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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
GREAT SECTIONAL STRIFE.
Thrilling Incidents Connected with
Life of Late Governor Burbank.

Life of Late Governor Burbank.
Yankton, S. D., Dec. 22.-The death
at Richmond, Ind, of Hon. John A,
Burbank, fourth governor Of Dakota,
has awakened memories of old days in
the hearts Of pioneer Y~anktonians, like
nothing else could have done, as it
brings back to mind some of the most
strenuous times this city, or any city
ever knew, and opens anew old wounds
that have never healed in some citizens
at least. The administrator of Gov
ernor Burbank covered the urbulen
political period between 1870 and 1874,
when a disruption in the republican
party OF the territory brought about
the organization OF two intensely bitter
factions known as the Moody or Broad
way gang, and the Bookings or Capitol
Street gang. The Press" the new re-.
publican organ, championed the Cap
itol Street faction, while the old party
organ, the -Dakotan' gave it's
support to broadway" Each side
claimed it's nominees were the regular
candidates. AS the campaign pro-
crossed it was seen hat each candidate,
who were S. L. Sphinx and DR.. w. A.
Burleigh, had the solid support OF his
end of town, without any regard TO po-
litical lines. In a subsequent campaign
these geographical lines became even
more pronounced and the Broadway
ana Capltol street line or battle be-
came recognized throughout the terri
tory. 1t is an absolute fact that a
supporter of Moody, wen so far away
a. the Red river of the north, was
spoken of as a member of the Broad
way gang, while a Bookings adherent
would be styled a Capitol street par
tisan. The result of this sectional strife
o grew beyond party lines and in
volved the residents of the two sections
in a "sui1H unreasoning animosity,
cove 'ug politics, business and even re-
ligio4 1t continued long after the
cause from which the quarrel sprang
had passed away and formed stumbling
blocks which Yankton to his day has
not entirely wiped aside, as an allusion
TO the subject to old timers clearly
proves. The intensity of the warfare
was directly responsible for the murder
of General Edwin S. McCook, secretary
of the territory, by Peter p. Winter
mute. in the fall of 1873. The story
could be prolonged into columns of in
teresting matter, which is fresh still in
the minds of many, n which but
needed the news of the death of Bur-
,ank to bring forth once again.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
DROpPERs TO REMAIN.
Action Taken by Dakota University
Regents in Session at
Aberdeen.

Aberdeen, S. D., Dec .22.-The regents
unanimously adopted resolutions re-
tanning DR.. Garrett Droppers as tenn
porary president of the state unlVer-
sity during the remainder OF the school
year. The resolutions fellow:
whereas. The term of office of DR.. Gar
rett Droppers. as president of the UNI
versity OF South Dakota, will expire py
limitation on December 81, 1903, and
Whereas, on January ], 1906, a vacancy
will occur in the aforesaid position, ana
Whereas, After due consideration me
regents of education have come 10 the con
clusion that the present interests or the
university will be best SubserVed by the
election Of DR.. Droppers as head OF the
Institution, therefore
Resolved, That DR.. Garrett Droppers pc
retained as temporary president OF the
University of South Dakota for the re-
mainder of this school year, with salary
the same as at present. And while the
regents are aware that the present admin
~istration of said institution has been IN
many respects productive of good results
nevertheless so much ~antagonism exists
that 1t seems impossible for the university,
under the present executive, to attain the
highest development and that degree OF
prosperity which is so much TO be desired;
therefore, be IL further
Resolved, That the term of office of said
DIR. Garrett DropperS as temporary preSl-
dent Of the University of South Dakota
shall expire on June 20, 1906.
The resolutions were adopted unani-
mously, and the members assert that
the meetings was entirely harmonious,
Regent Greedy vas not present, but he
had expressed his approval of the ac-
ton taken.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
DRAGGED PRISONERS
AT END OF LARIATS
lrate Crowd OF Settlers, Masked,
Relieve Sheriff OF His
Charge.
cAPTivEs CONFESS ALL
II Is Said Some Very Prominent Peo-
pie on the Rosebud Reservation
Are Implicated in a Series
of Thievine Excursions.

