The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-09-24
THE CITY.
G HREVIT1EN

LOCAL BKEV1I1lE LEE.
Howard Wood departed for Albert
Lea, Mimi, to take a night "sit" at the
wires.
The ladies OF the NJ. E. church will
give a chicken pie supper Tuesday, Sep
TENDER %.
HITbe only foreign born citizen to take
out his final papers at this term of court
was John McGillivray.
<Wm. Curtis was in the city to-day and
reports threshing results IN his neigh
borhood at six bushels per acre.
Weather report: Partly cloudy and
cooler tonight and Saturday with prob.
able showers in northeast portion.
Mrs. Lester came over from Mitchell
this morning on a visit to her daughter
Mrs. F. q. Chaphe of the Lake Park.
Arrivals on evening train: Dora Van
Doren from Oklahoma, DR.. E. l.. Clark
and wife of Rockford, ILL.,, and their
friend, Mrs. Brown of Palatine, III.
December wheat in Chicago to-day
opened at 1921 and closed at 9215. Corn
opened at 3oss and closed at 1923. Cash
wheat on the local market is %. Flax
Sc.
Conductor Callinan went east on No.
4, to-day in place of Conductor Wright
who will take a couple of days visiting
with his parents now here from Kansas
City.
. The new additions to The Fair store
: and ID. McKinnon's have received the
finishing coats Of plastering and the
floors are being land. Both will be
ready for occupancy in a day OF two.
Fred Palmer finished threshing on his
farm in Badus to-day and claims the
champion yield, eleven bushels per acre.
1t grades easily No. 3, and the buyer has
sent a sample to Minneapolis in the hope
that it can be graded No. l.
x Hal"or Lee Of the south part of the
: county ia hauling lumber for IN add
ton to his house. Andrew Rand of the
north side is building a barn as is also
K,ttle Alison. These are all indications
of the many permanent improvements
being made III Lake county.
XJos. Opperud has purchased the build
ing in the street now occupied by j. j.
Fitzgerald as a store aud will move it as
soon rs vacated to his lots on the corner
east of the opera house where F. L.
Soper's law office now stands. The
latter will be moved to a . location.
DR.. Robt G. Dott OF Sioux Falls,
provisional grand regent Of the Imperial
Mystic Legion in North and South Da-
kota is in the city to assist agent, E. w.
Kilburn of the same order in organic.
ing a subordinate Castle here. They are
meeting with good success in securing
members.
Court listened to evidence and law in
the VIM. Stanton Macomb We. Lake
county case until 10 O'Clock last night
and has been engaged with it all DAY to-
Odys 4u10 10 ITO C000 VI VIC 0UOCh-
holders of the Northwestern Loan &
Banking Co., who refused to pay taxes
assessed against their shares of stock on
the ground OF double assessment, and
obtained a restraining order from the
court to prevent the collection OF the tax.
The county demurred to the sufflciency
of the complaint holding that the stock
holders should have paid the taxes and
then sued the county for relief. The
lower court held the demurrer we'll taken
and an appeal was taken from this de.
cision to the supreme court. This re.
versed the ruling Of the lower court and
now the case m up for hearing on
it's merits for the first time. The case
has been running since 1893 and involves
about $500 OF tax moneys. Court will
close it's term here with this case, ad.
turning tonight.
The following from the Sioux City
Journal Of the 23rd, inst, tells Of class
of immigrants, many Of whom are arriv.
ing in Lake county these days: The
southern portion of South Dakota is re.
ceiving an examination by ~homeseekers
such as it has not enjoyed for several
years. Great harvest excursions have
been carried into the state over all the
lines reaching it's borders. The train
from the east ON the Milwaukee yester.