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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
AMERICA TO SUPPLY
600,OOO,OOO STEWS
Britain Orders Canned Beef and
Vegetable Messes For
It's Armies.

New York. March 2i-"Helo! Ameri-
a Well. this is John Bull. Send me
an order OF beef stew for 500, oo0, 900,
We might get hungry"
The !argest order for rations ever
closed IN Canada or the United States
mas just been given the Imperial Can
neries, Ltd, a newly organized holding
concern of Montreal, by the British
1t calls for the delivery of
y O,o00.000 o%ne-pound tins of beef stew
Each tin is TO contain. according t,,
specifications, eight ounces of beef. four
ounces OF rice. one ounce of beans. one
ounce of onions, one ounce of carrots
and one M of liquid. Announcements
was made here recently of the signing
of the contract.
II IS drawn for s9l. 000. 600, slightly
more than Is cents o tin, and will ra-
guiTe in fulfilment 800. 900, 600 pounds of
beef. l50,000.000 pounds Of rice. several
mutton pounds of white beans. carrots
sala gallons of water.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
PATENT MEDICINE MEN
FIGHT STEELE'S BILL
Fear Serum Measure Paves
Way For Regulation of
Their interests.

Washington. D. c.. March 21.-Rep-
Tesentative Steele. who returned today
from attending the Senator Shively
funeral at South Bend, was appraised
that big patent medicine influences
were working against his bill for fed
eral regulation of hog serum. This
bill is before the committee on agri-
culture. Swine men all over the United
States are interested in it.
The patent medicine lobby fears the
bill because it is regarded as giving
large powers Of regulation to the de-
partment of agriculture han the pat
7ent medicine interests want; in other
words, it is regarded as setting a prec-
edent which il extended to the patent
medicine business generally would i'm
pose proper regulation on that BUSH
lless and give the public more protec-
ton.
Mr.. Steele was told today by Chair
mar Lever, of the agriculture commit
tee, that he hoped to make the hog
serum bill part Of the administration
legislative program and insure its
rnSSape ts
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
WELL KNOWN FARMER
SENTENCED TO PRISON
FOR TURNING BURGLAR
Workman and Hired Mar
Admitted Burglarizing of
Store at Brookings.

Bruce, S. d. March 20.-Jesse Work
man, a well known Brookings county
farmer, was sentenced to a term of is
months in the Sioux Falls penitentiary
for turning burglar. His hired man,
who was arrested on the charge of be
ing implicated in the robbery, was fined
$3.50 and costs.
They We're arrested on the charge
of having robbed a Brookings store.
The robbery was traced to them as the
result of carelessness of the hired man,
who a few days after the robbery
visited ~Brookings and wore n of the
~overcoats which had been stolen from
the store. The o~vercoat was identified
and the owner of the store stopped him
on the street and asked him where he
lived. Upon a~scertaining that the man
was employed by Workman, a warrant
was secured and the officers went to
the Workman farm northwest of Bruce.
A search of the premises resulted in
the recovery of about $500 worth of
goods which had been stolen from the
store. When arrested and taken to
~Brookings, Workman confessed and
afterward was taken before the circuit
judge, entering a plea of guilty and re-
ceivlng the sentence stated. The hired
man also entered a plea of guilty.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
GERMAN AEROP[ANE
LOST Off BRITAIN
Four Craft Raid Kent and Pur-
suing Briton Brings Down
Enemy Machine-Nine
Persons Killed.

