Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-04-04

the lumber sheds ana mills o"AHi
by VIM. Grams Of Sturgis. The loss
was about $1,000, the promptness OF
the fire department preventing com
plctc DIES ruction.
A car load Of autos has been brought
to Nlurdo to bc used in caring for the
passenger traffic between there ami
White River this spring. From 20 g
80 teams have been employed for
hauling lumber out for several weeks
Laugford HAS been dry for some
time and will remain dry during the
coming year, for the reason that it is
impOssibl" for anyone to secure the
necessary % signnturos to d petition
asking that the license question lie
submitted to th" voters.
The CONGREGATIONAL church., which
is the pioneer church Of Lead, having
i'''l tHt 0 hIlSli''t "N " al - 49,, - -
united with the Presbyterian and tn"
Roy. e. L. Hayes viii act as pastor,
the CONGREGATIONAL building being
used.
Sine head of horses belonging to j.
Munderloh Of New Underwood were
killed on the railroad track last Fri
day might by the snow pillow west
hound from Wasta to Rapid. The
horses had wandered onto the track
in the storm, and the ploW prevented
the engineer from seeing them.
The Farmers Elevator company OF
Clark has just completed one of the
best elevator buildings in the north
west 1t has capacity of $4,000
bushels, has continuous concrete
wall and basement, modern office and
hot air heating plant Every modern
appliance for convenience and safety
is used.
A refrigerator car and two box cars
rolled down the grade from the brew
cry side track at Central Tuesday
and passed through Deadwood at the
rate OF 60 miles an hour, but did not
injure anything. Word was sent to
Deadwood when it was found they
we're loose, AMI the switch at the
roundhouse was thrown so as to send
them up grade toward the Golden
Reward mine. This stopped them.
John Beadle, who died at hiss home
at Huron last week, was man who
had had an adventurous life. He was
born in Iowa and went by OK team
across the Rockies in the early SOS.
He was employed in the government
Indian service in the far northwest,
and was messenger between Walld
Walla and Fl. Benton when the road
was full Of danger. He was rs years
old and leaves a widow and several
grown children.
Attorney General Johnson has sent
out circular letter to all states at
torneys of the state, in which he asks
them to look into the records of the
county courts and investigate settle.
ment of estates in which the state
may have an interest under the in
heritance tax law of the state. The
act was in controversy for some time
and has been sustained by the SUI
preme court, and the attorney general
| believes that strict accounting will
bring considerable revenue to the
state.
! Augusta Hulet, wife of homestead
er living in Trip county, who mystert
ously disappeared several weeks ago,
and for whom a constant search has
since been maintained, has beer
found alive and well in a hospital in
Kansas, where herself and husband
/ resided before coming to South Da
kota. It now has been revealed thai
her mind was unbalanced by the i'll
ness Of herself and grief occasionet
by the loss Of her children by death
and that while in this condition sht
1 wandered away from her South Dako