Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-02
TONY" Hartl thinks he narrow

-"Tony" Hartl thinks he narrow
ly escaped the loss of a horse and
buggy on Sport Day at Iroquois, July
22nd. In the evening when Tony
wanted to go home his horse and
buggy could not be found; it was not
in the town. He notified the author
tiles and went to the hotel and went
to bed. In the morning when he was
dressing he happened to look out of
the window and saw the horse tied in
the alley. The horse bore evidence
of a hard drive, and the dashboard
of the buggy was badly demolished.
Tony was glad to get the outfit back
and thought little of the damage to
the buggy. Casper Geyer found that
his barn had been entered that night
and "A horse taxed out. 1t happened
to be an animal that will drive double
all right, but when hitched up single
will kick as long as the buggy hangs
on behind. In looking around Cas-
per found where it was evident some
one had tried to hitch up the horse
near the bridge overa creek a little
way from his house. A further search
revealed a part of a dashboard that
just fitted the broken dash on Tony's
buggy. The theory from these facts
is that Hartl's horse was stolen, and
that the theft, knowing the gray
horse would easily be recognized,
tried to trade it for one of Casper's
horses; that when he got hold of the
kicker and later succeeded in letting
go, it was SO late that he deemed it
advisable to drive back to Iroquois
and leave the outfit.
The INDEPENDENT family were
treated to a ride in the country Sun
day afternoon by Fred Kundert and
wife. The drive was from this city
northwest to the old Seth Davis farm
now owned by John Burcheding, of
Bellevue, Iowa. We found crops, tax
en- as a whole, looking fine. Oats and
barley, and both are a greater acre
age than Eve before, are the best;
the stand is heavy and the heads ire
filling well. Considerable of the bar.
ley will be in the shock this week,
weather permitting, Now and then
a field was seen that was ready for
the binder on Monday, and there will
be very little that is not ready before
next week. Corn is doing nicely.
The spring was very late and it seem
ed to be the general opinion that corn
would be a doubtful proposition, but
it has advanced so rapidly that many
fields, under ordinary conditions from
this on, will make a fair crop. Flax,
too, is looking well, although the seed
ing covering SO long a period, the
fields are not in the same stage. Dave
Basart is one of the oat farmers of
this section, and his crop this year is
good to see. Tom Kelly, we believe,
has the prize field of Blue Stem wheat
on the quarter south of the Seth
Davis quarter. Between Dave Basart
and G. Rettig, who is farming the
Davis farm, the name recently chang
ed to Belle View Grove, the race is a
close n as to who will have the heav.
lest crop of oats. Mr.. Rettig has a
fine field of 80 acres of barley, and a
mighty nice crop of the Minnesota
bearded wheat. John Knudson is
keeping up his reputation in the way
of fine crops. John has added to his
Improvements this year by the erection
of a lage hog house and a large gran
airy. That section of the country is a
surprise to one who has not visited it
for two or three years. There is hard
ly a farm that does not show new
buildings, fences, ETC., erected during
that time. On the way home we
passed another large field and fine
stand of barley on the old Annis farm
now owned by John limp. This is
Johns first season here, but every
thing about his place points to a
model farm al fast as time will allow
him to make it so.