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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
TAKING TESTIMONY IN
TELEPHONE CONTROVERSY

Vcrmillion, S. D., Sept. 1.-The at
tempt of the City of Vermillion to
GUST the Northwestern Telephone COM
pany from it's streets and alleys has
proceeded to the third stage-that of
taking evidence before Referee John L.
Jolley, appointed by Federal Judge
Garland. The Northwestern company
asked in September, 1905, for a renewal
Of the franchise to conduct a local eX-
change, which the city refused to give
without certain compensation to the
city. The company then claimed that
the ordinance allowing the long dis
lance Enc to pass through the city
was in fact a franchise In perpetuation
for local business. The company Sc
cured an order from Judge Garland
restraining the city from removing
poles Cnd wires from the streets. and
appointed referees in Vermillion and
St. Paul to take testimony In the case.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
BURGLAR ATTACKS %.
WOMAN IN HOME,
BUT IS CAPTURED

Emery, S. D., Sept. Awakening TO
find a burglar standing beside her was
the experience of Mrs. F. f. Taylor,
wife Of a we'll known farmer whose
home is south of this place. Mr.. Taylor
was away from home at the time, but
her father, Chas. Majerus, was staying
In the house for the night.
When Mrs. Taylor retired she left a
light burning. About ] O'Clock in the
morning she vas awakened by
one touching her face. She instantly
noticed that the light had been extin-
guished, and greatly frightened she
screamed for her father. The latter
heard her cries and promptly respond
ed, reaching the scene IN time to at
tempt to grasp the intruder as he was
making his escape. The burglar soon
shook himself loose from the grasp of
the old man, and dealing him a blow
which rendered him partially uncon-
scious made his oscar from the house.
In the scuffie the burglar lost his cap.
The alarm was given the officers, who
the next morning tracked the burglar
to a strawstack, where he was found
asleep and minus q cap. He was
promptly placed under arrest. The
prisoner gave his name as Andrew
Smith, and states that his home is at
st. Paul, MINI. In default of bonds In
the sum OF $500 he a been placed in
the county Jail pending his trial at the
next term OF state circuit court In Han
son county on the charge OF burglary.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
10" LEARNING
LESSON OF THRIFT;
SECURING LAND

Pierre, S. T., Sept. 1.-ColOnel J. D.
Deets, special %allotting agent for the
Indian department, is here arranging
to move his family to Pierre. During
the past year Colonel Deets made the
allottmcnts on the Crow Creek and
Lower Brule reservations and as o
as he completed that work he was
ordered to the Cheyenne reservation.
He made 4S0 allotments or the Crow
creek and 270 on the Lower Brule. This
covered practically all the good land
on beth reservations. His work on tho
Cheyenne will be much greater as there
are 1000 applications on file for allot-
meats. Colonel Deets say that the re-
will be opened to settlement the latter
part Of next year and that there will
be a tract equal to 6S civil townships
or $4,000 acres. The Indians are
rapidly getting onto the ways of the
white mar in the selection OF lands.
Formerly, many OF them would select
their allotments In what are called the
breaks along the streams. but now
they are making their selections from
among the best and most productive
tracts, so that the land will bring top
prices on the market. Many who took
land a few years ago among the breaks
are now changing, as they see there
is more money in IL. AS an Illustration
Of how much there is in 1t for some
of the Indian families, Colonel Deets
stated tina he recently allotted to Iron
Lightning and his three wives and six
children q tract OF 5000 acres OF the
finest land on the Cheyenne reserva-
ton which as soon as the reservation
is opened to settlement will readily sell
for $48, 900,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
SOUTH DAKOTA
NEWS NOTES


In Lead the socialists are challenging
the democrats and republicans to joint
debates.
Blue stem and Scotch hfe wheat
thEeshed around Bath is yielding from
IL to Is bushels tc the acre.
The Yankton Herald is expecting 100,-
900 persons to register for the drawing
for Trip county lands. These lands
will be pen for settlement In October.
. Deadwood has a baseball team that
1T isn't safe to fool with. Anyway 1t
is related that the team put a crimp"
in the Lead team and is threatening to
do 1t again.
AT the Pine Ridge agency it is be-
lieVed that another way of making In
dians good than killing them has been
found. Getting them into the church
is producing some satisfactory results.
Deadwood complains of the stealing
of unbranded cattle almost within the
city limits" One way to stop the
stealing within the city limits would
be for Deadwood to cease making the
city a cattle range.
The Pierre Capital-Journal IS calling
on the voters to save the divorce in
dustry by voting against the new di-
vorce law. The Capital-Journal says
that this thing is more significant
than people think" Evidently 1t is
more significant than the Capital-Jour-
nal is thinking.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
RACEY ARRAIGNED FOR
STEWARDS MURDER

