Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-09-20
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

a little more than a month, died at her
nome near Bryant after an illness of a
week.
A big fiat house is being built at
Eagle Butte to help care for the big
crop in that part of the homestead
country.
Oscar c. Olsen of Lennon is show
ing some velvet chaff wheat that went
"a bushels to the acre and is of excel
lent quality.
The new public school building at
Okoboji is nearing completion and is
expected to be ready for occupancy
by September 20.
Rapid City has been selected as the
site of a factory for the manufacture
of a dozen or more food products to
be derived from alfalfa.
Prof. n. e. Hansen, the Burbank
Of South Dakota, has invented a
new plum which is said to be adapted
to northwestern conditions.
January s, 9 and 10 have been fixed
al dates for the state conservation
meeting at Pierre. Dry farming and
good roads will be considered.
r. E. Springer, a farmer living near
WATERFOWL, has just harvested $4,000
bushels of wheat from 900 acres of
land. Some of the macaroni wheat
averaged "a bushels to the acre.
The WATERFOWL district of the Ep-
worth eLague held a convention in
Trenton township, Brookings county,
10 ct rnal thof woc 1oroo1v attnr1n1
Jamie Gold, aged -, fell from a
third-story window of his home at Big
Stone, and, strange to say, sustained
only a broken wrist and bruises of the
face.
Several records were smashed and
seven new marksmen developed at the
annual target practice of the Pierre
company of the South Dakota national
guard.
Mystery surrounds the identity of a
crazy man who was found wandering
at a farm house some miles from
Letcher, and who is now in custody at
Woonsocket.
John McGhee killed "a rattlesnakes
in less than 80 minutes on the Louis
Waugh farm, eight miles northeast OF
Colome. They were found in a "prai-
RE dog town"
Mitchell is making big preparations
for it's fourteenth annual corn pal
C which, from reports, far outclasses
any that have been shown there in
previous years.
John Gray Of Deadwood has brought
action to prevent Secretary of State
S. c.. Policy from certifying to the
county auditors the names of the bull
moose electors named at the Republi-
can state convention.
A bunch of short change artists, two
men and three women, struck Scot
land. and while there victimized sew
eral people and made their escape.
1t is believed they will visit other
towns in South Dakota.
Paul LaVelle, aged 10, of Parker,
while shooting at a target with other
young boys, was struck by a bullet,
which entered the left side Of the
chest and passed through, emerging
just below the shoulder blade. He
will recover
A peculiar insect, which experts are
unable to classify, is doing a great
deal of damage to trees at Volga by
entering the trunks and limbs and sap.
ping the vitality of the trees. The in
sects appear to be increasing at an
alarming rate.
Fire destroyed the Milwaukee rail
road depot at Garden City. The fire is
supposed to have been started by an
oil lamp hanging on the outside of
the building either falling or being
blown down and scattering burning
oil on the outside Of the structure.
Dan Rovig and family, farmers liv-
ing near \Volga, had a narrow escape
from Heath last week, when a bolt of
lightning struck the house. The walls
were shattered and the bed nm which
Mr.. and Mrs. Rovig and the youngest
child were sleeping was torn to pieces.
Milbank and Big Stone boosters are
working on a plan to buy the aban-
doned right of way of the Milwaukee
railroad between the two towns, as
a public highway. 1t is stated the
roadbed of the railroad could easily
be converted int one of the best high
ways in the state.
The old town we'll at Arlington,
which was filled up long ago, >caved
in last week and will have to be filled
again. The well acquired some noto-
riety in its day, as it was four feet
square and $50 feet deep. The dirt
was all drawn out with windlaSs, and
the water was used largely for fire
protection, as it was %unsuited for
drinking purposes. Later, when Ar
lington grew more prosperous. a wa
ter system was put in. The old well
was no longer needed, and it was
filled up.
Ed Thompson, a negro, who re-
ceived bruises and cuts requiring over
100 stitches as the result of being
struck by a Northwestern train, made
a rope from his bedclothes n es-
capped from an Aberdeen hospital.
While employed at the New Elm
Spring Mennonite colony in Hutchin-
son, count, D. E. Belts, a local man,
found embedded in sandstone the
teeth of some large seafish, which
many claim are sharks teeth, which
MANY claim are sharks teeth. A num-