Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-04-14

of the M. T.. church at WATERFOWL
has published a book entitled
THE Gospel in Literature.
That South Dakota base ball
league has been organized COM
posed of Red6eld, Aberdeen, Wa
tertown, Sioux Falls, Huron and
Mitchell.
That terms of circuit court under
the bill creating the twelfth circuit
for Corson county is the third
Tuesdays in April and September;
in Dewey county the first Tuesday
in November and in Ziebacll coun-
ty the third Tuesday in November.
That the resignation of S. E.
Young as superintendent of the
state training school at Plankinton
after 10 years of faithful and effect
i've service, was handed to the state
board of charities and corrections
at recent session at the state pen
itentiary in Sioux Falls. The res
ignation was reluctantly accepted
That appraisal work of the state
lands which will be offered for sale
this spring has been completed,
and the work of making the Offer
ings will begin in a few days. The
appraisal figures range from SIS
an acre down as low as Sis an
acre on different forty-acre tracts
which will be offered. The ap-
praisements this year were made
on each individual forty-acre tract.
which accounts for the low figures
on some OF the tracts.
That the first shipment OF equip
ment for new machine gun COM
pany for South Dakota mas reached
the adjutant generals Office and the
balance OF the equipment will be
here in a short time. The organi-
zation OF machine gun company
is new departure On the part OF
the war department so far as the
organized militia is concerned. and
South Dakota will be one OF the
first states I'm the United States to
have an organization of this kind
The organization consists of 62 Of
ficers and men and their equipment
consists of the full equipment of a
soldier Of infantry except they are
armed with revolvers instead OF RI
fes. In addition to this, they have
four new automatic machine guns
of the latest design. which are be-
ing manufactured by the United
States for issuance to the organized
militia at the present time. These
machine guns are capable of dis
charging from 400 to 1000 shots
per minute.
That over in the Standing Rock
reservation, bitter county organi-
cation fight is going on. 1t is pro-
posed by some to organize a tract
into a county to be called Sioux
county. The population is chiefly
Sioux Indian, though there are a
few homesteaders in that portion
opened to settlement last year.
Many of the Indians, who are all
voters, are opposed to the organi-
cation until the remainder of the
reservation is opened next year anC
there are more white settlers. The
whites want the county organized
at once, and a full set of county
officers appointed. Red Toma-
hawk, the Indian policeman who
shot Sitting Bull, is the leader O
the opposition, and with him i:
John Gayton, the famous Indiar
cartoonist. AT recent gathering
of the Indians to discuss the mat
ter there was exhibited a cartoon
drawn by Gavton. depicting thu
Indians at a feast given bv thu
county seat boomers. fat and smil
ing. Another picture showed ;
bunch of Indians bearing heavy
bundle on their backs, in the shape
of taxes, and labeled, The Rec
Mans BURDEN" The county or