The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-09-07
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

MARION-Arrangeme are being
made for shooting tournament Fri
day of this week. In addition to the
shooting contests there will be cali
game between the Hurley and Marion
teams Music will be furnished by the
Marion band.
LEOLA-Leola will be quite hay
market this fall and "oxt winter. Many
thousands of sur ons are being
cut and will be S; % market dur
ing the winter. = .ners having
surplus expect to ,....--e good proht
from their hay crop.
SIOUX FALLS-The following pat
ents were issued to South Dakotans
during the past week: Chris Bergsvik,
Yankton. S. D.. beer preserver. Dorcy
o. De Witt, Aberdeen, s. D., traction
engine. Irving e. Hoogner, Hamili, ,.
D., mirror support.
DOLAND-Good progress is being
made i'm the work of constructing a
new public school building at this
place. and there now appears little
doubt that il will be completed and
ready for occupancy at the time fixed
i'm the contract-November 1.
ALCESTER-Th members of the w.
c. T. u have elected the following Of
ficers: President, Miss Carrie Cole
man; vice president, Mrs. Jas. Mac
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 a number Of
cases are to be tried and the term
promises to be quite an important one.
S,,eA 1,nx hoe nad
PIERRE-Peter Jacobson, an old
time resident near Presho was killed
In jumping from a wagon to which
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.
PARfSSTON-The canning factory at
this place is proving an. important fac
tor In the prosperity of the farmers of
this vicinity. Those of them who this
season devoted part of their land to
sweet corn. which is purchased and
canned by the factory, haye. cleared a
profit Of from SIS to SIS an acre.
LAKE ,ANDES-Herman L.. Cohen,
an enterprising business man 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-
NIT the residents of the town to take
books certain number OF days with
out cost.
PIERRE-The auditors office is en-
gagged in the payment Of wolf bounties
for 1901 to July /. There were prac-
tically $4,000 wolves killed in the state
last year, making the bounty on same
IS cents. The appropriation was $13,-
600. Fortyive individuals holding war;
rants amounting in total to SAP from
the counties of Gregory, Hyde, Law.
renee, and Campbell failed to get their
last year warrants in on time. and can
not collect unless the next Legislature
takes care OF them by Il special appro-
priation.
DEADWOOD-In telegram to Rep
resentative Martin. Secretary to the
President Charles d. Hills, announces
revision Of President Taft's Black
Hills schedule. The president will ar
rive at Custer at a. m. October Il,
stop 10 minutes and arrive at Dead
wood at 11:30 O'Clock. giving four hours
to Deadwood and Lead; make brief
stop at Sturgis at 4:30 o'clock. arriving
at Rapid City at $50, and leaving for
Pierre 10 O'Clock p. m. The rest Of
the schedule In this state remains the
same. The president will be the guest
of 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
examined several tentative irrigation
propositions. He says that that sec
ton Of the state is irrigation mad At
Hot Springs he arranged for the
measurement and. apportionment Of the
waters Of Cascade creek. AT Rapid
City, Mr.. Lea inspected the Brennan
reservoir site, where a reservoir Is to
be constructed by company of which
George Sanders Of Caputa Is the NOV
ing spirit, which will catch the flood
waters of Rapid creek, and irrigate an
additional area of 5000 acres This will
add an annual additional valuation OF
$40 per acre to the land.
SIOUX FALLS-Thomas Gavin, a
young farmer living in Bon Homme
county, was seriously mangled as the
result of being attacked by a vicious
stallion. The animal belongs to his
brother William, and was tied to the
back of the cart in which the brothers
were riding. They had driven only a
short distance after the stallion had
been tied to the rear of the cart when
the animal. trotted up close to the cart
and in an instant had buried its teeth
in Cavin's shoulder. Giving it's head
toss the stallion dragged Gavin from
the seat and hurled him to the road,
where 1t promptly resumed the attack.
Had 1t not been for the presence of his
brother Gavin would have been killed.