Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-12-20
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

me TeappOlntment as postmaster OF
Marion H. Moore of Belle Fourche has
been recommended by Representatives
Martin and Burke. /,
Extensive improvements have been
made to the Eureka municipal water
works system and a great quantity
of new mains have been laid.
Belle Fourche has fallen heir to
$4,000 for a public park for the city.
The money was ~bequeathed by the
will Of the late Joseph Hermann.
The Miller Commercial club has CIV
en- its annual banquet and entertain
ment to the members and their fami-
lies. One hundred and eight-ive tick.
cts were sold for supper.
Mrs. E. H. Hartman has contrib
uted $4,000 to the Deadwood audito-
rum fund. A subscription list is be-
ing circulated to raise $25 900 for an
auditorium at Deadwood.
At Seneca the two children of M.
E. Stevens and wife ate pills that they
found in a bureau and their lives were
despaired of for some time until a
stomach pump was used to save them.
The states attorney of Yankton
county sprang a surprise on a gam
bling den by raiding it Unexpectedly,
and four alleged gamblers are held to
explain things to the state circuit
court.
Arrangements have finally been
made for an electric light system at
Houmboldt, furnished by a light and
pnyUaJ nnSl n ~ IIn,&f~-l VI.
work of extending the system to Hum
boldt will be commenced at once.
Ben Johnson, of Spirit Mound town
ship. Clay county, was taken to the
city hospital in Vermillion with a
badly mangled hand. The injury had
been done while working with a corn
shelter. A%mputation may be neces-
sary.
John S. Helwig, for 81 years a
member of the Chicago police force,
but formerly a Webster boy, has been
appointed chief of police at Webster,
succeeding Chief Garrick, who was
elected sheriff of Day county in No
vember.
1t is the proud claim of the residents
that Wagner ships and receives more
goods than any other town on the
Platte line of the Milwaukee Rail-
way company. During November the
business of the company here aggre-
gated $%21,426.63.
The clerk of courts of the circuit
court, Ninth judicial circuit, at HUI
ron, has just drawn the list of jurors
for the regular January term of the
court, which opens there at 9 o'clock
a. m, January 8, 1913. A good num-
Der of cases are to be brought up at
hat time, the calendar for the term
being a fairly large one.
DR.. J. G. Towles, proprietor of the
Grand View hospital in Sisseton, was
severely injured in an accidental fall
into the basement of his residence in
that city, and is in a serious condition
as a result of the fall, in which his
arm, collar bone and three ribs were
fractured. He is slowly recovering.
Mitchell people turned out in large
honor of DR.. William Grant Seaman,
the new president of the Dakota Wes-
leyan university. MitchelFs choicest
orators and. finest cooks were all in
evidence, and the banquet, from both
oratorical and a gastronomic point
of view. was a tremendous success.
Roy Bunnell, a young farm hand en-
ployed by Dairyman Bert Cummings,
near Aberdeen, who stole a horse
from his employer, was arrested near
and lodged in the Brown
ohNyprfv toll pr--~ Is
the horse, but says he cannot
explain his behavior, which was upon
a sudden impulse.
United States District Attorney, of
Mitchell, denies that it is his intention
% resign to enable President Taft to
appoint his successor. 81 can not see
where the correspondent who sent out
the story got any foundation for it,"
says Mr.. Wagner. 81 am not going to
before my term is out, nor have
had any such idea in mind at any
On January 1 a law partnership Of
than 20 years standing will ter
innate at Aberdeen, when E. T. Taub-
nan takes his seat as county judge Of
SSoASJ oAA llOh1 IuS
irm of Taubman, Williamson & Will
More than 20 years ago Mr..
Taubman and George N. Williamson
'ormed a partnership and have been
ogether ever since. A few years ago
z. F. Williamson, a nephew to the
unior member of the firm, was admit.
ed.
The Milwaukee is again able to send
rains across the Missouri river at
Mitchell after being tied up for 10
when the bridge was again op-
med to traffic. An immense quantity
II ice came down stream and when the
ridge vas opened to let it through,
t clogged and prevented closing the
The railroad company trans
erred the passengers, express and
nail across the river during the week.
Additional help will be put on in the
Mitchell postoffce, to accommodate
he increase of business expected
When the parcels post law goes into
An unsuccessful attempt was made
o wreck a Northwestern passenger
rain near Doland when some person
placed a rail on the track and made