Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-03-21


The plant viii be of sufficient capacity 1
10 furnish power for electric lights in
the towns of Lincoln county and those
on the Iowa side Of the boundary line /
in the neighborhood of Fairvisw.i
Electric power will also be furnished. /
In the state circuit court of Turnerl
county Michael MoGt entered plea
Of guilty to the charge of shooting
ana wounding Night Marshal Soren
johnson, OF CenterviIie, and was SEMI
fenced TO an indeterminate term Of
not less than one nor more than fivest
years in the Sioux Falls pententiary.1
Al the time of the shooting he beliey-t
ed he had been attacked by yeggmen
who were about to rob a Centerville !
bank. and the incident created great
excitement at Centervillc and vicinity
1t developed that the marshal had
appeared on the scene just in time
TO break up Il midnight gambling
game, and in the darkness did not
recognize the fleeing men, one of
whom, MotIlt, returned his fire.
Mrs. Ellen Clifford. agen rs. an in
sane woman who lived with her son
Charley. aged, 80, in a small house
about a mile north Of Highmore, kept
officers at bay for week. She had
two small guns in her house, cooked
and loaded, ready to fire on anyone
who crossed her Threshold The sher-
| if tried in many ways to capture her.
! Al last the services of the depot OPP
orator were secured and he went to
the house with a fake telegram. She
opened the door about half an rich
and told him to shove the paper in.
but he said she must sign the book
which he had with him. She Their
let him in, and once inside he grabbed
her and held her until the sheriff
arrived. Next day an attendant. took
her TO the Yankton insane hospital
A telegram received from the clerk
of the United States circuit court of
appeals at st. Louis states that the
court of appeals has affirmed the
verdict of a jury in the United States
court in Sioux Falls in the case of
+ Ella r. Bay, of Menominee, Mich, vs..
James S. Sanborn, the latter being
a banker Of Pukwana, s. D. The plain
tiff. instituted the action to recover
I damages from the defendant for not
| fulfilling contract Of marriage The
: case was the subject of a sensational
: trial in the federal court at Sioux
i Falls, the jury finally awarding Miss
! Bay Judgment for $25,000--the
greatest sum ever awarded in the fed
eral court for South Dakota in a
| breach Of promise suit. The case was
, appealed to the circuit court of ap
!peals, where it was argued on ,Ianu
!; larry 80 Of this year. If there is nc
& further way in which to secure an
| Iother stay Of judgment, the plaintiff
/ now will secure the amount of the
i Judgment granted her.
On the theory that the large amount
Z of wolf bounties paid out in the Black
\ Hills counties may cover graft
I court proceedings have been commenc
4 ed at Rapid City by States Attorney
Z Denu under the inquisitorial act tina,
promises to prove interesting. 1t |.
4 learned that State Auditor Anderson
81 OF. Peirre, is back of the proceedings
3 and that other counties besides Pen
y nington are to be similarly inyestigat
3 ed to learn if there has been an,
I Wrong-do The action was started
IN Justice Joy IS court by the summon
ing OF Leon ebblewaite, book
9 keeper for two local hide firms, III
being ordered to bring the books of the
com anies into court. Hebblewaite re
fused and was ordered to jail BY thu
justie Fl contempt OF court His al
y torney at once commenced habeas
q corpus edings, which we're heard
BY Judge MCGEE in the circuit court
the judge deciding that the justics:
! could not commit for contempt in the
4 circumst ances. States Attorney Den,
will now proceed in q different man
3 ner He has complete tabulated re
h ports from the state auditor for Pen
9 nington county which show all the
Iywolf bounties and to whom paid dur
Z ing the past three years These show
that Pennington county has paid oui
!, II that time $4,000 in bounties, which
seemed TO the state ofIlcials MUGS
III 100 large. Wolf bounties are seldom
{ paid IN this part of the state, the
= large majority being for coyotes
which bounty il So on this basis
363 Pennington county wo,llfi have m ii