The Wagner leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-1912, 1912-03-15
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

on the saloon license question at the
April election.
| HOvEN-The town council is discussing
the advisability of establishing fire limits
and thereby preventing the erection or
] buildings in the business district which
! are not I%fireproof.
PIERRE-The Hartford Life Insurance
company, OF Hartford. Conn, which with
drew from the South Dakota field in 1909,
has again made application to do business
in the state.
CORSICA-Local capitalists have pur-
chased a site and it is reported are pre-
pairing to install an electric light plant,
something which Corsica has badly need
ed for some time.
KADOKA-An the dams which were
constructed in this vicinity last summer
now are full of water from melting snow,
and will furnish the homesteaders an
abundance Of water for all purposes.
LEAD-The city council has decided to
have the business streets lighted by
cluster lights. There will be 1876 of these,
of so candlepower each, assuring that Lead
will be one of the best lighted cities in
the Black hills.
WESSINGTON-A we'll with remarkable
features has been struck on the Schimke
farm. some miles from here. 1t is a drilled
well and at a depth of only $50 feet a
strong flow of water was struck, 1t being
the shallowest flowing well ever struck In
this part of the state.
WHITE OWL-Summer-like weather
ended here last night when one of the big
gest SHOWS of the season fell. being one
foot to IS inches in depth on the level.
1t is as light as feathers and should the
wind arise a little a bad blizzard would
materialize at our doors.
wITTEN - Officers arrested Thomas
Dawes on a warrant charging him with
cattle stealing. 1t is charged Dawes drove
off three head of cows and three yearlng
calves, the property Of Joe Maulis, a
homesteader. Dawes was placed in jail to
await a preliminary hearing.
YANKTON-Emil Bauer, son of a con-
ductor of the willmar- Yankton run OF
the Great Northern, was held to circuit
court here on the charge of turning a
switch in the Great Northern yard the
night of March l.. AS circuit court con-
venes next week the case will be tried
then.
ABERDEEN - The Home Industry
league Of the Commercial club has an
nounced its intention of holding an ex-
hibition of Aberdeen made products in this
| city about the second week in April for
the purpose of showing the Aberdeen pub
lie h is really manufactured here and
what is not.
COLOME-Ofhcial notice has been re-
ceived here from the postoffice depart
ment in Washington that on May l four
new rural free mail delivery routes will
be established from Colome. These with
| those already in operation will make
Colome the center of the greatest rural
delivery service in Trip county.
WHITE OWL-The First State bank
has MADE arrangements to rave a copy of
xh& fay 1ict for fnuy,Shirr y G md a
| ranges 12, IA and Is. 1t is now being pre-
pared at Sturgis, and should be here the
last of the week. AS soon as they are
received, it will be possible to pay taxes
at White Owl instead of writing to the
county treasurer for the amount.
MITCHELL-Bore Boreson, a wei!
known farmer living southeast of this city.
was instantly killed while hauling a load
of hay. On returning from the field with
his wagon loaded Mr.. Boreson in some
way fell from the wagon into the road,
and the two wheels passed over his head,
crushing it and killing him instantly.
DEADWOOD-While taking testimony
in a case in court, George W. Iuglis,
court photographer for the Eighth judi
cial district and well known in tine west
ern part of the state, was strishen with
paralysis and was at once removed to
st. Joseph's hospital here, where he Is
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been in the best of health for some time.
PIERRE-State Engineer Lea is urging
the adoption by South Dakota of the Wis
consin bridge law, whereby it Is unlaw-
full for any road district to construct any
bridge, culvert or drain, exceeding four
feet in width, except by approved stand
ard engineering plans; and they must be
made capable of carrying a load CT Il
tons without planking. Good bridges &c
a long ways toward making good roads.
NORTHvILLE-R. j. Holland, a pro-
gressive farmer living near town, had
such good success as the result of expert
ments with alfalfa last season that he
will this spring SOW 20 acres to alfalfa.
He sows the alfalfa in rows three feet
apart n cultivates like corn. For one
acre of alfalfa he last season secured Sol
worth Of seed and three tons of hay, the
aggregate price received for the produc;
being much more than the value Of the
land.
DEADWOOD-Fi-c of unknown origin
Yesterday afternoon almost entirely de.
stroyed the treatment plant of the Mogu
Mining company, at Puma, near here
The mill was an old one. remodeled foul
years ago, and has been handling 400 tons
of ore daily. The loss is about $3.50, 600
fully covered by insurance. Two hundred
men are thrown out Of employment. The
company is controlled by Pittsburgh cap.
i~tSlists, the general manager being J.. v
N. Dorr, Of Denver, Colo.
PIERRE-The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST
Paul Railway Co. will take q test case
Of South Dakota double damage law to
the United States supreme court. TIL
case in question is one brought by c. r
Kennedy, OF Canton. against the road fol
damage to meadow and by fire, in which
the company contested the claim for dam.
ages, and being won by Kennedy. Under
the law the assessment of damage:
against the company was made at double
the amount sued for. Kennedy secured
Judgment In the lower court, won out or
appeal to the supreme court of the state
which tribunal a few days ago denied al
application for rehearing asked by tn.
railway company, and now the road will
carry the case to the United States su
preme court.
PIERRE-A number of new corpora
lions were commissioned today: The Mu
tual Grain company. OF Canton. with c
A. Reynolds and j. A. Carpenter incor
porators: the Western Grain and Lumbe
company, of Lennon. e. ]. Watson. sec