The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-04
MATURITY OF STATE
TOLD IN NEUROLOGY
or EARLY PIONEERS
Notable Names Erased BY the
Demon of Death in the Year
Now Ending.

Pierre, s.. D., Jan. 1.-The year lSll
has recorded an unusually large num-
| Der of deaths among notable south la
kota citizens. These increased IA
~ta!ities are an Indication that Sonth
Dakota is coming of age; hitherto the
men that have done things have all
been young men and consequently there
were few deaths. Perhaps the most
notable citizens to pass over the divide
were United States Senator Alfred
Hon. Bartlett Trip. of Both
Hon. Bartlett Trip, of Both
men possessed a nation wide reputa-
ton, Senator kitredge as one of the
leaders of that BODY. and Bartlett Trip
from his services Go his state on her
bench and as codifier of her laws, and
to his nation as diplomat and states
man.
Chauncey Woods, the last democratic
candidate for governor, whose remains
nave just been returned to his home
state after a lengthy legal controversy
| between his sons and wife as to their
place Of interment, n Abraham Boyn-
ton, formerly of Mitchell. but lately
of Wagner, We're prominent democrats
to go.
From the ranks of the lawyers went
Hubert N. Wallace, of Elk Point, his
family one OF the oldest in the state;
w, l.. mclaughlin, of Deadwood: and
Capt. j. H. Hauser II Jno. H. Perry,
of Aberdeen.
Prominent business men 80 pass away
were Thad. D. Ellefson, of Sisseton;
Nose Kaufman, widely known from his
connection with the Sioux Fails
brewery; r. W. D%illsbury, a former
mayor of Sioux Falls. and Geo. Brace,
of the same city; S. l.. Brown, of Cen
t~erVille, an educator business man;
n Andrew Melgaard, of Aberdeen,
whose name will always be remembered
", tho ,,n~+I .,.t.r lry : No enla,,liI nrn,-a
| recently made q park, which he rearel
on his farm near the city limits.
The Congregational clergy lost DR..
John Askln, of Pierre, an English gen
tleman who had occupied many inn
portant pulpits in this country, and
Rev. John Cross, of Yankton, mission
airy at different times to the Sioux and
to the Esquimox in Alaska; while the
Methodists lost Rev. Robt Fl. Dolliver,
of Hot Springs, a brother of the Iowa
senator.
OF former state legislators who left
never to return We're A. S. Stewart, OF
Hot Springs; John c.. Laxson, of Can
ton; j. r.. Beebe. of Brule. a member of
the last house: Thos. Cawood, of Hand,
n Andrew Williams, of Leola, chair
man of the last senate a~pportionment
committee.
DR.. Fred H. Files and DIR. F. NJ,
Jencks, of Madison; and DR.. James
buciidIlbliy loT years iOcdleu DIT 1.:llh-
ton, were notable physicians to pass
away during the year.
Other notable South Dakotans to &C
during the year were William II. Smith,
of Huron, auditor for a large elevator
company in this state, who choked to
death on a piece of orange peel while on
the way home from attending the open
ing of the legislature: w. l.. Dow. of
Sioux Falls, the architect of nearly all
of the early public buildings; Fl. II.
Blair, Of Elk Point, county judge, and
for years a member of the board OF
regents; S. E. Young. ~ex-speaker of the
house and superintendent of the Plank
ington Training school, and being
strongly urged to enter the race for
governor at the time of his death, and
Harriet Onge, a noted mixed blood,
grand daughter of Robt. Dixon, the
famous British officer in the war OF
1912, n famous for her fund OF infor-
nation concerning the early history of
the northwest.