The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-06-21
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

of that town.
Denny Sullivan. a former Milbank
resident, is now a member of the
Kansas City American association
baseball team.
A fine program is being prepared
for a meeting of the farmers grange
lodges Of that part Of the state, to be
held at La Bolt.
II. w. Seeman, a Garretson butcher,
was kicked in the stomach by a frac-
tious horse and had a narrow escape
from an untimely death.
The Webster creamery is now max
ing a ton and a half Of butter each
week, $500 pounds of which is ship
ped to eastern markets.
Twenty-four first voters cast their
ballots at Cheyenne agency at the pri-
mary election. The election board
included ona full blooded Indian.
At a mass meeting 1t was decided
to have a rousing Fourth of July cele-
bration at Storla and committees
were appointed to make arrange
ments.
Robert Guyer Of Brookings has sue
cessfully passed his examination for
admission to the United States mill.
tary academy at West Point, and will
be enrolled soon.
The town Of Columbia. eighteen
miles from Aberdeen, and the former
county seat of Brown county, held a
celebration which it called a Joy
day. on Friday, June IA.
A company is SEEMING Lake Kam-
peska, near Watertown, to rid 1T or
%scavenger fish. With a net 5000 feet
in length thousands Of buffalo MI
carp have been removed.
While working on a Scaffolding,
Fred Eastman, Ole Johson and Will
lam Bordwell of White Rock, were
precipitated to the ground when the
scaffolding broke, and all were Sc
verely injured.
The Diamond A. outfit, which runs
in the Eagle Butte country, has re-
ceived 5000 head of southern cattle
from Arizona and Old Mexico, which
it will turn onto the reservation
range to fatten.
Bohumil Fillipi, charged with hav-
ing forged checks at Kimball. broke
from the county Jail at Chamberlain
and was at liberty for several days.
He was apprehended in the vicinity
Of White Lake.
o. J. Grandsdall Of Sioux Falls has
purchased the property of h Hart
ford Electric Light and Power COM
pany. and will take up his permanent
residence at Hartford so he can give
the plant his personal attention.
The Commercial club has awarded
the contract for the construction OF
one and one-half niles of model high
way south of town. A traction en-
CINE will be utilized in the road work
and rapid progress will be made.
The Aberdeen city commission has
granted licenses to 80 applicants for
permission to conduct saloon bust
ness. The commission has also in
creased the salaries of the captains OF
the fire department to $50 a month.
r. A. Berkner, Of Millbank, claims
to have made record time between
Minneapolis and Milbank in an auto
mobile. He drove q 35-horse power
car and made the trip in eight hours
and As minutes Of actual running
time.
When Bruno Johnson of lea Sioux
Falls, climbed into his haymow TO
feed a horse a hobo attacked him with
a fork handle and left him uncon-
scious after having taken Johnson's
clothes. all his cash, amounting to
IS, and a gold watch.
Robbers broke into an old store
building at Marvin which was being
used for storage purposes by the
surveyors who are outlining the route
for the Milwaukee double track. and
stole about $50 worth of clothing and
a surveyors level worth $50. The
level was found a short distance away.
the robbers evidently deciding it was
of no use TO them.
Peter Peterson. an aged and eccen-
trio pioneer resident of Potter u
ty, died a few days ago and the au-
thorities have been unable to locate
any of his relatives in this country.
He was the owner of a fine farm and
held an insurance policy. the farm and
policy representing about $4,000,
which, in the absence Of heirs on this
side of the Atlantic, may go to the
state Of South Dakota.
Pneumonia carried of another pio-
neer in the death of Harry B. Trathan,
one of the old time mining men Of
Deadwood. Mr.. Trathen was ar Eng
lishman, II years old. and came to the
Black Hills in 1877, being for a num-
Der Of years in the employe OF the
Homestake Mining company at Lead.
For years he has been developing his
own ground ia the Bear Gulch dis
trict. He leaves three sons. Harry,
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