The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-01-25
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

| P1ERRE@Thefa was 2i4a,J NO OF Interest
| on the permanent schoo! fund due Jan.
| uus.y j AMI payable ca March ! OF the eur.
rnut year. This money Will be pro rated
| to tho counties :or distribution TO the
| school Districts according to the showing
! made at this springs school census. The
permaront fund, derived from the sale o!
school lands. is let ouG on Farm mort.
cages, and 10 Independent schoos districts,
municipalities ana counties, The tund OF
| ready money IS nearly always leaned Ut
TO the limit. The amount OF interest from
any single county ranges as high as $500
from Beadle.
RAPID CITY-CiFrhosis OF the liver
ended the career Of Stephen Breyer, pto-
neer and known as the best prospector.i in
the Black Hills, at the RAPID City hos
pltsl, after 4 short Illness. Breyer was
- years old. He was 8 native OF Canada
and became & motNllurSist and prospector,
locating the greatest nickel nine IN Can
ada gt Suroury, on Lake Superior. This
he sold and came TO the Hills in the early
days, spending the rest OF his life here
in prospecting and mineral development.
He leaves considerable property and a d.
vorced wife and five children in Canada.
BIITCHELI-Out OF the county seat
AAA GAA-- - -HA-h NSNhAHNI ' hsA> NOtAA
uy ta!r association has been bene-
hted by Sl.59o. When the campaign
was on between lake Andes and
Wagner the Wagner business men
agreed TO present the county fair asso-
citation with the above sum if that town
was selected. This prompted many to sign
the petition circulated by business men
of Wagner. and eventually made Wagner
the candidate to be voted on next fall
against Wheeler. The money is to be used
only for the erection of new buildings
on the fair grounds.
PIERRE-The state board of health re-
ports December 10 be the freest from con-
tagious disease of any month of the year,
with % counties in which no c~ontagion
was reported Sc cases in all with four
deaths. There was a typhoid epidemic IN
Day county during the month with %
cases and four deaths There were cases
as follows: Scarlet fever, q, no deaths;
diphthcria 81, four deaths; small pox 10,
nc deaths; measles is, no deaths, and no
cases of cerobro-spinal meningitis or in
fantlle paralysis.
Observation-Disclosures j. T. Morrow,
treasurer of Dakota Wesleyan university,
received q check for SIS, S52.09 from the as
sistant secretary of the Rockefeller fund
of the general educational board, of New
] pIh. II Is JUST nalI the amount mat tne
university here is TO receive to help Gre
ate the endowment fund of $250.0o0 which
The Institution is raising. Half OF the sum
has been provided for, which brought the
half OF the pledge from the Rockefeller
fund.
MoBRIDGE-Alec Brewer OF the Flying
V ranch in Lyman county tells a remark
able story OF volunteer alfalfa. A flood
swept away some alfalfa seed two years
and last fall Mr.. Brewer visited q
portion Of the ranch which consists OF
gunbo soil, in a bottom, and found an
growth of the alfalfa, which had
been started from seed carried away by
the food. He allowed the alfalfa to go to
seed. and threshed over 200 bushels of
seed from the tract of land.
PIERRE-The silver loving cup won by
the state at the st. Paul land show for
the best 10 ears of corn, has arrived at
and henceforth will be placed on
exhibition at the state house.
The cup Is is inches nigh, OF FURNISHED
silver, and gold lined. 1t will be part
Of the South Dakota exhibit at futur
agricultural displays, and it is hoped to
secure further trophies to add to the COL
lection.
FOREST C1TY-The government au-
at the Cheyenne River Indian
agency will in the near future award tina
contract to eastern builders for the con-
of a new $1,000 government ferry
boat, which Is to be placed in commission
here the coming season. The boat will be
utilized to take freight for the agency
here to the west side of the Mis-
souri, river.
DEADWOOD-After lingering uncon-
scious for &c hours with a bullet in his
Charles l.. Stillman, the druggist
who Friday night shot himself in a fit of
died here Sunday. Warned
by a physician to whom he was talking
IN his drug store here that he must stop
drinking, Stlllman excused himself and
put a bullet into his brain.
WHITE OWL-A number of young men
living In the vicinity of Red Owl have or
sanized a bachelors club which meets at
the nome OF one of the members each
week. After INDUCING in boxing and 9TH
er amusements. the host is required to
furnish supper for the members, and the
Q y report some fine times at their meet
ings.
YANKToN-J. Fl. Davis, father of Mrs.
Albert L. Lee, of Yankton college. and
whose husband is secretary of that in
stltutlon, dropped dead in the yard at the
Lee home on Saturday. The deceased,
VINO was 20 years of age, was a Virginian
confederate veteran. He leaves his
wife, one daughter and IN only son.
TRlPP-The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Hutchinson County
Far association will be held here on Feb
fuary IL In addition to ~electing officers
ana transacting other business, the propo-
sition of increasing the capital stock of
the association from 5000 to $4,000 also
VIII be discussed and acted upon.
CLARk-Henry Summers, jr., "a years
age, committed suicide by hanging him
seh. He left the house with a sister, and
leaving her went to the barn, where in
the nay loft he was found by his father.
Inc Summers family came to Clark four
years ago from Lodi. Wis. Dependency
was the cause.
WHITE OWL-The Pioneer store and
J. w. Spaw ave started the ice harvest
at this point and a fine grade of the
slippery" is being taken from White
Owl creek. a thickness of some 30 inches
being reported. A chinook wind. the first
since before Christmas Ii hurry.ng oper-
atoms.
SIOUX FAIsLS-Fr.ends nave entered
Judge Q. 8. Clifford, of Canton. as a can
didate for election as commander of the
Grand Army OF the Republic, department
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