The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-10
GREEK .LABORERS
ATTACK TRAINMEN
Two Are Shot on Each Side and
81 Foreigners Are Lodged
in Jail.

SIOUX, diiS, .. L., march OllOW-.
Ing a shooting scrape at Garretson this
morning about z o'clock, ~ Greek La
borers rave been lodged in jail here
one Of them with his nose shot or and,
another with q charge Of shot in his
leg. Four railroad men connected with
the Great Northern railroad were also
injured but not seriously, two OF them
being bruised n two receiving gun
shot wounds
When a freight train bumped into q,
bunk" a In which the Greeks were
sleeping and knocked them out of their
berths, they at once swarmed out up,
on the right Of way and proceeded to.
throw missiles at the freight train and
at the trainmen as soon as they came;
in sight. One of the brakemen, when.
the attack was made, seized a .32 caliber,
rifle but was disarmed, after which q!
shot u vas secured and at attempt
made to scatter the Greek insurgents.
Finally the people Of the town were,
aroused and by sheer force of numbers.
, the foreigners were surrounded and
brought into subsection. Sheriff Riley
was called by phone and at once wentl
to the scene Of the violence and took
the bunch into custody. Up to the pres!
ent time 1t has been impossible to securei
the names OF the trainmen who were.
mixed up in the affair.
BLACK HILLS MURDERER
ESCAPES THE oALLoWs,
Pierre, 8. D., March S.-The state
pardon board yesterday recommended
clemency in the case OF Charles Hayes,
sentenced to be hanged in Lawrence
county on the 18th of this month, rec
ommending a Communication to life i'm
prisonment. The board recommended.
pardons for Leroy Nath, sentenced on
q burglary charge; for Marvin STAN
ley, sent from Lincoln county on an
arson charge.
The members recommended q trans
fer from the penitentiary to the reform
school Of Joe Dunn, sent from Lincoln
county on an arson charge.
STATE LANDS WILL BE
SOLD FOR BIG PRICE
Pierre, s.. D., March S.-For the first
time the state lands board will offer
lands for sale in the Missouri slope
country. For years these lands would
not bring the minimum fixed by the
constitution for the state school lands,
and no effort al made to dispose Of
them. But now that the demand has
brought them up to a price where they
will bring not only the minimum, but
more han twice that, offerings will be
made in Sully and Potter counties. The
list Of counties selected in which to
make offerings and the dates of such
offerings which have been decided upon
are: Beadle, April 20; Kingsbury,
April 26; Miller, April q; McCook,
April %; Sanborn, April 20; Jerauld,
April 80; Douglas n Sully, May 2;
Charles Mix and Potter, May 3; Greg
DRY and Faux, May 4; Sphinx, May s;
Clark, May g.; Hand and Marshall,
May 7. The lease dates in all counties
where lands will be offered for sale
will be on the days following the sales
except when such day is Sunday, when
they will be on the Monday following
Leases on lands in all other counties
Of the state will be made on March IL
CHILD is SCALDED.
Lesterville. s. D., March S.-While
playing about the kitchen of his home
Victor, the 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Victor Kreitzinger, we'll known
residents of this place, was perhap.
fatally scalded. The child pulled &
kettle full Of boiling water from the
stove and the contents were poured
over his arms and back, scalding hin
80 severely hat the flesh peeled Of
the bones in places. The child has
since been in a critical condition, al.
though the physicians say there is 6
slight chance of recovery.