The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-07-11
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

II. S. Scofeld, superintendent OF
construction of the %postoffice building
at Rapid City for the government,
died at that place one day last week,
following a surgical operation.
Seventeen graduates received their
diplomas from the Campbell county
schools recently. Graduating exer-
cises were held at Mound City and
Herreid, and interesting programs
were given.
The State Tennis association has
decided on Sioux Falls as the place
for holding this years tournament AID
the local officers of the state asSocia-
ton have announced July Il to 26 as
the dates of same.
Beginning July /, no state officers or
employe can receive more than one
salary from the state. Heretofore in.
stances have arisen where the same
person drew pay for two Or three pc.
sltlOnS at the same time.
Sioux Falls people are discussing
with some warmth the proposed loca-
ton of the S14,500 Episcopal bishops
residence. Opposition has developed
to locating the building On the
grounds of All Saints school.
1t is reported that a number of farm
ers in the vicinity of Timber Lake are
handling a large acreage of beans this
year, there being over 300 acres SO
planted in that vicinity. They are
being tested out as a field crop in that
section of the state.
Fire, believed to have started from
combustibles in a parcels post pack.
age, caused the destruction Of II
sacks of mail in the Milwaukee freight
depot at Yankton. The mail had been
loaded onto a truck which had been
run into the baggage room.
The homesteaders who last fall left
their homesteadS around MorristOwn
for the winter now are returning, and
are preparing to greatly increase
their crop acreage owe that of last
season. The recent heavy 20 as.
cure an abundance of moisture.
The agricultural branch which is
being taught in the Bryant high
school is proving very popular. At
present the class is engaged in test.
ing seed corn for the farmers of the
surrounding region, under the direC'
ton of Prof. Ault, a corn expert.
r. r. Cook of Belle Fourche, secre-
tary of the state live stock sanitary
board, has been appointed as a mem
Der of the advisory board of the live
stock department of the San Francis
co exposition, and VIII put in consid'
cradle time at the coast city for the
next two years.
Lloyd Bateman, formerly a switch
man for the Milwaukee, is being helt
at Great Falls, Mont, awaiting extra
dition papers to be taken to Aberdeen
by the federal authorities on a charge
of violating the Mann act. He is
also wanted in Brown county on a
statutory charge.
Judge Hughes of the circuit court
has decided that the petition or
WHICH, a llCcuSt clCCIAOH was q
Harold was not a legal one and thai
the election was void. This mean;
that Harold will be in the dry lis,
for the next year, even though a small
majority was cast in favor OF license
at the election.
Trout thieves are plying their meta
rious trade in Black Hills streams
They fill a heavy glass bottle witt
lime, tightly cork the bottle and throw
it into the trout holes. The lime II
shaking develops tremendous force
and explodes the bottle, killing many
trout, which rise to the surface anC
are taken in by the thieves.
The engineering force of the Chey
enne River irrigation project has
found a way out Of the proposed
storage reservoir between Quinn and
Wall, which will require a cut of only
about 100 feet through a sharply
pointed hill to break through tn
WALL of the Band Lands. This wa:
what was feared to be one of the
expensive parts of the project and thu
find VIII make a great ulHereHCe III
the cost of construction.
While the hot, dry weather of Jun'
has badly injured small grain neal
Pierre. farmers declare that theil
corn and potato fields are yet in fine
shape. and that anything like nor
NAL rains from now on will bring
them good returns On these crops
The hay crop was practically made
by the rains of May, and there will be
no more and better hay harvested in
that part Of the state this year thar
for several preceding years.
Judge MCGEE, at Rapid City, heard
he evidence in a suit brought by
Jesse Harris against school distric:
No. As. who claims $50 for transpor
:ation of his children to school. II
his complaint, Harris alleges that he
resides between four and five miles
rom a school house, that the road tc
this school is at most times impass
able. Under these conditions Harris
sent his four children to Wall, u
miles distant for their schooling.
Twelve Yale students are holding a
summer camp in the country near