The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-08-22
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

Ger and Mitchell for he reason that
the rates recently filed would be in
the nature of an increase. They have
also filed with the Interstate Com
pension of rates on the Milwaukee
lines in the state for the reason that
the tariff as proposed would be an In
crease on grain and in another case
where there would be an increase on
lime, cement and plaster.
DEADWOOD-Charged with en-
oeZzlement of company funds, Thomas
Phelan. the young cashier of the Chi
cage & Northwestern railroad, is I'M
der arrest here. He waived q justice
court hearing and was bound over to
the circuit court. A discrepancy in
to an Investigation, showing a short
age of $3.50, which the officials claim
he has admitted. Phelan came here
from Des Moines two years ago.
ABERDEEN-James Coffey, chair
man of the democratic state central
committee. has appointed l.. ]. Welsh.
of Mitchell, treasurer of the state cen
trail committee, and w. Roy Eeitch. of
Groton, secretary of the committee,
Mr.. Coffey has been spending the past
two days at Faulkton in conference
| with Ed S. Johnson, democratic can
dldate for governor. with reference to
the establishing of the state head
quarters at that place.
PIERRE.-A combination of lectures
of interest to farmers and teachers. OF
farmers children has been arranged
for Farmers Day at the Joint Insti-
tute of Sully and Hughes counties, Au-
gust %. These will be held in connec-
ton with the eighth grade graduation
of the Sully county schools. Mr.. Willis
e. Johnson, vice president of the
Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen. is to be conductor
of the institute.
PIERRE-Governor Vessey has
granted a pardon to Charles Runkle,
sent from Hughes county on a charge
of horse rustling. Runkle is one of the
boys from Casstown, O., who attempt
ed to start careers as bad men here
by stealing two horses and looting
farm buildings north of the city.
Runkle appeared to have been led into
the venture, and has been pardoned
after serving several months of his
sentence.
HOT sPRINGEs.-The annual con-
Vention of he South Dakota Pharma-
ceuticai association closed after elect
ing officers as follows: President, A.
c. Alderman, Sioux Falls; first vice
president, d. Laven, Minneapolis;
second vice president, Chris Fogtman,
81: Paul; third vice president, A. AL
person. st. Paul; secretary-treasurer,
j.. r. Burns, Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls
will entertain the pill rollers next year.
PIERRE-The Hebrew Farming Pho
neer association of Detroit has writ
ten to the land office in regard
TO d1frerent parts of the state as suit
able places for communities and de-
string room for at least rs families.
At the present time there are Just
such places of desirable land selling
at $40. $15 n 500 per acre in Hard
Ing, MCPHERSON n Marshall coun-
ties.
approximations have been ex-
ended by Secretary c. N. McIlvaine,
of the state fair board, to J.. B. Veitch
ana carroll b. Dotson, both of Sioux
Falls, to make trips with one of the
aviators to be here at the state fair
this fall. Both Of the gentlemen i'm
mediately accepted. The flights will
be made In the Newport monoplane ON
the first day Of the fair.
ARLINGTON-That land is reaching
q good price at Arlington and good
farms are in active demand was proven
this week when James Holcomb pur-
chased the John Bennett quarter sec
ton farm near the city, paying 500
per acre for it. This Is the first piece
OF land to sell for 500 per acre in this
vinicity. The Bennett farm is well
improved.
sTURGIs.-A terrific rain and hail
Ahpo1 Wy IlGdVy W1nQ and
lightning, visited here late Saturday.
lasting over an hour. Three hundred
yards of the Northwestern track is
washed out. All the mi phone
lines are down. The damage by hail is
heavy. Hail did little damage in the
The streets We're flooded.
WOLF CREEK-Jacob F.. Walter. a
monte colony. was the first victim In
TINS vicinity Of the harvesting and
thresh1ng season. He was badly cut
narrowly escaped losing an arm
When 1t was caught by the knife while
ne was trying to raise the dividing
board on a feeder.
LEAD-The first pile driven for the
of the new city hall was
sunk Tuesday and that part of the
work will soon be completed. All of
the piling has been tipped with steel,
SO that the work of driving through the
rocks and boulders will not be difficult
Bartlett, the contractor, will rush the
work from now on.
GAYVILLE.-The S-year-oid son
Tor. residing three and a half niles
southwest of here, died from the eff
fects of appendicitis. About two
weeks ago he underwent an operation
afterwards was operated on again
after which he died in a few hours.
ABERDEEN-The city commission
ers nave called a special election for
September II to fill the acancy caused
by the death Of Commissioner A. b
Boyd. following injuries from an ex-
plosion in a new bank vault. F. A,
Brown, of the Brown Bros Banking
company, is the only candidate SO far.
SIOUX FALLS-The first election
pet OF consequence yet made in South
Dakota has been entered into by two
residents of Kimball, who. have wag-
cred $500 each on opposite sides OF the
proposition that Wilson will secure
more votes in South Dakota at the
November election than Roosevelt.
LEAD-The erection of the new citv
hall. recreation hall for Homestake EN-.
ployes and the stone steel brewery
under way for Omaha parties, insure
enough work in the building line for
the fail and winter to keep hundreds
OF men busy.
BELLE FOURCHE-Found dead m
the Q to Hulett. Wyo., Edward
Proctor, a rancher, is believed to have
been killed " lightning while on his
home across the ronUa froy, No.