The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-06-30
SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

The city of Yankton has let con.
! tracts for the installation Of twenty.
four.hour electric plant.
Groton suffered severely by fire.
The loss is about $4,000, well covered
| by insurance.
Mrs. Rose Brakeman, the widow
who took poison and shot herself, is
dead after several days suffering at
| Fletcher.
The eighteenth annual camp meet
| ing Of the South Dakota Holiness asSo-
citation will be held near Mitchell June
% to July 2.
The Rev. Peter Graf Of James, S.
| D., celebrated the fortieth anniversary
of his ordination in the German Luth.
eran church.
Harold Beck, a 16-year.old boy OF
Aberdeen, fractured his right hand rid.
ing the human roulette wheel at the
carnival.
1t has been generally reported from
Pierre that State Railroad Commits
sioner George Rice will retire, owing
to overwork.
The state railroad commission which
| was to have met June 81 and fix rates
on machinery, postponed the meeting
to July Is.
The supreme court at Pierre has
rendered a decision ordering the Da-
kota Central Telephone company to
pay Mitchell $4,000 back taxes.
Four hundred telephone subscribers
are alleged to have discarded their
phones in sympathy with the locked
out linemen at Sioux Falls.
On account of the extended dry
weather officials of the land office at
Pierre are asking an extension and
leaves of absence for hOmesteaders.
Gov. Miller of the Battle Mountain
sanitarium at Hot Springs, received
orders relieving him from command Of
that institution, the order to take eff.
feet on August /.
A hot fight is raging in Sioux Falls
between Water Commissioner H. n.
Gates and other officials, who allege
he is incompetent. The city will Dor
row $4,000 for new well.
The officers of the G.. A. R. of South
Dakota for the next year are: Com
mander, Thomas Brown, Sioux Falls;
senior vice commander, D. B. Murray,
Hot Springs; junior vice commander,
J, F. Luce, Groton
Mrs. Laura B. Whiting, a pioneer
of White county, is dead at Artesian,
at the age of rs.
Several small herds of antelope are
ranging in the vicinity of Pierre,
Tho state medical association has
just concluded an interesting cOnven-
ton at Pierre.
Mrs. Hiram Hatch, one of the Oldest
pioneers of Pierre, is dead from all
ments incident to old age.
President Taft may come to Mitch.
ell for the corn palace season. Sen.
ator Gamble presented the invitation
and Taft said he would come if his
itinerary can be so arranged when he
goes west in the fall.
| The postmaSters and poStmistresseS
OF South Dakota held their annual
convention at Sioux Falls this week
The state engineering department
announces that the town of Ntteberg
is too highly elevated for artesian
wells.
Mrs. Belle Shipley, an aged woman
living near Parker, is at the point of
death from burns in q gasoline stove
explosion
The Pierre city commission has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
sale of toy pistols, toy revolvers or
frecrackers.
The two-year.old son of Mr.. and
Mrs, Jacob Knodle of Sioux Falls, was
found dead with his head caught in
a jar containing water.
Dr. J. S. Laughed and James f.
Clark of Sanborn county, met death
together by falling into step-off
while wading in the Jim river.
The Ministerial association and sa.
loon keepers at Aberdeen both threat
en- TO demand the recall of Mayor Hall
and Police Commissioner Rasmussen.
Commercial clubs throughout the
state of South Dakota are sending as
surances to the Mitchell boosters that
they will join proposed new fedora.
ton.
Mrs. Nellie Mcmahon, who killed her
husband over year ago, was ordered
by Deadwood jury to pay $4,000 to
her children as damages growing out
of the murder case
The Flandreau Indian school has
just closed a most successful year.
Nine young women and ten young
men, the largest class in the history
Of the school, received diplomas
a petition in voluntary bankruptcy
Ihas been filed by William Moore, man.
ager of the Armour roller mills, of
Armour. He places his liabilities at
$@S, 1868 and his assets at $l5,35I27.
Canoya's band of eighteen pieces,
accompanied by about that many bust.
ness men, took an auto trip covering
ll9 miles and visiting ten towns, ad.
vertising the old settlers picnic there
to-day.