The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-02-13
BRIEF NEWS OF THE STATE

Aberdeen. The annual convention
of the South Dakota Sunday School
Association will be held at Aberdeen
this year on May 26 and 81, the exec
utive committee having decided on
that point several days ago. A
splendid program will be prepared for
the occasion. 1t will be under the
direction of Rev. G. B. Daley, OF
Huron.
Sioux FallS.-I'be Iowa-South Da-
kota base ball league will do business
again this summer, and five Of the
towns that were in the league last
year have made application and been
accepted. They are Sioux City, Sioux
Falls, LeMars, Sheldon and Rock
Rapids. A meeting will be held at
Sioux City early in April to start the
ball to rolling.
Miller.-An old bachelor by the
name Of Walter Galloway, has been
ordered confined in the insane asylum.
He has shown an extreme fOndneSs
for counting teachers and the larger
girls in the country schools. Several
Of the schools have been closed on ac-
count Of bis visitations.
White Lake. People here are TAX
ing steps to secure an electric light
ing plant. The town council will be
urged to take hold Of the matter If
private parties can be interested.
Between 81, 200 and SIS, 200 will be en-
pended.
Huron.-Mr. George, representing
eastern capitalists, is making his ar
rangements for prospecting for oil in
this vicinity. A large quantity Of
Band has been leased for this purpose.
He expects to strike the oil at a depth
of from 1900 to 1000 feet.
Washington Springs Dale Wallace,
afe county treasurer, has been grant
ed Il franchise for a period Of twenty
years to put in a telephone system.
Work will commence on it as soon as
the frost is out of the ground. An
Aberdeen firm has been awarded the
contract for sinking an artesian well,
tour inches in diameter, to a depth
Of 900 feet for 50, 200.
Scotland.-N. B. Diehl and Fred
Becker have applied for a gas fran
ehise to the town council, which has
been granted. They will put in an
%acetylene plant.
Watertown.-Th proposition of the
city spending $50, 900 for a waterworks
system is a question that is receiving
a general discussion at present. Pub
lie sentiment is pretty we'll divided
On the matter.
Parkston. Efforts are being made
to secure another rural mail route to
run southeast Of town through a very
thickly settled portion of the county.
Other routes in the county do a thriv-
ing business.
Webster. Albert Davidson. who
has been on trial for the murder of
HAL Sandal, was acquitted by the
Jury. The murder took place last
October. The defense claimed that
Ele shooting was accidental.
Ftlga.-Farmers living southwest
have been agitating the construction
Of a telephone system with connec-
sions at Brookings and Volga. The
route has been surveyed and the ma
terial ordered for the construction
Of the line.
Alexandria. The city council is
discussing the pcacticability Of estab-
FISHING a waterworks system. 1t has
about concluded to adopt measure
shat will insure the work being done
this year. 1t is said that a mile Of
mains will be laid. The council is to
meet this week to open bids for the
construction of the system.
DeSmet.-The gas plant Eere is too
small for the business it has accumu-
lated. The plant will be enlarged to
the capacity of 500 or 800 lights. The
system is giving good satisfaction.