The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-26
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

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wAGNER-An important land con-
test Is taking place here. A short time
g a homestead entry was secured
| upon a valuable $50 acres in Charles
Mix county. near Wagner, S. D., which
Is estimated to be worth $4,000. The
| homestead entry was secured by Free
man E.. Guptill, an old soldier who
served about -four years In the civil
war and who a make final proof on
the claim In IA months. He is being
contested on the ground Of filing for
speculative purposes by A. A. Boynton,
assistant cashier of the First State
Bank of Wagner.
SIOUX FALLS-The Butte valley
district in Gregory county claims
among it's residents the largest boy in
the entire state of South Dakota for his
age. His name is Jacob Schimmerhorn
and. before coming to South Dakota, he
was a resident of Kansas. The young
giant is Is years of age, stands 6 feet
and 6 inches in height and weighs $50
pounds. He also has enormous
strength, this being equal to that of
two ordinary men.
BROOKINGS-Samuel Carver, Of the
South Dakota state college. has been
detailed by the United States depart
ment Of agriculture as specialist in
alfalfa Investigations in South Dakota,
and he is preparing his material to
carry on this work at the Highmore
sub-station. h station is one of the
important points in the United States
for the study of drought resistant
plants.
HURON-The.. annual election of Of
icers of the Huron fire department re-
suited as follows: VIM. A. Ritschlag,
chief; William Herman, first assistant;
Dan Snyder, second assistant; Charles
Fades, secretary; Don Tolmie, treasur-
er; Elmer Newton, Theo. Lindskove
and M. Chromey, trustees. The de-
partment is one Of the most efficient
in the state.
HOT SPRINGS-The local volunteer
ing officers for the coming year: Chief,
John Mueller; assistants, Lyman AL
len, William Dumke; secretary, Leroy
c. Eastman; treasurer, Joseph Roth. 1t
was decided to send a running team
to he state firemen's tournament, to
be held at Pierre in June.
PIERRE-H. L. Hazleton, a baker at
the Eureka bakery, was badly burned
in an early morning fire, his condition
being serious. The damage to the stock
n building will amount to several
thousand dollars, divided between j. E.
Nipple, owner of the building, and F. ].
McCallmont, owner of the stock.
PIERE-The recently completed re-
port Of the state insurance department
shows that foreign fire insurance COM
panies hav risks in South Dakota
amounting to sos, ST., 997; that they
collected net premiums of 81, 500, 069;
that they paid losses of $793. S61, and in
CURED losses Of 1874, 254 last year.
SPEARFISH-The very unusual
sight Of a full grown doe running down
ono IF tho SfrQptc wac rQpAntlv wit
messed here. The animal evidently had
been frightened out of the timber near
town n went through The streets on
the jump, finally stopping in a pasture
on the outskirts Of the town.
PRESHO-George w. Egan spoke
here in the opera house to the largest
crowd that ever listened to a political
speech in Presho. The audience was
appreciative and enthusiastic. He
spoke at Chamberlain last night and is
making three speeches a day, all to
packed houses.
MILLER-The. Vanderbilt hotel here,
one Of the first, If not the first hotel
built between Huron and Pierre, has
been leased by Chas. Flynn, who was in
the hotel business in washington until
recently. The Terreys, who have OPP
Grated the hotel, expect to retire to Cal
ifornia.
PIERRE-A chunk of Ignite coal,
weighing several pounds was recently
found in the sands of the pump from
which the city water supply is secured,
evidently having been washed Town the
Missouri at some previous time and
imbedded in the river bank.
PIERRE-The senatorial primary
preference petitions of r. o. Richards
Of Huron and Melvin Grigsby, of Sioux
Falls for the Senate, were filed with
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making -four republicans candidates so
far filed.
LEOLA-Rev. J. o. Staehling, for the
man Lutheran church, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect at once.
he having accepted the pastorate of a
similar church at Myrtle. Mimi.
BURKE-W. J.. David and Richard
Stanford, proprietors of a local BUSH
ness house, were badly burned as the
result Of an explosion of gasoline. Their
building was saved by the prompt ar
rival Of the fire department.
WHITE RIvER-Recent events have
given rise to the belief that the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad will ex-
e it's line from Winner to White
River this season. thus giving White
River its first railroad.
BONESTEEL-This city at Tues
days election defeated the entire adj
ministration ticket and gave an unex-
pected majority for the dry ticket. Ca
nova also voted out saloons.
FAULKTON-This is .'clean nm.
week here and the residents are de-
voting all their spare time to cleaning
up their premises and the adjacent
streets.
LENNOX-At a meeting held by citi-
zens preliminary arrangements were
made to secure a speaker and suitably
observe Memorial Day.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Congressman
Martin has recommended r. E.. Grim
shaw for reappointment as postmaster
of Deadwood.
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