The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-01
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
All Mixed Up.

All Mixed Up.
Surprising results have developed
at a post mortem examination of the
body Of William Allison, twenty-one
years old, who died at Bookings.
after ten days illness, apparently
from inflammation of the stomach.
The young man several times during
his illness, said he had been poisoned,
and to satisfy~the family a post NOR
tenn was held.
The surgeons were astonished to
find upon making an incision that
there was a most peculiar displace-
ment of the internal organs The
operators found an opening through
the diaphragm and a dilated stom-
ach, nearly three times the normal
size, completely filling the left side of
the thoractic cavity, taking the place
of the left lung.
There was no left lung, but a small
rudimentary lung, about one inch
thick and three inches square. Ly-
ing under the stomach was found the
ascending and descending colon with
the appendix attached in it's usual
place on the lower end of the colon
and also in the thoracic cavity. The
heart was located on the lower right
side of the thoracic cavity extending
parallel and next to the spinal col
umn between the second and fifth
rib. The right lung was not normal
size.
There is no question but the ana.
tomical malformation of the different
organs had existed from infancy. The
young man never had been i'll and
this is the reason his peculiar condi-
ton had never been disclosed. The
case is believed to be one of the most
remarkable in the history of surgery.
A Good Amount.
r.. Al. Stewart, secretary of the
Western South Dakota Stock Associa-
ton, says this has been an exception
ally busy year. During the past three
months $4,000 has been distributed
to the members of the association for
"estrays" which were disproved of
by inspectors at the various markets.
iiSS "SlS SdCllC Idhcl W lldIhcI
by Others. than the owners, as it often
happens hat in making a shipment
a shipper finds some cattle that are
ready for market which are mixed
up with his own and he loads them
and takes them along, the inspector
catching them at the market and
making the remittance to Secretary
Stewart. Then il has happened that
all of these cattle did not get to mar
ket by mistake, and were it not for
the inspector the wners would prob
ably never have heard of them again.
This gives something of the idea of
the amount of work Mr.. Stewart has
to do as secretary, as well as the ben
efits derived by members.
Scared the Indians.
The recent flight back to the res
ervation of a dozen Sioux Indians.
who had eamped north of town, be-
they imagined the noise of a
charavari party meant an attack on
them by the whites, recalls how
about twenty years ago white set
~ tAiltS Lily HOllu " 4 ucIc Icu
for their lives, believing the Indians
were after them, when the cause was
a charivari party making life a bur-
den for a newly married German cou-
pie.
A neighhor q mile away heard the
unearthly noise. He fastened to the
next neighbor with the news that the
red devils were attacking the German
family and to flee for their lives. AS
the news spread the people made for
4the-nearest railway stations. 1t wa
several days before the truth was
learned.
The School Fund.
The condition of the school fund is
gratifying to the people of the state,
the total amount drawing interest
being in round numbers $4,000, 900,
and not a cent lying idle in the treas
ury. Of this fund approximately 3d.
100000 is loaned to the various coun-
ties of the state; $1,344,5 95 deferred
payments on sales of school lands,
which is not yet due, and $224,979 of
past due deferred payments on sale
Of lands. These past due payments
are amply secured to the state.
The income due the 1st of January
which can be applied to the expenses
of school work is S22i,0i6.65. divided