Bonesteel, s. D., Dec. 21.-Last
night Deputy Sheriff Wood, of Dixon,
arrested Sam Crazey Bull and VIII
Jones, two half breed Indians at Dixon,
about fifty miles northwest of Bone
steel, In the Bull creek country, charged
with horse stealing.
While in custody Of his prisoners
taking them TO Fairfax, the county seat
Of this county, he was overtaken by
an armed and masked rang OF men who
demanded possession OF the prisoners
,Qnd under force of arms the deputy
surrendered them.
An improvised gallows was erected
and a moose placed around the necks
Of the prisoners and they were dragged
70 the place as If about to be hanged
by the irate mob when they were asked
10 disclose their accompllces or suffer
death.
Both Indians are said to have made
confessions which will involve some
very prominent people in that part OF
the country.
They are now safely lodged in jail at
Fairfax awaiting preliminary hearing.
The settlers are now in hopes that
they will soon break up a desperate
gang OF horse thieves which AVE ter
horized the settlers for so long.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
LYMAN COUNTY IS
RAPIDLY FILLING
Nearly 1000 Persons Have
Filed on Claims in That
Part Of the State.
WINTER is NO BARRIER
As Many Land Seekers Are Invading
Western Part of South Dakota Now
as in the Early Summer and
Through Autumn.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 20.-Not even
freezing weather can diminish the rush
Of eager landseekers into Lyman coun-
ty, according to Sheriff Pickett. of that
county, who was in Sioux Falls for the
purpose of escorting back to that coun-
ty Andrew Night Pope, a sioux Indian,
who is serving a term in the Sioux Falls
p~enitentiary and who is wanted as a
witness in a perjury case now pending
In the state circuit court for Lyman
county.
Sheriff Pickett spoke enthusiastically
of the great development of Lyman
county as the result of the extension of
the Milwaukee railroad from Chamber
lain to the Black Hills. He states that
since last July more h a 1000 actual
settlers have made homestead entry on
land in Lyman county, and thai the
great majority of the entrymen and
entrywomen already have established
heir residence On their homesteads.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
DEER CHASED MAN.
Fat Man Had Narrow Escape After a.
Exciting Race.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 19.-Doubt-
less firing of being pursued by en-
thusiastic hunters, a Black Hills deer
turned pursuer, and as a result L. X.
Haines, residing neal the little town
of linton, in the northern foothills of
the Black Hills, had a thrilling adj
venture.
He had not been hunting deer, but
was quietly walking up the road to get
his mail when he sighted the animal
in the highway before him. The deer
was coming toward him. 1t was some
distance down the hill and Haines sup
posed it would soon sight him n take
TO fight, as is usually the case.
Instead of turning, he big buck,
when it sighted him. made straight
for Haines, and it became a race for
life. Haines was unarmed and as he
is a heavy man the prospects were
that he could not outrun the deer. He
speedily came to this conclusion and
reaching a pile of rocks he too refuge
behind them.
But the deer was not to be baffied,
and after lodging the apparently mad
dened animal for a few minutes, during
which. it showed no signs of relenting,
Haines watched his chance and again
took to his heels. Heading for a near
by tree, which Seer7d to be in exactly
the right place for the emergency,
Haines, who vas nearly exhausted
from his strenuous efforts to escape the
animal, managed by sheer force of will
% scramble up the tree out of reach
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
AN ALlBl SAVED HIM.
Arrested and Taken to Wisconsin fos
Horse Stealing, Then Released.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. ARRESTED
and taken ia wisconsin because of his
striking resemblance to a man wanted
for horse stealing in that state was the
experience of a young man named John
Williams, who resides In Deuel. county,
this state.
Williams was arrested by Sheriff
Knuckey, of Deuel. county, on a a
rant sworn IA at Sparta, Wis, accus-
Ing him of the theft of a span of horses.
The sheriff from Wisconsin came to
South Dakota and escorted the prisoner
back to that state. Williams accom-
panied the officer without putting the
official TO the necessity of procuring re-
QUESTION papers. Word has now been
received that as the result of the pre-
urinary examination of the young man
IL was established hat Ii was a clear
case of mistaken identity.
Accordingly Williams has been re-
leased from custody and as an atone
ment for their mistake the Wisconsin
authorities have paid him his expenses,
the amount of his salary for time lost
and purchased him a railroad ticket
back TO South Dakota.
A young man answering the descrip-
tion OF Williams appeared at Sparta
on November "a last and hired a livery
rig ostensibly to visit friends at a
neighboring town.
He sold the team the same day TO q
farmer and received SIS as part pay
ment for the stolen property and then
took a train for the west. Williams was
able to show hat on the day he was
alleged to q stolen the team he was
at work on a farm a Clear Lake, S.
ID. several hundred miles distant from
the point where the was stolen.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
BOY HELD FOR MURDER
Youth of Ten Bound Over to the
Grand Jury for Killing An
other Bow.

