The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-07-24
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

nesses. the Justice of the peace anu
the deputy sheriff making the arrest
were all Indians. John and AnofeW
THOMPSON. two Indians, were charged
with disturbing a meeting at Big Cou-
lee church. Ed Heminger, an indian
deputy sheriff, made the arrest. inc
prosecution was ~onducted by STATE
Attorney Thomas Man, a full blooded
Sioux, and a very successful lawyer
Justice Bailey, who is also an lnaiah'
held the defendants to the X term
of circuit court under bonds OF sloV
each, which was furnished.
wOoNSoCKET-The officers of the
Early Settlers association of Sanborn
county, have fixed upon July IL at
Rusking park as the date for the an
nual reunion and picnic. j. ID. hear-
ton has been engaged as the speaker
of the day. and a fine program OF
sports, including swimming races by
men and women, races. foot
races, horse races, ball games and oth-
er amusements are being prepared.
TWIN BROOKS-The home of Burt
Roberts of Twin Brooks was complete
ly wiped out by fire, with all its con-
tents The blaze was discovered in
one of the bedrooms and Ruby Rob
erts, a ~12-year-old girl, was quite bad
ly burned about the head and face be
fore h could be rescued. The family
We're able to save but little from the
burning building, the children being
rescued in their night clothes.
ALEXANDRIA-Clam diggers, who
for some weeks have been operating
along the streams of this vicinity, have
just shipped to eastern button factories
an aggregate of 60 tons of clam shells,
for which they receive $50 a ton at
the factory. In addition to the money
derived from the sale of the shells they
also profited greatly from pearls which
they found in some of the shells.
DEADWOOD-The matter of assess
ment of the Homestake Mining com
pany will now be put W to the state
tax commission. The county board of
equalization refused to take n action
on the protest against its inequitable
and insufficient assessments by the To-
cal assessors. The matter will now be
appealed to the state tax commission
by Editor Sem, of the Telegram, who
filed the protest to the county board.
ABERDEEN-At the recent con-
vocation of Indians of the Niobrara
deanery of the Episcopal church at
Sisseton, 1000 was subscribed by the
Indians, about 1000 in number, to the
support of the church. OF this amount
5000 vas subscribed by the male In
dians and the remaining $1,000 by the
women.
SIOUX FALLS-Charles H. Craig,
city editor of the Argus-Leader, was
troubled about his weight of $40 pounds
and six weeks ago began to neither eat
nor drink anything but buttermilk. He
has lost 81 pounds, is not hungry, en-
joys the buttermilk and feels fine. He
is going to continue the treatment dur
ing July.
DALLAS Definite announcement
that the Northwestern will soon COM
mence the erection of a new, modern
depot here is taken to imply the prob
ability that Dallas may be the perma-
nent division point when the road is
extended to the northwest. The pres
ent depot at Dallas was constructed
only six years ago.
WATERFOWL - Du,ing the wear
there have been PA births in the county
of Codington and only So deaths. The
records show that there have been 157
couples united in marriage, % divorces
have been granted. and 10 of foreign
blrth nave formally declared their in
tention of becoming United States cit
liens.
MARVIN-H. c. Bachelor has sold
a controlling interest in the Marvin
State bank to P. C. Scholberg, of Cor
rell, Mimi, and ]. c. Cans, of Odessa,
Mimi. The new officials of the bank
are j. 9. Cans, president; K. A. Ram
sly, VICE pIGSluGll, ana X. u. SClOl-
berg. cashier. Mr.. Bachelor will re-
turn to Iowa. his old home.
CENTERvILLE-Rev. James Wat
son., who has held the pastorate of the
local congregational church for some
three years. has just rendered his res
lgnatlon to take effect August 1. Mr.. |
Watson has accepted a cal to the pas
torate of the Congregational church at
Rapid City, S. D..
Observation-Disclosures a period Of |
30 days a total of 552 cans of cream
were shipped from Cottonwood. In
aymen for the cream shipped the
homesteaders and ranchers of this vi
elnlty received an aggregate of about
$4,000 in cash. The cream industry is
increasing rapidly
PIERRE-Printers from all over fhe
state are daily arriving at the capitol
to inspect samples of the materials and
articles required in the next bidding,
contracts for which will be let on July
80 at Pierre, the second bidding since
the new law became effective.
PIERRE-Governor and Mrs. Rvrne
entertained at dinner the Faulkton
company of state troops, which came
through Pierre on their way to the
Fort Meade maneuvers. The militia-
men We're shown through the capitol
pulidlns by the governors son who is
IAO LdulhlOH
WHITE OWI-A. B. Bouton, special
agent of the general lane office. has
been investigating a number of hone-
stead and desert entries in this section
and also appraising the value of desert
claims. A number of homesteaders
object to having their desert land
valued at $40 per acre.
P1ERRE-The contract for the
bridge n dam on the capitol rounds
has been let today to Joseph Stainer.
Of Pierre, being lowest, bidder with
s4,125 bid on the bridge, and sS.351
on the dam. total S12,476. Ward and
Weighton, of Sioux City, bid $4,143 on
TIP bridge and s10,605 on tina dam.
YANKTON-Peter Slowey, a young
married farmer of Yankton count
suffered the fracture of a leg in a !
peculiar manne He was attempting |
to milk a wild COW and had, tied the |
animals leg to keep her from kick
Ing. In struggling the COW stepped on |
Slowey's leg and fractured it.
PIERRE-The reduction in coal !
rates from Wyoming mines TO the Mis-
river, which We're ordered BY |
the Interstate Commerce commission.
are not to go into effect thic mon4h |