The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-07-25
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

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fankton Indian reservation II miles
southwest of Wagner.
Arrangements have been completed
% start a new town about midway be-
ween the towns of Rosholt and New
Ellington, ear White Rock. The
new town will be named Victor.
The Hughes county board of COM
nissioners appropriated $500 for the
,ounty's exhibit at the state fair at
Huron, and also 500 for Hughes coun-
Us expense share of the Black and
Yellow" highway.
During the year there have been 274
births in the county of C%odington and
only SO deaths. The records show
mat there nave been I57 couples anti
I'd in marriage, % divorces have been
granted. and II of foreign birth have
'ormally declared their intention OF
becoming United States citizens.
The Railway Employees Investment
company is a new organization just or
sanized at Yankton. j. G. Love, for
nerly of Sioux City, now assistant gen.
eral freight agent of the Milwaukee,
vas elected president. The object is
% give employees a chance to save and
invest their earnings.
r. Roche, parole officer of Joliet, H.,
prison, was in Elk Point recently after
Carl Mckinley, who was paroled from
fhn nricnn on1 hrnEn h;S nnrnln lnSt
February. He gave himself up to
Deputy Sheriff Moore of Union coun-
~, saying he was tired of evading the
officers. He was sentenced on the
charge of burglary.
G.. II. Jaynes, a Pierre meat dealer,
mas secured the contract for furnish
ing meat to the government Indian
school there for the coming year. This
IS a contract which has always been
captured by some of the meat pack
ing firms of the northwest, and the
locals have been underbid each year
until this year.
Clam diggers, who for some weeks
have been operating along the streams
near Alexandria. have just shipped to
eastern button factories an aggregate
Of so tons of clam shells, for which
hey 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 they found in some
Of the shells.
Lying under a tree with his hat Over
mis- face, Louis Coitteau, a pioneer res
dent Of Meade county, was found dead
in a field on his ranch, eight miles
rom Piedmont. Coitteau, who was II
years old, had gone into the field to
tend to some horses and was over
come. Physicians declare death was
due to natural auses He leaves a
wife and one daughter.
The home of Burt Roberts of Twin
Brooks was completely wiped out by
fire, with all it's contents. The blaze
was discovered in one of the bedrooms
and Ruby Roberts, a 12-year-old girl,
was quite badly burned about the head
and face before she could be rescued.
The family we're able to save but little
from the burning building, the chill
dren being rescued in their night
clothes.
While DR.. Webb and George Finley
Of Howard we're driving along a Oun
try road in Mr.. Finley's runabout at
the rate of 20 miles an hour, they came
suddenly upon a team. Mr.. Finley
made a short turn out of the road to
avoid a collision with the team when
the car turned over. The occupants of
the car were somewhat bruised and
scared, but not seriously injured. The
car was demolished.
In the belief that Tyndall is entitled
to three saloons instead OF two, a petit
ton is being circulated asking Gov.
Byrne to authorize the taking OF a
special census. The 1910 census gave
Tyndall a population of 1,107, but the
vote at the spring election indicates
that the town now has in the neighbor-
hood of 1900 people. If the special
census shows a population of over
! 500 Tyndali will be entitled to a third
saloon.
William f. Wilde, a Lake Preston
man, was the victim Of a shooting af-
fray which took place at the railroad
depot. He became involved in a wOrdy
argument with a stranger while an eX-
ira train, made up largely of the prop
ertv of a circus was at the depot. Be-
fore the argument had proceeded very
far the stranger drew a revolver and
shot at Wilde, the bullet entering his
left leg. At first it was feared he
had been fatally hurt. The assailant
succeeded in escaping before his iden-
tity was discovered and has not yet
been captured.
An unusual trial took place at Pee
yer in which the defendants, the pros
ecuting attorney, the witnesses. the
Justice of the peace and the deputy
sheriff making the arrest, we're all In
dams. John and Andrew Thompson,
two Indians, were charged with dis
turbing a meeting at Big Culee church.
Ed Heminger, an Indian deputy sher-
iff. made the arrest. The prosecution
was conducted by State Attorney
Thomas Man, a full blooded Sioux, and