The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-10
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

county auditor Inc assessed ValuaJOn
OF real and personal property in this
numbers. making o U times the
amount OF last yea The county as
sessment will be increased to a much
larger amount on account OF the tn-
creased assessment OF horses. cattle,
lands and personal property, the lat
ter having in previous years been give
EN- in at q very low figure.
PHILIP-The engineering force on
the Cheyenne river irrigation project
has found q way out" OF the proposed
storage basin between Quinn and Wall
which will require a cut of only about
loo feet through q sharply pointed hill
to break through the bad lands wall
expensive features OF the project and
the find will make a great difference
In the construction cost.
ABERDEEN - The ~coroner,s jury
which investigated tho circumstances
surrounding the death of William
Geese, the farmer who was killed by a
Milwaukee train while crossing the
track near Barnard on June 70, re-
turned a verdict finding that the death
was due to carlcssEess on the part of
the fireman n engineer OF the train.
Oscar Ladd was the engineer and III.
o. Wheeler the fireman on the train
which ran over Geese. z
PIERRE-A romano of many Years
illuminated here Monday when Ward
Sheldon. of Electra, Tex, an oil mil
lionaire, and Miss Jessie Beula Brown,
Of Sleepy Eye, Mimi, were married ! n
an auto In front OF the state capitol.
leaving later on a tour OF the Yellow
stone park. The wedding followed an
engagement OF is years. The state Of
ficers and employees were out in force
to attend the ceremony.
RAPID CTTY-Hubert Cleveland
Scofleld, superintendent Of construc-
ton for the new federal building In
course OF construction here, died at the
local hospital. He was operated On
Sunday, June IS, for appendicitis and
for a time was believed to have been
on the road to recovery. He began to
grow worse and died OF blood poison
ing. *.~ "= - .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Larson,
OF the Sphinx County Better Farming
association, has, after a diligent i'm
Yestigation, given u a report that
owing to showers of h last two days
the small grain Is in much better con-
dition than a been reported hereto
fore and that with a reasonable
amount Of rain will yet produce a fair
crop. -
ABERDEEN-C. G. Campbell. for
several years agent or the Great
Northern railroad at Aberdeen, has
been transferred to the station at Wa,
tertown, and viii leave for his new To-
cation within a week, relieving Agent
Douglass, who has left the service.
Agent Whaley, OF Huron, will succeed
Mr.. Campbell here. 4
PIERRE-Another law that went into
effect July Il is the one that efine
the standard days work as 10 hours,
except in cases Of farm laborers, do
nestle servants or those engaged In
caring for live stock. For failure TO
follow the, provisions of the law the
employer Is subject to- a fine of $500,
u imprisonment In the county jail for
a period OF 80 days. .
PIERRE-Governor Byrne has APP
pointed as members of the state high
way commission e M. Wood, Rapid
City: e. G. Issenhuth, Redfield; N. O,
Monsorud, Humboldt. G. H. Ptnkney,
former deputy state treasurer, has been
appointed IN the state auditors force.
filling the place provided for by the
last legislature.
~ kBERDEEN-Judge Frank McNul-
ty has called a special term of circuit
court to assemble here on July FL, 10
try Ole Knutson, charged with the
murder of Charles Gorton, Of Marshall
county, where the murder occurred,
the case being brought to Brown
ty On a change of venue.
YANKTON-This city is trying to
worry along with only six saloons. For
an old river town, most of its history
wide open" this is a trying ordeal to
some. Very few saloon men nave gone
out Of business, however, as the salts
factory scheme of doubling up" was
evolved. 49," ~ 49,.
CARTER-+The Indians of the Rose
bud reservation will hold g. big four
HaU ralahra tinn in the prrOUA saf the
Oak Creek Trading Post, eight miles
west Of Carter, July q, 3, 4and 8. This
will be the largest Indian celebration
held in recent years al 5000 Indians
from the Rosebud and Pine Ridge
reservation will be in attendance,
PLANKINTON-The 3-year-old child
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. p. Day, living on q
farm near here, was badly, hurt when
he was buried under half a ton of hay,
which fell from a distance of IL feet
while the child's father vas engaged in
unloading hay into O barn. A Shrek
from under the hay attracted attention
to 3im, and he was rescued
HARROLD-Judge Hughes, OF the
circuit court, has decided that the petit
ton on which a license election was
held at Harold was not a legal one,
and that the election was void This
means that Harold will be in the dry
list for the next year. even though a
SnalI majority WAS cast IN IaNOr OF
license at the election. r I." ~.
ABERDEEN-Lloyd Bateman, for
merly a switchman for the Milwaukee,
is being held at Great Falls, Mont,
awaiting extradition papers to be
brought to this city by the federal au-
thorities OF a charge of violating the
Mann act. He is also wanted in Brown
county on a statutory charge.
PIERRE-F. r. Cock, Of Belle
Fourche, secretary of the state live
stock sanitary board. has been ap-
pointed as a member of the advisory
board of the live stock department OF
the San Francisco exposition, and will
put in considerable time at the coast
city for the next two years.
GARRETSON-The newly organized
Garreston Cooperative Telephone COM
pany, which is composed OF farmers
living In this vicinity, has purchased
the Garretson telephone system and
win conduct it in future. The purchase
also includes seven rural lines center
ing in Garreston. l..
CENTERVILLE-This city has Just
completed the oiling of its principal
streets and so fan the results have
been most satisfactory. The heavy
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