The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1909-05-28

rotary, T. E.. Ferris; treasurer, Mar
tin Larson.
Frank D. Wyman has been appoint
ed steward at the state hospital Tor
the insane in place of j. A. Schleuter
of Aberdeen by the state board OF
charities anu corrections.
Gov. Vessey has issued his procla-
nation fixing July Is as the date OF
election TO rthe organization of Carson
county, which was created at the last
session of the Legislature.
A verdict of acuuittal was returned
at Sioux Falls in the case of Milo B.
Slime, charged with manslaughter in
the second degree in connection with
the death of Mrs. William Crooks.
Milwaukee officials estimate that
200, 900 people will pass through Aber-
deem this season on their way to the
Seattle exposition, and to the western
country between Aberdeen and the
coast.
Work has commenced at Esmond
on the laying of several miles of &C.
ment sidewalks which will take the
place of the board walks which have
done duty since the town came into
existence.
The Chilson Grain company's ele-
vator and the Potter & Garrick ele-
vator at Butler were destroyed by fire
last week. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. There was much grain in
the structures.
1t is rumored that a representative
of Butter Bros, Chicago and Mime
apolis wholesalers, was In Aberdeen
looking for a building in which to es-
tablish a branch of their wholesale
establishments.
Articles Of incorporation were filed
for the State Bank of Crandon, with a
capital of $4,000. Incorporators: G.
A. Kleppin, C. W. Perkins, e. G. Per-
kins, w. E. Perkins of Frankfort, j.
w. Pritzkau of Redfield.
G. l. Bowe, manager Of the Huron
Electric company, has sold the plant
to Coler Campbell, by which it passes
to the control of the Huron Gas COM
pany. A twenty years franchise has
been granted by the city council.
States Attorney Mick and Deputy
Sheriff Brown made two raids on al
legged gambling resorts in Meade
county, one at Piedmont and the other
at Sturgls. At both places they are
said to have found men in the act OF
gambling.
A fine bed of clay has been discov-
cred at Alaska in the northern part
of the state, and has been opened up
by a firm which will manufacture
brick and tile. As they get their
power from natural gas secured in the
artesian flow they expect to be able
to develop a good paying business
| with cheap product and power.
| Martin Herman, aged eightythree,
a pioneer resident Of the region north
| east of Trip, in a fit Of temporary
| insanity, committed suicide by cutting
| his throat with a bread knife. He had
| been a sufferer from asthma, and this
and the fear that he would never re
| cover caused his mind to become un
settled. He Is survived by hye IONS
and four daughters.
a number of the leading farmers re
siding west of Tabor have organized
a cooperative telephone company. ane
will at once construct a system con
sisting of about thirteen miles of wira
connecting with practically all the
farm houses in a wide extent OF coun
try and extending to Tabor. The sys
tenn will prove of great benefit to thu
farmers who are pushing d prUJsct
H. ]. Reed of Faulkton owes hi:
life and the lives Of his family to hi
faithful dog. Reed had a CHECKER
brooder in his kitchen. The broodel
was warmed by a kerosene lamp
which exploded at night and set thu
house on fire. The dog, which slep
in the house, aroused the family b.
jumping into the bed and scratching
the faces of Mr.. and Mrs. Reed unit
they awoke.
At a meeting OF the stockholders o
the Duluth, Pierre & Black Hills Rail
way company, held at Pierre, Their
was a reorganization in which tn
officers selected were principally Off
cials Of the Minneapolis & st. Loui
Railway company. and II Is general
understood that the system has take
up the project and will make an opel
ating road of the grade between her
and Aberdeen. The president OF th
! new organization Ia George w. See
vers of Minneapolis, general counse
for the Minneapolis st. Louis.
Al contract has beeen let for til
erection Of the South Dakota Nations
! Guard club house on Lake Kampssk
for $4,000. This Is to be the faes
country ciuo house In the state whe
1t Is finished. the contract calling Il
it's completion BY July 4.
Ray Fletcher. employed by the Ii