The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-06-02
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

Marvin announces that the Fourth
OF July will be celebrated in that vii.
lage.
The game warden is distributing
Chinese pheasants In different parts
of the state.
Richmond hotel at Rec Heights was
burned, entailing loss of $3,500, In.
surance $4,000.
Dallas is about to be served with
electric light from new plant put In
operation at that place.
The Aberdeen park board has en-
tered upon an extensive plan for beau.
tifying the park system of the city.
In the circuit court at Belle Fourche
Joseph Schwayazar was found guilty
near Hoover, this state, and was SEN
fenced by Judge Rice to one year in
the penitentiary.
The postoffice department has made
the Brookings office postal savings
bank. This will be the second bank
of this kind in this state, Deadwood
being the only one in operation at
the present time.
The program has been prepared for
a race meet at Spearfish, which will
be held on the Spearfish track June Ia,
Is and 16. The rules of the American
Trotting association will govern har-
ness races. A purse of 81, 500 has been
hung up.
AS the result of ptomaine poisoning
which developed from eating canned
goods, Edward Ripp, 5-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ripp, well known
Tripp county homesteaders, Is dead.
He lived only about IL or Is hours
after the poisoning developed.
A government experiment station 10
soon to be located in Fall River coun-
ty and the Commercial club of Hot
Springs is making an effort to secure
it on quarter section adjacent to
that city. John s. Cole, an expert in
dry land agriculture, is spending a
few days looking over sites.
F. M. Sackett, living near Davon-
port, suffered a loss of about $500
from a fire started in peculiar man
ner. Some broken glass had been
thrown in a pile near the barn, and
the reflected rays of the sun from
this pile of glass fired hay stack
which burned, together with the barn
and contents.
In the United States circuit court
at Deadwood William Mexican,
sheep owner of Newcastle, Wyo., and
his two herGers, pleaded guilty to
violation of the grazing regulations Of
the Black Hills national forest, in
permitting their sheep to range there
against orders, and were sentenced
by Judge Willard to pay fines of $3.50
respectively, and costs.
Mrs. Donald C. McConachie commit
ted suicide at her home near Stone
vile, in the Black Hills, by shooting
herself. She used shotgun, which
she discharged in some manner, the
charge penetrating her left breast.
Her husband, who was outside at the
time, heard the shot and went into the
house and found his wife lying on the
floor nearly dead. She was about 2S
years old and had been in i'll health for
long time, which is said to have
caused her to commit the deed.
The Northwestern track is now laid
FIVE miles west of Colon, in Tripp
county. 1t is expected that the extern
sion will stop at Winner.
Bells were rung, whistles blown,
flags unfurled and men cheered be-
cause of gift of 100000 by the Rock
efeller general education board of
New York to- the endowment fund of
Huron Presbyterian college. Presi-
dent French, of Huron college, now in
New York, secured the gift through
Dr. Butterick, secretary of the Rock
efeller board.