Abba. Ia, Dec. 22.-Oskar Napier, OF
Hiteman, aged 10 years. will have to
answer to the Monroe county grand
jury to the charge of murder of Frank
Adams, a boy of Is.
He was bound over this morning and
his bail was fixed at $500.
Adams was a French boy, unable to
speak good English, and was a new
conner TO town. He was made a target
for all the young DULLES and OCCASION
ally turned upon his anniversaries and
cleaned them u
CHANGING to cross the yard of young
Eapier's home a few days ago., Napier
Immediately raised a gun with which
he was playing and fired. The bal
entered Adams side. He was al once
taken TO the Ottumwa hospital. but IL
was impossible to ave his life and
death occurred yesterday afternoon.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
"A SOUTH DAK0TAN
TELLS OF PANAMA
Former Howard Physician Nova
Stationed on the lsthmus
Writes a Letter.
PRICES RANGE SKYWARG
But the Fact That Fifty Cents United
States Money Is Equal to a Dollar
There Makes Newcomers
Feel Less Despondent,

Howard, S. D., Dec. ia great deal
Of interesting information concerning
the Isthmus Of Panama and conditions
with reference to the construction OF
the Panama canal is contained IN a
letter received by a Howard friend
from DIR. j. Y. Batterton, a South Da-
kota physician, who accepted a posi-
ton in the hospital service Of the
United States, with headquarters on
the isthmus. DR.. Batterton is con-
nected with Miraf1ores hospital, in the
canal zone. His letter is In part as
follows:
There are, certainly, many erro-
neous ideas among the people OF the
United States concerning Panama. 1t
is not, by any means, the terrible,
plague-stricken country which so many
seem to think. We do not suffer here
from the heat any more, if as much, as
IN South Dakota Occasionally there
comes a day when 1T is very hot, UNI
comfortably so, but there is, most all
the time, a cool, delightful breeze
blowing directly off from the Pacific
coast which renders the atmosphere
pleasant and comfortable.
you would, l am sure, be much sur
prised to know how cool the nights are
in this country. You will be aston
ished, no doubt, when l tell you that
quite frequently l am compelled to get
up OUT Oh D6u uuIluS the IlSiIl ~ OD-
tain more covering. We are just now
in the latter part of the wet season.;
the dry season begins here about De-
cember l to IS. During the wet sea-
son it rains almost every day.
I'VE can obtain about everything in
the way of provisions here that one
can in the United States. The United
States government has established
commissaries all along the line Of the
canal for the use of the employees, and
from these commissaries W. can pro-
cure all kinds of supplies at New York
priceS-some things we can get even
less. We can buy eggs at 60 cents
per dozen, GO cents silver being equiva-
lent to 80 cents American currency.
Our money, you know, has just twice
the value Of Panaman currency. IN
Gle Sam is making great Improvements
all over the republic of Panama. In
the city of Panama there has been in
stalled, at the expense of the United
States government, a complete water
and sewerage system, and the work
of grading n paving the streets of
Panama is now in progress. Before
the coming of the Americans the ma
jority of the natives had never seen
a piece of ice; now they all have it
in their homes every day, due to the
generosity of the American govern
ment."
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
LARGE QUANTITIES OF
RARE MINERALS FOUND
Black Hills Rocks Produce Ma
teriaIs for Worries Work
Shops.
RICH MINE OF COBALT
spodumene, Tripoli, Wolframite, Mica
stucco and Other Useful Ma
teriaI Are Being Mined
Profitably.

