The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-07-04
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

ell, was sold at public auction.
The people living in and 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 l after
a years experience as a dry city. At
a meeting of the city council James
Fox and John Davidson were granted
licenses to conduct saloons.
1t cost William Mitchell, a Deuel.
county man. $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
taken a load of wheat to Barnard,
William NJ. Geese, aged CT. a farmer,
was struck and killed by a Milwaukee
passenger train. He leaves a wife and
seven children.
Geo. Kreger Of Redfeld took first
place in the Aberdeen Rod and Gun
club second shoot, shooting AZ out of
so birds. Walter Harrison took sec
ond place with 46 out of so. Harrison
won the first match with a perfect
score.
July l the mayor and city commits
sioners Of Vermillion commence to re-
ceive more money for their services.
The mayor will receive $25 per month,
1r 6O0n ~, ,-L;l- 49, -. 0Nx~
missioners 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
my" Condor to four years in the peli-
Tertiary for the killing of Joe Narcelle
last September. Condor was found
guilty Of manslaughter in the second
degree, and the jury recommended sus-
pension Of sentence.
w. II. 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 it
by the am~algamation 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 cas- 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 o o is in session at
Wheeler. Owing to a e 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 f. Fross, who died recently at
her home in Miller. willed half her
property to her adopted son, George
Herman Weight, a 1~7-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
near family relatives, but on account
of the dutiful and helpful ways of the
boy she made him an equal benefi-
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
over to the United States authorities.
who held him for appearance before a
federal grand jury next November on
the charge of taking liquor upon the
reservation. In default of bonds the
defendant has been placed in the
Brown county Jail.
Mrs. Henry Clement, whose home is
in Deuel. county. will be an important
witness for the government against Il
firm at Denver, Colo, which is charged
WIFI uSlDS tHe mails 10 ucITdu0. MIS-.
Clement read the firms advertisement
in a paper in which it was stated that
it handled an anti-fat 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
work and complaint was made to the
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 its decision. One is to re-
nov that part Of the building which
is on the alley, which would destroy
the building Sc far as an opera house
is concerned, and the other is to build
and archway owe the alley, but as the
alley runs directly in front of the
stage it looks as il neither plan was
feasible so far as the theater PROPOSE