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Newspaper
The State Line Herald
Location
North Lemmon, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1909
Page
4
If you are selling or leasing land inquire with Braught Investment Co located in the U S Land Office Building Lemmon South Dakota contact them for details and arrangements regarding property transactions in the area.
Isolated Gulf coast towns in Texas and Louisiana continue to report rising death tolls and million dollar property losses from last Wednesday's hurricane. Angelton Texas lists eleven dead, total deaths reaching thirty eight with many missing. New Orleans reports eighteen dead and sixteen seriously hurt with over one million dollars in damage.
Milwaukee July 22 reports from Ashland and surrounding areas describe severe losses from a cloud burst with damages estimated between 100000 and 760000 dollars. Bridges and dams were washed away, the Odaneh Indian reservation faces its gravest danger as river levels rise, and power facilities including the White River dam were destroyed, costing about 100000 dollars. No trains reach Ashland, with only one Northwestern line briefly passing through.
A party of twelve was overwhelmed in Two Mile canyon near Boulder by a cloudburst. Two picnickers drowned and two were fatally injured as a wall of water surged through the defile, transforming a lunch spot into a deadly surge within minutes.
A letter from Second Lieutenant C. W. Barber of the U S Infantry, the second chief of police in the canal zone, charges a prup pression of white slave trafficking between the United States and the canal zone. Barber says many American girls, especially actresses, have been lured to Panama and the life they read there would make your heart bleed.
News from Forteraburg reports the fourteen year old princess Alexanders Mestoheraky was decapitated with an axe at her father's estate in Bimolenek province by a discharged housekeeper seeking revenge. The Montchersky family is noted as one of Russia's oldest, with several prominent historical figures.
Glen R. Kimball, missing since 1886 from Deadwood where he was a banker, reappeared to his wife on a North Dakota farm near Larimore after fourteen years. He says he was confined and released three months ago and will offer no full explanation. His widow earlier mourned him as dead. a body found in 1895 was buried, later moved, and insurance paid.
An unprecedented wave of homesteaders floods northeast Meade county township 12 north range 17 east. Three weeks ago no filings existed, now every acre is claimed as settlers from Yews and eastern South Dakota arrive seeking land before the Minneapolis and St. Paul railway extends its lines through Meade county.
Report from Marietta describes the drowning of settler Baumgartner during a river picnic. Three others were swept by the swift current while seining. all reached shore except Baumgartner who could not swim. His body was recovered the next day three miles downstream.
Sioux chief Little Bison arrives in New Orleans from Bluefields and declares the tribe will move from the Dakotas to a tract in Nicaragua. He plans to bring 100 Indian families immediately and hundreds more later as a colony under President Zelaya’s concession.
A gang of three robbed the State bank of Tulare south of Redfield, escaping on an early morning train with about 1900 dollars. The report also notes bank deposit figures across South Makota, showing state banks at over 42 million and national banks over 26 million, with small shifts since spring. A separate note records Ira Breese, 35, a Gates' garage chauffeur, killed when his automobile overturned into a ditch after turning to allow another vehicle to pass.
Ver million Nils Swenson, accused of poisoning his daughter, was held for circuit court after a preliminary hearing before Judge J. A. Caplan. He remains jailed and may await bail or supreme court relief.
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