The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-29
STATE NEWS.

Pierre-The state game depart
ment has been notified that 1t cost
Elmer Dodson, of Watertown, $25
for a duck dinner which he had gath
cred in before the opening of the
hunting season.
Olivet-Two young men residing
at Memo were arrested and brought
to Olivet for trial before a local jus
tice on the charge of assaulting the
night Waterman at Memo. Both de-
PENDANTS entered pleas of guilty and
they were fined 500 and costs each.
which they paid.
Milbank-William Van Erem. one
of two men arrested a few days &
on a charge of selling liquor illegal
ly at his farm home near Milbank.
appeared before a local justice and
entered a plea of guilty. Van Erem
paid a fine of $500 and costs, and in
addition will have to serve thirty
days in the county Jail.
Deadwood-Having travelled over
$500 miles. Edward II. Norton ar
rived here from Hartford. Conn, on
his bicycle on a cross country trip.
I1f II i'll Aoi camping anu Is
making the trip purely for pleasure
and taking In points of interest on
the way. He came across South Da-
kota and will proceed on through
Wyoming and into Yellowstone Ma
tional park.
Rapid City-While doing some re-
pairing al the creamery here George
Scheidt was shocked seriously by a
defective wire. Standing i'm a pud-
die of water, he was inserting an
electric plug In a socket when he re-
ceived 10 volts and was knocked
unconscious. He remained this way
four hours after being admitted 10
the hospital. but physicians say he
will recover.
Observation-Disclosures for informa-
tion concerning the land available for
homestead entry in Lawrence county
under a new law passed last month
are deluging the Black Hills nation
al forest headquarters here. Before
the land can be taken up the forest
force must classify IL. and this work
Is being rushed by Supervisor KEEL
Letter, but ii will require several
weeks to complete. The opening of
these lands will mean several hun
dred settlers.
Pierre-The attorney general has
ruled that fees paid for examinations
of teachers must remain in the coun-
ty which the examination has been
held. II has been the custom when
a teacher from one county takes the
examination i'm another county to
send the fees to the county of which
the teacher is a resident, but this
practice will be no longer followed.
Deadwood-For using a knife on
another boy in a fight, 15-year-old
Henry Comes, of Fruitdale, is in Jail.
while his victim, win Mccoy, aged
16, is in a serious condition. The
quarrel resulted from some insulting
remarks that Comes is alleged to
have made TO McCoy's mother. Mrs.
Earl Harris. Young Mccoy sought
out Comes, warned him, and Comes
invited him to tie in" Mccoy was
unarmed and received a dangerous
knife wound in his left side under
the rib.
Big Stone-George C%onraads. a
prominent farmer living west of
town, was struck by a bolt of light
ming and instantly killed during a
severe electrical storm which passed
over this section. His wife had just
stepped out Of a room, leaving her
husband at the telephone. receiver in
hand. When she returned to the
room she found his body lying on the
floor. The bolt apparently had en-
tered the house over the telephone
wire and he had received its fun
force. The unfortunate man was Is
years of age and was married last
fall.