Deadwood. S. D., Dec. ia great
deal of attention has been shown thls
past year to the development ana MN
ing of materials not belonging to the
precious metal class. Near Hill CITY
there is a spodumene mine which mas
produced several thousand dollars
worth of rock that has been sent 10
Germany for treatment. 1t produces
lithia to the amount of 3 to 8 per cent.
and is considered a valuable producI
1t is found in large white crystals.
Sixteen miles southwest of Custer is
a tripoli mine which has been worked
constantly during the year by f, u. N
Graydon, formerly of Chicago. rms is
a g~ritless material used for fine pollsh-
ing and il has found a ready market.
Not far from this tropoIl NINE Is d
Autograph stone quarry. Ihere are
several lodges of this stone which are
free from grit and will stand the hhesI
kind of etching work.
More or less woIframite has been
mined in the Black Hills during the
past half dozen years. Wolframite ore
is worth 5000 to $500 per ton. Tungsten
acid is extracted from this ore and is
used for the hardening of steel.
Considerable mica has also been
shipped from the southern Hills to the
eastern points. Custer county mica Is
free from iron and does excellent work
for electrical purposes. There are d
humber of excellent mica mines in Gus
ter county.
The finest grade of stucco manufac-
tured in the west from a large
bed at Hot Springs. This bed is sew
eral hundred feet in thickness and is
inexhaustible. The Black Hills .also
gets it's rupply of plastering lime from
the different lime kilns which burn up
the lime rock found in most every min
ing camp.
Near Custer several weeks ago a
body of nickel ore was opened up and
a test was made in Omaha, showing the
values to be high enough to pay Tor
working. Nickel ore has also been
found near Englewood.
Another rare mineral found in consid-
cradle quantities near Englewood and
also neal Sturgis is cobalt. An assayer
discovered while making a test on some
ore for gold that the ore carried a con-
siderable amount of cobalt, 1t being
much richer in that material than /
yOld,
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29

Commissions Bach Conducted Saiet
in Mcpherson County.

Pierre, S. d., Dec. 2l.-State Land
COMMISSIONS Bach has returned from
Mcpherson county. where he held a
second offering of state building lands
Saturday. He disposed of 700 acres,
all to residents of the county, who took
the land at the minimum price of $40
an acre, bringing to the fund another
$1,000, This sale, with the former
held in that county, has brought the
fund from Mcpherson county alone
over $685. goo. Besides these sales the
department is ~disposing of tracts at
private sale On the same terms as they
are offered at auction. The past week
240 acres have been disposed OF in
Edmunds county, where there were no
sales at the time of the auction offer
ings. Commissioner Bach is well
pleased with the outlook and thinks
there will be no trouble In d~isposing OF
the required amount of land to proceed
with the work on the building early
in the spring. AS soon as the spring
land business opens there will probably
be another offering at auction OF all
the public building lands east of the
river.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
MONEY FOR SCHOOLS.
Semi-Annual Apportionment Of Stat
Fund Made at Pierre.

pierre, S. D., Dec. 18-The state land
department sent out the December appor-
tionment Of the interest and income fund
to the schools Of the state. This apportion-
ment amounts to $1O4, 1850, and is rs cents
per capita on all the school children of the
state. The apportionment made last June
was $2.2 per capita, making the total for
this year So for each school child in the
state. This is the largest apportionment
ever made in any one year, regardless of
the fact that the increase in pupils for the
year was 1926, making the present school
census 13S, 1894. The total amount appor-
toned for the year is $409, 26S.25. The
amoun of the present apportionment by
counties ic. ..t
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29

In the far east language has always
been more fiorid and more ambiguous
than I'm the west. The king OF Ava, in
Burma. called himself the regulator
of the seasons, the absolute master of
the ebb and flow OF the sea, brother of
the sun and lord OF the four and twenty,
umbrellas" The king of Arracan, low
er Burma, was 'possessor of the white
elephant and two earrings, as well as
lord OF the twelve kings who placed
their heads under his feet" In the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS region of Africa
the king OF Monomtopa was not only
lord Of the sur n MOON but great
magician and great thief"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
MYSTERY IN SHOOTING.
Young Man Near Sioux Falls Victim
of Three Bullets.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec. 20.--Complete
mystery yet surrounds the shooting OF
Oscar Nelson, a young man, who sew
eral weeks ago had three bullets fired
into his anatomy in this city or in this
immediate vicinity. After being shot
he walked from Sioux Falls to "a farm
in this locality, where his brother was
employed. and was afterwards placed
in a Sioux Falls hospital, For some
time after being placed in the hospital
Nelson was unconscious, but when he
regained his senses he persistently re-
fused to inform the police as to the
identity of the person or persons who
had shot him. Nelson has now recov-
cred to such an extent that he has
been discharged from the hospital. He
continues to withhold the name or
names of the person or persons who at
tempted TO murder him, and 1t is likely
the shooting always will remain a mys-
terry.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
FIERCE RUNNING FIGHT.
Ed Snyder, a Hiehwayman, Was Finally
Caught at Athot.

