Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-05-17
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

aid to the state soldiers home at Hot
Springs.
Wolsey musicians have organized a
Hansen, a well known musician of
Huron, to act as instructor and man.
ager.
The members of the Parker G. A.
r., w. R. c. and Sons of Veterans, to-
gether with the business men in gener-
al, have united to properly observe
Decoration day.
During the past year the Parker
Woman's Relief corps has taken Sec
ond place in the state in membership.
Mitchell alone having a larger num-
Der of members.
Rev. D. M. Butt, for the last 25 years
pastor Of the Presbyterian church at
Britton, has resigned the pastorate OF
that church. Rev. MI. Butt has not
announced his future intentions.
Mrs. Sarah Carda, an aged resident
of Tabor, was badly hurt when she
was attacked by a vicious COW. The
woman was knocked down and severe
ly trampled before she could be res
cued.
Isabel's city council recently passed
a curfew ordinance, and the News OF
that place says it is probably the first
town on the reservation to adopt that
plan Of seeing that the children are
at home at night.
Henry Marsh, a resident Of indie
pendence township, near Armour, was
discovered dead in the corn crib on
his farm eight miles southeast OF
Armour. He was working in the crib
when stricken with apopiexy.
Willard has passed out of existence
by reason of the postoffice there hav-
ing been discontinued by order of the
postofice department. Mail for that
region hereafter will be handled by a
rural route running from Kadoka.
awarded the contract for constructing
the new school house at Eagle Butte.
of the building by August Is. 1t will
be 40 by As feet in size, and will cost
$14,975, with two stories n full base
ment.
1t is officially announced that the
South Dakota Central Railway COM
pany will in the near future erect a
new depot building in Cotton.
After three years working for a ru-
raj route out of Leola, Route No. 1 has
been established.
The wind turning a rifle over result
ed in Kenneth Barnes of Claremont
being shot in the left shoulder with a
% caliber rifle. He was lying on the
ground watching for gophers, with the
cooked rifle lying beside. him when
the wind caused the weapon to topple
over and be discharged.
The rains on the prairies north and
east of Rapid City continue and the
country has not been in as good shape
for several years past. The back
ward spring has had a tendency to
keep everything from budding and
;%springing out and there is o practf-
cally little danger of any early fruit,
tree or shrubs being killed by frost.
With flags floating and bands play.
ing, Fred, Thiel, president of the Al
e%xandrfa Good Roads club, in the
, presence of the city council, county
commissioners, delegations from the
Emery and Bard Good Roads clubs,
and 200 boosters" turned the first
furrow in the making of the scenic
highway through Hanson county.
, Not until a few days ago did Hamp-
ton Wade, a homesteader, living near
Colome learn that his son was killed
in Chicago the latter part of March
by being run down by a train. Fred
Wade. the son was employed in a
iChicago and Northwestern railway sig
nal tower n had gone down on the
track to perform some duty when the
train struck him.
Superintendent King, who was re-
moved as agent for the Cheyenne res
ervation at Forest City by a subor-
dinate in the Indian commissioners
office and then reinstated when the
commissioner got back on the job,
was given a cordial reception upon his
return to Forest City from Washing
ton. Kings offense was in leaving
the reservation without leave.
Open wells have deprived a number
of homesteaders in the reservation
country of livestock. The latest suf-
ferer is w. NJ. Price, of Perkins coun-
ty, who found a fine ~2-year-old colt at
the bottom of an open we'll. The ami
NAL had been missing for two weeks
when found, and an examination
showed it was not killed by the fall,
but had starved to death in the well.
A. ~. Holt of Timber Lake, was
While tearing down an old log cab
in neal Central City, H. J.. Tuller, a
pioneer of 1876, and resident of that
place, was struck on the head by a
falling log and his skull SO badly frac-
aured that he never regained con
seriousness and died two days later.
fuller, who was 70 years old, is sur
vived by a wife and three daughters
He was a native of Troy, N. Y, and
was a member of the Black Hills Pho
neer society.
Colonel G. P. Jordan, a we'll known
frontiersman living lear White River.
has just recovered a horse which was
stolen from him three years ago.
When recovered the animal was being
driven by a homesteader, who proved
to have been an innocent purchaser.