The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-11-09
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

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as member Of the state board Of phar-
| macy.
WHITE-The local business men are
| talking OF organizing q commercial club,
| and II Is probable q meeting soon VIII
| be called 10 perfect such an organization.
| ABERDEEN-Quincy Lee Morrow,
| state representative of the Anti-Saloon
league, spoke In three Aberdeen churches
| yeste. lay in behalf OF the temperance
| movement.
| FAULKTON--Jurors have been drawn
| for a. term OF state circuit court for
| Faux county which will convent here on
| Tuesday. November 81 with Judge ]. H.
| Bottum presiding.
KENNEBEC-Clark Hollenbeck mar
| keted here COW that weighed l,620
| pounds, being the largest animal of the
| kind ever brought to the local market
| The animal was raised on rich Lyman
| county grass
MELLETTE-As the result OF their pre-
| lminary hearing here, Frank Bishop and
Chas, Hawk, of Condo, have been held for
| appearance at the next term OF circuit
court on the charge of selling liquor with
| out a license
JEFFERsON--An athletic association
| has been organized here, and by the first
| OF the year II Is expected 1t will have not
| less than rs members. The officers are:
| President, e. E. Brault: secretary. Carl
Quistad; treasurer, r. N. Author Fit
| t.ngs for gymnasium to the value of $500
have been purchased
ABERDEEN--John 8. Deets, state I'm
migration commissioner. appeared before
the Aberdeen Commercial club In the in
terest OF the projected governors spe-
ciar train through the eastern states. He
nd
Aberdeen will undoubtedly contribute lib
orally toward the financing OF the train.
PIERRE-The government snagboat
Mandan. Captain Gould In command, has
been ted up here several days waiting for
the river to clear Of floating Ice before
any attempt is made to go on down
stream 10 winter quarters at Sioux City.
But so far the nights have been 80 cool
that not much clearing has shown in the
channel
BRITTON-At the annual convention of
the Marshall County Sunday School asso-
citation, held here the following officers
were elected for the coming year: Presi-
dent, d. Z. Thornburg, Kidder; vice pres.-
dent, E. 1. stroupe. Britton: secretary
treasurer, Mrs. Eva Downie, Britton.
Kidder was chosen as the place for the
next convention.
GETTYsBURG-A regular term of state
| circuit court for Potter county which was
to have convened here on Tuesday of this
week, has been postponed until January
| %, next The new county court house Is
expected TO be completed soon after the
| first of the year and the postponement
| was due TO a desire to have the term OF
court held In the new building.
HOT SPRINGS-G. b. Flanagan, son OF
| a millionaire banker of ONe,ll. Neb., has
49, ~
| 81, coo bonds at a preliminary hearing,
| charged with arson. Flanagan is owner
| Of the Smithwick Lumber company, whose
yard burned at Smithwick. near here, June
4. He was defended at the preliminary
trial by M. +. Harrington, of O'Nell.
| y RAPID CITY-That residence upon and
| cultivation of a homestead must be made
| by the heirs of a claimholder who dies be-
| fore his residence time Is up is the de-
| cision OF the secretary of the interior in
land case here. The case was the con-
| test Of William Batsch against the claim
| Of the heirs of Thomas Brown. The heirs
| did not I've on the homestead for more
than year after Browns death.
ABERDEEN-Th preliminary hearing
Of w. b. Roby. manager Of the South
Dakota Farmers Elevator company, Of
Verdon, which recently suspended, pend
! ing an investigation Of his accounts, was
to have been held yesterday. but was
| postponed TO future date to be fixed by
| the court. Experts are still working on
| the books, and were not yet ready to re-
| port. Roby is out under 5000 bonds.
| PIERRE-A denial that the death of
Roy Farrar in this city few days ago
was caused by football ID made by Prof.
M. M. Kramer, principal of the city schools.
and II. l.. Brundage coach OF the school.
| Their statement is that Frarrar was
troubled with an abscess in his ear, and
| that death was from blood poison from
| this abscess.
GATE CITY-This Is the latest new
town TO spring into existence in the coded
portion Of Mellette county. The new town
| is situated between Carter and Wood. I'm
the Oak creek valley. 1t is the first town
west Of the Trip county line. Several
business houses have commenced business
| and petition for a postoffice has been
forwarded TO the postmaster general
through Senator Gamble.
ASHTON--Robert Owen, who died at
the family home here at the age of Is, was
one Of the most prominent pioneer RESI-
dents of this part of the state He had
resided here since the early 'S0s. He was
born in Wales. and when young man
went to sea and was in Australia during
the gold rush IN Victoria In the sos Later
he came to the United States. He is sur
v!ved by one son and five daughters.
ABERDEEN-C. f. Guton, an emigrant
bound for Watson, Mimi, was killed at
Bristol when a Milwaukee westbound
freight and an eastbound stock train col
lided headon at that point. Two other
emigrants were slightly injured. Phil
Hughes, of Montevideo. engineer Of the
stock train, had hand crushed. and c.
G. Casper brakeman on the freight, was
injured by flying tin,bers.
SIOUX FALLS-A jury In the state cir
cult court of Hamlin county. in the case
Of Mrs. Sarah J. Bennett, of Castlewood.
VS. the South Dakota Central Railroad
company. returned a verdict awarding the
plaintiff damages In the sum OF S2,7C0.
Mrs Bennett sought to recover damages
in the sum Of $4,000 for injuries alleged
TO have been sustained when a passenger
train on which she was a passenger col
lided December 3, last, with a freight
train near the village OF Thomas. She re-
ceived injuries which It Is believed will
permanently disable her.
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AUBURN. CAL.-Three bodies have
been recovered from the wreckage of
the Mountain Quarries company bridge
across the American river, the east