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

The members of the German Lu-
theran church society at a point SIX
miles from belmont have decided to
erect a costly new church building.
The present edihce has become too
small for the growing congregation.
A new high school building has
just been completed at Worthwhile.
The basement is of field stone, while
the remainder of the structure is of
pressed brick with white sandstone
copings. The building cost $4,000.
While playing soldier with some
small playmates, Herbert F. Collins.
of Lead, aged 5 years, accidentally
thrust a stick which he held in his
mouth down his throat, causing an in
Jury from which he died in a few
hours.
The Schlitz Brewing company's
warehouse at Beresford burned to the
ground. Nothing was in storage there
except a lot of bar fixtures, which were
safely removed before n damage
was inflicted. The warehouse has not
beer used since the town went dry
two years ago.
The officers of the Charles Mix
County Fair association are now work
ing hard for the fair which will be
held at Platte the 9Th, 9TH and Sth or
September. The outlook for good eX-
hibits were never better than they
are this year. Secretary Button is a
busy man and ne says everything
points to the best fair in the history
of the association.
David Stephens, who lives on a
homestead neal Cottonwood, is solV.
ing the question of carrying expenses
over the winter by making n dispOs-
ing Of brooms. He raised good crops
of broomcorn on his farm last year and
the previous year, and from this he is
working up the manufactured product,
and dispOsing of hA h~andiWOrk in the
different towns in that part of the
state.
Charging that the Milwaukee rail
road violated the United States time
service law, United States Attorney
E. e. Wagner, for South Dakota, has
started action for $500 damages.
The complaint alleges that the rOad
worked a crew of five men employed
on the division west of Aberdeen long
err than the time allowed by the stat
ute. The case will be tried in the fed.
eral court at Aberdeen.
A. P. Ryger, state inspector of dair.
les, was looking into the sanitary
conditions at Beresford the other day,
and buried his Ratchet into some Of
the farmers milk cans. No fines
were imposed, but a warning was sig
nailed that the law would be rigidly
enforced whenever rusty or otherwise
unsanitary cans were being used. No
cream was condemned, and otherwise
everything seemed to be up to b
standard.
E. A. Clark and William Shay, of
Aberdeen, were arrested and taken to
Leola, the county sea of Mcpherson
county, to answer to a charge PREFER
ed by F. A. Craft, state fire marshall,
charging them with having set a
prairie fire, which swept over a num-
Der of quarter sections of hay land in
Mcpherson county. The men were re-
leased under $500 bond to await the
action Of the September term of cir
ciut court.
Miss Lucy Dawson, of Viroqua, Wis,
who owns considerable Walworth
county property, has made a PROPOSE
ton to the county commissioners to
donate to the county fou blocks of
ground owned by her in Selby, for a
court house site. Walworth county
recently voted $50. 900 bonds for a new
court house, and the site so gener-
ously offered by Miss Dawson will en-
able the county to build a beautiful
park on the grounds.
The Walworth county authorities
are Investigating a case of alleged
mistreatment of an orphan boy who
was sent from a children's home at
H., to a farmer of that
county. The lad ran away from his
new home, and investigation revealed
that he had been cruelty mistreated,
having been poorly clad and underfed,
while he had been beaten with clubs
and with an iron rod until his body
Il mass OIL bruises. ne boy was
placed temporarily in the home of a
well to do farmer near Lowry, n the
inhuman guardian who first had him
in charge will be prosecuted.
w. A. Swale, a deputy sheriff, has
been arrested at Ipswich and held n
der 5000 bonds for exceending his
authority. 1t is claimed Swale has
passing himself off as a live stock
inspector and collecting eXorbitant
for inspecting shipments of live
at different stations in Edmunds
county. The sheriff is the official in
specter under the South Dakota law,
and he had not deputized Swale for
that duty, but it is alleged Swale took
advantage of his official position to
collect fees. F. N. Phillips, who. is
charged with having been an accom-
plice of Swale, in his illegal opera
tons, is also under arrest.
Representative Burke has recon
mended Frank A. Turner, son of Post
master Turner, Of Faulkton, for APP
pointment as midshipman "a the An
napolis naval academy in place of John
NJ. Boucher, of Pierre. The latter
failed in his physical examination.
Miss Nettie Martell, who lived in a
cabin on her claim II miles south of
Oa1riobS waS foupI daad nv q Daccipp