Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-08-15
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.


much damage.
The Arlington commercial club has
employed Ross Thorp, with his big
engine, to grade a stretch of the
Meridian Dad neal the Lake county
line.
The population of Freeman is grow
ing so steadily that a house shortage
exists and many new dwellings will
have to be erected to supply the de-
mand.
Logan Mzer, for two years passen-
ger agent for the Omaha road at Mitch
ell, has been promoted and will be as.
ISOLATED with the traffic department
of the o at st. Paul.
Since July l the treasurer of the
Highmore school district has paid off
$500 leaving outstanding bonds Of on
ly $1,50O, The balance will be paid
during the next few months.
]. D. Deets, former immigration
commissioner, leaves Pierre to take up
his work at Mankato, and Charles Nc
Caffree is now in charge of the i'm
migration department of this state.
Governor Byrne has accepted an in,
vitation to make the principal address
at the Labor Day celebration to be
held at Alsen. Other prominent men
of statewide reputation will he pres.
ent.
The state tax commissioners are
working on the Homestake valuation
in Lawrence county, e. L.. Sem having
complained that the big mine is as.
rorcn5 of ro,,1h l1er tL~,. e.. ..-I.z
ton.
The Catholic church at Garretson
has a new pastor, in the person of
Father Game, late of Colman, S. D. He
VAS been succeeded at Colman by
Father McManus, who was transferred
from Parker.
South Dakotans in Washington were
much interested in dispatches from
Los Angeles telling of the wedding in
that city of Congressman Clarence R.
Miller of Duluth and Miss Gertrude
V. Patterson, formerly of Pierre.
The total assessed valuation 81
Lake county for this years Is
$23, 705,S33. Automobiles to the num-
Der of 301 are listed as owned in the
county, upon which an assessed val
uation of $120, 302 is placed. The as
SCISSORS returned s77,65O as moneys
and credits in the county.
Elizabeth Doerr, the 14-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Doerr,
of Java, was badly hurt by being
caught by a mower. She would have
been instantly killed had it not been
for her presence of mind in s%pringing
upon the machine an instant before
she would have been dragged under it.
Death came suddenly to August
Koehler, aged So, a well known
farmer living six miles from Ramona.
On arising in the morning he com.
planned of not feeling well and was
about to take some medicine when he
suddenly fell to the floor and expired
instantly. Heart failure vas the
cause.
A dividend just paid by the famous
Homestake Mining company is the
415th monthly dividend to be paid by
the company. The first dividend was
paid in October, 1878, and for a per.
iod of 81 years and seven months has
continued a record without duplication
in the worlds annals of precious metal
mining.
Poles along the railroad and the
towns of Hand county are being paint
ed black and yellow to lea the way
for autoists oyer the great east and
west road which starts from Chicago
for the Black Hills and Yellowstone
Park. The intention is to finally put
this road through for auto travel to the
Pacific coast.
The county commissioners Of Greg
DRY county have started the old con-
troversy again in regard to the right
of county commissioners to refuse to
approve liquor license bounds where
license has been voted in a town.
They refused to approve bonds of two
applicants from Bonesteel, and that
town is without thirst p%arlors.
Several men are constantly engaged
along the Jim river in the vicinity OF
Memo gathering clam shells, for
which they find a ready market in the
east, where they are utilized in button
making. The gatherers of the shells
receive SIS per ton for them, and as
they are very numerous along the riv,
err the men are making good money
from their venture.
The stockholders Of the Lake Pres.
ton Cooperative company which con.
ducts an elevator here at their annual
meeting declared a dividend on the
stock, and it was ordered that 10 per
cent of the money borrowed from
stockholders be refunded. In addition
to this, some of the profits of the past
year we're placed in the treasury to
be used as working capital.
Information has reached Rapid City
OF the death at Leavenworth, Wash,
OF Lyman Lamb, who was n OF the
early pioneers of the Black Hills. He
was a member of the Gordan stockade
party, which was the first organized
party of whites to come to the Black
Hills after the discovery of gold In this
part OF the state. In 1900 he took up
his residence on the Pacific coast,
spending one season in Alaska.
VIM. Ellis, of Cottonwood, was az.
rested on the charge of selling liquor
without having secured a city and
county license. A search Of his place
of business did not disclose any liquor,
but a case of bitters was found.
J.. A. varliek arrested on the charge
OF selling liquor without having So
cured a license, when taken before
Judge Trip. of the state circuit court,