The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-09-07
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

UHkOIA "a NLet
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are being
made for a shooting tournament Fri
day of this week. In addition 10 the
shooting contests there VIII be a ball
game between the Hurley and Marion
teams. Music viii be furnished by the
Marion and.
LEOLA-Leola will be quite a hay
market this fall and neXt winter. Many
thousands of u onS are pelhs
cut and will be 8 o market our
ing the winter. .nerS having d
surplus expect to ,u..-.e a good prom
from their hay crop.
SIOUX FALLS-The following pat
| ents We're issued to South Dakotans
during the past week: Chris Bergsvik,
Yanktcn, S. D.. beer preserver. Dorcy
| O. De Witt. Aberdeen, S. D., traction
engine. Irving Z. Hoogner, Hamill, ).
D., mirror support.
DOLAND-Good progress is being
made in the work of constructing a
new public school building at this
place. and there now appears little
doubt that it will be completed and
ready for occupancy at the time fixed
i'll the contract-November /.
ALCESTER-The members of the w.
C. r. u. have elected the following Of
ticers: President, Miss Carrie Cole
man; vice president. Mrs. Jas. Mac
Innes; recording secretary, Mrs. d. B..
Watts; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Lillian jackson; treasurer, Mrs. O.. A.
Abeel.
WASHINGTON SPRINGS-The reg
ular fall term of state circuit court for
Jerauld county convens here Septem-
Der 10. with Judge Frank B. Smith, of
Mitchell, presiding. Quite q number of
cases are to be tried and the term
promises to be quite an important n
Fifty jurors have been summoned.
PIERRE-Peter jacobson, an old
time resident near Presho was killed
in jumping from a wagon to which n
runaway team was attached. His
wife and two daughters fell or jumped
from the wagon and escaped just be-
fore the tongue dropped and ran into
the ground, throwing the whole outfit
bottom side up.
PARkSTON-The canning factory at
this place is proving an important fac
tor iii the prosperity of the farmers of
this vicinity. Those of them who this
season devoted q part of their and to
sWeet corn, which is purchased and
canned by the factory, nave cleared a
profit of from SIS to SIS an acre.
LAKE ANDES-Herman L.. Cohen,
an enterprising business mar of this
place, realizing the Importance of a
public library, and in the absence Of
such a library in Lake Andes, has ar
ranged to establish one which will per-
init the residents of the own to AXE
books a certain number of days with
cost.
PIERRE-The auditors office is en-
gagged in the payment of wolf bounties
for 1901 to July L. There were prac-
tically $4,000 wolves killed in the state
last year. making the bounty on same
90 cents. The appropriation was s13.-
600. Fortyfve individuals holding war,
rants amounting in total to s412 from
the counties of Gregory. Hyde, Law.
renee, and Campbell failed to get their
last year warrants in on time, and AN
collect unless the next Legislature
takes care of them by q special appro-
priation.
DEADWOOD-In a telegram to Rep.
resentative Martin. Secretary to the
Charles D.. Hills, %nounc
a revision of President Tatt's Black
Hills schedule. The president will ar
rive at Custer at 9 a. m. October 81,
stop 10 minutes and arrive at Dead
wood at 11:30 o'clock. giving four hours
Deadwood and Lead; make a brief
stop at Sturgis at 4:30 o'clock, arriving
at Rapid City at $50, and leaving for
Pierre a 1G o'clock p. m. The rest of
the in this state remains the
The president will be the guest
Congressman Martin and the bust
ness men of the city at a luncheon here
at the Hotel Franklin.
PIERRE-State Engineer Lea has
returned from the Hills where he has
several tentative irrigation
propositions. He says that that sec
Ion of the state is irrigation mad AT
Hot Springs he arranged for the
Measurement and apportionment of the
waters of Cascade creek. At RAND
City. Mr.. Lea inspected the Brennan
reservoir site, where a. reservoir is to
constructed by a company of which
George Sander of Caputa is the NOV
ng spirit. which will catch the flood
of Rapid creek, and irrigate an
area of 5000 acres. This will
an annual additional valuation of
40 per acre to the land.
SIOUX FALLS-Thomas Gavin, a
farmer living in Bon Homme
county. was seriously mangled as the
of being attacked by a vicious
The animal belongs to his
brother William, and was tied to the
of h cart in which the brothers
we're riding. They had driven only a
short distance after the stallion had
been tied to the rear OF the cart when
he animal. trotted up elose=to the cart
In an instant had buried it's teeth
n Cayin's shoulder. Giving it's head a
.oss the stallion dragged Gavin from
seat and hurled him to the road,
where 1t promptly resumed the attack.
Had It not been for the presence of his
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