The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-07-10
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

numbers, making four lines the
amount of last rear. The county as
sessment will be increased to a much
| larger amount on account OF the In
creased assessment of horses, cattle,
lands and personal property, he lat
ter having in previous years been Civ
en- in at a very low figure.
PHILIP-The engineering force IN
the Cheyenne river irrigation project
has found a way out" of the proposed
storage basin between Quinn and Wall
which will reQuire a cut OF only about
| 100 feet through a sharply pointed hill
to break through the bad lands wall.
This was expected TO be one OF the
expensive features of the project and
the find will make a great difference
in the construction cost.
ABERDEEN The c%oroner's Jury
which Investigated the circumstances
surrounding the death of William
Geese. the farmer who was killed by a
Milwaukee train while crossing the
track near Barnard on une %, re-
| turned a verdict finding that the death
was due to cariesSEeSS on the part of
the fireman and engineer of the train.
Oscar Laid was the engineer and H.
O.. Wheeler the fireman on the train
which ran over Geese.
PIERRE-A romance of many years
eliminated here Monday when Ward
Sheldon, of Electra Tex, an oil mil
lionaire, and Miss Jessie Beula Brown,
of Sleepy Eye, Mimi, were married in
an auto in front of the state capitol.
leaving later on a tour of the Yellow
stone park. The wedding followed an
engagement of is years. The state Of
ficers and employees were out in force
to attend the
RAPID CITY-Hubert Cleveland
Scofield, superintendent of construc-
ton for the new federal building in
course of construction here, died at the
local hospital, He was operated on
Sunday, June is, for appendicitis and
for a time was believed to nave been
on the road to recovery. He began to
grow worse and died of blood poison
ing.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Larson,
of the Sphinx County Better Farming
association, has, after a diligent in
NeStigation, given out a report that
owing to showers of the last two days
the small grain is in much better con-
dition than has been reported hereto
fore and that with a reasonable
amour of rain will yet produce a fair
crop.
ABERDEEN-C. G. Campbell, for
several years agent OF the Great
Northern railroad at Aberdeen, has
been transferred to the station at Wa
tertown, and will leave for his new To-
cation within a week, relieving Agent
Douglass. who has left the service.
Agent Whaley, of Huron, will succeed
Mr.. Campbell here.
PIERRE-Another law that went into
effect July l is the n that defines
the standard days work as 10 hours,
except in cases Of farm laborers, do
mestic servants or those engaged in
caring for live stock. For failure to
follow the provisions of the law the
employer is subject to a fine of $500,
or Imprisonment in the county Jail for
a period of 80 days.
PIERRE-Governor Byrne has APP
pointed as members of the state high
way commission Ben M. Wood, Rapid
City; f.. c.. ~Issenhuth, Redfield; N. O.
Monsorud, Humboldt. G. H. Pinkney,
former deputy state treasurer, has been
appointed on the state auditors force,
flling the place provided for by the
last legislature.
ABERDEEN-Judge Frank McNul-
ty has called a special term of circuit
court to assemble here on July 21t TO
try Ole Knutson, charged with the
murder of Charles Gorton, of Marshall
county, where the murder occurred,
the case being brought to Brown coun-
ty on a change of venue.
YANkTON-This city is trying to
WILL hloDS WILL why SlA SdiOOIlS. TOl
an old river town. most of its history
wide open" this is a trying ordeal to
some. Very few saloon men lave gone
out of business, however, as the salts
factory scheme of doubling up was
evolved
CARTER-The Indians of the Rose
bud reservation will hold a big four
Oak Creek Trading; Post, eight miles
west of Carter, July 2, 8. 4 and 5. This
will be the largest Indian celebration
held IN recent years as 5000 Indians
from the Rosebud and Pine Ridge
reservation will be in attendance.
PLANKINTON-The ~3-year-old child
of Mr.. and Mrs. {. D. Day. living on a
farm near here. was badly hurt when
he was buried under half a ton of hay,
which fell from a distance of 12 feet
while the child's father was gag in
unloading hay into a barn. A shrek
from under the hay attracted attention
to aim, and he was rescued.
HARROLD-Judge Hughes, of the
circuit court, has decided that the petit
ton on which a license election was
held at Harold was not a legal one,
and that the election was void. This
means that Harold will be in the dry
list for the next year., even though a
small majority was cast in favor of
license at the election.
ABEIiDEEN-Lioyd Bateman, for
meriy a s~witchman for the Milwaukee.
is being held at Great Falls, Mont.
awaiting e%xtradition papers to be
brought to this city by the federal au-
thorities on a charge of violating the
Mann act. He is also wanted in Grown
county on a statutory charge.
PIERRE-F. r. Cock, of Belle
Fourche, secretary of the state live
stock sanitary board, has been ap-
pointed as a member of the advisory
board Of the live stock department Of
the San Francisco exposition, and will
put in considerable time at the coast
city for the next two years.
GARRETSON-The newly organized
Garreston Cooperative Telephone COM
pany, which is composed of farmers
living in this vicinity, has purchased
the Garretson telephone system and
will conduct it in future. The purchase
also includes seven rural lines CENTER
ing in Garreston.
CENTERyILLE-This city has lust
completed the oiling of its PRINCIPAL
streets and so far the results have
Eeen most satisfactory. The heavy
rains of the past week have shown no