Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-29
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS Mules

has established a branch distributing
house at Aberdeen.
William D. Hunter, A Homestake
miner, fell 1850 feet in the mine and
was instantly killed.
If present indications are any cri-
terion there will be more paving done
in Sioux Falls the coming year than
for the entire period since the first
paving was done in the city.
Miss May Melser has assumed the
duties of Houston postmistress. to
which she recently was appointed. She
succeeds James Skillen, who recently
resigned SO he could remove to Iowa.
On January 1 a new rural mail de-
livery route will be established from
Wolsey to the farming region east of
town Several hundred farmers and
members of their families will be ben
Gifted.
George Dineen, the 17-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Dineen of Yank-
ton, is dead there from the effects OF
blood poisoning resulting from a slight
wound received while engaged in corn
husking.
A milk famine is facing Mitchell at
the present time, and with only n
general dealer attending to the wants
of the people, is making it a serious
question for the future of the milk
question.
The contract has been awarded for
the construction of the power house
for the new municipal electric light
plant which is being installed at Bow
die. The plant must be completed by
January l next.
There was a good attendance at the
annual convention of the Lyman Coun-
ty Sunday School association, held at
Presho. A inc program had been pre-
pared and keen interest was taken in
the proceedings.
An investigation of the family rec
ord of Logan Dotson, arrested at
Spearfish for trying to pass a forged
check, disclosed the fact that his faith
err was a criminal, and was hanged for
murder by a Montana mob a few years
ago.
John Morgan has bee appointed
chief of the Murdo police department
to succeed J. l.. Fitzpatrick, resigned.
Funds have been raised with which
to have cluster lights placed on each
side of the principal business street
of Miller.
A large company is completing an
irrigation project near Interior, and
in a short time everything will be in
readiness for the turning on of the
water in the spring. Several thou
sand acres of rich land can be irriga-
ted by the project.
1t is the proud BOAST of the residents
of Colome that more building has been
done there this year than in n other
town in the Rosebud country. In ad-
dition to a number of fine business
blocks a large number of new dwell
ings have been erected.
While George Baumbarten was en-
gagged in piling Jour in the Bowdle
mill warehouse a slide occurred and
he was buried under the sacks. He
was badly hurt and would have been
smothered to death had not assistance
arrived at the critical juncture.
Thus far this season the Willow
Lakes farmers elevator has shipped
an aggregate of 269 carloads of grain
to eastern markets, breaking all pre-
vious records for a corresponding pc
riod. Two years g only 23O car
loads were shipped during the entire
season.
Seth Bullock, United States mar
shall, has taken to Leavenworth, Kan,
the seven prisoners sentenced to
terms in the federal prison there. They
are Asa and Israel Johnson, Oliver
Campbell, Brown Takes the Gun,
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John B. Sprink.
One hundred hogs were lost by Rob-
ert Kerr Upon his farm near Bruce.
The hog cholera is believed to have
caused their death. The cholera is
similar in some respects to the horse
plague which killed thousands Of
head of horses in Nebraska, Iowa and
South Dakota early this fall.
One resident of Watertown has
solved the annual banking of his
house and has had the foundation
walls of his house cemented up to
and above the foundation, making it
alright. There is not the usual trou-
BILE of banking in the fall nor the TAX
ing ava and cleaning up of the same
in the spring. Besides the cement is
clean anQ QOeS not ulSISuTG lue dp-
p%earance of the house.
The mystery of the disappearance
of a registered mail sack from the
Butler p%ostoffice in February, 1911,
has been cleared up by the confession
of John J. Hout, a rural mail carrier
for the past three years, who has con-
fessed to P~ostoffice Inspector V. G.
Bate, of WATERFOWL, the theft. Mr..
Hout was married since the crime oc-
Cured, and has a baby 5 days old. He
stated that he had an automobile and
that the expenses of keeping it up
drove him t. committing the two rob-
berries.
A fine new public school building
has been completed and occupied at
Isabel. The structure cost about S1o,-
600. and is one of the most modern
buildings of its kind in that part of the
state.
A mems Sunday evening club has
been organized in the Congregational
church at Centerville with a member