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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
HUNTING CACHE
OF GOLDEN COIN
ON CHOTEAU CREEK
Search for Buried Treasure
Recalls Nebraska Bank Rob-
berry Of 90 Years Ago.

Geddes, s. D., June 8.-A resident of
Charles Mix county who does not wish
his name made public is engaged In an
interesting search for buried treasure
and is quite hopeful that he will sue
coed In finding a cache" of $1,000 In
deposited in the ground years ago.
The hunter of the buried treasure
does not wish his name made public
for fear he viii fail to discover the
hidden gold and be subjected to banter
ing on the part of those who know
him. The present search being made
by him and two assistants for the treas
ure is due to the revival of an old
story concerning how the treasure hap
pened to be buried and abandoned in
Charles Mix county,
The story, which has been In circula-
ton among pioneer residents along the
Missouri river since early days. is to the
effect hat in the spring of 1885 q dar-
ing bank robbery took place at Nor
have secured the $1,000 I'm gold COIN. A
posse was soon on the track Of the, rob-
bers. who headed northward toward the
Missouri river and what is now South
Dakota.
The robbers are alleged to have crossed
the Missouri river to South Dakota,
entering the state at the mouth of
SuOlCdu SACChV u AAAoA hb AK 1ShAAN
airy of the lower portion of Charles Mix
county. Being hard pressed by their
pursuers after crossing the Missouri
river they decided Ii would be best
to cache" their loot, and accordingly
they appropriated a spade at the ranch
of Case Conger, a well known pioneer
resident of the Missouri river section
OF Charles Mix county, and buried the
gold near the roots Of q lone tree, which
was supposed to stand at a point >bout
three miles north of the Conger ranch.
Hearing the old story the resident
of Charles Mix county referred to de-
cided to make a search for h treasure.
The land upon which the gold is sup
posed to be hidden now belongs to q
Yankton Sioux Indian, but he gave his
consent to the search being made after
being given a liberal sum by h man
who hopes to find the gold. The search
now is being prosecuted with Vigor and
will not be abandoned until several
acres Of ground have been carefully
dug UP. 49,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
LOOK UP ON STARS;
DOWN ON THE RAIN
Novel Impressions of Balloonist
in Flight From Illinois
to South Dakota.

Chicago, June "Details Of his jour-
ney by balloon from Quincy, ILL.,, to
Clear Lake. s. D., were related today
by Charles A. Corey: .
las we assembled slowly the earth APP
peared to drop gradually below u.s."
he said. 1T was the prettiest picture I
ever saw. We rose at once to a height
of about 1000 feet and began sailing
ut the rate Of almost 70 miles an hour.
I'm the evening we fioated up above a
rain storm. 1t was raining below U.S.,
while the stars were shining above us.
We seemed to pass over oceans OF
clouds.
About l o'clock in the morning we
struck a current of cold air, which
chilled the gas bag and caused us to
descend at a rate Of 800 feet a minute.
At times / thought my heart was in my
mouth. We unloaded 1900 pounds Of
ballast, but still kept descending and
nearly touched the ground"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
PEOPLE GET DRUNK
ON WATER, SCIENTIST
TELLS THE DOCTORS

Chicago, June 6. - Water intoxica-
ton, induced by too copions use of
water, externally or internally, was
pointed out last night by DIR. L. D.
Mason, vice-president of the Amer
lean Society for the Study Of Inebri,
city, Alcohol and Drug Neurosis," as
being as dangerous as over-indulgence
In alcohol.
DR.. Mason, a leading physician and
philanthropist of Brooklyn, N. Y, del
egate to the American Medical asso-
citation convention, addressed the in
mates of the Washingtonian Home on
why Men Drink"
II have a friend who is a victim Of
aquamania," he said. HE spends
hours in a bathtub and drinks so much
water that he has reduced the solids
of his body and worked serious injury
to himself.
Many men and women drink too
much water and are victims of that
form Of ~intoxication.
I'VE are all creatures Of habit and
our best men and women are suscep'
tible to habit"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
TWO BOYS DROWNED
IN SWOLLEN STREAM
Raft Capsized in the Floods
One Boy Escapes and Two
Find Watery Graves.

