The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-30

OF Two later escaped from the Tyndall
jail, have been brought to Sioux Falls
ny Jerry Carleton, chief deputy Unit
ed States marshal.
The Dalesburg robbers were under
Indictment for the crime, and If it is
ascertained that the men now in, Gus
tody are in reality those who commit
ted the crime, they will be tried at
the April term of United States court
in this city without the necessity of
their cases coming before the grand
jury. At present there is ample evil
dence to hold them.
Probably Dead.
1t is believed a horrible death has
overtaken Norman Fees, a farmer liv-
ing near Geddes, who suddenly be.
came insane and disappeared from his
home.
While ~transacting business at Ged-
des, he, without warning, became vio-
lently insane as the result of blood
poisoning, caused by bruising his
hand with barbed wire some time
ago. The town marshal had consid-
able difficulty in landing him in the
town Jail.
After being kept there for a time
Fees was released and taken home,
n it was expected that he would be
taken to the state hospital for the in
sane at Yankton. But before an at
tendant could arrive he eluded the
members of his household and disap-
peared. 1t is thought he may have:
wandered to the timber along the Mis-
souri, river in the vicinity,
Changed Its Name.
The historic old town of Gayyille, in
Deadwood gulch, has had it's name
changed, and the station will here
after be called Blacktail, for the rea-
son that there is another Gayville in
the state. The place originally took
it's name from William Gay, who own
ed a placer claim on the creek in 1876,
and took out a snug fortune, which
he promptly distributed in the gam
bling halls. He killed a young man
named Ford for being too intimate
with his wife and was sent to the pen
itentiary. On petition of his friends
he was pardoned. He left the Black
Hills a few years later, and was a no.
torious figure in Montana and other
western cities in the early nineties,
killing several deputy marshals, for
which he was subsequently hanged
at Red Lodge. s..
Poultry Show.
The fourth annual exhibition of the
South Dakota Poultry Fanciers' assoc
citation closed at Mitchell. While there
were not as many entries as usual,
the fowls shown were excellent speci-
mems.
Judge Emery of Carthage, Mo-, act
ed as the judge Of the birds. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, ]. F. Reinelt, Trip; vice presi-
dent, T. T. White, Mitchell; secretary,
r. M. Sphinx, Mitchell; treasurer, j. N.
Crow, Mitchell; executive committee,
j. F. Reinelt, T. T. White, r. NJ.
Sphinx, F. A. Hopping, N. j. Nelson
and George w. Law, Mitchell. Nit
chell was selected as the place for the
next annual meeting, this being the
fifth consecutive time the place was
selected.
The United States supreme court
again passed upon the validity of di-
vorces granted in South Dakota to
non-residents.
The case was that of Annie An
drews VS.. Kate H. Andrews, and the
question at issue is to which is entitled
to administer upon the estate Of
Charles s.. Andrews, whom boJh
claimed as husband.
The record showed that Mrs. Kate
Andrews was the first wife and that
her husband secured a divorce in
South Dakota after remaining there
six months, the time required by the
statute of that state.
The Massachusetts, courts held that
the decree had been fraudulently Sc
cured, and refusing to recognize it,
recognized the first wife as the legal
widow of the deceased Mr.. Andrews.
That was the holding of the SUI
preme judicial court of Massachusetts,,
and today's opinion, which was de]iv-
Cd by Justice White, affirmed that
holding.
He said that Andrews residence in
the state of South Dakota did not
constitute legal domicile. The case
arose out of the fact that Mr.. An
drews' father, Charles H. Andrews,
bequeathed certain property to "the
wife of my son, Charles S. Andrews"
Justices Brewer, Shiras and Peck
ham dissented.
Brief Notes.
Doc Middleton, the famous cowboy
and frontiersman, was attacked in his
saloon at Ardmore by two hoboes and
would have been killed had it not been
for the timely arrival of a fellow
townsman, who aided in beating off
the assailants. y
Alena Miksch, the 13-year-old
daughter of a prominent resident OF
wellington township, twenty miles
west of Sioux Falls, vas killed by the
accidental discharge Of a gun in the
hands of Cecil English, q boy who re-
Gently was adopted into the Miksch
SOAJ - 4H.