Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-08-04
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

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PLATTE-The work of making TINS
Years assessment of property in Platte
| has been completed, the total reach
| ing 1925 900. This is believed 10 De
the largest assessment OF any TOWN III
Charles Mix county.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have peen
completed for an old settlers, plchic
and celebration, which Will be heio
Julv % in what is known as the Chau-
| wick grove, some miles from mere"
Features will be two ball games
FAIRFAX-John higgins, deputy
sheriff. has returned from Billings
Mont, having in custody Pat stevens
who made his escape from the county
Jail here some months g ana VINO
only recently was located at Billings
FRANKLIN-At the Franklin coun-
ty republican convention held at Up
and Tuesday, Congressman Norris. OF
this district, and Governor AIurlCn
we're endorsed. No alluslon was llaue
TO President Taft.
MELLETTE-Drillers have reached
q depth of more thar 700 feet in the
lew artesian well which Is designed &c
furnish the people of Mellette win
water for fire protection II domestic
purposes. The we'll will replace an
old artesion well, the flow OF when
has become greatly reduced
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. arrangements
Sre being made for q big Labor day
celebration to be held here. Among
he features will be three ball games
Alexandria and Spencer. Farmer ana
Sridgewater, and Clayton and Emery,
r here also will be street sports dho
amusemenls of various kindS.
SCOTLAND-The railroad graders
~ ,-lr1- nP i'm nrnNinO
the tracks Of the Milwaukee company
between Scotland and Scotland June
don. The grade has been raised about
three and one-half feet n the rack
IS inches more with gravel, making a
raise Of five feet in all.
ONIDA-A new artesian we'll has
been completed here, but the flow Is
a disappointment. The flow IS small
und the water will have to be pumped
A remarkable feature Of the new wei
Is the fact that the water is nearly ice
cold, something unusual in the artesiar
wells of South Dakota, the water OF
which usually is quite warm.
PIERRE-The people of Virgil and
Washington Springs have been making
so much complaint regarding the mat.
ter Of no telegraph service at thesa
towns that the railroad commission has
decided to call Il hearing at each OF
these towns at some early date TO con.
slider whether or not the Complainants
have cause for their grievances.
acknowledgements Sobtk and
James ROzum, saloon men, were ar'
rested by Game Warden Stewart upon
r complaint from u farmer for shoot
ing prairie chickens northwest of town
and were fined $3.50, after pleading
guilty. Joe Burnett, owner of the
EsF,l ar,f,,,nhsla y,,fsI rrrIfIh fI1 part,y
was hunting, was also arrested, but
stands trial.
SIOUX FALLS-E. j. Mannix, presi-
dent of the local Ad club and editor of
the COmmercial-News, at a meeting of
the members Of the local Ad club, was
unanimously elected a delegate to rep
resent the club at the annual
don of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of America, at Boston. Mass, on
August 1, 2, 8 and 4. Re will probably
join the Twin city delegation for the
trip to Boston.
HOT SPRINGS-Tom Marsh. a lum-
Der merchant Of Hill City, and family
were seriously, if not fatally, injured
at Pringle, near here. Marsh, his wife
and three sons were enrOute here in
a gasoline car when they collided with
& freight train switching in the Pringle
yards. Marsh had a fractured skull,
his wife had a double fracture Of the
leg, and the Oldest son had his back
badly injured.
ABERDEEN-A movement has been
in~augurated by Mayor E. Nj. Hall, Of
this city for the organization of an
association composed of the mayors
n commissioners Of the commits
stoned governed cities in South Da-
its purpose being to advance the
Interests Of the p,lniginn1itfaC hnyv{~x
that form of government; to work for
needed legislation affecting such cities,
tor the purpose, generally, of improy-
Ing municipal conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Shirley p.
Miller and Harry G.. SEVERN, Of the
state college started his morning for
u months outing in the Colorado Rock
les. They will have no artificial con- |
Veyance, but will make it strictly a
tramping trip of four weeks through
the famous Roosevelt hunting rounds.
Ihey expect to climb Longs peak over
the great divide into Steamboat
Springs. incidentally they expect to
do considerable mature study and take
notes on their observations.
CALLAWAY-This town is now ex.
periencing IN egg famine. owing "a
the visit of a food inspector who in.
sisted that all eggs put on the mar |
ket must be andled AS a result tha
merchants have quit buying eggs. and
only the cream stations are now hand.
ing them. The farmers are refusing
10 bring them to town and allow them
TO be candled. Omer HeIton q MGR.
chant, vino has O small flock Of chick-
ems, saved his eggs for two days and
then tested them by Gambling and
put two out of eight were able To mas.
the inspection. Pos
HURoN-The S-year-old son ~
Johh Ruggenburg a farmer living near
ltee Heights. met with an accjdent
1nat came near costing him his rife,
Inc lad was riding a pony when he
suddenly came In contact with a wire
renee, the pony throwing him against
the wires. One of the barbs cl,t .
ueep cash in the boys neck. The
little fellow got home as quickly &c
possible and a physician was called
VINO dressed the wound and the bow is
fast recovering. "
observation-disclosures numerous
cltl2ens were of, the belief that the
wooden water mains in this citv
Whlcn nave given service for 90 wears
were rotten n about to give way
the city commissioners, who favor t5o
purchase of the present plant az sic
oVV: and who have submitted the nron4
ostlon TO a vote for Tuesday next. orS