Sioux Falls. 8. D., June 6.--The pres
ent flood In the Big Sioux river and
tributary streams last evening claimed
two victims. In the persons of Leonard
and Otto Anderson, aged Z and II years
respectively, IONS Of George Anderson,
q pioneer resident OF East Sioux Falls.
A boy companion named Leo Barr
saved his life by grasping the limb Of
a submerged tree. to which he man
aged to cling until assistance arrived
and he was rescued from his perilous
position. The two Anderson boys met
their death in the waters Of Split Rock
creek, which flows into the Big Sioux
river just below East Sioux Falls. To
lgether with young Barr, they were pro-
lpelling themselves about the greatly
swollen waters OF the creek on a raft
OF their own construction. The raft
tcapsized and all three were thrown into
the water. The Anderson boys were
carried out into the deepest and swift
est part Of the stream and soon became
exhausted and sunk from eight beneath
the waters OF the creek. .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
CHASTITY DISCOVERY
or MURDERED MAN
Boy Finds Remains of Unknown
Victim Lying Beside the
Railroad Track.

Pierre, s. D., June Ga small boy re-
turning to his home in Fort Pierre,
early in the week, discovered what he
supposed to be a man lying by the side
Of the railroad track which runs along
Bad river. The man had a coat over
his head and. as he did not awaken at
the boys call to him, the lad pulled
the coat from the mans head and dis
covered a frightfully mutilated face,
and hat the man was dead. Running
to the town, he told his grewsome
story. The coroner fastened to the
spot, led by the boy, and discovered the
lads tale true in every detail. AS yet
no name has been found and no marks
of Identification whatever; but IL Is
thought hat the man mel his death in
some kind Of an alteration with
tramps.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
BURGLAR DROPPED
BY BULLET WOUND

Pierre, s. D., June 10.-Early Satur-
day morning a clerk named Guy Moul-
tin was awakened by noises in the
store of Hatch g. Fisher, which Is next
door to the building In which he sleeps.
Feeling that such noises were a little
unusual for hat period of the morn
ing, Moulton crept out of his own
room and peering through one of the
windows in the rear wall, saw a figure
moving rapidly to and fro in the store.
The night police was called and the
robber surrounded. The fellow be-
lieving that the early morning dark
ness would give him sufficient cover
in which to make his escape, made a
bold dash for his liberty. The night
policeman was not to be cheated Of his
catch and followed the thief with bull
let's singing around his ears. A last
and we'll aimed shot from the revolver
of the policeman caught the flying rob
Der in the back Of the neck. He
dropped and was taken to the city Jail
for medical attention. Later reports
have 1t that he will live to pay for his
crime Of arceny.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
IOWA MAN FATALLY
STABBED AT ABERDEEN

Aberdeen, S. D.. June s. - A young
man named Howell lies at the point Of
death at the hospital in this city, the
victim OF an attack by a colored man
Just outside the city limits. He was
stabbed in the back, just below the
right shoulder blade, and 1t is thought
the knife penetrated the lung. Nothing
is known as to the cause of the attack,
for the victim is unconscious. The
negro made his escape, but 1t Is be-
lieved he will be caught, for h entire
country In this vicinity has been noti-
fed and all suspects will be arrested on
sight. The victims father lives at Os-
kaloosa, Ia, and he has been notified
Of his sons condition. An arrest was
made here within an hour Of h stab
bling, but the negro proved an alibi and
has been released. A negro has been
arrested at James and the sheriff has
gone there to get the
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
MlLTIAMAN KILLED
IN 4 SHAM BATTLE
Falls on Bayonet While Scaling
Wall and Receives Wound
Which Proves Fatal.

Brookings, S. D., June 10:-Captain
Robert Watson, Of Company b at the
state college, diec yesterday at 3
o'clock as the result of a bayonet
wound received during a sham battle
at the college.
Captain watson led the advancing
company over an 1S-foot wall In the at
tack on a party of skirmishers. In
scaling the wall the young man dropped
onto q fixed bayonet held in the hands
Of one OF his w men. The sharp
weapon went into his body just above
the crotch. and although at the time
the wound was believed to be only a
flesh wound, It proved to be fatal. Only
his splendid courage and physique KEPT
him alive until yesterday.
Believing the wound to be slight the
sham battle was continued. and only
upon operating was the seriousness OF
the injury found.
Hundreds Of spectators who were
present on account of 1t being visitors
day at the college, witnessed the acct
dent, which is the first Of this nature
ever occurring in the military depart
ment. s
The body will be shipped to his home
at Mitchell, and a number of his junior
schoolmates will accompany his par.
ents, who arrived la night.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
WIFE OF MILLIONAIRE
ASKS A DIVORCE

