Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-29

Il u. orr or HOT Springs, JOnn BlDel-
heimer of Selby, who was formerly
de putty state auditor in 1910; o. o.
Young of Huron, now deputy state gu
p"erintendent; o. w. Coursey Of Mitch
ell and Miss MARJORIE Breeder OF
Pierre, who was the first woman grad
tate in the law department at Yer
million.
License Law to Be Tested.
Brookings.-A legal battle will be
fought in the supreme court of the
state in this term hat involves the
very existence of the licensed liquor
traffic. Last spring E. L. VanDyke.
treasurer of Brookings county, refused
to accept the license fees and issue the
usual county permits to the applicants
for saloon license from the towns of
Elkton and Volga on the ground hat
the license law of South Dakota is IN
constitutional. The saloon men.
through their attorney, Olaf Eidum, Of
this city, Immediately applied for a
writ of mandamus to compel the coun-
ty treasurer to issue the license. Hon.
c.. H. Seward, judge of the circuit
court at that time, refused to express
an opinion upon the main issue and I'M
til h supreme court of the state
should have opportunity to declare it.
self. So he granted the writ of man
damus and took steps to insure
against intersection of legal technical
ity so that the case could go before the
supreme court upon the main issue.
whether or not the state legislature
1;~~-1o L,,~;,1~~ 80 %h0 1lorno
ter of the liquor traffic. The prohibit
ton state committee Of South Dakota,
of which Quincy Lee Morrow is secTe-
tary, is behind this movement in the
court for the overthrow of the saloon
business in this state. Mr.. Morrow
has engaged as counsel Cheever &
Cheever of this city, J. Burritt Smith
of Madison, Wis, and Wilson S. Doan
of indianapolis. Mr.. oan is the at
torney who argued a similar case be-
fore Judge Altman, then a circuit
Judge in Indiana, that resulted in the
famous Artman decision, that license
laws are unconstitutional. The liquor
men have engaged Olaf Eidum of this
city and a firm Of prominent attorneys
in the Twin Cities. The case has at
tracted nationwide attention.
Cooperative TGea.
Lake Preston.-The city of Lake
Preston has every evidence of taking
on a, community idea of cooperation.
An independent lumber yard with To-
cal stockholders was recently launch
ed and is meeting with splendid pat
ronage. Following it comes the rep
r~esentative of the Right Relationship
league from their Minneapolis head
quarters to first install a farmer ana
citizens cooperative general store,
that is meeting with success in secur-
ing shareholders among the very best
of the farmers. 1t is the purpose and
general custom to take on n busi~
ness after another, including owner
ship Of the best bank" in some IN
stances, the stock to be evenly distrlb-
uted, no one person holding more IMAM
ten shares and the largest ~sharehold-
err having but one vote, the same as
the holder of only one share and ais
owned by shareholders scattered
throughout the entire community.
Their plan is to not abli more
competition but to purchase one each
of the different businesses, whether it
be bank, store, creamery or mill.
Hyde Seeks Pardon.
Washington, D.. C.-Postoffice de-
partment officials are much wrought
up over an order from the department
of justice directing a stay of execution
in the case of Charles L. Hyde, the
big %financier and real estate operator
of Pierre, S. d. Hyde was convicted
some time ago on charges growing out
of the use of the mails in his real es-
tate operations and was sentenced to
a year and three months n ordered
to pay a fine and costs. Now he is al
legged to be seeking a pardon in a quiet
way and to have retained Wade H.
Ellis, former assistant to the attorney
general and a friend of the president,
as his lawyer. He has not served any
of his sentence, and the p%ostoffice Of
ficials who proved the charges are
wrought up over it. They will en-
deavor to prevent pardon or any light
ening of the sentence.
Yankton Land Fraud Cases.
Yankton.-Three cases brought
against G. d. Loffer in circuit
court now in session in this city by
R. ]. Gamble, w. c. Lusk and w. S.
Stockwell, respectively, have all been
decided against Lof1er. These cases
have been continued for several years
M they involve a sum of several
hundred dollars, the plaintiffs alleging
frauds in land deals. A criminal case
has now been started against Loffer,
but is pending the arrival of another
Judge, the defendant asking for
change of venue
Some Expense Accounts.
Pierre.-State Superintendent C. G.l
Lawrence has filed his expense ac-
count in the recent election asi
s210.O3; A. w. Ewert, treasurer, re-,
ports $500, and Eben w. Martin spentl
$1,066.77. The other returns have not
been filed, except Auditor Anderson.
and Congressman Burke.