Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Onida has voted $11, 900 bonds for a
waterworks system. There were but
four votes in opposition.
Miss Miller, late of Ottumwa, Ia,
has been installed as matron Of the
new Odd Fellows home at Dell Rap
ids.
The directors of the Hurley farmers
elevator declared a dividend of 20 per
cent at the annual melting held re-
Gently.
Frank Czerni, a farmer living about
four miles from Lesterville, lie from
was 6S years Of age.
Elaborate ceremonies attended he
recent laying of the cornerstone Of a
fine new Catholic church building
which is to be erected at Aurora.
A fire at Faulkon destroyed a res
taurant, pool hall and saloon building.
The loss was partially covered by in.
surance. The fire started in the res
taurant.
The annual convention of the Sun
day School association of Stanley
county will be held in Midland, July
20 and %. A fine program is being
prepared.
Miss Amanda Clement, the Hudson
girl baseball umpire, has been COM
PEELED to turn down many engage
ments because of an injury to her
knee, sustained while running.
Wendelin Dorsch, a Russian, Of Ed
munds, was d~isemboweled in a fight
with John Tschurer, a neighbor.
Dorsch was operated on at an Aber-
deem hospital, and will probably re-
cover.
The tennis tournament for all clubs
in thai part of the state lying west Of
the Missouri river, which was to have
been held at Murdo last week, has
been postponed to Tuesday and We'd
nesday, August % and %.
Orson Short, an aged homesteader
living lear Powell, was found dead by
n%eighbors who called at his place to
see what had become Of lin. An in
quest was held and it was decided that
he died from natural causes.
A cyclone covering a narrow strip
near Gary caused the destruction of
considerable property, the loss Of
several head of live stock and the
ruination of the crops in the direct
path Of the storm. Among the build
ings damaged by the wind was the
state blind school, where the roof was
lSown off the new dormitory.
The body of a man was found float
iro in tho Miaon11ri river Savanfnan
miles west of Platte. There was moth
ing on the body to identify it. 1t is
thought that the man was about 30
years old. He had two gold crowned
teeth. The body was buried on Co.
lone island by the sheriff and coroner.
The coroner estimated that the body
had been in the river for a week.
Miss Meta Luscombe, a Langford
young woman, had a narrow escape
from death when a gasoline stove
exploded. Instantly the room was
ablaze and the young woman's clothing
caught fire. Frenzied with pain, she
rushed out of doors where a high wind
was blowing, screaming for help. Her
| sister, Bessie, managed to overtake
her and throw a blanket about her,
~smothering the flames, but not until
she was terribly burned about the
arms and legs. Mrs. ~Luscombe, the
girls mother, was in the room when
the accident occurred, and she sue
ceeded in putting out the fire with
slight burns about the arms.
Rudolph Solem and Jacob Jerde,
young men living near Clear Lake,
were arrested OF the charge of dis
turbing a religious meeting by shoot
ing through the r<.hool house in which
the meeting was held. They entered
pleas of guilty ard escaped with fines
of S25 and costs each.
Enough signers were procured on
Issenhuth-Bruce road law in Clark
county. The law will not become ef-
fective until the voters have approved
it al the general election in the fall Of
1912.
John Carroll of Mobridge, a fireman
on the Milwaukee railroad, who was
mutilated by his wife after she had
chloroformed him, was successfully
operated upon by Aberdeen surgeons,
and will live, unless unforeseen COM
plications set in. Jealousy was the
cause for the woman's act. She is in
Jail at Mobridge.
William Beecher, sentenced from
Deadwod, S. D., June 8 last, for sell
ing liquor to Indians, died in the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan, OF
heat prostration. He was overcome
while working in the prison yard