Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-04-11
STATE HAPPENINGS

Mrs Katharine Mcbride has been
q ppointed matron Of the new Mil
~aukee passenger station at Aber
deem. in accordance with petition
signed by six hundred women of thai
city.
South Dakota's winter wheat crop
appears to have come through the Ions
severe winter in good condition, am
more of this cereal Will undoubtedly
he raised throughout the state here
after
Practical experiments will be con.
Quoted this season with a view to as,
certain whether or not sugar beets can
be successfully grown in the Black
Hills country Of western South Dl-
kOta.
Two small children at Aberdeen
drank from a bottle containing eye
water, and nearly lost their lives as a
consequences Immediate and ener-
gctic use of the stomach pump was all
that saved their lives.
Mrs. Moffct and Jack Eaton, of Bel
vidcrc were found guilty of adultery
in the Stanley county court. The for
mer will serve one year and the latter
eight months in the state penitentiary.
United States Attorney E. e. Wag-
ner, has moved his official headquar
tcrs from Sioux Falls to Mitchell, and
has had another assistant added to
his force, in the person of w e. Van
DeMark, of Alexandria.
1t is expected that the Indians of the
Rosebud agency will shortly receive
100000 payment from the government
for coded lands. There are 5000 In
dams of this reservation, and the pay
|
per capita.
Henry VanWoert, a prominent and
wealthy farmer living near Canistota,
has just made substantial gift to
| his four sons and one daughter. To
each of them he has given a deed to
for >f Low, 10, 1t
ly improved and very valuable.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
road has granted a free freight rate
to the county commissioners of Nc
Pherson county, for seed grain ship
ped into the county, and the COM
missioners will issue bonds and pur-
chase seed for the use of the farmers.
The Standard Oil company has de-
cided to make Mcintosh, the county
seat of Corson county, distributing
point for that portion of South Dakota,
and will erect a building there large
enugh to hold several carloads of oil
at once.
A jury in the state circuit court
awarded Robert WEIGH, Gregory
liveryman, Judgment of $3.50 against
the city of Dallas for the killing of a
horse when he drove into an oper
ditch about a year ago. Welch sued
for 5000.
George w. Kingsbury was guest Of
honor at a meeting of the Yanktor
;. Monday Noon club, and among Other
things was presented with $50 golt
piece from the citizens of the city il
). honor of the closing of his a50th yea,
as resident of Yankton.
One of the most remarkable Of tn,
: aged women of the state is Mrs. Ale
tia Reynolds of Tyndall, who has jus
!, celebrated her 9srd birthday. She en-
Joys exceptionally fine health and he
mind is of the brightest. She ha,
IS been resident Of Bon Homme count,
for twenty-four years.
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81 Nineteen saloons flourish at Lead
Perry Sickles, a wealthy land owne,
of Hot Springs, wes found dead in
room over a saloon, he having ende,
! his life by taking strychnine. This i
the fourth suicide In the room il
which sickles was found dead, whicl
: is almost enough to make one believ
in the existence of hoodoos.
I The recently organized good road
! association at Montrose has beer
81 merged with the local commercial clul
and the united body will work steadil,
for the upbuilding of Montrose and tn,