Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-11-28
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81 The annual hunt for coyotes is pro.
Nj crossing in Sully county.
HI Mrs. n. Drapeau dropped dead while
MI riding in a funeral procession in Sioux
E Falls.
III After returning thirteen indictments
81 the federal grand jury adjourned at
81 Aberdeen.
81 A company has been organized at
r. Yankton for the manufacture of brick
& on an extensive scale.
: A. A. Manning, a prominent pioneer
n settler of Miller, died at Chicago.
d where he went for an operation.
II e. o. Patterson, OF Winner, is being
: mentioned as a possible aspirant for
n congressional honors in the Third dis
u triCt.
Il Several DeSmet people have formed
4 a "DeSmet colony" down in Florida
n where they have purchased five acre
ranches"
B Michael Quick was taken to Faith
\ suffering from a gunahOt wound
n through the right foot and through
the leshy part of the left leg.
In the state circuit court at Salem,
c. R. Philips entered a plea of guilty
! to the charge of selling insurance
! without first procuring a license and
I was fined $50.
The city commission of Sioux Falls
has assured P. f. Sherman it's cordial
cooperation in his new project to build
a railroad into the territory southeast
of hat town.
The Bowdle Mercantile company is
a new firm which has just opened a
general merchandise business in Bow
die. The proprietors are B. A. Os-
tereich and Herman c. Baer.
A visit to the Black Hills Of Milwau-
kee railroad officials has greatly in
creased the interest and speculation as
to proposed extensive improvements
Of the road in that section.
A total of 2,O25 voters of Turner
county lave registered for the right
to vote at the March primaries. This
is not quite 70 per cent of the total
number of voters in the county.
A fine new postoffce building is
nearing completion at washington and
will soon be ready for occupancy. 1t
is in a central location and is conven-
iently arranged for postofice pur-
poses.
J. S. Pingrey, a prominent farmer
eight miles south of Parker, lost his
left hand while %cranking his auto.
The crank caught his glove and wound
up his hand and crushed it so it had
to be amputated.
The Rec Valley Poultry association
will hold its annua poultry show at
Miller on January 6. A big cash
fund has already been subscribed for
premiums, and the show promises to
be a very successful one.
The part of the Twin Cities-Aber-
deen-YellowstOne Park trail which the
citizens of Java agreed to build, west
of town, has been completed and is in
excellent condition. The road south
east of Java will be built as soon as
spring opens.
In a real estate deal at Yankton the
other day, ]. NJ. Duus sold the bal
ance of the former H. Ellerman farm
just northwest of town, PSI acres, and
owned by Thomas Boland, of LeMars,
Ia, to Jens P. List, of Yankton. The
consideration was $4,000.
Rev. D.. Ellis Evans, the preacher
formerly of Armour, who is under in
dictment charged with obtaining
money by false ~pretenses following
the sale of alleged worthless mining
stock, has voluntarily returned from
the east and given himself DIP.
A movement is afOot in Armou to
secure a Carnegie library. Miss L..
tIN-o
recently and instructed the people
how to proceed to get a library, with
the result that active measures are
being advanced toward that end.
At the annual business meeting OF
the stockholders of the McCook Coun-
ty Fair association the following Of
fcers were elected for the coming
year: President, j.. w. Gibson; vice
president, J. E. McCarty; secretary,
L. V. Schneider; treasurer, w. B..
Hart.
Colonel Luce of the Luce Electric
Short Line surveyed from Minneapolis
to ~Brookings, S. D., has assured the
Bookings Commercial club that one
fourth of the line has been completed
and the cars will he running into
Bookings within "a months if the peo-
pie of that place show their interest,".
To this end a committee Of business
men will visit the MIL ity soon.
Thus far a total of 2,13O voters Of
Hutchinson county have registered
for the right to vote at the March
primary election. OF this number,
there are 1,7OS Republicans, 81 Dem
ocrats, IS Prohibitionists, 3 Socialists,
% Independents, and II Progressive.
Those who have registered as indie
pendents will not be permitted to vote
In March, as the primary election at
that time is purely a party affair, Tor
the selection by the respective par
ties of their regular party tickets TO
come before the voters at the general
election in November of next year.
A crew of men are engaged in con-
structing a concrete and cement dam
at Lake Campbell, near Bookings
which will raise the water level OF the
lake 90 inches, and convert it into
one of the prettiest lakes in that sec
ton of the state.
The state tax commission was SuS-