The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-10-19
LAST week BEGINS
WITH WEEPING SKY
IN ROSEBUD REGION
Authorities Are to Determine
Whether Keno" Machine
Is a Gamble.

Gregory, >. D., Oct. li-lnceSsah'
rain for 80 hours, followed by dense
the crowd an uncomfortable time III
the opening of the last weeks registra-
ton Six hundred arrived on the train
last night, about half of them register
ing when the doors opened at midnight
Reports from railroad headquarters
indicate heavy traffic next Tuesday
when special homeseekers' rates Will
be In effect. There will be special
through train from Atchison, Kan, and
one from st. Louis. Mo.
County and City Clash.
The strained relations which have ex-
listed ever since the registration started
between the city and county authorities
in Gregory and Dallas will be brought
to a showdown today in case now be-
ing tried in justice court to settle the
status OF the authority of the two fac
tions. The sheriff and his deputies
have striven to keep the lid down tight,
while the city authorities would loosen
II wee bit t.
Saturday night, Sam Kantrowitz, of
LeaVenworth, Kan, was arrested for
conducting a game on the keno plan,
the prizes consisting of chinaware.
Kantrowitz had been duly licensed by
the city. the authorities of which are
now vigorously engaged In his defense,
the city's prosecuting attorney being
his counsel, while the county attorney
appears for the prosecution. The pros
ecution will endeavor to show that the
game is not only gambling pure and
simple but that the wheel was entirely
under the control of the operator,
while the city will try to establish its
right to censor games and grant i'm
munities. Hordes of gamblers in the
two towns are greatly interested as the
case will establish their status for the
remainder of the registration period at
least.
Wild West Mishaps.
At the wild west show Billy Deford,
OF Montana. was thrown clear over the
high enclosure and severely bruised,
and Chris Colombo. after roping a
pony. became entangled in the lariat
and was jerked from his mount, his
shoulder being dislocated IN the fall.
ENGINEER LEA REPORTS
ON STANLEY PROJECTS
y Pierre, s. D., Oct 17-State Engineer
Lea has just returned from western
Stanley county where he has been ex-
aiming the practicability of the
Cheyenne river irrigation project. Mr..
Lea drove from Midland to Grandfield,
located on the ridge between the Chey-
enne and the Bad. There he examined
the Harding grove fiat, which he de-
scribed as 10000 acres perfectly suited
to irrigation, nearly fiat and of a very
rich SOIL From there he went TO
Grindstone where he suggests the use
OF the Peno basin, as a reservoir cap
able of holding 10000 acre feet or about
sufficient to water the Grindstone and
Deadman valleys, in which there Is
about 10000 acres OF ir-igable land.
One day was spent In tie Bad Lands.
where the engineer found the SWINE
hart basin, just south of Wall to be
most admirably fitted for storage
basin. Mr.. Lea regards the crossing
of the Bad Lands as the most difficult
portion to construct of the 100 mile
canal from the Cheyenne at Buffalo
Gap to the rich lands north of the Bad.
A practicable course was found for
part of the way. Insufficient time was
spent to completely determine the
feasibility Of the plan. beyond the fact
that there is SUFFICIENT slope. Mr.. Lea
will complete the investigation at a
later date.
A 900 acre irrigation project, located
in the Bad river valley just beyond FIT.
Pierre city limits, and proposing to use
Bad river water, has been developed
the past week by Mr.. Brandies, an ir-
rigation expert OF FIT. Morgan, Col, who
has leased the land from q number OF
local men who own it, and will i'm
mediately install large pumping out
fit and get the water on the ground
this fall and freeze 1t i'm the soil. Mr.
Brandies will colonize the tract with
from 80 to 80 families.
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