Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-09-26
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

WIN WIN e ~ tOON d pluIlkO
into high nance and vas captured in
North Dakota and brought back to
Charles Mix county. was dismissed,
but he was Immediately rearrested on
another charge and has been held for
trial. The original charge against him
was that he mortgaged a farm which
did not belong to him and with a por-
ton of the money purchased an auto
mobile. in which he fled northward.
The other charge is in connection with
the alleged passing of forged checks.
HURON-The dental office Of DR.. S.
w. Ullom was entered by thieves last
evening and gold valued between $40
n $50 was stolen. The robbery was
not discovered till morning, giving the
robbers ample time to make their
escape from town. The office of DR..
NJ. r. Walton was also broken into.
metals were kept in safety deposit,
nothing was stolen No trace of the
men has been found.
MII4LER-Ping Brothers, north of
town, have realized a profit of 81, 900
on a OF calves they shipped from
ST. Paul last April. besides nearly
$1,000 on other cattle bought here at
the time. Many others in this vicinity
have made big money on cattle shipped
i'm last spring that have only eaten ma
tive grass since. Many are already
talking of going int that business
next spring If they can And the cattle
in the market
ABERDEEN-The little town of
Volga. in Brookings county, is thinking
Of changing it's name to Twin city.
Not that 1t plans to rival the Twin
cities OF Minnesota, except on a modest
scale, but because three sets Of twins
were born in the town within the past
two weeks.
COTTONWOOD-Many of the ranch
ers in this part of the state nave large
watermelon patches and report that
coyotes. which during h past few
years, nave developed a great taste for
w~atermelons, are causing heavy losses
by their raids on the patches.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS just made by
the two banks which do business here
show aggregate deposits of $264.137 80
"a substantial increase over a few
months 1t is believed no other
town Of Letcher's size in the state can
make Il better showing.
DELMONT-A carload of wheat
shipped from here was short weight
when 1t reached Armour when 1t was
discovered that about 200 bushels of
the grain had escaped through holes in
the floor and was scattered along the
track all the way from belmont to
Armour.
REDFIELD-At an auction sale of
80 @hlS Va w Ia kAIs
nett. seven miles west of Redfeld, a
graded Holstein COW sold for 800, aft
er spirited bidding. The cow last
March produced "a pounds OF butter
the 81 days.
ABERDEEN-F. B. Miller. publisher
of h Cheyenne junction dewey
county, Record. has returned to his
former home at Iowa city, Ia, where
he has property interests. and has
been succeeded or the Record by w.
H. Kessler.
ABERDEEN-At the last meeting of
the board of county commissioners for
Grant county. a resolution was adopted
for submission to q vote in the Mo-
vember election Of a proposition to is
u bonds Of $1,000 to build and furnish
a building for q county insane asy-
lum on the Grant county poor farm.
NAPLES-A young man who had
been employed during the greater part
OF h summer by John Amundson, q
farmer living near town. has disap-
peared, together with $50 Of his en-
ployer's money and two suits Of cloth
ing.
MITCHELL - In another week
Mitchell's street paving viii be COM
pleted and the cluster electric lights
installed. all of which will be ready for
use by corn palace time, September %.
h street can be used only for pedes-
lII8uS until the concrete SUI
ficiently for other traffic.
LAKE ANDES-After a lapse Of q
year or two, cattle rustlers appear to
have again selected this part of the
state as their field OF operations. With
in the past few days a number Of cat
tie have disappeared. from the ranch
OF b. HI. Freeman and other losses
are reported.
DALLAS-At a meeting Of the board
OF directors of h Rosebud Stock,
Grain and Corn Show association. It
was decided to offer a purse OF 325 in
cash for h best 10 ears of corn raised
this year in the Rosebud country, and
an additional SIS for the largest 10 ears.
WAGNER-As the result OF a difn-
Guilty over some hay. John Croy,
. farmer living some miles from town,
10 charged with having drawn q gun
on q OF his neighbors and threatened
to shoot him. Croy vas arrested and
. hne Of rs and costs was imposed.
PIERRE-Maj. Ben Ash, long q resi-
dent of this city, on returning lately
to, pack up h family, goods. unaarthed|
an ancient picture of b Pierre town
site painted In 1859. It depicts the
landscape much changed. He present.
ed It to the State Historical society.
PARKER-One Of the live organixa-
lions OF Parker 10 the Commercial club.
~ IepO.t JosS ntA0e " IL SnOWnt nat
thus Tar h club has raised 3sS0.2l to-
ward clearing up the Indebtedness
against the new city hall building.
CORelCA-Jas. A. Mullen has been
elected chief OF the local volunteer
fre department to All the vacancy
caused by the recent resignation OF
Geo. j. johnson.
AARTIN-The county commission
err have accepted the new Bennett
county courthouse. recently completed