Huron, s.. D., Aug. 29.-Louis Racey
has been arraigned before Justice Ged-
dis in this city charged with the
murder of George l.. Stewart at Wolsey
the night previous. Racey waived ex-
animation and is in Jail here awaiting
trial at the December term OF circuit
court. He gives his place Of residence
as Kansas City, Mo, but declined to
make any statement concerning him
self or family. At the inquest in VOL
sey 1t developed a Racey was tramp
Ing the country in company with
half a dozen others and had worked q
day or two on a farm near that place.
He claims no knowledge OF the MUIR
der, but admits that the hat found
under Stewards body belonged to him
and that he and Stewart had been
drinking heavily and quarreled. Furth-
er than this he a no recollection. The
evidence against Racey is very strong,
his hands and overalls being marked
with blood. Stewards body showed
signs of. brutal treatment, the throat
bore finger marks and numerous
abrasions Of the skin, while the face
raj battered and a wound was found
in the head. Stewart was a plasterer
and formerly worked in Bookings,
but his people are supposed Il reside
somewhere in Illinois, their where
abouts being unknown. An insurance
policy for $500 was found on his per-
SON, but no money was found.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
NEW LAW BUILDING
IS NEARLY COMPLETED

-Nernillion, s.. D., Aug. Silt is eX-
pected that the college OF law building,
for which the South Dakota legislature
appropriated $50, 600, will be ready for
occupancy shortly after the opening of
the fall term. Before the plans were
drawn, Dean Sterling, with the super
vising architect, Joseph Swarz. of Sioux
Falls, visited the principal university
law school buildings of the middle west.
AS q result the building IS perhaps the
handsomest architccturally to be found
In any OF the states institutions. Tie
exterior OF tho building is CT Bedford
stone. In 1t are 2 suite Of administra-
tive Offices for the dean, q fire proof
vault for preserving records, an as
sembly room seating 200. a moot court
room with all tho convcniences Of q
well equipped court, a large library
room, consultation rooms for students
and their clients, and literary society
rooms. The building will not only in
crease accommodations but extend the
course, especially in moot court prac-
tice. The faculty will continue sub
stantial!y as heretofore, with the ex-
ception that the department Of medical
Jurisprudence will be greatly strength
med.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
NO TRACE OF EDDY,
THE MISSING GROOM

Wooster, Ohio, Sept. THE mystery
surrounding the disappearance OF Ralph
w. Eddy, travelling salesman for the
New York and Chicago concern, who
failed to he here for his marriage to
Miss Lucy Warren last Saturday night,
has not been cleared.
Captain Il. E. Eddy, father of the
young man, thinks his son wandered
off while mentally irresponsible from
intense heat and sudden attack Of
Cuban fever. He places hut little cred
enCe H. the theory hat his son might
have been killed by friends of New
York highwaymen who wanted him out
Of rho way because OF testimony he
would give against the robbers. The
old gentleman said his sen had spoken
OF fear that friends Of thugs might
do him harm, but after being trans
ferred from New York to Chicago no
never spoke If the matter again.
Ralph Eddy has 81 100 on deposit in
a Chicago banK n nc check has Luen
drawn against his account since he dis
appeared.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
MCCLELLAN ESTATE
BECOMES PROPERTY
or SOUTH DAKOTA
In Litigation for Nine Years
and All Claimants Have
Failed to Make Case.

