Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-08
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Fire in the building Of the Hub CITY
iron Works at Aberdeen did damage
amounting to $500.
What is conceded to be the great
est indian religious gathering OF the
year to be held in the state Will take
place from September 6 to 10, at Rose
bud.
William Tonsmann, for ten years d
resident on a homestead on MILESTONE
creek. Gregory county, is dead as the
result of being bitten by a VICIOUS
horse.
Fred Riseman, employed on a farm
near Ipswich, was badly injured by
falling from a mower and being drag
ged by a sweep rake. He will proba-
bly, recover
L. d. Stevens, who lived near Edge
mont. committed suicide. P~rotracted
sickness has preyed on his mind and
he took carbolic acid. He leaves q
wife and son.
An epidemic of diphtheria is prev
alent in the southern part of WalwOrth
county,a number of children being at
1icted with the disease, of whom one,
a little son of Fred Witt, a farmer, is
dead.
The school building at Turton is be-
ing greatly enlarged, it being h in
tentiOn of the board Of education to
add a high school department at the
commencement of the coming school
year
The board of trustees of the newly
organized town of Mclaughlin has
called a special election to vote bonds
for the purpose Of taking up the out
standing Indebtedness against he
town.
September IS IS the date set for the
installation of the postal savings bank
at Vermillion. No amount less than
81 will be received, and not more thai
500 may be deposited by any one
person in a month.
Louis S. Bush, a homesteader near
Mcintosh, was the first settler on the
Standing Rock reservation to prove
up on his claim. He has a fine farm
four miles from Mcintosh, and made
final proof at that town.
Watertown high school will install
two new departments this f0Li, those
of manual training and domestic
science. Two rooms in the new build
ing are being equipped with the latest
furnishings for the needs of the de-
~partments, and competent teachers
have beer secured.
Tnhn Pan0z q hnmaStp96pr near
Hopewell, Stanley county, decided to
pull out or account of the dry weather,
and ordered a car for shipment Of his
stock, but before the car came that
section was visited with a good rain
and a large dam on his place was filled
with the flow of the water. Then he
started to figure and Cancelled his or
der for a car to ship; sent in an order
for a pump and engine, and enlarged
his dam to prepare for irrigation of
tract for next cal.
w. C. Schmalin living near Midland
was attracted by a cOmmOtiOn in n
Of the rooms of his house a few days
ago, and Investigating fund that a rat
tlesn2kc which had ventereG into the
open door, in his Investigations had
tangled up with a sheet of sticky fly
paper. and was tying himself into
closer and closer knots in his efforts
to make a get away. The snake could
not break loose from the hold of the
paper and was o o put out of the
way by the use Of a club.
John f. Costello, aged So years, a
,rN,,inort hrcinoCS man of C9y01r
died in the hospital in Rochester,
MINI. Mr.. Costello went to Rochester
and submitted to an operation. He
was one of the pioneer merchants of
Cavour, publisher of the Cavour Clar-
ion. and identified with the admins
trative affairs of that city. He was
well and fovorably known in that part
of the state. and his death creates pro-
found sorrow among a large circle
of friends. He leaves a wife and
three children, two girls and one boy.
Fred Brown, receiver for the Far
mers' Elevator company, of Langford,
has been authorized by the court to
pay so cents on the dollar on storage
certificates for wheat stored in the ele-
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institution and in time it is expected
creditors will be paid in full.
While visiting at the home of friends
at irene, Mrs. Lena Christensen, a
well known pioneer resident of vi
borg, missed her footing while de-
scending a stairway and fell to the
bottom sustaining injuries which
caused her death.
Within a few hours a saloon and
drug store were entered at Trip by
burglars. From the saloon a quantity
of goods was taken. At the drug store
about $50 worth of pipes and $40 in
cash was secured. Local talent is be-
lieved to have been responsible.
Prairie fires have swept over a con
siderable area in Todd county. At n
time foul separate prairie fires in
that region could be see from points
in Tripp county. The fires caused a
great deal of excitement among the
Sioux Indians who live in that portion