The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-22

installed within u short time.
An attempt to start second bust.
ness college at Watertown has result.
ed in n lively scrap in which some
OF the newspapers are taking nm ac.
tive part.
Butte county was the first to re.
spond to the call for state taxes and
turned in almost 40 percent OF the
! total due from that county for the
entire year
The Cheyenne river is to be bridged
at several points in Pennington coun.
| ty this summer. The county commits.
sioners will issue $4,000 worth OF
bonds for this purpose
The new train service on the st.
Louis line between Condo and LeBeau
is in operation.
The prohibtionists OF Brown county
and vicinity are planning a big meet.
ing in Aberdeen on Thursday.
About 30 members OF the demo.
cratic state central committee are in
session at Mitchell. Aberdeen was
selected for the state convention.
w. II. Menzie. of Geddes. offers a
iN"uiu vi PSNO III tht ictoNNtg vi illS
bodies OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charless Dur.
ham from the Missouri river before
April l. The couple were drowned
while driving over the ice Menzie
| is Mrs Durham's father.
The new Methodist Episcopal church
at Gettysburg was dedicated with
special services and big program.
The building cost 100000.
II is likely that the big cyanide
mill of the Mogul Mining Co., at Plu.
ma, destroyed by fire recently, will
be rebuilt. The cost will be about
100000.
Gerrit Van Hees and John G. Note
boom, of Sioux Falls, have been ar
rested in connection with a "chariv-
ari" in which considerable damage
to property was done.
The Yankton county commissioners
have announced their Willingness to
cooperate in the building of the por-
| tion of the meridian road which is
slated to go through that county.
The law firm of Philip & Waggoner,
side of the fight for delegates to the
national conventions. Philip is re-
publican and Waggoner a democrat.
| The insurance companies doing
business in the state are suing for an
injunction restraining the state insur-
ance department from compelling the
issuance of annual statements of fl
nancal condition.
Miss Lille Putnam, who attempted
suicide at Aberdeen recently, may re-
cover. She has been taken back to
the state reformatory at Plankinton,
from which institution she was re
leased a few weeks ago.
Fred Schultz and Oscar Anderson,
of Lead, are under arrest charged
with perjury, committed when they
swore Elsie Kalwat was over IS years
old to secure her marriage with
Schultz.
An organization of young men, SINH
lar in many respects to a commercial
| club, has been perfected at Mitchell.
Train service on many lines in vari-
Gus parts Of the state has again been
| abandoned on account of the heavy
| snow fall.
The executive committee of the
South Dakota intercollegiate athletic
association has fixed the dates of the
annual state track meet for May "a
! and %
| Responses to the call for a state
real estate mems convention at Aber
deem on March 20 and 81 indicate that
| the attendance will be unusually
large
The city council at WATERFOWL has
called a special election for March
% to vote on the question of adopt
ing the commission plan of govern
ment for that city.
A reward of 5000 has been offered
for the recovery of the bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Durham, who were
drowned in the Missouri when they
! attempted to drive cross on the ice
| some time ago.
Fred Schultz and Oscar Anderson,
of Lead, have been arrested on
! charge of perjury in connection with
age declarations in securing n mar
riage license for the former They
swore that the bride-to-be was IS
and she was discovered to be only 10.
An interstate trade of an unusual
character is proposed in the nature of
a request by the state game warden
of Nebraska to the South Dakota war
den asking a quantity of small mouth
bass from Lake Andes for an equal
amount of large mouth bass from the
Nebraska hatchery.
class in camp cooking has been
organized at the state college at
Brookings for the benefit of engineer
ing students and the military COM
pany there.
The Commercial club at Tyndall has
taken steps to organize a concert
band.
United States Attorney Wagner has
temporarily removed his quarters
from Sioux Falls to Mitchell on ac-
count of repairs being done in the
federal building at the former place
Small boys playing with matches
started bad fire at Webster DAM
age was done to several buildings