The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-12-21
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PIERRE-sThe supreme court has taken
a recess till December o. Saturday it,lis-
tened toNthe oral argument in Rhomberg
VS.; Bender on appeal from Custer
county. 80,
PIERRE-The Forest City Press, indig-
nantly denies the story that the main
street OF that town Is being washed away
by the Missouri river, the fact being that
II Is being washed, or rather sluiced down
the steep hillside into the river, instead of
being cut into by the current itself.
PIERRE-Tripp wants a night agent.
and has so petitioned the railway COM
mission. Trip Is located on the Mil
waukee between Mitchell and Sioux City.
n has two night trains. The regular
monthly meeting Of the commission will
be held at this city on Thursday the 2lst..
wATERTowN-N. NJ. Hansen, of the
state land department, has been at Water
town selling a quarter section of state
land whose appraised value was $50. This
is but another indication of the tremen-
dous added value that the state has re-
ceived by holding its lands from sale.
ABERDEEN, S. D.-Miss Dorothea
Bassett, a very popular young society
girl, died at her home here of pneu-
monia, after an illness Of several weeks,
aged 20 years. She was a niece of
John G. Bassett. president Of the
Aberdeen National bank, and a Wild
owed mother and a brother, Wifred w.
Bassett, also connected with the Aber-
deem National bank, survive her.
OACOMA. S. D.-Walter Landon died
at h sanatorium at Chamberlain Sat-
urday night. He had been: there for
about q month with typhoid fever.
Lately he felt as II he We're over ii, but
he was also afflicted with abscess of
the stomach and was too far gone to
rally. His brother, S. A.. Landon,
teacher Of the Bull Creek Indian school,
in the. southern part of Lyman county
came up yesterday to accompany the
remains home this morning as far as
Iona, where friends met them.
LENNON Several weeks ago the an
noupcement. was made at Lennon that
Judge Cyrus Clay Carpenter, Of the
Twelfth judicial circuit, was n candidate
for the republican nonination for congress
from the Third district, as a progressive,
In opposition to Congressman Eben w.
Martin. Thu Isabel News of this week
prints a statement that Judge Carpenter
is not a candidate. and will remain on the
bench, where he declares, his services
will be of more value han they would in
congress. =.
ABERDEEN-Henry Brandes, a gard
ner In this city, has disappeared and no
trace of his whereabouts can be found.
He left Aberdeen to visit at Hecla the
| latter. part of October. Word received
from Mrs, Schultz stated that he left
there about November IL for Aberdeen,
but he has never reached here. He had
money on deposit at several of the banks,
but. has made no. deposits or. withdraw
ais since the middle of October. The police
are working. on the mystery, but as yet
have been unable TO unravel II.
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west country was settling UP, land there
were a myriad of. final proof notices. to
be published, every township operated its
local newspaper. WHICH for the time be-
ing, reaped a rich harvest of notices. The
outfit usually consisted of a second Hand
Washington hand press, two fonts of type
and. q pair of tweeZers, 'l..sl value SIC.
During. the past year a number. of these
have given lip the ghost, With the end of
the final proof notices; the past week re-
cording the end of. three such,
ABERDlcEN-Louis Lacomb. an aged
homesteader. Of Corson county, recently
wandered away from his claim near Nc.
Intosh and was found in an enfeebled con.
dition for lack Of food, could not survive
the hardships he had undergone, and de.
spite careful attention on the part of Nc.
lntosh people,, he died. Lacomb Is said tt
have possessed considerable property al
Grand Forks. N. D., but undertook tc
hold down a claim when his. age and
feeble condition of health forbade the ex.
ertion required OF a pioneer life.
RAPID CITY-Professor G. c. Van
Mugs Of the School of Mines, who recently
installed a wireless telegraph station at
the school was In communication last
evening with the wireless station at the
Homestake mine In Lead. While the In.
struments are not yet adjusted to a nicely
signals were returned with success and
1T will not be long before Rapid City will
be O station in the wireless system. Prof.
Van Mugs will be able to receive and take
messages. Many stations can receive
messages but are unable to send them.
DEADWOOD-Chief Keffeler and the
police force of Lead added interest to the
exciting situation In Lead, which city IL
very much exercised as the result of the
Herbert and Barthel tragedies. which
have occurred within the past few days
by raiding two of the leading saloons OF
that community n arrestlng 20 men fol-
frequenting places where gambling is car.
ried on:~The gambling devices seized ir
the two places consisted OF one faro lay.
out, two roulette wheels, several poker
tables, q bushel and q half OF chips ant
numerous other accessories of a first-clas,
miniature Monte Carlo. 3
IloLo fEi->-f1iBn priced pork Is pre-
dicted for next spring by the farmers ant
raisers of. hogs, owing to the spread OF
the epidemic of lung fever, which is sait
to- be carrying off thousands of shoats
In central Iowa. In Union county more
than 5000 shoats have died Of the disease
Farmers are rushing to market all Of Their
surplus hogs In order TO sell them while
they are still alive, rather than take the
chances of feeding them high priced corr
and losing them later by disease. This
|. flooding of the market is forcing the price
down now, but when the surplus Is mar.
keted the price is sure to go up, as farm,
ers are getting rid of the animals which
would be pork e spring.
GREGORY-Wm. Rasmussen. living
about 10 miles north of Burke I'm Landing
l. Creek precinct was in Burke last Satur
day and brought with him some very fin,
samples Of his Black Amber sugar cane
Rasmussen filed on some rough and II
sections IS and 26, township 80. range 70
after the drawing was oveI In Gregory
county in 1904. Rasmussen is a progress
sive farmer and Is demonstrating wha
can be done with our rough and broker
lands. This year he planted Is acres o
4 Black Amber sugar cane from which h,
reaped C. tons OF cane from which In turf
he -thresbed out so bushels of seed. Ii
other words, his. Is acres of cane nettet
him So5 Der acre In seed To saw pothin,