Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-12-28

at this place.
P~IERRE-The supreme court has taken
a recess till December ~. Saturday 1t lis
tened to the oral argument in Rhomberg
VS.. Bender on appeal from Custer
county.
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
1t 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 petit.oned the railway com
mission. Tripp is located on the Mil
waukee between Mitchell and Sioux City,
and 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
monia, after an illness OF several weeks,
aged % years. She was a niece Of
John G. Bassett. president of the
Aberdeen National bank, and a Wild
owed mother and Il brother, Wilfred w.
Sassett. also connected with the Aber-
deem National bank, survive her.
OACOMA, S. D.-Walter Landon died
urday night. He had been there for
o q month with typhoid fever.
Lately he felt as if he We're over it. hut
he was also afflicted with abscess OF
the una and was too far gone to
rally. His brother S. A. Iandon
teacher of the Bull Greek Indian school
In the southern part of Lyman county,
came np yesterday to accompany the
remains home this morning as far as
Iona. where friends met them.
LEMMON-Sevcral weeks ago the an
nouncement was made at lennon tina;
Judge Cyrus Clay Carpenter, of tn,
Twelfth judicial circuit, was n candidate,
for the republican nomination for congress-
from the Third district, as a progressive
In opposition to Consressnan Eben w
Martin. The Isabel News of this weel
prints a statement that Judge Carpente,
is not "A candidate, and will remain on Tho
bench. where he declares. his services:
VIII be of more value than they would in
congress.
ABERDEEN-Henry Bran,.es. a gard
ner In this city, has disappeared and NJ
AoS VI IFS WHEREABOUTS can he found
lie left Aberdeen to visit at Hecla thu
latter part of October. Word receive!
from Mrs. Schultz stated that he left
there about November IL for Aberdeen
but he has never reached here. He hal
money on deposit at several of the banks
but has made no deposits or withdraw
ais since the middle of October. The polio,
are working on the mystery. but as ye
nave been unable to unrayel il.
r .
fIEftHE-A few years ago. when the
west country was settling up. and ther,
were a myriad of final proof notices t.
be published. every township operated Its
local newspaper, which for the time he.
ing. rcaped a rich harvest of notices. The
outfit usually consisted of a second hand
Washington hand press, two fonts of type
ana a pair OF tweezers. total value SIG
Durlng the past year a number of these
nave given up the ghost. with the end OF
the final proof notices: the past week re.
cording the end Of three such.
ABERDEEN-Louis Lacomb an a.e,,
homesteader of Corson county, recently
wandered away from his claim near Nc
lntOsh 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 TIC
nave possessed considerable property at
A"op Az D., aOuI uIlucFIOOk 10
Mold dow q claim when his age and
Feeble condition OF health forbade the ex-
erti0n required Of a pioneer l!fe.
RAPID CITY-Professor c. c.. Van
Nuys OF the School of Mines, who recently
installed a wireless telegraph station Mt
the school was in communication last
evening with the wireless station ut the
fiomestake mine In Lead. While the in.
are not yet adjusted to a nicely
sisnais were returned with success and
~ Wall not be long before Rapid City will
De q station In the wireless system. Prof.
Van Nuys 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 is
l very much exercised as the result of the
Herbert and Barthel tragedies. which
have occurred within the past few DAYS,
by ratding two of the leading saloons OF
That community and arresting 20 men 10,
frequentfng places where gambling Ia car.
red On. Tho gambling devices seized IT.
the two places consisted OF one faro lay.
out, Two roulette wheels. several poke,
tables. q bushel and a half OF chiDs and
numerous other accessories of a lrst-class
miniature Monte Carlo.
HOLSTEIN-Hxh priced pork is IRE.
dicted for next spring by the farmers and
raisers of hogs, owing to the spread o!
the epidemic OF lung fever, which il said
TO be carrying off thousands OF sloats
III 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. rnther than take the
chances OF feeding them high priced corn
and losing them later by diseaae. This