Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-06-06
NEWS OF SOUTH K

NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
Among the improvements being
made at Webster is the construction
of a large amount of cement side
walks.
Governor Byrne appointed c.. N.
Harrison as census enumerator for
Sioux Falls under the new saloon IL
cense law.
Clear Lake city council is engaged
in the task of selecting a site for the
new $4,000 city hall building which
will be erected here this summer.
The Aberdeen Commercial club has
added los new members within tho
past week, as a result of the member.
ship contest 1t is now conducting.
L. A. Knapp of Belle Fourche was
found guilty of rape in the second de-.
gree in the circuit court, but the SEN
tence has not yet been announced.
The marriage of Miss Viola Palmer
and Mr.. Dell Bascom Of Vermillion
occurred at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Palmer.
The little 2-year-old son of F. J.
Fitzgerald, a homesteader nea Isabel,
was drowned in a waterhole near the
house. He vas playing about the
premises, whea his mother missed him
and pom searching for him found
him lying dead in the waterhole.
David Cady. who was charged with
cruelty to his horses. in driving them
in the field when they were about
ready to drop from starvation and ex-
haustion was fined $50. Not being
able to pay the fine, he will serve time
nj the county jail.
Holding that a billiard cue is a dead
ly weapon, a Charles Mix county JUS
tice has held John Valenta, a resi-
dent of the county, for trial on the
charge of making an assault with a
deadly weapon, pon conviction OF
which he will be subject to a term in
the Sioux Falls pe%nitentiary.
After being in hiding about two
weeks Harry Smith, a Trip county
homesteader, was located on a farm in
a remote portion of the county and
placed under arrest on the charge Of
selling mortgaged wheat which was
alleged to have belonged to Harry
Drury, also a resident of Trip county.
Adolph Opdahi of volga was badly
hurt when a scaffold upon which him
self and another man were working
collapsed and precipitated them to the
ground While falling a cement block
weighing so pounds struck him. Had
tho h1nW not hapn a Ulapino ono hi.
skull would have been crushed.
During a storm a single bolt of light
ming killed six head of cattle belong
ing to Henry Brown, a farmer living
nea Scotland. They were all bunch
ed near a wire fence when struck. An
other farmer had two head killed dur.
ing the same storm. All the losses
were covered by insurance in a farm
ers' mutual company.
Sheriff Schultz of Hecla is hot on
the trail of Ole Soholt, a renter on a
farm about eight miles from Hecla.
who recently disappeared with a num-
Der of horses on which Hecla citizens
held mortgages. 1t is said the fug!-
tive was several thousand dollars in
debt and took the overland route TO
get away from his creditors.
Experiments in boring for oil IN
Potter county are being watched with
a great deal Of interest by residents
of Walworth county, for the reason
that experts have stated that similar
geological formations exist in both
counties. Some Walworth county
land owners have been approached
with propositions to lease their lands
for oil purposes, but most of them arc
inclined to await the result of the
Potter county experiment
The business men of Highmore have
agreed to install cluster lights in front
of their places of business, so the
chief business street of Highmore will
be one of the best lighted in the state.
Charles Cunningham, a conductor
on the Milwaukee road, stepped be-
tween two cars at Mobridge to discon
ect the airbreak, when his foot slip.
ped and he fell beneath the moving
cars. The first Set of trucks passed
over his arm and leg, but he sue.
ceeded in getting from the track be.
fore the second set of trucks caught
him. He was severely injured, bur
will not lose any of his limbs.
A freight wreck on the Milwaukee
road near Mclaughlin, in which seven
cars left the track, delayed traffic for
several hours. Two trainmen and two
hoboos were injured.
While engaged in hauling sane neal
Rockham, Elmer Koon was caught in
a "%cavein," and narrowly escaped
death. He was working alone, and it
was only after a half hours hard work
that he succeeded in e~xtricating him
self from the sand, which reached
nearly to his head and threatened to
another him Mt any moment