Sioux Falls, s. D., June 10.-From
wife of the president OF the ship-build-
ing trust and of the Trust Company OF
the Republic in New York City and a
life Of luxury in the most exclusive So
ciety set Of the metropolis. Mrs. Daniel
Leroy Dresser has come to Sioux Falls
to obtain a divorce and At herself for
q position as st~enographer.
From her mansion in New York
City, Mrs. Dresser has come to live In
the famous divorce house" of Sioux
Falls, a comfortable but not elegant
home on Grange ,.r
Shortly after her arrival in Sioux
Falls, May /, Mrs. Dresser applied for
admission to the Sioux Falls Business
college and has been in constant at
tendance there ever since.
she Is one of my most apt pupils"
said Prof. G. c. Christopherson. Il
have been surprised by the ~quickness
with which she picks up her work. !
did not know who she was when she
applied. She has never told me wheth-
er she wanted to be a stenographer,
but by the earnestness with which she
is learning shorthand and typewriting,
] Judge that is her intention
Mrs. Dresser's presence in Sioux
Falls was discovered accidentally.
Her name a been kept out of the
telephone book, she gets her mail in a
box at the postoffice and she has not
made acQuaintances, all in the hope of
keeping her presence from becoming
known.
A reporter had called at the home of
Mrs. w. Barley Henry of Philadel-
phia, another very prominent divorce
here. He "a talking with her on the
porch a handsome woman, attired I'm
an elegant blue lace coat. When she
left she carried Mrs. Henry's two-year-
old baby girl a block, hugging and
kissing the youngster all the while.
That is my only friend in Sioux
Falls" said Mrs. Henry. She is Mrs
Dresser Of New York. Why don't you
go to see her"
And a moment later she recalled that
Mrs. Dresser was avoiding publicity
and would say no more about her.
Mrs. Dresser attempted to obtain a
decree OF separation from her husband
at New York in 1907, but did not press
the case. Her husband failed trying
to float the securities of the American
Shtpbuilding company. He is a broth
er Of the wife of George w. Wander
bilt, of Mrs. Nicholas Brown, mother
of Newport's &c. 900, 900 baby, OF
Countess DOsmay of Paris, and OF
Rev. G.. G.. Merrill of Tuxedo.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
BOX CAR FULL OF
CHINAMEN STRUGGLED
IN FROM MEXICO

San Francisco, Cal, June 8.-When
a sealed box car which had apparently
come intact from Galveston, Tex,
was opened In the yards, 16 half
starved Chinese were found in addi-
ton to half a load Of heavy steel.
The car was ten days on the road
and had been In the yards for AZ
hours. The Chinese had a little water
and a few crackers left, but were weak
and hollow eyed. One Of them showed
a certiicGte emitting him to admission
to the country, but the others were
turned over to the immigration author
tiles. 1t is supposed by the officials
that the men were struggled across
the Mexican border and placed in
the car at Ell Paso, Tex, the seals
of the car being replaced with others.
There evidently was an arrangement
for their release here, but in some
way It miscarried.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
$4,000 WASH0UT
NEAR hot SPRINGS
Second Flood Within a Week
Carries Out Bridges and
Ties UP Railways.

Hot Springs, s.. D., June S.-Another
big rainstorm and washout occurred
here yesterday and the Northwestern
and Burlington railroads between here
and Buffalo Gap. and Minnekahta are
still impossible. 1t Is estimated that
the loss to these railroads with their
telegraph lines will reach 5000 0 in loss
Of traffic and damage to the road beds
before they will operate trains again.
The damage to streets and bridges here
I'm Hot Springs will be from $4,000 to
$10,0 600 and a public meeting was called
by Mayor Bentley for last evening to
devise means for raising money to re-
pair them. Passengers and mail are be-
ing carried by team between here and
Buffalo Gap and Minnekahta. 1t is
said 1t will be two weeks before the
railroads are in shape for business
again,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
BARROW APPEALS FOR
FREEMAN KNOWLES

