Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-08-08
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

Joseph j. GosSman, an old citizen
of Bridgewater, died at the house of
his son, G. N. Gossman, in Bridgewa-
ter at the advanced ager og so years.
Fire starting in a pile of rubbish
near the Racket store at Brookings
spread to an adjoining building in
which a bakery was located, and
caused damage amounting to several
hundred dollars.
John McMurtry, living near Rec
Heights, has fifteen acres of alfalfa
that has already this season produced
enough hay to supply his stock for
the coming year. He expects to cut
the field once or twice more before
fall.
The pool hall at Dell Rapids Of
James Reed was the scene of a bold
and mysterious robbery. During
Reeds absence of a few moments
from his desk cash and checks to the
aggregate amount of SIP disap-
peared.
A loss of several thousand dollars
resulted from a fire On the farm of
Anton Hartel, some miles from De-
Smet. The barn was completely de-
stroyed, together with Hartels en-
tire wool clip of this season, amount
ing to 1000 pounds.
A force of one hundred and fifty
men is engaged in graveling and 9TH
erwise improving the Northwestern
railroad line which passes through
Iroquois. The roadbed is being placed
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pated heavy rail traffic.
When a buggy in which Mrs. Willis
Cranston of Pollock and her infant
child were seated, turned a sharp cor
ner, it was overturned, throwing Mrs.
Cranston and the baby to the ground.
The child's head struck a sharp rock,
crushing it's skull and causing instant
death.
Ira Long, superintendent Of the Day
county poor farm for the past four
years, has resigned his position and
will go to Canada, with the expecta-
ton of locating in that country. Abra-
ham Bygard of Pierpont has been ap-
pointed his "ccesso
The town council of Parkston has
taken preliminary steps to have a
sewerage system installed, and petit
tons are being circulated among the
voters to secure their views on the
proposition. 1t is planned to pay for
the system by special assessments in
stead of issuing bonds.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Shier, living neal Eagle Butte,
obtained possession of a can of con
centrated I've, and attempted to drink
some of it. The child's mouth was
severely burned, but it is believed
none of the I've was swallowed, and
the child is recovering.
!. The city authorities Of Trip have
been notified by Andrew Carnegie that
the petition of residents for a Carne-
gle library building had been favora-
bly, acted upon and that plans and
specifications for the building will
follow shortly. 1t is expected the
structure will be completed before the
close of the present year.
Fire starting in the loft of the barn
on the Gilbert Paulson ranch, eight
miles from Holabird, destroyed the
building, burning a valuable work
team, several sets of harness, wagons,
farm implements, etc. The origin of
the fire is unknown. Paulson was Sc
verely burned in trying to save some
of the contents of the barn.
At a mass meeting of citizens pre-
liminary arrangements were made for
the third annual fall fair, which is to
be held in Garretson September 10
and 20. Liberal premiums will be Of
fered. Good speakers will be secured
and there will be various special feat
ures for the amusement of the hun
dreds of people who will be in attend
ance.
Admitting that he had forged the
name of a McCook county farmer to
checks which he cashed at the Com
mercial State bank at Salem, Con B.
Turner tool advantage of the new law
for immediate sentence and pleaded
guilty before Judge Jones in the cir
cult court at Sioux Falls. He was
sentenced to serve one veal in the
state prison.
Evidence that a robbery of the mail
hau taken place in Woonsocket, or in
this section of South Dakota, was dis
covered by A. R. Bratsberg, manager
of a lumber yard there, who found a
mail sack which had been rified. The
sack had contained only second class
matter. such as newspaper and maya
zines, and a parcel post pockage con-
tirirg siIverware, which had been I'M
wrapped and the silverware taken.
Persistency onthe part of a colony
of beavers in Spearfish canyon in sew
eral times rebuilding a dam in the
river at q point invariably flooded the
road, has triumphed over the efforts
CT Lawrence county and County Com
missioner Malkson, who is in charge
CT that section, has decided to let the
beavers have their home and the
county will build a new stretch of
road.
Walter Nichols, who was superin-
tending of the cutting down of a large
tree on the Congregational church
grounds in Huron, fell from the tree
to the ground, a distance of 25 feet,
and is suffering only slightly from the
effects of the jolt.
Elaborate ceremonies attended the
dedication of a fine new German
Presbyterian church building in a
thickly settled German-American COM
munity some miles from Lennox. The
church edifice is one of the finest OF
the kind at an interior point in the
state.