The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-11-09
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

| local business men are
talking of organizing a commercial club.
and 1t is probable q meeting soon VIII
be called to perfect such an organization
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lee Morrow,
state representative of the ~Anti-Saloon
league. spoke In three Aberdeen churches
yesterday In behalf of the temperance
movement.
FAULKToN-Jurors have been drawn
for a term of state circuit court for
Faulk county, which will convent here on
Tuesday, November 81, with Judge j. II.
Bottum presiding.
KENNEBEC-Clark Hollenbeok mar
keted here u COW that weighed 1920
pounds, being the largest animal of the
kin ever brought to the local market.
The animal was raised on rich Lyman
county grass.
MELLETTE-As the result of their pre-
liminary hearing here, Frank Bishop and
Chas. Hawk, of Condo, nave 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 1t is expected 1t will have not
less than rs members. The officers are:
President, e. e. Brault: secretary. Carl
Quistad; treasurer, r. N. Authier. Fit
t-ngs for a gymnasium to the value of $500
have been purchased.
ABERDEEN-John s. Deets, state i'm
migration commissioner, appeared before
The Aberdeen Commercial Club III the In
terest of the projected governors spe-
cial' train through the eastern states. He
received considerable ncourageme and
Aberdeen: al! ";ac::hte:,!= san:.:h.it. ::.-
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 to winter quarters at Sioux City.
But so far the nights have been so cool
tina not much clearing has shown In the
channel,
BR1TTON-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. e. Thornburg, Kidder; vice pres:-
dent, E. l. 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 ia
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 O'Ne:lI, Neb.. has
been bound over TO the circuit court in
Sl,tN0 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 NJ. Il. Harrington, of O'Nein.
RAPID C1TY-That residence Upon and
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
a 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 a year after Browns death.
ABERDEEN-The preliminary hearing
w, b. Roby, manager of the South
Dakota Farmers Elevator company. of
Nerdon. which recently suspended, pend
ing an investigation of his accounts, was
to have been held yesterday, but was
to a 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 q few days ago |
was caused by football Is made by Prof.
M. M. Kramer, principal of the city schools, |
and H. l.. Brundage. coach of the school. 4
Their statement is that Frarrar was
with an abscess in his ear, and |
death was from blood poison from
this abscess.
GATH X CtTTv- T-hir sr ~ it..A ----t
to spring into existence in the coded !
of Mellette county. The new town
is situated between Carter and Wood. in
the Oak creek valley. 1t is the first town
west of the Trip county line. Several
business houses have commenced business
and a petition for q postoffce has been
forwarded to the postmaster general
through Senator Gamble.
AS1TON-Robert Owen, who died at
the family home here at the age of rs, was
one of the most prominent pioneer RESI-
dents of this part of the state. He had
resided here since the early sos. He was
born in Wales, and when a 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
vived by one son and five daughters.
ABERDEEN-C. e. Gution, an emigrant
bound for Watson, MINI, was killed at
vi ST NtiCii 81 u QUINCY MSoLpplEu
freight and an eastbound stock train col
lided headan at hat point. Two other
emigrants were slightly injured. Phil
Hughes. OF Monteyideo, engineer of the
stock train, had u hand crushed, and C.
G. Casper, brakeman ON the freight, was
by flying tirabers.
SIOUX FALLS-A jury In the state cir
cult court OF Hamlin county. in the case
of Mrs. Sarah J. Bennett. of Castlewood,
the South Dakota Central Railroad
returned a verdict awarding the
plaintiff damages In the sum Of s.. 200.
Mrs. Bennett sought to recover damage
in the sum of 10000 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 1t Is believed will
permanently disable her.
AUBURN. CALs-Tiiree bodies rave
been recovered from the wreckage OF
the Mountain Quarries5 company bridge
across the American river, the east
span Of which collapsed at IL o'clock