Deadwood. S. d., June 6.-Clarence
Darrow, who won for himself a record
in the defense of Haywood, Meyer and
Pettibone in the Governor "Steunenberg
murder case and more recently in the
case against Editor Warren of the "Ap-
peal to Reason" case in the federal
court, will defend Editor Freeman
Knowles of the Lantern" in the United
States court of Appeals. The editor
awaits the perfecting OF his appeal to
the Court of Appeals in the Pennington
county jail at Rapid City rather than
pay the fine of $500 imposed upon him
by Judge Garland in the United States
court now in session in Deadwood. A
committee composed of delegates Sc
lected from the various labor organiza-
lions of the Black Hills went to Rapid
City to confer with the editor and plan
for the defense in the higher court.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
FIRST MUNICIPAL COURT
ESTABLISHED IN STATE

Watertown, S. D., June 6.-By a ma
jority of % in a vote of SS4 Irwin Myers
was yesterday elected to the Office of
municipal Judge of this city, and when
he takes the oath of office July l, will
be the first and only judge Of this
rank in South Dakota. The new court
abolishes the old police court and all
justice courts within the city, and ranks
next to the circuit court in judicial i'm
portance having jurisdiction owe the
whole county and in all civil cases
where the amount involved does not ex-
coed $500. The expense of the court is
shared alike by the city and county,
and is expected to shorten the regular
terms of the circuit court.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
"BREWSTER'S MILLIONS"
COULDN'T HOLD HER

Sioux Falls, s. D., June 10.-Mrs.
Franklin Brewster, whose husband is
a millionaire OF Rochester, N. Y, has
been granted a divorce here and left
two days ago for the home of her SON.
inlaw, Senator Frelinghausen Of New
Jersey. Senator Kittredge was her at
torney. Mrs. Brewster has told here
that h might marry an attache of
the king of Greece. Her daughters,
Mrs. Ashton knight Of Paris and Mrs.
Frelinghausen. were presented at the
Grecian court and at that time Mrs.
Brewster met the court Official. II she
marries him she will become a laSy-
~in-waiting on the queen.
Mrs. Brewster's son, Franklin Brew
ster, Jr., was a principal in a sensa-
tiopal marriage with Mrs. Julia Baker
last January. Mrs. Brewster said the
match was the direct result Of her in
tercession with departed spirits in a
seance here.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
RECORD BREAKING RAINS
PREVAIL OVER STATE

Huron, S. D., June 5..-Wee&ly wealth
er bulletin for the week sradinE Monday,
June !, 1908:
Unsettled weather with frequent rains
prevailed until Saturday, some places
having precipitation every day during
shat time. The amount of sunshine was
considerably below the normal. On
Tuesday night very heavy rain oc-
cured ove some southeastern coun-
lies, and In places was accompanied by
revere winds which caused local dam
Age to buildings and trees. Hailstorms,
n some o severe, occurred in several
counties in connection with the same
storm. Heavy rains also occurred In
parts of the Sioux river valley on Fri
lay. The soil moisture is sufficient gen.
srally, and in q number If counties
much low land Is too wet.
The mean temperature was below the
iormal, the average daily deficiency be-
ng between 4 and 8 degrees. The maxi
mum temperatures We're below 80 de-
grees, except at Yankton, Yankton
county. and Marion, Turner county,
where 81 and So degrees. respectively,
we're recorded on Tuesday. The mini
part above 40 degrees, the lowest re-
corded being 3S degrees, at Academy,
Charles Mix county, and Clark, Clark
county.
The rainfall averaged considerably
Lbove the normal. While 1t was slight
y below the normal over parts Of the
lpper James river valley, It vas above
the normal elsewhere over the state.
The greatest excess was over an area
af country extending from Charles Mix
county northeastward to Brookings,
Moody and Minnehaha counties. At
several places within this area the pre-.
:ipitatlon exceeded 6 inches.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11

There Is a popular belief that GER
tain trees are less likely than others to
be struck by lightning, and that during
q thunderstorm 1t is quite safe to stand
under q beech, for example, while the
danger under a resinous tree or an oak
Is, respectively Is to 20 times greater.
This Is disputed in a recent writing by
On. A. w. Borthwick in the Notes of
the Royal Botanical Garden, of Edin-
burgh." The doctor says that no tree
Is immune, since lightning will select
one species quite as readily as another,
and the beech Is struck quite as fire.
quently as any other species, Appar-
emily the taller trees in a n~eighborhood
Are the ones most likely to be struck.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
RAILROAD IGNORES ORDER
OF STATE COMMISSION

watertown, s. D.. June s. - Defytng
the South Dakota board Of railway
commissioners and tl.eir authority
given them by the state legislature.
the Great Northern Railway company
has joined an issue by falling to es-
tablish a daily passenger service be-
tween this city and Huron as they were
ordered to do on June / by the commits
eioners.
The order 10 being ignored from all
indications and nothing but the freight
train with the passenger coach at
tached left the WATERFOWL depot for
the west this afternoon, and Agent
Jones says they can learn absolutely
nothing OF any other service to be es-
tablished.
What the next move OF the state
board will be is not known, but II ia
being awaited with much interest by
the affected towns.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
FINED FOR SELLING
ADULTERATED MILK

