The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-01-04
MATURITY OF STATE
TOLD IN NEUROLOGY
Of EARLY PIONEERS
Notable Names Erased BY the
Demon Of Death in the Year
Now Ending.

Pierre. s. D., Jan. 1.-The year 1911
has recorded an unusually large num-
Der Of deaths among notable South Ia
kota citizens. These Increased ia
talities are an indication mat south
Dakota is coming of age hitherto the
men that have don things have All
been young men and consequently there
were few deaths. Perhaps the most
notable citizens to pass over the divide
were United States Senator Alfred
Hon. Bartlett Trip. Of Yankton. Both
Hon.. Bartlett Trip, of Yankton; Both
men possessed q nation wide reputa-
ton, Senator Kitredge as one OF the
leaders of that body, and Bartlett Trip
from his services to his state on her
bench and as cedifier of her laws, and
to his nation as diplomat and states
man.
Chauncey Woods. the last democratic
candidate for governor, whose remain
have just been returned to his home
state after a lengthy legal controversy
between his sons and wife as to their
place of interment, and Abraham Boyn-
ton, formerly of Mitchell, but lately
Of Wagner, were prominent democrats
to go.
From the ranks of the lawyers went
Hubert N. Wallace, of Elk Point, his
family one OF the oldest in the state:
w. L. mclaughlin, of Deadwood; and
Capt. ]. II. Hauser and Jno. II. Perry,
OF Aberdeen.
Prominent business men tc pass away
were Thad. d. Ellefson, OF Sisseton;
Nose Kaufman, widely known from his
brewery; r. w. Dillsbury, a former
mayor Of Sioux Falls, and Geo. Brace,
of the same city; s. l.. Brown, of Gen.
%terville, an educator n business man;
and Andrew Melgaard, Of Aberdeen,
whose name Will always be remembered
in the north city by the splendid grove,
recently made a park, which he reared
on his farm near the city limits.
The Congregational clergy lost DR.
John Askin, of Pierre, an English gen.
tleman who had occupied many i'm,
portant pulpits in this country, and
Rev. John Cross, Of Yankton, mission.
airy at different times to the Sioux and
to the Esquimox In Alaska: while the
Methodists lost Rev. Robt. III. Dolltver.
of Hot Springs, q brother Of the lows
senator.
OF former state legislators who left
never to return were A. s. Stewart, OF
Hot Springs: John G. Laxson, of Can
ton; J. r. Beebe. OF Brule, a member Of
the last house; Thos. Cawood. Of Hand
and Andrew Williams, of Leola, chair.
man Of the last senate apportionmeni
committee.
DIR. Fred II. Files and DR.. F. M,
Jencks, Of Madison; and DR.. James
Buchanan, for years located at Yank.
ton, were notable physicians to past
away during the year.
Other notable South Dakotans to &c,
during the year were William H. Smith
of Huron, auditor for a large elevator
company in this state, who choked t
death OF q piece of orange peel while OF
the way home from attending n ope
ing Of the legislature; w. l.. Dow, o.
Sioux Falls, the architect of nearly al
of the early public buildings; II. III
Blair, of Elk Point, county judge, and
for years a member of the board OF
regents; S. K. Young, ~ex-speaker OF the
house and superintendent of the Plank.
ington Training school, n beins
strongly urged to enter the race fol
governor at the time of his death, anc
Harriet Onge, a noted mixed blood
grand daughter of Robt. Dixon, the
famous British officer In the war OF
1872, and famous for her fund of infor.
nation concerning the early history OF
the