Sioux Falls. s. D., Sept. 2.--After be-
fns contested in the courts for prac-
tically nine years and furnishing m
ployment for a small army or attor-
neys in the interest Of various claim
ants. the estate OF John Mcclellan, mas
been declared by Judge Whiting, of the
Ninth district, to be the property OF
the state.
John Mcclellan, an eccentric citizen
Of Irish descent, was killed whlle
descending an elevator In van
Epps block In this city n
evening in the year 1899. He had rooms
in the block, was Of q convivlal nature,
and was supposed to have staggered or
fallen in such manner as to run his
head into the framework OF the ele-
vator, where It was crushed. n ne
died without leaving a will.
So far as known he was a oacneIor'
without near kin in any part of h
world. but since his death, when 1t be-
came known that he had left an estate
worth from 1876, 900 to $50, 1000, there have
been wives, sons daughters, nephews,
nieces and cousins from first to fourth
degree making claim to his estate
through a relationship which has failed
to bear the investigation brought III the
courts.
Ireland, England, Australia and
Canada have been ransacked by attor-
neys for relatives who have been found
In numerous quantity, only to have
their claims disregarded by the courts.
The supreme court has been called upon
but in no case have the claims OF heirs
found force enough to open the treasure
box of the eccentric old bachelor, and
with no claimants now in sight, the es-
tate is declared to be the property OF
the state.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
WHAT WAS DONE
s. -. WITH $31 GIFT

Elk Point, S. D., Aug. 28.County SUI
p~erintendent H. e. French has Just
finished making up the libraries for
Union county and is sending them to
the rural and small graded schools as
rapidly as possible. The library fund
10 cents per pupil-was increased this
year by $S1 from an unknown source.
making the fund $780,, the largest since
the law vent into effect. Last Thanks
giving some unknown party sent from
Sioux City $31 in currency to Superin-
tendent French with this line: Use
for the schools of your county" Mr..
French deposited the money with Coun-
'ty Treasurer Weber for the library
fund, n 1t has been used for the
benefit Of the small schools. The books
are most excellent this year. two be-
ing especially worthy of mention
Birds of the Northwest" by a South
Dakota author. Chas. E. Holmes. or
Sioux Falls, and louisiana Purchase
by Hitchcock. These books have gone
into every library in the county.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
BIG GsAlA CROP
IN SOUTH DAKOTA

Sioux Falls, 8. d., Aug. 31.-Decid :
eddy encouraging reports are being re-
ceived from scores OF points in tho
state in reference to~the volume and
character Of the grain crop. While in
some few localities hailstorms injured
the crops to some extent, and rust
caused slight damage in others, the
crop in general is a big one-better
than ever raised in the state before.
Corn is far advanced and u week
or two OF warm weather will place 1t
beyond danger from frost. Those who
have kept in close touch with the corn
situation express the opinion that fully
75 per cent OF the crop in South Dakota
will have matured by September 10,
and that the remainder will be out Of
danger not more than a week later.
In many OF the southern counties,
such as Bon Homme, where corn is the
principal crop, the crap Is reported to
be an immense n in fact, the lest
ever raised in South Dakota. Fields OF
corn which will yield 100 bushels to
the acre will be common in South Da-'
kota this fall.
All speculation as to how small grain
has yielded in the state now is at an
end, for threshing machines are telling
their story. With favorable weather
all threshing will be completed well in
advance OF severe cold weather. Ow-
Ing to the moist condition of the
ground, due to recent rains, many
farmers have taken time by the fore
lock n already nave their fall plow-
ing well under way.
Spring wheat Is yielding all the way
from 10 to IS bushels 20 the acre. Some
winter wheat threshed. over 40 bushels
to the acre. Barley and fax are good
RODS, -
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
PROBE THE AWFUL
MINING ACCIDENTS
-------s
Experts Will Spend Some Time
Investigating Causes OF Ex-
plosions in Shafts.

Pitt5hurg, Aug. ga conference
dealing with mining conditions existing
in the United States and the great
number Of fatalities resulting from
mine accidents is being held here. VIC
tor Watteyne, chief Of the Belgian de-
partment mines, who arrived here yes
terday from New York, as the guest OF
h United States government is con-
ferring with Clarence Hall, Of the
United States geological survey, in
charge of the government experimentaE
station here, and j. w. Paul. chief of
n department of mines of West Vir-
ginia. 800
A thorough investigation of the re-
cent mine disasters at Monongahela, w.
va Jacobs Creek, Pa, Fayette City.
will be made. Captain Desbor-
rougE, OF England, Herr Meissner, OF
germany, mining experts. will toin
Wasteyne. in h investigation for which
congress appropriated $3.50, 900.
The abandoned mine at Hanna. wyo.
where 20 miners met death also wili
DE visited. Slight weeks will be spent
in investigation in this country.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03

