Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-11
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

James R. Ronger has been appoint
ed postmaster at Gary and William J!
Quirk at Kimball.
Business men have started work on
that section Of the Yellowstone trail
which passes through Java.
H.. S. Scofield, superintendent OF
construction of the p~ostofice building
AT Rapid City for the government,
died at that place one day last week,
following a surgical operation.
Seventeen graduates received their
diplomas from the Campbell county
schools recently. Graduating exer-
cises were held at Mound City and
Herreid, and interesting programs
were given.
The State Tennis association has
decided on Sioux Falls as the place
for holding this years tournament and
the local officers of the state associa-
ton have announced July 81 to 26 al
the dates of same.
Beginning July 1, no state officers or
employe can receive more than n
salary from the state. Heretofore in.
stances have arisen where the same
person drew pay for two or three pc.
sitions at the same time.
Sioux Falls people are discussing
with some warmth the proposed Local
ton of the $14,500 Episcopal bishops
residence. Opposition has developed
to locating the building or the
grounds of All Saints school.
1t is reported that a number of farm
ers in the vicinity of Timber Lake are
handling a large acreage of beans this
year, there being over 800 acres, SO
planted in that vicinity. They are
being tested out as a field GRO in hat
section of the state.
Fire, believed to have started from
combustibles in a parcels post pack
age, caused the destruction of IL
sacks of mail in the Milwaukee freight
depot at Yankton. The mail had beer
loaded onto a truck which had been
run into the baggage room. .
The homesteaders who asst fall left
their homesteads around Morristown
for the winter now are returning, and
are preparing to greatly increase
their crop acreage over that of last
season. The recen heavy SHOWS as
cure an abundance of moisture.
The agricultural branch which is
being taught in the Bryant high
school is proving very popular. At
present the class is engaged in test
ing seed corn for the farmers of the
surrounding region, under the direc.
ton of Prof. Ault, a orn expert.
r. r. Cook of Belle Fourche, secre.
tary of the state live stock sanitary
board, has been appointed as a mem
Der of the advisory board of the live
stock department of the San Francis
CO exposition, and will put in consid.
cradle time at the coast city for the
next two years.
Lloyd Bateman, formerly a switch
mar for the Milwaukee, is being held
at Great Falls, Mont. awaiting extra
dition papers to be taken to Aberdeen
by the federal authorities on a charge
OF violating the Mann act. He is
also wanted in Brown county on a
statutory charge.
Judge Hughes of the circuit court,
has decided that the petition on
which a license election was held al
Harold was not a legal one, and that
the election was void. This means
that Harold will be in the dry list
for the lex year, wen though a small
majority was cast in favor Of license
at the election.
Trout thieves are plying their nefa-
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They fill a heavy glass bottle with
lime, tightly cork the bottle and throw
| it into the trout holes. The lime in
shaking develops tremendous force
and explodes the bottle, killing many
trout, which rise to the surface and
are taken in by the thieves.
The engineering force Of the Chey-
enne River Irrigation project hsE
found a way out of the proposed
storage reservoir between Quinn and
Wall. which will require a cut of only
about 100 feet through a sharply
pointed hill to break through tho
'walT' of the Band Lands. This was
what was feared to be one of tho
expensive parts Of the project and the
find will make a great difference in
the cost of construction.
While the hot, dry weather Of June
has badly injured small grain near
Pierre, farmers declare that their
corn and potato fields are yet in fine
shape, and that anything like nor
NAL rains from now on will bring
them good returns on these crops.
The hay crop was practically mado
by the rains of May, and there will be
no more and better hay harvested in
that part of the state this year than
for several preceding years.
Judge MCGEE, at Rapid City, heard
the evidence in a suit brought by
Jesse Harris against school district
No. 48, who claims $S2 for transport
tation of his children to school. IN
his complaint, Harris alleges that he
resides between four and five miles
from a school house, that the road to
this school is at most times impass.
able. Under these conditions Harris
SEN his four children to Wall, Is
miles distant for their schooling.
Twelve Yale students are holding a
Deadwood, where with Prof. Freeman
Ward, of the university, they arc
studying geology.
Judge Bartowe of Fort Pierre has
been at Fairfax soliciting support for
a movement looking to the ultimate
conservation of the Missouri river
floods and by their restraint and