London, March 21.-Nine persons
were killed and 81 injured in a raid of
four German a~eroplanes over the east
coast of Kent Sunday, it was an
nounced officially. A British airman
brought doWn one raider over b sea.
the German observer being killed. The
official statement on the raid reads:
-Four German seaplanes flew over
east Kent Sunday. The first pair ap-
peared over Dover at a height of 5000
ond st 2:02 p. N,
The first dropped six bombs i'll the
harbOr, then went northwest, dropping
bombs Oh the town. The other raider,
after passing over Dover. appeared
oyer Deal.
'rh second pair appeared over
Rcnlssate at 2:20 p. N. They dropped
bombs on the town. n of this pair
went West, the other north, pursued by
a British aeroplane. One bomb is re-
ported 20 ave been dropped on Mar
gate.
Bomb Hits Hospital.
"J'he second machine appeared over
Westgate at 2:20 p. m. Here several
oe our a~eroplanes went UP in pursuit.
No bombs We're dropped on Westgate.
The total casualties SO far reported
arc: Killed. three men, one woman and
five children; injured. IL men. five
women and eight children.
A far as ascertained As bombs
were dropped altogether. One bomb
fell on the Canadian hospital at Rams
gate, causing damage, but no casual
ties. Material damage was lone. Sew
era1 houses, the homes of artisans. and
cottages were wrecked.
Flight Commander Bone, royal
naval air service, in a single scatter
aerot,!ane, pursued one German sea-
plane 80 miles out to sea, where, after
an action lasting a quarter of an hour.
no forced it to descend. The German
machine was hit many times and the
observer was killed."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
GOT IN WRONG HOUSE IN
TRYING TO SURPRISE WIFE

Big Stone, S. d., March 22.-Matt
Wolfe, a stranger in Big Stone, came
near getting in bad upon his first ar
rival in the place. Wolfe's family came
from Pennsylvania about a year ago,
but business detained the head of the
family, and he arrived without notify
ing his wife of his coming. At the sta
ton, he asked Il resident to take him
to the house Of Mrs. Wolfe" The
man took him to the A. Wolf home.
The inmates were absent, so Wolfe en-
tered and proceeded to make himself at
home. Looking about, he saw some
unfamiliar photographs on the wall, but
was about to make a fire in the kitchen
range and get supper as a surprise to
his wife, when he saw a neighbour nex
door and asked some questions which
enlightened him to tho fact that there
was a Wolf family and a Wolfe family
In Big Stone, and his first conductor
had taken him to the wrong house. The
newcomer was then conducted to his
wlfe's home, and made welcome.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
SKELETON OF MASTODON is
FOUND AT SIOUX FALLS

Sioux Falls, S. D., March 20.-Work-
men employed in excavating for a base
ment in the southern section of the
business district of Sioux Falls made
pn important scientific discovery when
The remain of a maStodon or mammoth
were unearthed.
1t is estimated that the remains have
been at the point where found for at
FEAST 1000 years. The find" embraced
bones and parts of what evidently was
an animal large enough to have been
the grandfather of all elephants. Huge
teeth, IL inches long and from three to
four inches quare man, large bones,
evidently from the head of the ami
NAL, and a curving tusk, 10 inches in
diameter at the base and more than
six feet long, have thus far been un-
earthed.
The skeleton was found about -four
feet below the surface of the ground.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
"DRY" PLANTATION TO HAVE
ROW OVER SALOON ISSUE

Plankinton. S. D., March 1S.-The
filing of the necessary petition SUI
that the saloon license question will be
submitted to the voters of Plankinton
at the annual city election to be held
Tuesday. April IS. Plankinton is
dry at present, and the temperance
forces hope to keep it so as the result
of the vote cast at the city election.
while those favoring the granting Of
licenses for saloons expressed them
selves as confident that the town will
return to the wet column
The voters also will nave sumbitted
to them the proposition of levying a
small tax for the maintenance of a
municipal band, such a tax being au-
thorized by a new law enacted by the
legislature. In addition to ~disposing of
these questions,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
INDIAN AGENT PROTESTS ON
LIQUOR SALES AT WAUBAY

Waubay. S. D., March 22.-Superin-
tendent e. d. Mossman, of the Sisse-
ton indian agency, has addressed an
open letter to the business men of
Waubay, protesting against the sale of
liquor to Indians of the Sissetion
agency. by the Waubay saloons, and
stating if the practice is not stopped
he will withdraw all deposits of In
dian money from the Waubay banks,
and refuse to give orders for supplies
to Indians to be filled at the Waubay
stores. He states the liquor habit is
gaining q hold on the Indians in his
charge because of the ~looseness of the
Waubay saloonmen, in selling to In
dams. and that he is Handicapped in
offsetting the influence of Waubay sa-
looms because of the distance from the
agency, and because the Indians are
citizens and his influence over them is
largely that of an adviser.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