A curious court story went the rounds
little time ago about a lovely for,
eigner, one of whose verbal slips gave
King Edward occasion for a hearty
laugh. A very lively parsonage, with q
delightful accent, she made such a ia
vorabie impression upon the king that
he asked her to be his partner at bridge.
tBut, sir she said. 81 really don't know
how to play" The king would take
no denial, however, and she became
rather embarrassed. IT assure you, sir"
she said, II could not think of playing.
i don't know the difference between
a king and a knave." There was an
awkward silence and then she realized
what she had said and was covered
with confusion. The king laughed it
on, and now tells the story with gusto.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
FREDERIcksoN's SLAYER
CAUGHT IN THE HILLS

Spearfish, S. D., Aug. 31.--After hid
ing in the hills for three weeks, Charles
Hayes, alias William Dunn, has been
captured by four farmers northeast OF
Sturgis and will be returned here to
answer to the charge of numbering
Samuel Frederickson.
He was captured while catching
grasshoppcrs with which to angle for
fish in the Belle Fourche river. When
surrounded he swallowed the contents
of a two-ounce vial supposed to con-
tain poison, but has experienced no i'll
effects from the dose.
Search for Dunn had been continued
throughout the hills since the time Of
the murder.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
SOUTH DAKOTA NOTES.

The Aberdeen Daily News thinks
that the divorce business has hurt
South Dakota.
They have Indoor outings at Dead
wood to while away the tedious hours
of the dog days.
They stand by the schools at Muir
do. Only n vote was asst recently
against a proposal to issue bonds for.
a new building. .
Can it be that there are places to
which the fame of Uncle John d. has
never yet penetrated? Anyway, the
Deadwood Telegram asks which is the
better, to work the people or to work
for them.
There is going to be no scarcity of
teachers in South Dakota. According
to the Pierre Capital and Journal, the
papers 'of the recent teachers examin-
atoms indicate that the total number
OF applicants exceeds LOO, an increase
Of 40 per cent over any preceding ex-
minaUio .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
new TOWN SITES
TO BE LOCATED
IN TRIP COUNTY
Speculation as TO Location Of
County Seat Will Interest
Town Site Men.

Gregory, S. D.. Sept. THE opcu-
county will bring in q million acres OF
as fine land as can be found In one
body anywhere In the world. The
country Is gently undulating and COW
cred with buffalo and salt grasses, The
soil is deep, rich, black loan, very pro
ductive and very fertile and will grow
tremendous crops. The country is well
NIatercd by mere than a dozen large
creeks and the Keya Paha n White
rivers and has an ratnfall.
Decided land in Trip county Is now
selling at from SIS to $50 per acre, with
no improvements. The price from the
government for the lands to be opened
to settlement will be S. per acre for all
land filed upon prior to June i. 4
1t is needless TO say that the opening
Of Tripp county to homestead settle
ment will create the greatest land rush
in the history Of the United States.
This will be II OF the last chances
for a poor man TO secure n farm and
home which is certain to make him a
fortune in a few years.
Al the same time that this vast body
Of land Is thrown ope to homestead
ers. the government Will also locate
and survey several new townsttes, one
OF which will be the county seat OF the
new county soon to be organized. and
sell the lots al auction. It is thought
these townsites will be located along
the line which will be followed by the
Northwestern railroad when they be-
gin the construction of this branch on
through to the Black Hills. It Is eX-
pected that large numbers OF invest
ors will secure locations in these new
towns and that two or three of them
will be cities of a couple of thousand
inhabitants as soon as opened. Par
ticularly will the county seat of the
new county spring into prominence as
"a vOung municiDalitY.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
BOY THROWN FROM WAGON
is SERIOUSLY INJURED

