Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-01-22

Respectfully,
JERRY WooDLEY.
STATE AND INTERSTATE.
The stockholders of the South Dakota
Ekko, the state Scandinavian paper print
ed at Brookings, have landed in a. bisa-
greement over the question of moving the
paper to Sioux Falls, and the states
courts will be called in to settle the diff
Guilty. Rreport ststes that the disruption
arose over political grounds, the faction
favoring the removal of the plant to
Sious Falls being friends of Senators Pet
tigrew and Moody, while those opposed
are rank enemies of the senators.
DR.. P. G. Bissell who was charged with
the crime of administering dose of NOR
phine to Ben. Shaffer, Of Spring Valley
on Dec. 6, while the latter was in intox-
icated condition and from the effects Of
which he died, was acquitted of the
charge by the jury in his case at Sioux
Falls last Thursday.
The two year old daughter of Joseph
Patterson, of Highmore, died Thursday
of the effect of poison taken in the form
of strychnine pills, left where the
child found them and before medical aid
could be summoned the little one expired.
The board of directors of the State fair
association met at Sioux Falls last week,
and elected officers and superintendents
for the next annual fair which will be
held in Sioux Falls on the 21, 20, %, "a;
Is, of September. The officers elected
were R. B. Coddington of Blunt. Presi-
dent; G. L. Downsy, of Sioux Falls, sec
eretary; G. H. Barrett, of Vermillion,
treasurer. The city Of Sioux Falls do
mated ten thousand dollars in land to the
association to get the fair this year.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
pospects for combine in the barb wire
business, is good. It is learned from
reliable authority that large corporation
is to be formed to be known as the Col
umbian Wire company which has already
opened books in the city of Chicago and
substantially all the barbed wire
manufacturers in the country have SUBJ
scribed to the capital stock. The new
company will control all of the patents,
contracts, etc., and will, if successful
establish new scale of prices. .
The faculty Of the state University at
Vermillion, is evidently alive to the social
and political agitation of the day. Presi-
dent Grose discusses some new movement
Of congress at the college chapel every
morning and the daily papers and maga-
zines on all the various, phases of the
questions under consideration are most
diligently reviewed on these subjects
The Legislature of Oregon on Tuesday
reelected Senator Mitchell to the
United States senate to succeed himself.
Senator Stanford, of California, has also
been given another lease of the seat which
he has held in the senate and that gentle
man will now have an opportunity to ex-
ercise his strength on the virtues of his
loan bill to the fullest extent.
J. J. Patton, who has been book keeper
at the state peniteniary, at Sioux Falls
since the institution was started, has
turned up missing. The worse part of
the matter is that about a thousand
dollars of the funds belonging to the
state has gone with him. Nobody seems
to know exactly how much he embezzeled
by pocketing checks drawn by himself
and signed by the warden for the pay
ment of bills and supplies, but which
were never sent to the payees, but from a
confession made to outside parties by
Patton before his flight, it is estimated
that the total of the defalcation will not
fall far short of two thousand five
hundred Warden Kanouse is response
BILE for the loss to the state. Patton is
believed to have gone to Canada. His
father is prominent Judge in the city
Of Detroit, Mich. Sioux Falls whiskey,
cards and bad women had hand in the
young mans downfall.
Beresford has taken steps 10 start
beet sugar factory. "A stock company is
to be organized and a committee has gone
to Nebraska to make inquiry into the
business as it is carried on IN that state
This is the first move. made in this state
to promote the manufacture of beet
sugar.