Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-01-27

lSpend the balance oil the winter visit
ing with relatives and seeing different
places. We are sure he will have a
pleasant time out thai way and also
escape the cold weather. -Hetland
New Era.
-Theiving has been rampant III
Lake and Miner counties during the
past thirty days and the authorities
of both counties seem unable to cope
with the robbers IN their work, al
though having worked diligently on
many clews. Circumstances point to
an organized gang of thieves as the
stealing has been done scientifically in
the same manner and by the same
methods, in every instance, the rob
beers taking advantage of their vic
TINS absence from home, One farm
Ter lost thirty-two head of fine shoats
ia two separate visits from the thieves;
another fourteen head of registered
Poll Angus cattle, while many farm
ers have suffered the loss of grain,
chickens and other property. Strong
evidence has been found against a
prominent farmer of Lake county.
who only recently sold 500 bushels of
fax but who did not raise a bushel Of
same the past season and his arrest is
expected any moment. As an incen-
tive to run the robbers to earth and
put a stop TO this wholesale thievery,
the new Farmers cooperative bank
of Winfred, has offered a reward of
500 for the arrest and conviction of
the thieves who have been stealing
property belonging to customers of
their bank.
The railway mail service on the
Tracy Pierre division and north and
south through Huron was 10 a bad
mix up last week. Eleven Of the
eighteen men refused to work, and
some of the substitutes imported from
eastern states refused to work after
learning the conditions. The begin
ming of the trouble is the order Of the
postmaster general, or one of his
assistants, reducing the force through
out the country 300 men. so REPORTS
have it, for the purposes of reducing
expenses The superintendent Of the
Minnesota and Dakota postal division
issu d an order making regular men
do extra duty during their week off.
As stated above many OF them re-
fused to perform the extra work
without extra pay. 1t was reported
Friday of last week that the matter
had been settled temporarily by
Senator Crawford securing a promise
from the department that the postal
men should have a hearing, and that
meantime they will resume work.
How much territory this proposition
was to cover we do not know. Mean
time reports show the situation is far
from being settled Since writing
tbs above we are informed by Post.
master Wilmarth that the packages
come TO the De Smet Office with slips
announcing they had been handled
by substitutes, instead of by regular
men. Dispatches the fore part of the
week stated that 200 postal clerks in
the northwest had notified the de
partment they would resign their
jobs if made to do extra work without
extra pay.
A bill has been introduced in the
legislature providing for double
liability on the part of stockholders
in warehouses; and elevators, on the
theory that the company whica takes
a mans grain should be responsible
Ill AtLlG Edlllf1 Nd 4
takes his money. 1t is very seldom
that an elevator company fails and
we fail to see a necessity for the pro-
posed change in the law. --Iroquois
Chief.
We must take issue with the Chief
on the last statement. There are a
great many elevator companies that
go bump Especially is this true
since farmers elevators and independ-
ent buyers began to take the place
of the old line companies, as they do
today. Two such elevators in this
county went practically broke within
the last Ave OF six years. They would
not now be running had not the stock
holders in ID given notes to the
value Of stock they held, and those
stockholders in the other who partici-
pated in dividends loaned their com.
pany the amount drawn as dividends,