The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-30
STATE NEWS

Pierre-The state land department
accepted the bid of the Lamphere-
Heinrichs company. of Rapid City, of
"a, so per thousand stumpage on %,
900, 900 feet of lumber ON the state
forest reserve, near Custer.
Pierre. e. Nipple, editor of the
Capital Journal. of this city, had a
narrow escape fiom death last night
when his auto crashed into a moving
freight train at a dark crossing. The
rain driving into his face obscured
his vision. The machine was badly
wrecked, but he escaped injury by
jumping just before the crash.
Carthage-The sheriff of Miner
county and three deputies. from. How
ard. and Deputy Sheriff Tillman.
| Marshal Carlson and Rev. joel Brow n,
of Carthage, raided a gambling house
here. Five men who were found in
the room were allowed to go as O as
their names were taken down. Then
the posse immediately went to the T
f. Wilson pool hall and secured several
cases of beer and other like liquors.
Huron-H. G. Yunkin. a farmer of
Beadle county, residing not far from
Huron, has just finished marketing a
l. 900 bushel crop of potatoes, raised on
a t2-acre field. While the raising OF
potatoes requires a certain amount
more work than raising wheat, for
example, his is a very much better
crop from every point of view than is
being raised as a general thing in this
part of the state when small grain is
put in. Mr.. yonnkin's potatoes are
Exceptionally good ones and he is
having no trouble in marketing them
in this city.
Deadwood For the first time in this
circuit Judge Rice invoked the new
suspended sentence law in the cases of
two prisoners sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for crimes committed here
Jack Fairchild was sentenced to one
year for grand larceny for stealing
valuables from u local hotel, and
Carl Natslund was given a similar
sentence for forging a 81. 500 check.
Sentence was suspended in each case
ON condition that the men would at
once secure work and remain away
from saloons and refrain from any in
toxicants for n year. The men re.
ported two hours later to the states at
torney that they had secured work.
Scotland--W. G. Brown. a local
stock buyer and prominent in bust
ness affairs, committed suicide in q
neighbor's garage here. He shot
himself through the heart with o shot
gun, apparently dying instantly. Two
weeks ago he made an unsuccessful at
tempt to take his life. He was aaiict-
ed with cancer, and the realization
that his ase was hopeless induced a
suicide mania, which has been observed
for several months. He leaves n wife
and q family of grown children.
Pierre-Captain B. G. Mossman,
who has for years been running cat.
tie on the Cheyenne River Indian
reservation, is this year shipping his
stock close, with the expectation of
being compelled to change his range
loo tion after next year when its pres
emit lease expires. as the Indians have
expressed an unwillingness to continue
leases longer. Captain Mossman has
shipped six trains of cattle 30 far
this fall and has been securing top
prices for grass cattle for his ship
ments. On account of the dry weather
early in the summer hay is a scarce
proposition ON that range, but the
winter grazing is good FROM the later
grown grass, and with normal. winter
weather the stock he leaves on the
range will have plenty of winter
pasture.