Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-12
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

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A candy factory and bakery to cost
$4,000 is under construction at Dead
wood. 1t will be operated by H. B.
Schlicting.
At a meeting of the Fourth District
Medical society held in Highmore, DR..
Gearhart of Iierre was elected presi-
dem for 1912.
Arrangements have been made for
the annual jack rabbit hunt at Oko-
boil. Ordinary rabbits are not to
count in the score this year.
In accordance with instructions
from Washington a postal savings
department will be added to the Bone
steel postoffice on January IS.
A broom factory is among the re-
cent industries to be established at
Claremont. L. B.. Jacoby, an expert
enced broom maker, is in charge.
A decision is expected O in the
case of P. B. Mccarthy of Rapid City.
against a bank of that city. McCar-
thy sues to recover usurious interest.
Experiments in the raising of pop
corn near Sioux Falls were very sue
cessful and hat crop may become one
OF the big products of South Dakota.
local automobile club has been
orr anized at Watertown. H. D. Nc
Cosham, who is also interested in the
meridian road project, is back Of the
new organization.
4 man ny the name of Mckinney,
living near Midland, froze one of his
feet, The condition Of his toes be-
came SO lad that he amputated them
himself with his pocket knife.
Over 100 travelling statesmen out Of
Aberdeen sat down to a banquet at
the Aberdeen Commercial club en-
dered them by Aberdeen jobbers. A
fine menu, music by a good orchestra,
and a number of toasts helped make
the evening a delightful one to hosts
and guests.
Slippery rails caused the Bald
Mountain ore train on the Burling-
ton to run way down grade in Ne
vada gulch, near the Mogul workings.
in the Black Hills. The crew stuck
unit! forced to jump to safety, and
the train jumped the track, the en-
CINE remaining upright and blowing
through the snow, while the cars
piled Up and scattered ore down the
hillsides. No one was hurt.
II has been voted by the county
commissioners of Pennington county
to have the executives accountant OF
the state audit the books of all county
officials from the time of the organi-
zntton of the county in 1882 to date.
This has no direct bearing on the con-
duct of any county official, but is in
tho line OF action taken by many
South Dakota counties. 1t is pro-
posed to have all of the books checked
in accordance with chapter 149 Of the
revised statutes Of 1908.
A South Dakota man, in the person
of O. D.. Olmstead, an attorney Of
Trip county, was among those re-
Gently indicted by a federal grand
Jury at Denver in connection with
charges against the United States
Postal Insurance company, which Is
accused of using the mails to defraud.
The company was organized in Den
yer three years ago with a capital of
81 600, 900. Stock Of a par value of
500 is alleged to have been sold at
from 500 to 5000 per share. It is
charged tina stock sales brought into
the treasury of the company $4,000.
and that the officers n organizers
divided $4,000 and that no policies
we're written.
While husking corn, 1. L. Hornick, a
we'll known homesteader near Clear
field, in Trip county, espied a lynx,
which he shot and killed. The animal
was % inches high and 40 inches in
length and weighed over 40 pounds,
being one of the largest animals Of
the kind ever seen in this vicinity.
The thirty-second annual reunion Of
the Aancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry will be held in
Aberdeen on January 1919, inclusive,
when the degrees from the fourth to
the thirty-second, inclusive, will be
conferred on a large class.
As the result of a meeting held at
Ardmore by farmers anL. business men
of that part of the county, which was
attended by officials of the Great
Western Sugar company, a large acre
z Of beets will be grown there this
year. The company will pay SIS per
ton for beets f. o. b.. Ardmore. 1t is
demonstrated that beets can be profit
ably grown there.
Twenty-six hunters and a half doz-
en- dogs Joined in a wolf hunt near
Bison, and after several hours hard
work rounded up and dispatched one
lone coyote.