Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-11-14
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

city, against the Chicago & North
western Railway Co, to recover damages
in the SUN of $45.W for damage claimed
to have been sustained from falling from
the platform of the company's station at
Wolsey some four years ago, has been
settled out OF court, the railway company
paying to Mrs. McAdams, as guardian, the
sum of &, $50.
Observation-Disclosures is now assured
a theater before the opening of the the
atr!cal season in 1918. In July b. B. Ward
made a proposition to the commercial club
that he would put up "a s35, 600 building
and procure a lot valued at $15. 600 IL the
business men of this city would raise a
bonus of $4,000. A committee was APP
pointed by the club and has succeeded In
raising upwards of $1,000 Of this bonus,
while the balance is now assured.
ABERDEEN-Jas. McAleer, sentenced
to a Jail term at Webster for having dy-
Mantle In his possession, and who was
said TO have told Postoffice Inspector Col
lier that there was a fence in Aberdeen
who purchased from yeggmen proceeds
from postofice robberies ia the Dakotas.
writes a local paper that he never told
Co!ller anything OF the sort, and that he
knows of no fence at Aberdeen, and denies
that he is a postoffce robber.
SIOUX FALI.S-A jury in the United
States court, after a trial lasting two
days. returned a verdict awarding Anton
Martinson, a laborer. damages in the
sum of 1850 against the j. b. Nelson Con-
structton company. of Mankato, MINI
The plaintiff sought to recover in the sum
OF $4,000 for injuries while employed by
the ompany IN the work Of constructing
the new coues house at Brookings. S. ID.
MADISON-J. F. Mckay, aged AZ, a
STR n lind nj fy,nhnf1 F4,-4r N Ftn,. Nm
Ing q county charge for about four weeks.
In accordance with a state law providing
for the disposal Of the bodies OF persons
who have been public charges and whose
remains are not claimed by relatives, his
body was sent to the medical department
OF the state university at Vermillion for
dissecting purposes.
BuFFALO-A company has been organ
lied to construct a telephone line from
Buffalo to Camp Crook. A connection
with the Belle Fourche line will be made
at Camp Crook. Officers of the ompan
are: President, l.. A. DeBelloy, Camp
Crook; vice president, C. T. Martini: sec
rotary, Fred Wilson; treasurer. William
Fried. The compa has a capital Of
5000.
kIMBALLeMrs. John Thull, aged 46,
was found hanging to a tree in a pasture
near Gam Valley. She had been ill all
hummer and arrangements had been mad
the night before to send her to Paullina,
Ia. with her sister. 1t Is thought the
woman was laboring under the impress
sion that she was to be taken to q hos
pital and preferred the end that came to
her.
neutrality-suspicious. Crandall, OF
the government Indian school in this city,
reports the finding of q skeleton with
shreds OF cloth attached on a bar in the
Missouri river. There was not enough
for Identification. except by the teeth,
which were held for examination. The
drowning had evidently occurred a long
PIERRE-New domestic corporations in
the secretary of states office reveal the
Standard Auto Starter company, Of Pierre,
5000 COO capital; Bankers Guaranty In
vestment Co., and the Theatrical Me-
chanical Production Co. The latter pro-
poses to manufacture all theatrical appli-
ances, erect theatrical buildings, and pat
ent new devices in the theatrical line.
PIERRE-The Bear Butte Valley bank.
with a $4,000 capital, has organized at
Sturgis. 1t is understood to be q sort of
successor to the defunct Meade County
bank. The stockholders are N. E. Frank
lin. John Clay, j.. T. Craig. Ben Baer,
w. f. Adams, Kirk G. Phillips, Roscoe
Keene. A. NJ. Anderson. W. d. Hall and
Joseph Meyer.
ARTEsIAN-only one-half inch of space
stood between Bryan Olson, the young
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Olson. when
a shotgun which he was handling was ac-
~cidentally discharged. The charge made a
six-inch moon in his breast or shoulder
and a number Of the shot slightly grazed
the face. One-half inch either way would
v caused instant death.
ABERDEEN-Judge Frank McNulty in
circuit court denied the motion Of the de-
Tense In the case Of the State va. w. H.
Roby, charged with the embexzlement Of
Elevator company. for q Dismissal OF the
case and instruction for the jury to ind
for the defendant In the action.
PHILIP = The winter social season
opened with . Halloween card party and
dance given by the Rebekah lodge, at
which ID tables were set to accommodate
the players. The Eastern Stars gave an
invitation dance the following evening.
Both events were . pronounced success.
BR1sTOL-rhe new track and grade Of
the Milwaukee Railway company has been
completed through Bristol. What was
known - Dead Mans Curve" q few
miles from town. has been obliterated by
the construction OF the new track. which
Is straight.
WHITE-The Epworth- league has elect
ed the. following offcers: President,
Frances d. Kelly: vice peSsIdents, w. @.
Willett. Mac T.. Barker. Nrs. w. q. Will
lett. Ina ]. Martin: secretary. Hattie v.
Doughty; treasurer, Bessie r. Bulger: as
sistant treasurer, Robert AcKercher.
ARNoUR-Ralph n. Henderson. aged
II, son OF II. Henderson,, regtst4r Of deeds
OF Douglas county, South Dakota, has at