest of Yale, now owns the property which lies on both sides of the Jim river and is regarded as one of the finest holdings in that region.
J. L. Stacke was found guilty by a jury of obtaining money by fraud for forcing homesteaders to pay toll before crossing the Missouri river bridge at Aberdeen. He received a six month sentence to the state penitentiary after a second trial ended in a verdict.
Gov. Crawford extends clemency allowing two penitentiary inmates to share a Christmas dinner in freedom. The men are G. A. Adamson of Turner County serving a forgery sentence and Walter McKellar of Lawrence County serving a larceny sentence.
Indian Chief Honored, old Chief Gall, longtime Standing Rock leader, will have the new bank at Wapala named in his honor. The Gall State Bank will be capitalized at 5000 dollars and opened in the northern part of the state.
Hump, last among Minneconjou leaders, dies at 60 at Cherry Creek station near Pierre. A descendant of Black Buffalo, he fought whites from Kildeer Mountain in 1864 through Little Big Horn, later served as a scout, and helped in the 1876 campaign before surrendering. Also notes on upcoming South Dakota Corn Growers meeting in Sioux Falls, land settlement on Rosebud ceded lands, and local infrastructure and business developments.
A Minneapolis Journal report describes convicts feigning illness to exploit jail routines. Methods include chalk whitening of the tongue, red undershirt flushes, tobacco stomach disturbance, fake coughing and blood spitting, nettle rash from shellfish, soap frothing, and eye needle tricks to induce cataracts.
The London Punch suggests a revenue-raising idea where every authoree and author would be subject to an adjective tax. The proposal aims to monetize descriptive language and curb excessive adjective use in published works.
A dialogue features Mr Tyte-Phist-Talk challenging women's capacity to manage money and asks about the total currency in circulation, to which Mrs Tyte-Phist-I replies that nearly all is circulating except what he controls.
The Chilean government has placed 165000 dollars at the disposal of the President to be used for securing immigrants for Chile. This funding underscores efforts to boost population and labor resources through inbound migration programs.
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