The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-25
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

SFanu COutSei u lAS
Improved Order of Red Men will be held
at Brookings next year. The following
officers were elected at the council just
adjourned: Great sachem, S. H. Good
fellow, Brookings: great senior saga
more, DR.. q. f. Giltner, Redfeld; great
junior sycamore, Leo Green, Aberdeen;
great prophet, E. Klaveness, Sioux Falls;
great chief of records, Ed H. Glau, Aber-
deem; great keeper of wannpum, G. e.
Purdy, ~Brookings; great representative,
A. ]. Schunk, Aberdeen: great sannap,
w. C. Pohle, Sioux Falls; great meshi-
newa, s. Fred Hauge, Aberdeen: great
guard of wigwam, ]. E. Hykinbotham,
Aberdeen; great guard Of forest, Clyde
Connel, Aberdeen.
PIERRE-C. O.. Bailey, as attorney
for the different express companies
operating in this state, today appeared
before the state assessment board and
offered to compromise the X which
have been assessed against the COM
panies since 1909, and which are In
Litigation. His compromise compre-
hends q settlement Oh a basis of 2 pei
cent on gross earnings. The matter
rets on a counter proposition by the
board making the compromise 3 pei
cent
LEAD-The Homestake Mining com
pany will erect q recreation building
for employees on a Main street lot. The
frontage will be IS feet and the length
lao feet. The front will contain a thea
ter with a seating capacity of 1000.
In the rear will be a library, reading
room, billiard hall, pool room, swim
ming pool and other c~onveniences for
men. When it is done it will be the
finest building in the state built by a
corporation for it's employees.
PIERRE-Governor Vessey has ap-
pointed as delegates to the 23d Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress, which
holds at Salt Lake City on August u.
DR.. f. b. Walker. Hot Springs; Rob-
ert Wallace, Edgmont; w. r. Putnam,
Rapid City; j. ]. Davenport, Sturgis;
E. A. Cads, Belle Fourche; r. A. Bel
ski, Philip; ]. A. Townsend, Murdo;
Jno. Harrison, Sioux Falls, and V. b.
Walden, Madison.
PIERRE-The committee of the State
Bar association, which has been at WORK
on proposed legal reforms here for the
last two days, viii, among other things
recommend to the legislature amendments
simplifying the appeal laws, the enact.
neut of uniform negotiable instrument and
Dill Oh lading laws and the enactment of q
Jaw similar to the Kansas (blue sky law
N regard to transfer of stocks of cor.
porations.
PIERRE-State's Attorney HeffroE
and a deputy sheriff from Lawrence
county are at Blunt in an attempt tt
locate a negro prisoner. who escaped
while they were taking him to the peni.
tertiary on a sentence for forgery. The
prisoner was shackled hand and fooi
when the train left, but when Blunt
80 miles east, was reached, the prison.
er a disappeared. Lat last night he
had not been recovered.
YANKTON-A dinner party was
spoiled for DR.. Ben Smyth here by
the ceiling giving way and precipi-
tatlng a large quantity of plaster upon
a beautifully set table. smashing the
china ana completely breaking UP the
party. Several of the company had
narrow escapes as the plaster was
very heavy, some pieces weighing as
much as 40 pounds.
Observation-Disclosures made at the
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Farmers Elevator company show the af.
fairs of the company to be in excellent
condition. The following officers were
elected: President. VIM. Clarksean; sec.
rotary, G. N. Fader; treasurer, A. j. Har.
rington. The company contemplates the
purchase Of the local Touring mill.
GARRETSON-Leonard Mielkie,
student brakeman, who was making
his first trip, lost an arm and sus.
tanned a badly crushed leg in making
a coupling in the Great Northern yards
here. The Sioux Falls hospital te
which he was taken reports his recov.
cry satisfactory after amputation
Mlelkle is a Sioux City boy.
PIERRE-The prohibitionists have
fled with the secretary of state a lisi
Of their candidates for presidentia
electors selected at Wolsey, the list be.
ing G. M. Dajlberg, Strandburg; H
!. hurd, Howell; John Nolt. Mt. Yer.
non Earl Mccain, Underwood; c.. K
Thompson, Worthwhile.
RAPID CITY-In answer to the reso.
luton of the county commissioners te
enter undivided bank surplus for taxa.
ton the First National and Penning.
ton county banks have reported S99..
wv each and the Security Savings $3.50
The banks will pay the tax under pro.
test and start suit for its recovery.
PlERRE-Emigration Commissions,
Deets IS telling of a very remark
able sale Of cattle made by r. I. Gun.
derson, of C%enterville. S. b. MT. Gun
derson sold 85 steers, averaging 1,4SC
pounds each, at $9.4O per 100: aggre-
eating $12,495. This was the highest
price ever paid on the Chicago market
WOoNsoCKET-The second annual.
picnic given under the auspices of the
knights Of Columbus at Ruskin Park
was a decided success from every
@ LOW people VIII
messed the two ball games and listened
to the entertainment provided.
LEAD-Miss Mary Reimer has been
appointed to the Lead police force. Her
duties will be to visit the stations,
parks n dance halls as the especiai
guardian of girls and women. The new
officer is experienced in social settle
ment work.
ABERDEEN-Miss Margaret Bot
tum, an Aberdeen young woman. and
a graduate, class of 1912, of the Uni
versity of Colorado, has been appointed
a teacher in mathematics at the North
ern Normal and Industrial school here.
YANKTON-The annual and impos-
ing ceremony of a class Of Rsnedicttne
nuns taking their final solemn vows
took place here this week at Sacred
Heart convent, with Bishop O,Gorman
and a large congregation present.
PIERRE-The state house lawn which
was started this spring has done exceed
ingly well, and now for the first time
since its construction the capitol building
Is surrounded by green, much enhancing
its beauty.
YANKToN-Some badly needed
showers have fallen here recently