The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-01-06
STATE NEWS.

ing made by a drilling company to
commence drilling for oil in this vi
entity in the spring in the hope of
striking oil in paying quantities.
Dallas-Ed Getzmeyer is shipping
a carload of pop corn to the eastern
markets which was raised on his farm
eleven miles southwest of Dallas two
years ago and is of excellent quality.
Ortley-Thus far this winter a
single local buyer has purchased an
aggregate OF 10000 bushels of grain
and shipped ii TO eastern markets. 1t
is claimed this dealer handles more
grain than any other dealer between
Minneapolis and Aberdeen.
Wagner-Sioux Indian lands sold
last Friday at the agency office at
Greenwood, south of Wagner,
brought the Indians a large sum of
money. One Indian sold forty acres
to John ID. Sipes. Trip. s.. D., for
$2,400. Fred Leroy sold his forty
acres to James Costell, Wagner for
s2.763. while ID. l.. Waterson and g.
c.. Smith of Lake Andes, paid $10.-
$50 for inherited Indian land to
Steven Jones.
Alpena=Fire of unknown origin
but which might have been started by
a spark from the chimney completely
destroyed the general store of John
Fee at Templeton, a Jerauld county
village. The building and stock was
valued at about $4,000. Insurance
to the amount of s1,700 was carried
The fire was discovered by o. w.
Dearborn, former owner of the store,
who lived but a short distance away.
Amherst-The Farmers State bank
of Amherst changed hands when the
First National bank of Britton sold a
controlling interest to a new corpora
ton, of which w. b. Harris is presi-
dent and Charles +. Oleson is cashier.
Both come from Walnut Grove,
Mimi, where they are prominent in
financial circles. Mr.. Oleson has re-
moved to Amherst and will have
charge of the bank, which is a flour
ishing institution, and the only bank
in town.
Dell Rapids-The next regular
meeting of the South Dakota board
of pharmacy for the examination of
candidates for registration and gem
eral business will be held at the city
of Pierre on January 26-27. The
session will be held in the Woodman
hall and will begin at s o'clock a. m.
Application blanks can be secured
from Secretary Il. C. Bent. and must
be filed at least five days prior to the
date of the examination.
Gregory-Through the interces-
sion of the United States authorities
the boycott on the new postmaster in
Lucas. n of the thriving towns, has
been declared off. The old postmaster
is the owner of a general store.
When a new postmaster took hold
the p0stofflce was moved to a rival
general store, w%hereupon the old
postmaster declared a boycott, and to
prevent the new postmaster receiving
the benefit of stamp cancellations,
upon which the salary is based, he
placed a letter box in his store and
rallied his friends to handle their
mail from there. The United States
authorities now have notified the
rural mail carriers on the routes run
ming out OF Lucas not to receive mail
from anyone but the postmaster and
this action has forced the old post
master to declare the boycott off.
Lucas-The Gregory county au-
thorities, in pursuance of a warfare
recently inaugurated against cattle
'rustlers," have arrested two more
men on the charge of being implicat-
ed in the theft of cattle from home
steaders and ranchers. This makes
five men who have been arrested
within a few days on this charge.
The latest to be arrested are Cecil
Small and Cyrus Delaney, homestead
ers of the Sully Flats country near
Lucas. The arrest of these two men.
following the arrest OF three other
alleged rustlers, indicates that the
effort to round up the band or bands
OF rustlers that have been operating