Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-03-28
STATE HAPPENINGS

took was so large that it counteracted
itself
At the recent term of circuit court
for Charles Mix county Judge r. B
! Tripp rendered a decision in the cas-
of Joseph Nimyod, a Yankton Sioux
hich holds that the state courts have
no jurisdiction over the Indians. The
Indian WAS arrested for bigamy, but
the defendants attorney demurred tc
the information on the ground that the
state had no jurisdiction and the
court sustHins the demurrer. The
states attorney has appealed the case
TO The supreme court.
sam Robinson is able to be about
AGAIN after being confined to the house
for about forty days and the same
number Of nights with u severe case
Of sherifitis and Hlimonitis combined.
This is the manner in which the Tim
her Lake Tribune breaks the news to
sent to jail because he could not pay
his divorced wife the alimOny granted
hv court in her suit, had been releas-
cd from a term in jail because Of his
failure or inability to comply with the
courts decree.
Declaring that TOO many people.
seeking marriagr licenses do not re-
spcct tneir Oaths when swearing as
TO ages. states Attorney Hetfron OF
Lawrcno" county. caused the arrest
of Fred Schultz and Oscar Anderson,
OF Lead, and chargr! both with per-
jury. Schultz, with the aid of Ander-
son as a witness, secured license and
married Elsie kalwat, of Lead, both
men swearing that the girl was over
Is. the legal limit. When the parents
of the girl found it out they declared
that the girl was but fifteen, and al
ter consultation with the officials
caused the arrest of the TWO men.
The girl has elected to stay on the
side of her husband and against her
parents. Both the defendants are in
the county Jail awaiting a hearing.
Residents of those portions of Iowa
and Nebraska which are washed by
the waters of the Missouri river viii
when the ice leaves the river this
spring, have an opportunity to earn
$500, for this is the amount of the
reward which has been offered for the |
recovery of the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs |
Charles Durham, who were drowned |
ice. They were returning after dark |
10 their home on Peace Island, when
they drove into an airhole. The re-
ward is offered by w. H. Menzic, OF
Ieddes, father of Mrs. Durham. The !
reward of 500 is conditional upon the |
bodies being found by April l. If both
bodies are found after April l $500 re-
ward will be paid. If only one body
IS found before April 1, 500 will be
paid; if only one body is found afte.'
April 1 the reward will be $50. 1t is
believed both bodies have been swept
j considerable distance down the river
and that they will be washed up on
either the Nebraska or Iowa shores.
Mr.. Jacques, whose home is near the
postoffice of Farrell lost his home and |
four small childrene by fire last Tues.
day morning in a very strange man
ner. Mr.. jacques got up at O'Clock
and started the fire, and then want
back upstairs to remain while tie
fire got to burning we'll. A short
time after he smelled smoke, and
again got up to see what was the
cause of it. When he got halfway
way down the stairway it gave way
with him and he fell to the floor below
the fire having nearly burned them
down. Realizing the great danger he
ran out of the house and called to his
wife to raise the window and let the
children down, but after opening the
window she tainted and fell to the
ground below. The four children were
left in the house, which was soon Ell
yeloped with flames and their agonized
cries reached the ears OF the parents
through the roar of the flames and
dense smoke, but they were powerless
to help them. The house was burned
TO the ground, and the bodies Of the
four little children, burned to a crisp,
We're revealed. The parents were
unable ina to save anything whatever in
the house and they we're left home.
less and without anything to- GOV i
their bodies except their night gar
ments.