Huron, S. D., June 5.-A. II. Wheaton,
state dairy commissioner, was in the
city yesterday and caused the arrest
Of John e. Ward, on the charge Of SELL
a dairy farm, which is In charge Of
William Bulls, who has sold large
quantities Of milk to Huron people: A
short time since r. II. Kent became
suspicious that the milk was not strict
ly pure and sent a sample to Commits
sioner Wheaton at Brookings for in
spection, with the result hat that off,
cial reported finding formaldehyde as
q preventative. Following the arrest OF
MI. Ward and Mr.. Bulls they were
taken before Justice Geddis, who im%
posed a fine of 500 each and costs.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11

The announcement that Senior Pedro
Alwarado, the Mexican millionaire land
owner, has given $4,000 900 for the pur-
pose OF aiding poor M~exicans recalls
the facts that he started in life as q
day laborer on a ranch. Born Of hum
BILE parents, Senior Alvarado In his
younger days worked rs a peon, or
common day laborer, on q ranch, but
his honesty and industry earned steady
advancement, and he soon became his
own master and n Of h wealthiest
mensin the country. But he never for.
got his class, and always set himself
to alleviate the none too happy lot of
the peon. tr .4..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11

The great practical utility Of the
magnetic survey made in the Pacific
ocean by the yacht Galilee since 1906 Ii
shown by a new magnetic chart, from
which II appears that the charts prevt-
ously used by navigators In the Pacific
ocean were along some much
traversed routes to the extent OF from
three to five degrees, and the errors at
times were systematic. Errors OF this
magnitude are of importance n prac-
teal navigation, where the indications
pOssible, . .#
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
FEARS RABIES
FROM TURTLE BITE

South Norwalk, Conn, June TO-
Frederick B. Coleman, a newsdealer of
this place, is in fear of rabies from the
bite Of a turtle and intends to undergo
treatment at the Pasteur institute. His
mischievous son, Frederick T. Cole
MAJ, caught a twenty-pound swapping
turtle recently and placed 1t in his
fathers bed for a joke. The turtle more
than acted his part, for when Mr.. Cole
grabbed him by the thumb. The turtle
was being fattened In a barrel for eat.
ing when he suddenly went mad.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
CLOUD BURST FLOODS
HOT SPRINGS COUNTRY

Hot Springs, S. D., June GA cloud
burst Sunday evening demoralized the
railroad and telegraph and telephone
lines entering Hot Springs, and tele-
graph service is only partially restored
today.
Northwestern and Burlington roads by
washouts of track and bridges, the
same damage by the flood to the water,
light and power company, Peoples Tel
ephone company and the city of Hot
Springs will reach about $25, 900.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11

Owing to many swindles perpetrated
recently through forged and stolen let
tiers of introduction, a card Of photo
Pitsburg man has become popular In
that city. Now when the Pittsburgers
friend asks him for a letter Of introduce
tion, he takes the friend to the nearest
photographer and Is photographed with
him In an attitude OF presentation.
Then he writes his note on the picture.
And when it is presented the recipient
has no doubts as to the identity Of his
caller! .l#..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
THIEVES ARRESTED AND
CATTLE RECOVERED

has been made OF the whereabouts of
the 26 head of cattle reported to have
been lost or stolen from the Meier
ranch, in this county. ii
The cattle have been found in North
Dakota and the men who are reputed
to have stolen them have been arrested
and will be returned to face trial. There
is practically a clear case against them
and they will hnd 1t easy to get into
the penitentiary. 4
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-06-11
CHARGES AGAINST BANKER A.
FINALLY DISMISSED

WATERFOWL, S. D., June 6.-After four
trials, two being before the state SUI
preme court, Carl Jackson, former CASH
Ter of the State bank of Clark, was dis
charged by Judge Marquis, and the case
dismissed. MI. jackson was accused
OF making false returns to the state
bank examiner as to the condition of
the bank.