Redfeid, S. d., Dec. 0.-Ed Snyder. who
halls from Michigan. committed two old
robberies at the village OF Mansfield. north
OF here. His first victim was a country
school teacher, whom he met on her way
10 school and who was compelled to de-
liver her watch and aluable jewelry. He
then walked into Mansfield. where he held
up one of the village stores. ordering the
storekeeper TO hand over all the cash on
hand. The demand was promptly complied
with, though a few dollars only were Sc
cured. The s~torekeeper gave the alarm
but not In time TO apprehend the Grim
inal, who next appeared at the village of
Athol. The authorities here had been mo-
tiied and attempted TO capture him. A
running fight ensued between to~wnspeople
and Snyder in which the town marshal
was wounded severely In the arm Sny-
der was wounded in the right hand, but
continued the fight until shot through the
cheek, when lie surrendered. He has been
lodged IN jail here to await preliminary
hearing.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
RAILROAD WINS eight.
Implication for Receiver for Dakota
Wyoming and Missouri River
Is Denied.

Sioux Falls. s. d., Dec. 1S.-The de-
murrer filed in the United States court
here by attorneys for the defendant in
the case of Murdoch VS.. Dakota, Wyom-
Ing and Missouri River Railroad COM
pany, was sustained by Judge Garland.
Murdoch applied for appointment OF a
receiver for the company which is now
defunct, but will be reorganized for the
purpose of constructing a little line OF
railroad from Rapid City westward to
the heart of the Black Hills.
The action of Judge Garland in sus-
tanning the demurrer denies the appli-
cation for receiver and dismisses the
case instituted by Murdoch.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
EIHlsBuRT COUNTY INDEPENDENT
FRED W. WRIGHT, Publisher.
De sMET, SOUTH DAKOTA

Because rs employees frequently were
late. a large London house recently or
dered that the tardy ones should write
their excuses in q book provided for
that purpose. But the clerks proved
lazy and unorlginal. At the top of q
page a late one would write Train de-
layed' or Omnibus horse died." as tha
case might be and the rest fell into the
habit OF making ditto marks and let
ting IL so at that. But not long g
one man had a new excuse. He wrote
with pride: wife had twins" The
second slow person that morning was in
a great hurry and did not notice the ms
novation, but made his customary ditto
marks, and the rest Of the men on that
page followed suit. The excuse book
was aboIished
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
A TOWNS SUFFER.
Advent Of New Railroad Lines Leav,
Some Off the Map.

Sioux Fails, s. D., Dec. 21.-The x
tension of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad westward from Cham
heriain TO the Black Hills has played
havoc with some of the little towns
which were established before there
ever was any hope Of a railroad build
ing through Lyman county. A con-
,spicious example of what has happened
to these towns which were left off the
of the new railroad extension
lis the little own saf Lyman, which at
sone time promised TO become quite an
important hamlet. The town now mas
only one male inhahitant. In the per-
son OF T. L. Armstrong, a pioneer resi-
dent OF Lyman county and of the town
OF Lyman. HE states that he is now
the entire town OF Lyman, from post
master 10 chief OF pOiioe, and that when
he leaves town the entire male popula-
ton of the town goes with him. Mr..
Armstrong constitutes the mayor, board
OF education. town cuuncd and other
officials OF the tcwn, and thinks he is
entitled to congratulations. for no mat
ter what official actaon he takes with
reference TO municipal or educational
matters, there Is no 0nc TO criticiSe or
apply for injunctfonS-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-29
UNIVERSITY is HELPED.
Chicago Woman Makes Gift to Mitchell
College.

Mitchell, s. D., Dee. 22.-President
Thomas Nicholson, of the Dakota Wes-,
leyan university, a returned from
Chicago, where he transacted consid-
cradle business for the university.
Among other things he the
gift of $1,000 from Mrs. G.. f. Swift, of
Chicago, which is a donation to the en-
dowment fun of the university. The
money is to be applied to the endow-
ment of the chair for which women of
the state are raising $25, 600. Mrs. Swift
has been interested in the college for
some time and has several times in the
past given smaller sums. This is the
largest single donation yet made to the
institution, n gives corresponding
courage and hope to its supporters.