Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-04
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

Inc people living IN n near the
town of Bard will get together to form
an organization to foster the com.
mon interests of their community.
Bonesteel became wet July / after
q meeting of the city council James
Fox and John Davidson were granted
licenses to conduct saloons.
1t cost William Mitchell, a Deuel.
county $50 and costs for not plac-
ing all his property on the assessors
books. He was arrested on the charge
of attempting to evade the assessment
laws.
While driving home after having
aiken a load of wheat to Barnard,
William M. Geese, aged 81, a farmer.
was struck and killed by a Milwaukee
passenger train. He leaves a wife and
seven children.
Geo. Kreger of Redfield took first
place in the Aberdeen Rod and Gun
club second shoot, shooting AZ out OF
30 birds. Walter Harrison took sec.
ond place with 46 out of SO. Harrison
won the first match with a perfect
score.
July / the mayor and city commits.
sioners Of Vermillion men to re.
ceive more money for their services.
The mayor will receive SIS per month,
or $500 per year, while the city com.
m%issioners will each receive 5000 per
year. The increase will aggregate ST.
100 annually.
Judge Carpenter of the district court
at Sioux Falls, sentenced Irish Tom.
N.Y. Condor to foul years in the peni.
Tertiary for the killing of Joe Narcelle
last September. Condor was found
guilty of m~anslaughter in the second
degree, and the jury recommended sus-
pension of sentence.
w. H. Skidmore of Colorado has
undertaken to overhaul the old High
land mine in the Silver City district,
and is preparing to install a new pro-
cess of mining at which he says he
a make money. The Highland was
worked thirteen years ago, but values
could not be recovered by working Il
by the amalgamation process.
Through failure to issue a call for
the annual school election and other
wise comply with the requirements Of
a new state law providing for the
simultaneous holding of all school
elections in South Dakota except in
the case of commission governed cit
les, Lesterville may be without a board
OF education the coming year.
The first term of court held at the
county seat of Charles Mix county
for many moons is in session at
Wheeler. Owing to a new law passed
by the last legislature all court must
be held at Wheeler in the future.
Wheeler is located some fifteen miles
from the railroad and it is a new ex.
p%erience for attorneys, court officers
and jurors.
Because he was good to her, Mrs.
Mary E. Fross, who died recently at
her home in Miller, willed half her
property to her adopted son, George
Herman Weight, a ~17-year-old orphan
boy whom she took out of one of the
state homes a few years ago.. She
was a widow, quite wealthy, and had
neal family relatives, but on account
of the dutiful and helpful ways Of the
boy she made him an equal benef-
ciary in her will.
After entering a plea of not guilty
to a state case charging him with
grand larceny and being bound over
to the next term of state circuit court
Jimmy Agard, a Sioux Indian living on
the Cheyenne reservation, was turned
v e to the United States authorities,
who held him for appearance before q
federal grand jury next November on
the charge Of taking liquor upon the
reservation. In default of bonds tho
defendant has been placed in the
Brown county Jail.
Mrs. Henry Clement, whose home il
in Deuel. county, will be an important
witness for the government against q
firm at Denver, Colo, which is charged
with using the mails to defraud. Mrs.
Clement read the firms advertisement
in a paper in which it was stated that
It handled an antffat remedy which
would restore persons to graceful pro-
portions. She sent a check for SO
and received a letter in return telling
her to take several baths each week
and to drink lemon juice. 1t failed to
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federal authorities.
A new trial has been denied by
Judge Jones in the decree rendered
that a part Of the new Canton opera
house is located in a public alley and
must be removed. There are two
plans left open to the owner should
the supreme court sustain the circuit
court in it's decision. One is to re-
move that part of the building which
is or the alley, which would destroy
the building SO far as an opera house
is concerned, and the other is to build
and archway over the alley, but as the
alley runs directly in front of the
stage it looks as if neither plan was
feasible so far as the theater PROPOSE
ton is concerned.
The Huron high school census has
Just been completed and shows LAS
children Of school age, 726 of them
males and 721 females. In 1911 there
we're 1,v3S children of slhool age and
In 1912 there were 1,401.
Seven Indians who are serving
terms in the Lawrence county Jail un.
der sentences from the federal court,
will be expert dandelion fighters when
they have completed their terms. Each
day they are required to dig dande-
lion plants out of the court house yard
and rapidly are becoming experts at
this vocation.