The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-12-30
VERMILION SEEKS
FOR MISSING Chief;
WOMAN is ACCUSER
Telephone Operator Prefers
Charge Against Mount Who
Has Disappeared.

ago after serious charges had been
preferred against him by young
woman, who formerly was employed
In the vermilion telephone office and
who now is said to be in hospital in
Sioux City.
About three weeks ago Mount ten
dered his resignation to the city COM
missioners OF vermilion, but later re-
considered the matter and was con-
tinued in office. He had filled the po-
sition OF night chief Of police for sew
eral months. His record was fairly
good, except that he was criticised In
some quarters for alleged laxness in
discovering three fires which broke out
during his incumbency OF the office.
The first inkling his Vermilion
friends had that he was involved in
difficulty was when Sioux City at
torney arrived In the city armed with
the necessary papers to cause Mounts
arrest. The complaint in the case was
made by the former Vermilion tele-
phone operator, who charged Mount
with a statutory offense. News Of the
arrival OF the attorney must have
reached Mount, for when the prelim-
inaries had been attended to and an Of
hcer went to arrest him, he had dis
appeared, It is believed he boarded an
early morning train and departed for
parts unknown.
The young woman who made. the
charge against the missing officer Is
the same woman who a few weeks ago
tiled a complaint against Joseph Suth-
erland, another Clay county man,
charging him with attempted criminal
assault, alleged to have been commit
ted last October. Why so long q period
should have been permitted to elapse
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tempt and the filing Of the complaint
II unknown.
At the time OF Mounts alleged Of
Tense the young woman was employed
as night telephone operator. According
TO her complaint the first offense was
The CLAW county authorities are
making every effort to locate Mount
so he may be brought back to South
Dakota for trial.
ABERDEEN--After an interesting con-
| test before County Judge G. o. Newcemb
| of the Brown county court. the Will of
the late Jens Harksen. a farmer who re-
sided near westport In this county, was
| admitted to probate. Harksen died about
| i've weeks ago, leaving about $4,000 worth
| OF property and several children. Two or
| the children, dissatisfied with their share
| Of the estate as left them in the win,
u a
| alleging mental incompetericy OF the de-
| cedent, undue influence, and that the viii
! was illegally drawn. Judge Newcomb
overruled all the objections made by the
| contestants, and probated the will The
| attorneys for the dissatisfied heirs an
nounced they would appeal to the state
circuit court.
wATERTowN-Cit Auditor o. M.
Lane, staunch adherent OF Wilsonian
4 faA n al tSNdu af he,
| ,ity hall while Patrolman Al Wilson tried
| tut the latest wrinkle In handcuffs just
| received by the police department. The
| cuffs securely clanped on the wrists of
| he city official, while Mayor Henry Wag-
| Ter and Chief of Police Jones looked on.
/ Wilson discovered that the key had been
I eft at the hardware store through which
| the shaclxles were ordered; meanwhile
Lane sat manacled while hasty trip was
| made to obtain the key.
ABERDEEN-Charle w. Fait. a base
ball player claiming to be signed by the
] Chicago White Sox for next year, who has
1 been In the county jail for several weeks
awaiting trial on a charge of having vio-
lated the Mann white slave" law by
bringing a young woman here from Mil
AGA, MIMI, for immoral purposes, Is APP
parently insane. Physicians who have In
yestigated the case express the belief that
| Fait is really insane and is not shamming,
and he will probably be taken to the fed
eral hospital for the criminal insane at
washington, D. G.
CLEAR LAKE-When A. L. Fisher, a
farmer living west OF this city, opened
the door last evening in response to rap
he found there an Irishman with moss
agate mustache and Hibernian brogue
who requested accommodations for him
self and two friends, who would willingly
sleep In the barn. AS Fisher proceedeo
into the yard he discovered the friends"
were his brothers and the Irishman' his
| half brother, all Of whom had been
brought together for the first time in "a
years.
wATERTowN-The razing OF one OF
the first business blocks of the city, now
occupied by the First National bank, the
wealthiesS banking institution here, will
begin early next spring to make room for
$4,000 banking building. The original
/ building was erected In 1880 and occupied
by the Codington county bank. later the
First National. The new structure win
embody all the latest ideas In bank con-
struction, with terra Gotta exterior.
WENTWORTH - Preliminary arrange
ments are being made for the annual
farmers institute and short course which
win be held In this city on February n
and % One of the features Is expected
to be an address on farm fertilizer by
State Agricultural Agent Ward o. Os-
trander, of Sioux Falls, one of the leading
ing farm experts of the state.
RAPID CITY-rhe sheriffs office in
this city has been busy during the past
few days collecting delinquent taxes.
Thus far Sheriff Baken anc his assistants
have collected an aggregate of about $40, 900
OF these taxes, and the work il being con-
tinued with the prospect that several thou
sand dollars more will be collected.
wATERTOWN-Clare SchuIze, com
monty known as "Schlitz," local book
keeper OF unmistakable nationality, short,
fat and jolly, with face like John Bun
ny's, has been offered 81 500 per week by a
Chicago moving picture house.
PARKSTON--The annual bail Of the
Parkston volunteer fire department will
be held Monday evening, January 3. This
win be one of the. chief social events of
the winter in this city.
MONTROsE--Mrs A. w, Perry 10 in a
nerious condition as result OF over
exertion while lifting objects in her home.
She sustained internal injuries