Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-03-14
STATE HAPPENINGS

I Mont Nickrc, who is a candidate
Tor the nomination tc the office Of
sheriff in Harding county, in the eX-
IRENE northwestern part Of the state,
is referred to by his friends as the
largest specimen of physical manhood
| in captivity" This is because Of his
enormous size. He stands six feet
and seven inches in his stocking feet,
and weighs $50 pounds. At one time
he was the training partner of Yous-
SET, the famous Turkish wrestler, who
later was drowned while on his re-
turn to Europe Vickre keeps in per-
feet physical condition and is unusual
ly powerful, even for one of his great
size If elected sheriff his dealings
will be largely with horse and cattle
rustlers.
The city council of Mitchell has
decided to pave the main thorough
fare Of the city. The paving will COM
mence at the Milwaukee depot and
be continued to the Omaha depot, a
distance of nine blocks The side
streets, up to and including the corn
palace street, will be paved to the
alleys The council decided to use
cement, and, owing to the large sand
pits near the city it is believed that
the work can be done at lower figure
than at other points in this section.
1t is estimated that the improvement
will cost the property owners and the
city III the ncighbOrhood Of $4,000.
! Bids will be opened early in April,
with the idea of starting the paving
about May !. and have the work all
completed by August l. 1t is the in
tention to install cluster electric lights
| on Main street at the time the paving
is done
! While members of one or two tribes
of Indians elsewhere in the United
States have in the past been given the
United States authorities considerable
trouble by the use of drink made
from what is known as the mescal
bean, not until the present time has
| the practice extended to the Sioux
Indians of South Dakota. Because the
|
other tribe of indians in the country
numbering about twenty thousand
men, women and children-the govern
| ment will use strenuous means to
prevent the spread among them of the
use of this. demoralizing drink. So
far as known, the only Sioux who have
taken to INDUCING in the drink thus
| far are some of those who reside il
what is known as the Ponsa district,
on the Rosebud reservation in the
| extreme southern part of western
| South Dakota.
! Few people realize the tendency
shown to neglect among the home
/ steaders in the matter of securing and
! recording the patents of their lands.
/ Many homesteaders are loath to think
that when they have offered final
proof and secured that final receipt,
| that is all there is to it. The issuance
of the patent which is the actual title
evidence, is not ordinarily made until
about six months after final proof
| When the patents are executed they
! are sent to the land Office of the dis
trict involved and are held there until
claimed. 1t often happens that the
| land changes hands before securing
the patent and there is general care
lessness in homestead districts as to
requiring this evidence of title where
the final receipt has been recorded
Not long ago an inquirer at the Valen-
ttine land Office foGAd that there were
$50 patents that had not been called
| for at that office. In the Gregory and
Chamberlain offices the conditions are
not quite that bad, but in both these
places there are hundreds of unclaim-
ed patents.
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