The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-01-05
SOUTH DAKOTA IN BRIEF.

The Dakota Casualty company has
been organized with offices at Sioux
Falls.
The Standard Oil company will es-
tablish distributing station at Eagle
Butte
What will be known as the Medi-
cine Creek Literary society. has been
organized at Presho
One of the recent improvements at
Faulkton is new, strictly modern
hotel costing s25,000.
The new court house for Sully coun.
ty will be ready for occupancy at
Onida in a few weeks.
A Pythian temple is to be organ
lied at Valley Springs. with charter
membership of we'll toward So
The Redfeld commercial club has
appointed a committee Of three whose
duty it will be to look after all state
gatherings and capture as many state
conventions as possible for Rerfield
The organization of a company OF
Boy Scouts is under way at Lennon
Walter E. Woolf, states attorney for
Ziebach county, was thrown from a
horse one day last week and painfully
injured.
A new electric light system has
been completed and placed in opera,
tion at White Lake, and for the first
time in its more than % years of exist
ence White Lake now is lighted in
modern fashion.
Because they were not satisfactory
the board Of education of Dallas has
rejected all bids submitted for the
construction of a new high school
building New bids have been adver-
tised for, and these will be opened
January l.
A number of the business men Of
Wakonda have organized what will be
known as the Wakonda Light, Power
& Heating Co.. and already have com.
menced the work Of erecting a power
house to be used in connection with
the lighting and power systems which
they will install there.
Johnson Bros. ranchers near Davit.
son, report that a pack of buffalo
wolves are spreading terror among the
stock in their neighborhood The an.
imals have become so ravenous that
they attack full grown horses and
have killed and partially eaten several
of them, as we'll as numbers Of calves
and colts.
Mobry Ripley, living near Oldham,
while operating corn shelter. had
his hand caught in the machinery.
with the result that several bones
were broken and the hand and part
of the arm was badly mangled. 1t was
necessary to remove parts of the MA.
chine before his hand and arm could
be released.
Mrs. Sam Talkington OF Fort Pierre
was quite severely burned by a pc
culiar explosion which occurred as
she entered an empty room with
lighted match. AS she struck the
match the explosion took place. de.
ranging the contents of the room.
knocking her down. and breaking the
windows. She was quite severely,
though not dangerously. burned 1t is
supposed that leaky pipe filled the
room with gas.
p. G.. Valentine. a mechanical cngin
eer, visited Aberdeen to inspect the
headlights used on this division Of the
Milwaukee road The Milwaukee is
working on plans to get all its locomo
tive headlights in shape 10 compl,
with the Wisconsin law requiring
headlights powerful enough TO enable
engineers to plainly see objects at a
distance Of 500 feet. and corps OF
mechanical engineers are now work.
ing on the problem.
The Lake County bank Of Madison
has received from an insurance com.
pany in London. England, a draft for
81 900 to reimburse the bank for a
loss Of this amount contained in a
registered package. which was alb
stracted from mail sack at the Mil.
waukee depot there a few weeks ago
An elaborate program has been pre-
pared for a farmers institute and
farm products show. which is to be
held at Burke January IL and I2.-'T'he
business men have contributed cash
and other prices for the best exhibits
OF la.m products.