Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-10-20

placed upon a new public school build
ing at Doland, which will be ready
for occupancy shortly after Novem-
Der /.
A new Catholic parochial school has
opened at Emery under very favorable
circumstances. About so students
were present on the opening day and
the number will steadily increase.
J. A. Wiberg, of Luverne, Mimi,
has been looking over the ground at
Garretson and has practically decided
to install and operate an electric light
system at that place.
Fire on the farm of Frank Sexton, a
few miles from washington, destroyed
his fine large barn, together with four
head of valuable horses and other
property. The loss, which is heavy, is
| partially covered by insurance.
The Sioux Indian stock raisers On
the adjacent reservations now are
shipping their surplus cattue to mar
ket from Murdo. They are making eX-
tensive shipments and will receive
many thousands of dollars therefor.
Owing to the impossibility of issu-
ing bonds based on this years assess
ment, and the assessment Of last year
being inadequate, the city council OF
Winner has for the present abandoned
efforts for a municipal system of wa
terworks.
Aberdeen will entertain the South
Dakota Dairymen and Buttermakers'
association some time in November.
The exact date and h program have
not yet been definitely decided upon.
Several dairymen and creamerymen
will be in attendance.
At a special election held at Fulton it
was decided to incorporate Fulton as a
city under the general laws of the
state. The board of county commits
sioners now will be required to call
another election for he purpose of
choosing officers for the new city.
Attorney L. w. Crofoot of Aberdeen,
has gone to Washington to apply for
a pardon for Robert Gilland, who was
convicted of numbering Thomas Pow
ers on the Cheyenne river reservation
three years ago and sentenced to a
life term in the federal prison at Leav-
enworth, Kan.
An enormous buffalo wolf, weighing
over 200 pounds was shot by T. e.
Phillips southwest Of Fort Pierre, near
the Paradis place. 1t had enoromus
tusks, and looked very formidable. 1t
is supposed to be the animal which
has made great depredations among
the young live stock. 1t sold for $65.
Lars Bitterness of Garretson is eat
ing his second crop of Strawberries.
His strawberry plants bore at the
usual time last spring, and now, under
the influence of the rains of the last
few weeks, are blooming and bearing
again. The berries are large and have
as good a flavor as those which ma
tured at the proper season.
Homesteaders in the vicinity Of Nor
ristown are being greatly annoyed n
are almost daily sustaining losses from
the operations of unusually bold
thieves, who watch their opportunity
while homesteaders are temporarily
absent from home to raid the home
steaders' shacks and carry away such
articles and property as is not nailed
down.
Final arrangements which have
been under way for some time, have
been concluded between Morningside
college of Sioux City, Nebraska Wes-
leyan of Lincoln, and Dakota Wesley
an of Mitchell, for a triangular debate,
which is scheduled to take place some
time next April. The questions are to
be submitted to each college by the
first of next week.
AS the result Of cleaning out a cup
board, Mrs. H. A. Reeves of Scotland
met with a peculiar accident. She
threw a supposedly empty bottle into
the stove with other rubbish, and an
instant later, when she again raised
the lid of the stove to put other rub
Dish in it, the bottle exploded, pepper
ing her face with small particles of
glass and cutting several ugly gashes.
The p~ostoffice at Burbank was rob-
bed and after blowing off the safe door
secured $50 in silver and currency and
500 in stamps the thieves escaped
unmolested. The explosion was heard
by several people, but they did not ven
ture out to learn the cause. Gilbert
and Albert Stanley Of Elk Point were
arrested by Sheriff James Hartige and
Deputy Frank Beckett. One of them
had a bar of soar and a silk handker-
chief. A strip had been torn from the
handkerchief and this was found at
the post office covered with soap.
James M. Cheatham, a veteran OF
the Civil Wal and a pioneer of Aber-
deem, was accidentlly shot and killed
at his home while engaged in cleaning
an old revolver. He had placed the
end of the barrel to his mouth to moist
en- the interior when it was discharged
in some manner the ball passing
through the brain. The dead man
served through the Civil Wal in the
First Minnesota. He came to Aberdeen
in 1880 and had lived there since. He
was 90 years of age. Four sons and
two daughters, besides the wife, sur
vive.
A company of state national guards
men has been organized at Alpena
with Geo. A. Garrett captain.
His Manly Protest.
A tender-hearted youth was once