CLUB rooms OF the Eagles lodge IueS-
day and confiscated four barrels of
bottled beer.
HURON-At the annual meeting of the
Huron Commercial club, held Tuesday
evening, the following officers We're elected
for the ensuing year: d. E. McMonies,
president. j. C. Dexter, vice president;
Camden Rayburn, treasurer; A. B.. Shell
don, secretary: L. w. Meigs. assistant sec
rotary. The directors for the coming year
will be: u. G. Medhery, c. S. Langhlin,
j. H. Foasberg, R. e. Cone and w. H.
Vollmer.
wINNER-The Rosebud Medical associ-
alton held its semi-annual meeting here
Tuesday evening and transacted the bust
ness of the association. DR.. Kennaston,
of Bonesteel, was elected president and
DR.. Murnane, of Gregory, vice president,
and DR.. Bryant, of Herrick, secretary and
treasurer for the ensuing year.
BRIDGEwATER-The following in
structors nave been employed in the public
school of this city for the ensuing year:
Superintendent, w. B. Numbers; princi-
pal, G. A. Reed; assistant principal, FL. K.
Brown; music and art. L. a. Osgood;
grades, Laura Bouchie. Ruby Riggle, Alice
Jensen, Cora G. George.
FULTON-The automobile owners of the
northern part of Hanson county have or
| ganized into a Fulton ONO associa-
/ " Lie lslIi ~ HooS oL NtiiS "bil NC
the Improvement of roads. The officers
elected are: r. B. McCandless, president:
! r. L. Colfix, vice president; DR.. G.. H.
I.owthian. secretary and treasurer. The
association has 80 charter members and
has set a mark of 100 members to be
reached this year.
TWIN BROOKS-At a mass meeting Of
local business men a commercial club was
organized, with the following officers:
| President. F. S. Steward: vice president,
Fred Myers; secretary. NJ. l.. Reade; cor
responding secretary. Enoch Lind; treas
urer, S. w. Mattesun.
PIERREi-The supreme court affirmed
I the decision ue the lower court of Stanley
county in the conviction of Herman Son.
nenschein, a prominent ranche- and stock
dealer of Stanley county, on a charge OF
grand larceny, ne having been charged
with extensive cattle rushing operations.
BRIDGEWATER-A farmers banquet,
under the auspices Of the Bridgewater
! Commercial club, has been arranged for
Saturday, March IS. Profs. A. P. Ryger
and r. A.. Larson, of Brookings college.
will deliver addresses, following which a
musical program will be rendered.
PIERRE-Gus Bergen, sr., a pioneer of
this section, died in this city last night.
He came to this part Of the state as a
band leader in the old Eleventh regiment,
when it was stationed at Fort Sully in the
los. After quitting the army he made
his home in this city.
wINNER-The Rosebud Monthly Re-
| view has made its initial bow here Under
the management of John w. Shevlin. pub
Usher of the Winner Journal. This IS The
second monthly magazine recently estab-
lished in the Rosebud. A few months ago
J.. M. Miller, at Dallas, launched the Rose
bud Farmer.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
STOCK GROWERS TO MEET
AT HOT SPRINGS. APRIL 10

lot Springs, S. D., March 20.-The
25th nua meeting of the Western
South Dakota Stock Growers associa-
ton will be held here April 10 and II.
This organization was formed in the
early days of the open range, when
stock was permitted to roam at will
throughout the year, for the protection
of it's members by a system of inspec-
ton on the range and at all market
points in the middle west.
During it's lifetime the organization
has recovered strayed or stolen stock
belonging to it's members of q value of
over 50, 200, 900. Even with the pass
ing of the large herds and the settle
ment of practically every portion of
the range the work of the organiza-
ton and the benefits accruins to it's
members are proportionately as great
as at any time in its history.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
WOMAN WOULD BE MAYOR TO
GET HIGHWAY REPAIRED

Rapid City. S. d. March 22-Through
the columns of the local daily news
paper. Mrs. s. 2. Hoicomb has an
nounced that she will run indepen-
IDENTIFY this spring for the office of
mayor of Rapid City. II elected she
promises hat she will see to it that
the piece OF road in front of her home
is repaired. That, she states, Is her on
~ aso for asking fer this office. She
further states that she mas been IL
large tax payer in Rapid City for a
good many years, and that she has re-
peatedly asked to have this road put in
"A passabie shape, but that no steps
have been taken to have the same re-
paired.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
DISTRICT INSPECTOR FOR
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR

