Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-08

Although frail in health for y
Mrs. Jens A. Sorenson was able to be
about her household duties on Sun
day. During that night she vas
taken seriously i'll. DR.. Bailey was
called early Monday morning and
from the first felt that the complica-
tions were such as to give little hope
for recovery. As the day passed her
vitality became weaker and in the
evening no encouragement could be
given that she would live through
the night. Her sister, the only ear
relative in this country, was notified
by wire at Kirkman, Iowa, and word
came back that she would come at
once. Human hands could not stop
the work of disease, however, and
Mrs. Sorenson passed peacefully to
the sleep which knows no awakening
on earth at 2 O'Clock a. m. on Tues
day, Jan. 18th. Lake Preston Times.
DIR. Fl. Denman was down south
of Lake Thompson when the storm
struck Friday afternoon. He started
to make the IA miles home at about 6
o'clock arriving in De Smet at l2:45.
After he started he discovered that he
had more of an undertaking than he
at first supposed it to be. Along that
road houses are none TO frequent, and
it was up to the doctor to keep trav-
cling or camp out. The track filled
and he had to break his own road
with nothing to guide him except the
| direction of the wind which he had to
face when he started. He finally run
up against a telephone pole south of
Frank Payn's and got his bearings
for town following the line. Had he
happened to have gone between two
telephone poles he would have contin-
ued northwest until he struck the rail
road track, which would have been
several miles further. All that saved
| the doctor was the fact that the wind
did not change direction, which is
something unusual of a blizzard. His
face was quite badly frosted and his
feet chilled.
In the January 29th, 1907, issue
of the Northwestern Reporter is found
the decision of the supreme court of
the state of Wisconsin in the case of
| State ex rel: Dithmar VS.. Bunnell. This
case is of interest to our readers be-
cause it is directly in line with the
case of Healy VS.. Hardy, a case
brought to determine the right to the
| office of county commissioner of the
9Th district. The Wisconsin case
was an action brought by Dithmar to
contest the right of Bunnel to the of
fee of county judge of Juneau coun-
ty. AS in the case. recently decided
by Judge Whiting, it was admitted
that the defendant had secured the
greatest number of votes. The con-
test hinged on the claim that the
nomination was not according to law.
The court found hat the claim of the
defective nomination was a fact, but
held that SO long as the objection had
not been made until after the election
it was too late for the plaintiff to seek
a remedy, which if granted, would
nullify the choice of the voters. In
the decision the court quotes from a
New York case which says: The OBJ.
iect OF elections is to ascertain the will
of the people and not to thwart it. =
4 x The votes of innocent electors
are not invalidated by Irregularities
on unauthorized acts on the part of
public officers charged with the duty
of preparing and printing official bal
lots when no irregularity or want of
authority appears on the face of the
ballots" Another claim of the plain
tiff, Dithmar, in the Wisconsin case
was that in signing the nominating
petition many of the signers had in
dicated their place of residence and
occupation by ditto marks" Speak
ing of this feature the court said: