The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-03-12
SOUTH DAKOTA
General State News
Photographed.


Prof. James H. Shepherd of the
| South Dakota agricultural college al
Brookings has started for London
England, in response to a c~ablegram
| from a royal committee having under
investigation the bleached -four made
by the modern mills.
Gov. Vessey sen to the senate the
names of John l.. Jones Of Madison,
for public examiner; Thomas H.
Hicks of Milbank, for state veterin-
arian; C. NJ. Hopkins o. Aberdeen, for
hotel inspector; c. H.. Englesby OF
Watertown for adjutant general.
Caroline Wells, a domestic, was
found dead in her bed at the home
Of Mrs. F. Pfeifer at Aberdeen, where
she was employed. A~sphyxiatiOn from
Illuminating gas was the cause OF her
death. The girl came to Aberdeen
from Milbank a week ago. 1t was an
accident.
There was a change in the official
force at the government land Office
in Pierre the first of March. Messrs.
H. E. Cutting, and A. Wheelon, who
have been in have been in charge for
a little more than eight years. retiring
to give way for J. l.. Lockhart and d.
Wy NIarob tho uauy oDDOiDtapc tO tho
heads of the different departments of
the Office.
The state supreme court dismissed
all the cases brought in that court un-
der the 2-cent fare law, with the ex-
ception of those against the Great
Northern railroad and the South Da-
kota Central road, which lines were
not joined in the suit in the United
States court. These cases are set for
hearing at the October term of the su-
preme court.
At the present rate Of sinking ar
tesian wells in Stanley county, that
county will soon rival some of the
eastern counties of the state in its
number. Many of the ranches are
now supplied with flowing water. and
as all the wells bear gas the fuel
matter Is made a much more simple
one that it was in hauling the sup
ply long distances.
.
DR.. G. P. Farnsworth, the head of the
Chamberlain sanitarium is in Pierre
eminent school at that place If the
state declines to accept it as a state
school, it will be placed on the mar
ket, and an organization of the Sew
enth Day Adventists are ready to bid
it in and establish a school Of their
own at the place.
Jim Smith and j. 3. Watson, both
Iowa men, drew terms in the county
Jail at Yankton. Smith mistook a
heavy metal folding funeral truck for
a modern folding baby cart and lug
ged it of, only discovering his mis-
take when the weight, sixty pounds,
began to dawn on him. Watson was
arrested at the same time for steal
ing an overcoat.
A press brick, stone and concrete
building, two stories in height, and
50x125 feet in length, will be con
structed at Huron as soon as weather
permits, by the Haley & Lang Fruit
company. The building will be used
as a wholesale fruit house and will
cost about $4,000. 1t will be entirely
frost proof and especially equipped
for the purpose for which it Is intend.
ed.
:
John Lynch, a wealthy land dealer
of Emmetsburg, Iowa, died in the
county Jail in WATERFOWL. He came
here three weeks ago to look after
his business interests and 1t is said
began drinking heavily. He was lock
ed in jail Saturday night and became
II. widow and " children hhiaFFen sur
vive. Mr.. Lynch was forty-nine years
old and was well known among the
land men of the Northwest.
Ex-Secretary Wipf has written tina
he is perfectly willing to have the
amount In dispute in regard to tn,
branch fund submitted to the at
torney general, and in Ease that OF
fetal holds that he Is not legally en-
titled to 1t he will at once return /
to the state treasury, but individual,
he believes that he was fully entitle,
to It, or he would never have takeI
it
Mountain lions whose depreciation
are becoming TOO frequent to be com
Portable, are at present holding tn,
attention Of the residents of the Blacl
Hills. The lions have so tar confine,
their meals to chickens, Gals an,
other small live stock. but as seyera
Of the animals have come almost int,
town and seem unusually bold, hun,
ing parties are being organized to ri,