The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-07-28
STATE NEWS


reorganlzed at a meeting at Water.
town.
Andrew Strani, q farmer living
near Ortley, lost his mind over relig-
ion and love.
The people of Virgil and Messing
ton Springs are complaining because
they hav, no telegraph service
Seven hundred settlers are reported
to have left their homes west of tn e
river on account of the droue ht.
! While doing carpenter work at the
high school building, Harold Simpson,
Iof WATERFOWL, fell from a scaffold and
was painfully injured.
Miss Amanda Clement, the famous
girl umpire, has gons into Y. w. C.
A. work and she will be physical di-
rector of the association at Lac rosse,
Wis.
The plant of the Crystal Ice com
pany at Pierre burned Monday MORN
ing. The loss is $40, 900; insur luce,
81, 0 The cause of the fire is un-
known.
A mass meeting recently was held
at Phillip for the purpose of petition
ing tine railroad company to haul in
free fuel and feed on account of the
drought.
A 14-year- old Indian boy was shot
and killed during a sham battle at
the Rosebud agency. The use of a
loaded cartridge by mistake is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Governor Wesley has issued a req
uisition on the governor of Mont ana
for E. E. Stephens. who is held at
Billings, Montana, on a charge of
breaking jail at Gregory, this state.
James Philips, known as "Scotty
Philip" the noted cattle man and
owner of a large buffalo herd. died at
his home in Fort Pierre Sunday as the
result of trusting of a blood vessel on
the brain. He had been sick for
some time but was on the streets
Saturday.
While boating on the Big Sioux riv-
er Monday afternoon Demar Solgren,
%bookeeper at the Bee Hive department
store, Sioux Falls, was drowned when
the boat in which himself and two
companions were seated was capsized.
The two companions managed to
grasp the overturned boat and hung
on until rescued.
John Cornell, the Mobridge man
who was fearfully mutilated by his
wife with a razor three weeks ago,
has suffici emily recovered to be able to
get around and he has been subppoen-
aei to aear dat Mobridge at the trial
of his wife at the August term of
state circuit court for w alworth
county.
The appraised board who have been
fixing values TO state lands wanted
for right of way by the Northwestern
railroad for its extension fro m Onida
to Hitchcock have filed tn cir report
with the commissioner of lands. The
average appraisement is fir ON $50 to
$40 an acre with one to three hundred
dollars a quarter section for speci al
damages.
The state board of assessment have
fixed the valuation of express and
sleeping cars for 1911 assessment as
follows: The Pullman company $50,
600; The American Express company
$25l,238; Wells Fargo Express com
pany 1898, 353; Adams Express CON-
pany $50, 958; Unite1 States Express
company, $12 ,2O6. Thi is an in
crease of $123. sc over last year.
A lookout armed with a pair of
storing field glas SEES, has been q sue
ccessful means used this summer by
officials of the Black Hills national
forest to prevent forest fires Right
in the heart of the Hills. at one of the
highest points in this section, the
loo koutt is stationed. He has tele-
phi one communication with the head
quarters at Deadwood, and the minute
a fire is spotted. word is sent to the
Office and men are dispatched to the
scene without delay.
At q meeting Of the EIks LODGE at