The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-07-27
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

| Homme county and has already as
| sumed his new duties.
PLATTE-The work OF making this
years assessment of property in Platte
has been completed, the total reach
| ing S325,00O. This is believed to be
the largest assessment Of any town in
Charles Mix county.
Observation-Disclosures have been
completed for an old settlers picnic
and celebration, which will be held
| July % in what Is known as the Chad
| wick grove. some miles from here.
| 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 ago and who
only recently was located at Billings.
FRANKLIN--At the Franklin coun-
ty republican convention held at Up,
land Tuesday, Congressman Norris, Of
this district, and Governor Aldrich
were endorsed. No allusion was made
to President Taft.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have reached
q depth of more than 100 feet in the
| new artesian well which is designed to
furnish the people Of Mellette with
water for fire protection and domestic
purposes. The well will replace an
old artesion well. the flow OF which
has become greatly reduced.
EMERY-Preliminar arrangements
are being made for a big Labor day
celebration to be held here. Among
the features will be three ball games
Alexandria and Spencer. Farmer and
Bridgewater, and Clayton and Emery.
There also will be street sports and
amusemens of various kinds.
SCOTLAND-The railroad graders
/ q Il. % t,..,N ,tx,rr
the tracks Of the Milwaukee company
between Scotland and Scotland juno
ton. The grade has been raised about
three and one-half feet and the track
Is inches more with gravel, making a
| raise OF five feet In all.
ONIDA--A new artes1an we'll has
! been completed here, but the flow is
Il disappointment. The flow Is small
| and the water will have to be pumped.
remarkable feature of the new well
! Is the fact that the water is nearly Ice
cold, something unusual in the artesian
| 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 these
| towns that the railroad commission has
decided to call hearing at each or
these towns at some early date to con-
| slider whether OF not the complainants
have cause for their grievances
KIMBALL-Charles Sobek and
| James RoZum, saloon men, were ar
| rested by Game Warden Stewart upon
complaint from a farmer for shoot
| ing prairie chickens northwest Of town
| and were fined $76.5O, after pleading
| guilty. Joe Burnett, owner of the
| hired automobile with which the party
was hunting, was also arrested. but
stands trial
SIOUX FALSE. j. Mannix, presi-
| dent of the local AID 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 conven-
' ton OF the Associated Advertising
| Clubs of America at Boston, Mass, on
| August /, 2, 3 and 4. He will probably
| join the Twin city delegation for the
| trip to Boston.
| HOT SPRINGS--Tom Marsh. q lum
| Der merchant OF Hill City. and family
! were seriously, il not fatally, injured
at Pringle, near here. Marsh, his wife
| and three sons were enroute here in
| q gasoline car when they collided with
| h 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
\ inaugurated by Mayor e. M. Hall, Of
| this city for the organization of an
| association composed of the mayors
| and commissioners Of the commits
| stoned governed cities in South Da-
| kota, its purpose being to advance the
interests OF the municipalities having
| that form Of government; to work for
needed legislation affecting such cities,
for the purpose, generally, Of improv-
ing municipal conditions.
| BROOKINGS-Profess Shirley p.
| Miller and Harry c. SEVERN, of the
state college started this morning for
| months outing in the Colorado Rock
les. They will have no artificial con-
veyance, but will make II strictly a
| tramping trip Of four weeks through
the famous Roosevelt hunting grounds.
| They expect to climb Longs peak over
the great divide into Steamboat
Springs. Incidentally they expect to
do considerable nature study and take
notes on their observations.
CALLAWAY-This town is now ex-
periencing an egg famine, owing to
sisted that all eggs put on the mar
ket must be candled. AS q result the
merchants have quit buying eggs, and
only the cream stations are now hand
ling them. The farmers are refusing
20 bring them to town and allow them
10 be candlcd. Omer Helton, a mer-
chant, who has a small flock Of chick
ems, saved his eggs for two days and
then tested them by Gambling. and
but two out Of eight were able to pass
the inspection.
| HURON-The Swear son Of
John Ruggenburg, a farmer living near
Rec Heights, met with an accident
that came near costing him his life.
The lad was riding a pony when nc
suddenly came In contact with a wire
fence, the pony throwing him against
the wires. One Of the barbs cut a
deep cash In the boys neck. The
little fellow got home as quickly as
possible and a physician was called
who dressed the wound and the boy is
fast recovering.
NERMILLION-Becau numerous
citizens were OF the belief that tho
wooden water mains In this city,
which have given service for 20 years,
were rotten and about to give way,
the city commissioners, who favor the
purchase OF the present plant at &c.,
900, ard who have submitted the prop
ostion to a vote for Tuesday next. ora
dered the mains exposed in several
places about the city. The result was
that the mains were found 20 be in