The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-10-17
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

ea- $40 - NoAAAS iiCbC AL 1871 ~ was q
native of Glenwood, Ia, and had worked
for the Burlington at various Nebraska
points. He was 81 years of age. He
leaves a wife and five children. A son,
William B. Coolidge, lives In Sioux City.
His parents live at Columbus, Neb., and
brothers, Joseph and Charles. in Omaha.
DEADWOOD-On receipt of a message
announcing the sudden serious illness Of
his father, Harris Franklin. in New York.
N. E. Franklin, president Of the First Ma
tional bank here, departed Thursday eve
ming over the Burlington for Omaha on
q special train. He is racing to the bed
side OF his father. a millionaire banker
and broker in New York, formerly a resi-
dent Of this city. Harris Franklin is as
ISOLATED with the Hartman interests.
RAPID CITY-Mrs. w. B. Bower had
just driven up to her house and on alight-
Ing did not see a RATHER which lay under
her feet. The reptile sank its fangs In her
ankle. She drove a mile to the home OF
relatives, where a poultice of onions and
kerosene was applied and whisky taken.
A week has elapsed since then and Mrs.
Bower has felt no effects of the wound.
Mrs. Bower lives on a ranch at Fairburn,
south of Rapid City.
PIERRE-The Indian service has given
the state permission to make a survey
over part Of the Pine Ridge reservation
for the proposed canal which is to carry
water from the Cheyenne near Buffalo
Gap up over the prairie, to finally water
the country north of Philip and Cotton
wood. This is the proposition that the
state engineer inspected last fall and
found no objection to It's construction.
BRITTON-The Sentinel, of this place,
prints a strong article in defense of Knut-
SON., who murdered Charles Gorton on the
streets a week ago. Knutson and another
man were fighting, and Gorton undertook
to separate them, when Knutson pulled
a revolver and shot him through the head.
The Sentinel states that Knutson has al
ways been law-abiding, and that he fired
the fatal shot only when he believed his
life in danger.
BELLE FOURCHE-In one day recently
40 car loads Of cattle We're shipped to east
ern markets. While the range is limited
in this vicinity. formerly in the heart of
the great cattle range country OF western
South Dakota, the ranchers and farmers
who have occupied the region are devoting
a great deal of their attention to cattle
raising on a small scale.
TRAIL C1TY-Katherine Ducheneaux. a
6-year-old girl living in. Corson county,
was bitten by a rattlesnake, and died IL
hours a~fterward, after suffering horrible
agony. The child was a granddaughter
of Napoleon Ducheneaux, one of the
prominent residents of the reservation
country. who lives at Trail City.
wINNER-Mrs. B. NJ. White, a we'll
known woman of Winner, was seriously
injured as the result of falling into an
open cistern at the home of a ne.ghbor
where she was visiting. The cistern was
in course Of construction. She fell the
Is feet to the bottom, striking a board and
badly injuring her back.
DALLAS-Falling face downward into a
watering trough, which contained but a
l few inches Of u-ofaJ fha E-rpnrtlc old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Klang,
residing on a homestead in Trip county,
was drowned. The little one had been
playing around the yard, and her mother
discovered the body.
ABERDEEN-Dan Kelley, charged with
the murder on July IS at Groton, of
Chester Wilson,, also colored, during q
quarrel yesterday changed his plea of not
guilty to one of guilty of m~anslaughter
and Judge McNulty sentenced him to
serve four years in the state penitentiary
at Sioux Falls.
C~LARK-Some years ago F. T.. Coch.
rane purchased a farm of 100 acres near
here for $500. This year he sold his half
of the small grain crop for $S21-more than
the farm cost him in the first place. In
addition he will have half of the corn crop
raised this year on 40 acres.
HARTFoRD-This place fl. enjoying a
building boom. At present many new
dwellings and business houses are In
course of construction and other dwell
ings and business houses are being i'm.
proved.
WINNER-A term of state circuit court
for Trip county, which was to hs re con
yened here this week. has been ADJOURNED
until the second Tuesday in January,
there being little business on the docket.
BONESTEEL-The new Catholic par
ochial school at this place has been
opened, with a good enrolment. The
school is in charge of the Catholic sister
hood, who came here from Sturgis. The
people of Bonesteel donated many articles
with which to fit up the school.
OLIVET-Sheriff Koch, assisted by two
friends, after strenuous efforts, succeeded
in capturing an insane man who was
wandering about the country districts,
frightening women and children. He is
believed to have escaped from the state
hospital at Yankton.
YANKTON-w. P. Clancy. indicted on
three charges, first for assault and twice
for Jail breaking, received a private hear
ing before Judge r. b. Trip and pleaded
guilty. He was sentenced to five years in
states prison.
INSTRUMENTATION county proposes to
get into the good roads class and is now
engaged in building 81 new bridges, while
the grading camps are reducing hills and
filing in the low places in a way the
county has never before experienced.
HENRY-The first prairie fire his fall
in this vicinity swept over a considerable
area. 1t started on a school section and
burned over adjoining farms. One of the
losers was Jesse Johnston. whose hay was
burned.
MENNO-sheriff Koch arrested a ped
der who was found without the neces-
Sary license under 4 state law. When
tken into a local court a fine and costs
amounting to 50 was assessed.
MILLER-Fred Pike was bound over to
circuit court on a 500 bond on the charge
of taking IS from the Northwestern sta
ton at st. Lawrence. He is only II years
old.
DIMOCk-No clew can be found to per-
sons who entered the local drug store and
escaped with about $40 worth Of goods.