Trickle sold his farm, the old Fits
homestead, south of town, last week
TO Ed Torkelson for $50 per acre. Mr.
Torkelson to take possession March
i next
Emil Miller, IA years old. son of
Alex Miller, a prominent farmer and
stock man, was thrown out of a hay
rack recently, several ribs being broken
and internal injuries will also be sus-
tanned. He is recovering.
L. G.. Kallstrom, a prominent farmer
near town, has purchased $50 acres of
land near Mandan. N. D., and has rent
ed two sections of nice land for a
number of years besides and will go
into the cattle business quite extern
sively.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
FARMER CARRIERS 10000
BUSHELS or SMALL GRAIN

Bridgewater. S. d.. Sept. 2.-John
Biever, a prominent farmer, residing
near town has just finished ~threshing
his crop Of small grain which amounted
to 10000 bushels, his wheat averaging
IS bushels per acre and barley 40 bush
els per acre, with a light yield of oats.
Mr.. Biever is thinking seriously of
erecting an elevator for his WI pri-
vate use.
In the person Of Aaron Kelly, Bridge
water lays claim to the oldest person In
this (McCook) county. Mr. Kelly will
be 81 years old on his next birthday.
and Is unusually active for one of his
age. Recently he vas engaged in build
ing q fence around some town property
which he owns.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03

From time out OF mind, says the ia
pan Times, certain devotees OF that
country ave visited a celebrated tenn
pie at Martha twice a year to per-
form the pious act OF fasting within
its sacred precincts. A fasting hall"
has been specially erected for their
accommodation and the number enter
Ding this hall is on the increase. Those
who have already tasted in the fast
dng chamber this year number 226 men
and 80 women. OF the whole number
s69 tasted less than a week, ia tasted
one week, 10 continued fasting two
weeks, IA tasted three weeks and one
went without food for five weeks.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03

Down in Alabama" said John d.
Fearhake, there's a deputy marshal
who does not let any such triies as
extradition laws stop him. Term OF
court was about to begin at n times
and a gentleman who was out on bail
was reported to be enjoying himself
over in Georgia. Deputy Jim went,
after him. Next day he t~elegraphed'
the Judge: i have persuaded him to
come, Al few days later he rode into
town on a mule, leading his prisoner,
tied up snugly with a c~lothesline. The
prisoner looked as II he had seen hard
service. Why, for heavens sake, jim,
said the Judge, you didn't make him
walk all the way from Georgia, did
your No, sir said Jim. I hope not
said the Judge. No. said Jim, part OF
the way / drug him and when we came
to the Tallapoosa river he swum.'"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03

In Southwest bay. IN the New He
brides group, there ~ a small wooded
lisland OF considerable height above the
eea, although only a few hundred yards
An circumference. The story of its &C
sQuisition is a curious one. Southwest
bay used to be considered a good place
FOR target practice by the British men
of raj on patrol duty there, and this
small islet was used as a target so
frequently that il seemed in danger of
being gradually shot away. The chief
compensation. The captain OF a nan
of war, who understood n natives,
knew that these claims would be a
ceaseless source OF blackmail unless
they were settled n for all; so he
bought the island for h British
crown, paying 10 sticks of tobacco for
81, and everyone "a satisfied. The
place since hen has been known as
Ten Stick Island"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03
WoMEN's FEDERATION
NAMES NEW OFFICERS

Pierre, s. D.. Aug. 31.-The South
Dakota Federation OF Women's clubs
completed the selection of officers to-
day, the list being: President, Mrs.
Johnson, of Fort Pierre: vice president,
Mrs. MCGEE, Of Rapid City; recording
secretary, Mrs, Hoover, of Gettysburg;
corresponding secretary, Miss Hall, of
Milbank; treasurer. Mrs. Anderson. Of
Webster; auditor, Mrs. Hendricks, of
Sioux Falls: eastern division CORE
spOndent, Mrs. Fairbanks, Of Huron;
western division correspondent, Mrs.
Hyey, of Bonesteel; general federation
secretary, Mrs. S~tutenroth. of Water
town.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-09-03

Europe is growing colder, says NJ.
Camille Flammarion, the French as
stronomer. He declares that from actual
figures recently obtained he has be-
come certain that the temperature OF
Europe has been falling. France has
been suffering for a long time from
ar excess of cold weather, the tenn
perature at Paris having been 1 de-
gree below the normal. Other read
1ngs show even less favorable re-
suits. The fall is more noticeable in
the spring than at other periods Of the
year. Similar conditions are recorded
an England, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Aus
lfria and Germany,