Madison. S. D., March 20,-prepara-
lions are being made to hold a district
inspection and school of instruction at
Madison. Wednesday, March %. by the
Order of the Eastern Star. --he Col
man, Fiandreau and Egan chapters are
to join with the Madison chapter in
the meeting. Grand Matron Susan r
Warning, of Yankton and a number of
other visitors will be present and par
ticipate in the meeting. A reception
will be held for the visitors at the
Masonic temple in the afternoon. and
a dinner will be served in the temple
lining room proceeding the ceremonies.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
SAYS GREAT BRITAIN
WILL GIVE JEWS STATE

London, March IA Jewish state
under the protectorate of England will
positively be established after the war,
was the assertion of Israel Zangwill at
a meeting Of the National Union for
Jewish Rights. held in London.
Zangwill assured the audience that
he is confident that the British gov
eminent wlIl give a piece OF land TO
the Jews, sither in Canada or New
Zealand, and that the establishment OF
a Jewish state will become a reality
after this war,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
SOUTH DAKOTA
q.

Spain has sent IS commercial COM
mission to study business conditions in
Sweden, with the special end in view
OF placing orders for goods formerly
obtained by Spain frem Germany, Eng
land and France, but unobtainable now
from those countries on account Of the
war. The commission visited some OF
2he most important Swedish electrical
and gas machinery manufacturing
plants and ship building yards and
placed orders amounting to over
$780, 900. Roumania, it is said, will
follow suit by sending a similar COM
mission to Sweden with the object OF
studying trade outes from England
via Russia to Ronmania.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
CUMMING HEARING DELAYED
BY COURT ADJOURNMENT

vermilion, S. d.. March 20.-A term
of short court for Clay county. at which
Clarence Dunning, of Sioux City, was
to have been tried or the charge of
having been implicated in a box-car
murder near Burbank last summer, has
been adjourned to April IL. 1t is hint
ed that when the case is called for trial
there may be certain developments
which may bring the case to an abrupt
end, but the nature of these expected
developments has not been revealed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
DESPERATE ASSAULTS
BEGUN BY ITALIANS

Berlin. (wireless to Sayviile) March.
1T.-Desperate attacks on the Austrian
lines along the Isonzo are being con-
tinued by the Italians in their deter
mined offensive in that region accord
ing to the Austrian Headquarters state
ment of March Is, received here today
from Vienna. On the Podgora heights
the Italians were only driven back from
the Austrian positions by bitter hama
&c hand fighting.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
WOMEN vIcTlMIzED ON
SELF HEATING FLAT IRON

Presho. S. D.. March 22.-Quite a
few of the women of Presho and neigh
a man by the name or s.. C. Lyon, rep
~resentis1g himself to be a resident OF
Redfleld, who is taking orders for a
carbon self heating fiat iron. He col
iects for h irons at the time the
order is taken, agreeing to deliver them
later. He represents that the irons
are to be shipped from Redfield. Adj
vices from Redfield have been received
70 the effect hat no such man is
known III Redfield and zthat no such
arttcle is sold from there. The women
who paid FOR these irons are out s2.75
each.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Another link in the now tremend-
ously strong chains holding the friend
ship of north and south in this coun-
of Illinois of the famous Jackson battle
flag, captured from q New Orleans
regiment during the civil war. The
flag was given to the general by New
Orleans women soon after the battle
and remained in that city after his
death until the Illinois regiment laid
hands on If
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
SALOON QUESTION WILL BE
SUBMITTED AT RAPID CITY

Rapid City. S. d, March 20.-yoters
OF this city will have an opportunity to
vote on the wet and dry question
az the general election this spring, a
petition signed by 3s property owners
&c the city having just been fled with
the city commissioners asking that the
that time, The city last spring was
p y dry" by a close margin, and both
siaeS OF the question are apt to be
closely contested this year. Advocates
poth for and against a dry. town are
think that y 10y close fight is coming.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
THREE STUDENTS ARRESTED
FOR ATTACKING PRINCIPAL

