Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-03-14
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

has made arrangements for a chau-
tauqua course in that town in July.
The new state tax commission will
have quarters on the third floor of the
capitol when the legislative session
adjourns.
A dancing party was given to legis-
lators at Pierre by Speaker and Mrs.
Tscharner and a lumber Of other leg
i~slators and their wives.
Lloyd White of Mitchell, a mem
Der of the midshipmen class of the
naval academy at Annapolis, marched
in the inaugural parade at Washing
ton.
A movement has been inaugurated
to provide Hitchcock with a modern
opera house. 1t is hoped to have the
work of construction commence in the
spring.
A petition containing the necessary
number of signatures having been
filed, the saloon license question will
be submitted to the voters of Vienna
at the annual municipal election this
spring.
A petition is being circulated in the
Eagle Butte section of South Dakota
for the pardon of F. Van Horn, an In
dian, serving a life sentence in the
state penitentiary at Sioux Falls for
a murder committed in Stanley county
thirteen years ago.
County Superintendent Keo King is
initiating interesting spelling contests
in the rural and small town schools of
Turner county. Each school is to have
a local contest from which represent
atives will be selected for a final
struggle in Parker at the time of the
eighth grade graduation exercises.
Mitchell is up against it to find
means of procuring a new water sup
ply. The present wells are practical
ly inadequate. and City Engineer Sid
ney Smith has recommended to the
city council that a consulting engin-
eer be appointed to determine what
the source of the city's future supply
shall be.
Rev. John Mueller of Carthage re-
ceived a parcel post package of un-
usual character. The package con
tanned sausages, which came from
across the Atlantic. having been for
warded to him by a cousin who resides
in Germany. The pastor invited a
number of his riendS to the sausage
feast which followed the arrival of the
package.
In a recent interview given out to
a Des Moines paper, w. S. Hill of
Mitchell, president of the state fair
board, declared that in his opinion al
falfa is the coming crop of South Da-
kota. Mr.. Hill commended the work
of the management of the state fair
board which was somewhat censured
by the Iowa legislature during it's
present session.
1t has been decided to have the an
nual stock meeting and Indian show
at Rapid City on March 81, April l
and 2. This follows closely on the
Deadwood automobile show and fea-
lures of frontier day will be special
ICED at this years meeting. The meet
ing of the Western South Dakota
Stockman's association will be held a
week after the big show.
The appointment by Gov. Byrne Of
N. P. Beebe, a banker and business
man of Ipswich, as one of the men,
bers Of the state board of regents Of
education gives general satisfaction
at Aberdeen, where the Northern Nor
nal and Industrial School is situated,
as Mr.. Beebe has always been inter-
ested in the school. and in the ad-
vancement of education in the state.
The auto owners of Pierre are or
ganizing an auto club to work with
the better roads association of this
state, and will be pushing along for
better highways, especially the cross
state road from Brookings to the
Black Hills crossing the Missouri riv-
er at hat point. They will also look
into the matter of the Glidden tour
for the northwest, which is investigat-
ing the Black Hills as an objective
point either for this year or mex e
The people about Philip are COM
planning of the "inquisition" Of spe-
cial land inspectors. who are protest
ing proofs of residents of that sec
ton, and attempting to secure cancel
lation of the entries. The papers of
that section claim that the settler who
is doing his best and is forced by eli
matte conditions to remove from his
land a part of the time to carr a liv-
ing should not be placed in the same
class as those who are trying to swipe
valuable timber lands from the gov
eminent, and forced to defend his IT,
tie under the same provisions.
After being out of the profession for
the past two years. "Rube" Furchner
of Plankinton will make an effort to
get his former salary wing into con-
dition for the 1913 season. He left
for Hot Springs, Ark, to work out for
a couple of weeks, and if his arm
proves strong he will join a team in
Washington state. Furchner has been
playing ball with country teams dur
ing his absence from the Western
league, and two weeks ago he work.
ed out during the good weather and
found his arm to be in fine condition,
and hopes to get back in the game this
year.
Medical men have become Interest,"
ed in the case of Mrs. Anthony Vota-
va, wife of a Charles Mix county farm
er, who is suffering from a rare case
of erysipelas which occurs perhaps
not more frequently than one in five