Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-30

government.
A Whitewood man boasts of a
bantam hen which lays three eggs
every two days.
Rapid City has a rest room
where tired women may rest while
shopping, and the journal declares
it meets a long felt want.
Machinery has been purchased
for the creamery at Milesville, and
the promoters hope to have the
plant in operation early in April.
The second day of the stock
meeting at Rapid City-Tuesday,
April llth- is the day selected for
a series of aeroplane flights by
Aviator Robinson. This will be
the first time thattiying exhibitions
have been made in the state.
Chief Mad Bear, with the ex-
ception of John Grlss the last of
the old time Sioux Indians, is dead
near Wakpala. Mad Bear led the
band which rescued white family
from the Santee Indians in 1868.
He left considerable fortune.
| Frank Durek, Murdo young
man, worried over the free range
question until he lost his mind and
attempted to enforce the anti-range
regulations by shooting all live
stock he found running at large.
He has been taken into custody
and will be sent to the insane
hospital for treatment.
John Matucha and family went
to Fort Pierre Monday. The case
in which Mr.. Matucha is charged
with having set fire to the hay
stack belonging JoCleo. Jones on
the night of October 29th was
called for trial in circuit court
tuesday. .-Kadoka Press. The
jury on this case returned a verdict
finding the defendant not guilty.
O. L. Manor, who lives two and
one half miles northwest of Har-
dingrove, suffered a severe loss by
fire Friday morning of this week
when his barn, one set of harness
and all of his hay was burned. 1t
was the result of children playing
with matches. Mr.. Manor was
not at home when the fire started
and it soon got beyond control.
There was no insurance. Coming
at this busy season the loss is
doubly felt. -Miesville Citizen.
A rather curious and unusual
thing occurred at the residence of
| O. E Snodgrass yesterday morn.
ing. Smoke was seen rising from
a table cover and apparently nc
fire could possibly be near it. On
closer investigation it was dis
covered that the prismatic refrac-
tion of the suns rays through the
beveled window glass had con-
verged to one tiny point. A house
destroyed would have been the
result if no one had been at home.
Interior Index.
While Mrs. Isabel Briggs was
driving into Midland from her
claim her team became frightened
and turned around, overturning
the buggy and throwing her into
a wire fence. She was badly cut
about the face and neck, one barb
narrowly missing the jugular vein
and inficting deep cut in the
neck just back of that artery. He'
corset prevented her being badly
lacerated about the body. After
a Midland doctor had dressed her
wounds, she was taken to the
hospital in Fort Pierre.
| j. P. Crews is having all kinds
of trouble with those horses of his
He traded building in Dupree
for them; in a short time they were
stolen and the first of this week
Hayes Milton, deputy sheriff came
and took the horses on a mortgage
Mr.. Crews went up to Dupree ane
found out that the building hae
been sold by Mrs. A. Bear, t.
whom he traded it, and she ha
nothing from which he can rocova