Artesian, s. D, March 20.-As the re-.
suit of a sensational ARRAY. three boy
students of the Artesian high school
have been held for trial at the May
term of state circuit court on the
charge of assault and battery, the com
planning witness being Prof. Moore.
principal of the Artesian schools. The
defendants are Frank T~hreadgold,
Wolter Wise and Verne Henton. all
sons Of prominent parents. The affair
has caused a great sensation among
the people of Artesian.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Swedish business men are apparently
working hard to take advantage of war
conditions for establishing themselves
firmly in Russia. A Swedish chamber
OF commerce and a newspaper printed
IN swedish will be started, it is said, in
P~etrograd.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Inmates of the county Jail in Super
for, Wis, are conducting a checker
tournament and matches are played
daily despite the fact some Of the men
are confined to their cells. One man
holds the board on his lap and the other
makes his moves by poking a stick
through the bars.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Although his domain, which consists
OF two seperate portions, lying 80
miles apart in northern Germany, and
having an area Of only 433 square
niles Prince Frederick Of Waldeck-
Pyrmont rules with all the pomp and
ceremony which characterizes the
courts of the great powers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Report m from Germany that the
town of Mittenwald, whose inhabitants
are renowned all over the world as
makers of violins, is suffering greatly
from the war. In times of peace fully
four-fifths Of the output of instruments
went to the United States, but the diff
~ficulties of export nowadays have al
most entirely cut off this trade. Never
theless, the violin makers continue to
produce the Instruments M store
them away in expectation of better
DAYS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Women are to be employed as tram
car conductors in Bradford, England.
Wages and hours will be the same as
for men. In the city OF Sheffield, Eng
land, 1T is reported that there are al
ready ESQ women car conductors out of
q total of $40 employed.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

The skeleton of a prehistoric man.
beautifully green, has been dug up in
the Arizona copper district and the ma
tiVes. who insist no true Arizonian
could be of such a hue, assert the tint
is due to a contact with that mineral.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23
DAkoTAN ROBBED WHILE
ASLEEP IN IMMIGRANT CAE

Bridgewater, S. d.. March 90
While asleep in his Immigrant car en-
route from Lennox to Mcintosh, r.
Stroman was robbed OF sos in cash and
a draft for $3.50. The thief was taken
in custody here, but made his escape,
and was afterwards apprehended at
Alexandria, brought back here and held
for hearing. on the charge of grand
larceny. Upon preliminary eXamina-
ton he was held to the circuit court.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

So extensive are the precautions tak-
en- on the railroads that climb the
Andes and link Argentina and Chile,
which have the steepest grades in the
world, that not a fatal accident has oc-
Cured since they were opened in 1910.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

In a new desk set which
obviates the necessity of holding the
Instruments in the hands the transmit
ter n receiver are mounted at oppo-
site ENDS of a rod which is held in any
position desired by q ratchet.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Experiments in England with a new
bacterized peat fertilizer have resulted
an remarkable increases in plant
growth and productivity, while plants
believed to be dying have beer restored
TO better than normal condition.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

the historic elm tres which the late
KING Edward VII planted in Independ-
ence u Philadelphia, when he vis-
tied this country as Prince Of Walas IN
1851 has died and been cut down
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

The inhabitants OF China are counted
every year in a curious manner. The
oldest master of every 10 houses has to
count the families and make a list,
which is ent to the imperial tax
house.
STORLA-The local business men. as
the result Of a mass meeting. have de-
cided to give such aid ias they can to the
construction of a proposed railroad from
Mitchell to Pierre. TO tap a country In
this territory which now is without railj
road facilities. 1t is expected Storla will
be one of the stations on the new l.ne
when It is construc ted. AT present Storla
is without a railroad, the nearest railroad
point being Letcher. The new railroad
would pass in a northwesterly direction.
traversing Buffalo county, also without a
railroad. and would give Gam Valley.
county seat OF the count its first ra:.-
road communication.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

mat shooting is a most popular sport
among the foreign residents of Shanps
nal is shown by the fact that, out of o
Iotai foreign population of about liz. 900.
there are seven shooting clubs with 754
members.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-23

Henry C. Prick. the steeI oa.na4a ].
an enthusiastic golfer, and never miss
es an opportunity to spend 3 few
hours on the links. 80