Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-06-25


Mrs. S. e. Stroble and daughter
Mable visited friends in this city over
Sunday.
Mrs. George Mallory returned
Tuesday from a visit with friends at
Chicago.
Louis Shuster, vice president Of
the Bank of De Smet, was the guest
of Cashier Williams Friday.
John Kane last week received a
pair of Boston Terriers, both fine
specimens of that breed of CANNES.
There are some property owners
along our residence streets who should
give some attention to the trimming
of their shade trees.
This section received a fine rain
Sunday afternoon and evening. So
far we could not have had a better
growing season if it had been made
to our order.
-Thos. Mathews and daughter
were up from Sioux Falls last week
to attend the funeral ofThos. Sweeney
and also to attend the mission meet
ing which closed at the Catholic
church Sunday.
-Hetland is to have a hospital.
The stock has practically all been
subscribed and a substantial struc
ture will be erected in the near flu
ture. DR.. r. E. Reed, the osteopath,
is at the head of the move, but the
hospital will be open to all medical
practitioners.
Our base ball team will play
against Howard at the Esmond cele-
bration on July 9Th. Another event
arranged for that occasion is a wrest
ling match between the Terrible
Swede," of Coleman, and Woodley,
of Esmond. The Coleman maj claims
the championship of the state.
The game of ball played by
Carthage and De Smet in this city
Friday afternoon did not create a
great deal of enthusiasm after the
third inning when it became apparent
that the visitors could not set a pace
fast enough to keep u boys inter,
ested. The score was ID to in favor
of De Smet. Our team is composed
of crack players in the amateur class
and puts up a good article of ball.
1t is reported that Miss Coz,
Boardman, well known in this city.
was married recently at Beach, N. d.,
to Fred Brown, formerly of Mathews
township. Mr.. Brown has a farm in
that locality and we understand. has
prepared a nice home for his bride.
The contracting parties are both we'll
known and highly esteemed in this
locality and have many friends here
to wish them well on their journey
through married life.
Especially our people who be
longed to the younger set in Lake
Preston twenty or more years ago
will be interested ia hearing that
Spencer Eddy, who enjoyed outings
here for several summers, is prom
inently mentioned for ambassador to
France. Spencer has been forging to
the front and is quite experienced III
diplomacy. Old friends would be
delighted to hear he has been thus
honored by President Taft. Lake
Preston Times.
The prospects are now for a
lower price for wheat. On Tuesday
there was new winter wheat offered
for sale on the Minneapolis market.
Wheat is now about Z cents under
the high point of the season. The
offer of new winter wheat on the
Minneapolis market means that all
the smaller mills throughout the
country which are short of storag
capacity, as most of them are, must
turn to new wheat Don TO take care
of the demand for flour. The house
wife who breads flour made from new
wheat must soon lay in her supply
for the next three months, or take
new wheat -four with all the attend
ing difficulties and vexations incident
to making bread from new -four.
The Kaufman case came to a end
last week at Flandreau when the
jury found Mrs. Kaufman guilty of
plain assault and the court imposed
the fine of 500. 90. This was the
second trial of Mrs. Kaufman on the
charge of numbering her servant,
Agnes Polreis. The reading public
is familiar with the circumstances
surrounding this case, as outlined in
the newspaper reports. There is
little doubt in the minds of the peo-
pie as to Mrs. Kaufman's guilt of
murder in some degree. The verdict of
the jury in the second trial is ridicu-
lous almost beyond belief. Either Mrs.
Kaufman should have been convicted,
or she should receive an acquittal.
If she made an attack on Agnes
Polries and caused the wounds re
ported to have been found on the
body of the girl, Mrs. Kaufman GER
ta,nly FASTENED the death of the girl.
which, under the law, entitled her 10
a conviction. An honest verdict OF
plain assault was an impossibility
under the evidence and the law as
laid down in the judges instructions
to the Jury. At Flandreau, so it is