The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-12-21
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

chants State hank has been Incorporated
at this place.
pIERRE-The supreme court has taken
a recess till December 81, Saturday 1t lis
tened 10 the oral argument in Rhomberg
VS.. Bender on appeal from Custer
county.
P~IERRE-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 petitioned the railway COM
mission. Trip 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 st this city on Thursday the 21st,
WATERToWN-N. NJ. Hansen, of the
state and department, has been at Water
town selling a quarter section of state
iand whose appraised value was $50. This
is but another indication of the tremen-
dous added value that the state has re-
ce!Ved by holding its lands from sale.
ABERDEEN, S. D.-Miss Dorothea
BaSSott. n very popular young society
girl, died at her home here of pneu-
monia, after an Illness of several weeks.
aged % years. She was a niece of
John c. Bassett, president of the
Aberdeen National bank. and a Wild
owed mother and a brother, Wilfred w.
Bassett, also connected with the Aber-
deem National bank, survive her.
OACOMA, s. D.-Walter L.andon died
at the sanatorium at Chamberlain Sat
urday night, He had been there for
about a month with typhoid fever.
Lately he felt as ii he We're over 1t, but
he was also afflicted with abscess of
the stomach and was too far gone TO
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
II where friends met them.
LEMMoN-Several weeks ago the an
nouncenent was made at Lennon that
Judge Cyrus Clay Carpenter. of the
Twelfth judicial circuit, was a candidate
for the republican nomination for congress
from the Third district, as a progressive,
IN opposition to Congressman Eben W.
Martin. The Isabel News OF this week
prints q statement that Judge Carpenter
is not a candidate. and will remain on the
bench, where he declares. his services |
VIII be of more value than 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
iatter part of October. Word received
from Mrs Schultz stated that he LEFT
there about November Is for Aberdeen.
Out ne mas 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 vet
have been unable to unravel it.
few years ago, w;len the
west country was settling up. and there
were a myriad of final proof notices ia
be published, every township operate its
local newspaper, which for the time be-
ing reaped a rich harvest of notices. The
outnt usually consisted of a second hand
W ashington hand press, two fonts of tvpe
ana a pair of tweezers, total value SIC
during the past year a number of these
nave given up the ghost, with the end of
the maj proof notices; the past week re.
coidlng the end of three such.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lacomb. an aged
ioEhesteader of Corson county, recently
away from his claim near Nc.
Intosh and was found in an enfeebled con.
1ltlon for lack of food, could not survive
me hardshfps he had undergone, and de.
splte careful attention on the part of Nc.
ihtosh people, he died. Lacornb is said to
nave possessed considerable property al
Grand Forks, N. D., but undertook to
nold down a claim when his age and
condition of health forbade the ex.
ertion required of a pioneer life.
RAPID CITY-Professor C. C. Van
Nuys or the School of Mines, who recently
installed a wireless telegraph station al
The school was in communication last
evening with the wireless station at the
aomestake mine in Lead. While the in.
'tfunents are not yet adjusted to a nicety
We're returned with success and
I VIII not be long before Rapid City will
oe a station in the wireless system. Prof
AN Nuys VIII be able to receive and take
messages. Many stations can receive
messages but are unable to send them
DEADWOOD-Chief Keffeler and the
ponce force OF Lead added interest to the
situation in Lead, which c,ty is
,ery much exercised as the result of the
aeroeft and Barthel tragedies, which
AVE occurred within the past few davs
~ ralding two of the leading saloons OF
nat community and arresting 20 men TO,
places where gambling is car.
Ied on. The gambling devices seized ir
ne TWO places consisted of one faro lay.
'ut, two roulette wheels, several pokeI
abies, a bushel n a half of chips anf
other accessories of a frst-cIas.
Monte Carlo.
.t.#sE .ssE
HoLSTEIN-High priced pork is pre-.
Noted for next spring by the farmers and
aisers OF hogs, owing to the spread OF
he epidemic of lung fever, which is SAID
o be carrying off thousands of shoats
n central Iowa. In Union county more
nan 5000 shoats nave died of the disease.
farmers are rushing to market all of theii
urplus hogs in order to sell them while
hey are still alive. rather than take the
OF feeding them high priced corr
IND losing them later by disease. This
loodlng of the market is forcing the price
now, but when the surplus is mar
Ieted the price is sure to go up. as farm
RS are getting rid of the animals which
You'd be pork next spring.
GREGoRY-Wm. Rasmussen. living
bout 10 miles north of Burke in Landing
sreeli precinct was in Burke last Satur-
lay and brought with him some very fine
,anples OF his Black Amber sugar cane.
filed on some rough land in
IS and 20, township 80, range 70
tfter hi drawing was over In Gregory
'ounty in 1901. Rasmussen is a progress
I've farmer and is demonstrating what