Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-09-15
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are being
made for a shooting tournament Fri.
day of this week. In addition TO the
shooting contests there VIII be a bali
game between the Hurley n Marion
teams. Music win be furnlsned ~ the
Marion band.
LEOLA-Leola quite a hay
market this fall an winter. Many
thousands of surIs cons are being
cut and will be shi TO market duFN
ing the winter. Tie armers having a
surplus expect to make a good profit
from their hay crop.
SIOUX FALLs-The following pat
ents were issued to South Bakotans
during the past week. Chris BergSyik,
Yankton. S. D.. beer preserver. Dorcy
O. De Witt. Aberdeen, $. Ia, traction
engine. Irving f.. Hoogner, Eanill. S.
D., mirror support.
DOLAND-Good progress is being
made in the work of constructing a
new public school building at this
place, and there now appears little
doubt that it will be completed and
ready for occupancy at the time fixed
III the acknowledgements l.
ALCESTER-The members Of the w.
c. II. II. have elected the following Of
ficers: President, Miss Carrie Cole
man; vice president, Mrs. jas. Mac
Innes; recording secretary, Mrs. II, r.
Watts; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Lillian Jackson; treasurer, Mrs, Q. A.
Abeel.
WESSINGTON sPRINGS-The reg
ular fall term Of state circuit couFt for
Jerauld county convens here Septem-
Der 19, with Judge Frank b. Smith, Of
Mitchell. presiding. Quite a nlnnber OF
cases are to be tried and the term
promises to be quite ain important one.
Fifty Jurors have been summoned.
PIERRE-Peter Jacobson, an old
time resident near Presho was killed
in jumping from a wagon to which a
runaway team was attached. His
wife and two daughters fell or jumped
from the wagon and escaped just be-
fore he tongue dropped n ran into
the ground. throwing the whole outfit
bottom side up.
PARKSTON-The canning factory at
this place is proving an important fac.
tor in the prosperity Of the farmers ~
this vicinity. Those Of them who this
season devoted a part of their land tC
sweet corn, which is purchased and
canned by the factory, AVE cleared a
profit of from SIS to $25 an acre.
LAKE ANDES-Herman L. Cohen,
an enterprising business man of this
place, realizing the Importance Of a
public library, and in the absence Of
such q library in Lake Andes, has ar
ranged to establish one which will per-
NIT the residents Of the town TO take
books a certain number of days with
out cost.
PIERRE-The auditors Office is en-
gagged in the payment of wolf bounties
for 1901 to July 1. There were prac~
tically rs 1000 wolves killed in the state
last year. making the bounty on same
So cents. The appropriation vas $l3,-
600. Fortyfive individuals holding war;
rants amounting in total to S4lZ from
h counties of Gregory. Hyde, Law
renee, and Campbell failed to get their
last year warrants in on time. and can
not collect unless the next Legislature
takes care of them by q special appro-
priation.
DEADWOOD-In a telegram to Rep
resentative Martin, Secretary to he
President Charles d. Hills,
q revision Of President Taft's Black
Hills schedule. The president Will ar
rive at Custer at 9 a. IN. October u,
stop 10 n II arrive at Dead
wood at 11:&J o'clock. giving four hour
to Deadwood and Lead; make a brief
stop at Sturgis at 4:30 O'Clock, arriving
at Rapid City at $50, and leaving for
Pierre a 10 o'clock p. m. The rest Of
the schedule in this state remains the
same. The president will be the guest
of Congressman Martin and the busi-S
ness men OF the city at q luncheon here
at the Hotel Franklin.
PIERRE-State Engineer Lea has
returned from the Hills where he has
examined several tentative irrigation
propositions. He says that that Sec
ton of the state is irrigation mad At
Hot Springs he arranged for the
measurement and a"pportionment of the
waters Of Cascade creek. At Rapid
City, Mt. Lea inspected the Brennan
reservoir site, where a reservoir is to
be constructed by q company Of which
George Sanders Of Caputa is the NOV
ing spirit, which will catch the flood
waters of Rapid creek, n irrigate an
additional area Of 5000 acres. This will
add an annual additional valuation Of
$50 per acre to the n
SIOUX FALLS-Thomas Gavin, a
young farmer living in Bon Homme
county, was seriously mangled as the
result Of being attacked by a vicious
stallion. The animal belongs to his
brother William, and was tied to the
back Of the cart in which the brothers
were riding. They had driven only a
short distance after the stallion a
been tied to the rear of the cart when
the animal, trotted up close to the cart
and in an instant had buried it's teeth
in Cavin's shoulder. Giving it's head a
toss the stallion dragged Gavin from
the seat and hurled him TO the road,
where 1t promptly resumed the attack.
Had It not been for the presence OF his
brother Gavin would have been killed.