The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-08-15
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

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boy named Walter Jensen, living with
his parents on a farm near here, plac.
ed a huge rock on the Great Northern
| railroad track. and, c~oncealing himself
in the weeds at a safe distance watched
for developments. An engine pulling
a freight train struck the rock with
sufficient force to demolish the pilot
and injure the firebox. Railroad de-
tectives traced the crime to the boy,
who was arrested and held for trial.
He does not seem to realize the ser
iousness of his offense.
LETCHER-An interesting expert
ment in church consolidation is being
made in Letcher, several churches hav-
Ing united under one pastor, Rev. Mr..
Tibbetts. At a business meeting of the
directors of the consolidated churches,
it was voted to pay the pastor $1,100 a
year and furnish him a fine parsonage.
A union Sunday school also has been
formed. The aid societies will remain
separate until after a conference meet
ing, which is to be held in October.
Thus far the experiment has worked
successfully.
WAGNER-Allan Clemens and Joe
Mardis, mere boys, were arrested on
evidence secured by a Milwaukee rail-
road detective, on the charge of pill
fering goods from railroad cars at in
tervals during the past three months.
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cused pleaded guilty and were fined
$40 each and 20 days in Jail. Evil
IDENTIFY not satisfied with the punish
ment imposed, the accused nave taken
an appeal to the state circuit court.
MELLETTE-Oficers have returned
to Mellette county from Cody, Neb.,
having in custody John Mogle, aged II,
of that place, who was wanted on the
South Dakota side Of the line for horse
STEALING IT ic o11nroI ha cfo1o = Lo,.o
from Alfred Livermont. a resident Of
Mellette county. The boy was traced
to his home at Cody and returned to
South Dakota without requisition pa
pers. He is in jail awaiting trial.
PIERRE-The express companies
have refused to accept the OFFER of
compromise of taxes on the basis of 8
per cent Of their gross earnings. They
offered a compromise based on 2 per
cent, though they thought themselves
liable to but 1 per cent. The state re-
fused this 2 per cent offer and increased
1t to 3 per cent. This, the companies
claim, would be conf1scatory as COM
pared with other states, where the l
per cent generally sufices.
HOT sPRINGS-Preparations will
be made for the annual picnic and
celebration of the farmers and other
old settlers of Fall River county, which
will be held here Tuesday, September
2. The occasion will be known as
Farmers. Day and Old Settlers re-
union. The exhibit Of farm products
afterward will be sent to the state
fair at Huron as the Fall River
county exhibit.
HOT SPRINGS-Bishop N. Luccock.
the newest bishop of the Methodist
church, was the guest of the brother
hood of the local church here last night
at a banquet served to 200. Bishop
Luccock, who was elected to this posi-
ton at the general conference in Min
neapolls n May, has been assigned the
Black Hills district and will open his
f1rst conference at Edgemont today.
P1ERRE-State Engineer S. H. Lea
has been requested to deliver ar adj
dress on pumping for irrigation at the
National Irrigation congress to be held
at a Lake City, Utah, September 80
to October 8. Since there has been
pumping since the completion of the
Millett project last year, this will be an
interesting topic for discussion.
MITCHELL-Today the specia,
committee selected by the State Bank
ers' association, at the Belle Fourchu
meeting, will meet at Bookings for the
purpose of taking the initial steps to
better agricultural work in this state
The board of regents met with he
committee and several members of the
faculty of the agricultural college will
be called into conference.
ARDMORE-The harvest festival, to
be celebrated here in September as a
testimonial of the bounteous crops Of
the present season, has been postponed
from the 7th to September 81, to per-
nit further development of many late
crops One of the chief exhibits will be
sugar beets, which have been tried here
his year with a large acreage and with
good success.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES threshing
is IN progress with the following results
70 GATE A. G. King, wheat, is bushels;
Wlngert, wheat, 15 bushels, oats. SO
bushels; August Snyder. oats, 35 BUSH
els. Work has been retarded ONE
what by frequent showers. Corn is
caring heavily.
WINNER-The members of the
Trinity mission have awarded the coz
tract for a guild building. which will
gymnasium will be included. Funds
for the building and furnishings have
been donate by Philadelphia parties
who are interested in guild work.
PIERRE-The little mining town Of
Trojan, near Deadwood, in Lawrence
county is to build a new school house
In the near future. The plans for the
. UQllulIlSS Nave
been approved by the state sueprin-
tendent of public instructions. I
MADISON-The arrangements have
practically been completed for the an
nual conclaye of the knights Templar
of South Dakota here August 10, IA
and 15. Several thousand members of
the order will be in attendance.
KELDRON-Farmers of this vicin-
ity have organized a cooperative com
pany and conduct a farmers elevator.
Ample stock has been subscribed for
to assure success. The elevator will
be erected at once.
PIERRE-A permit has been granted
to Frank Jewett, Of Wasta, Penning-
ton county, to appropriate water from
Box Elder creek for the irrigation OF
11S acres of land.
BURKE-Work has commenced on
a fine new public school building
which will be pushed to completion
as speedily as possible.
8PIERPONT-The board of educa
ton has been recognized and the fol-
lowing officers elected: President
Harry Martyr; vice president, T. X
Knight; secretary, B. M. Dickerson.