Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-17
INDIAN SEEKS COURT
IN JUDGMENT SUIT;
FIRST FILED IN U. s.
Frank Good Lance, After serv.
ing 80 Days, Files Just
Like White Man.

49, ~ " ILL., Sodlll VI
The state for judicial rpo has Just
Deen upheld in an important test case
by Judge MCGEE. Of the. state circuit
court for the Fall River-Pennington
county circuit.
Inls decision vas rendered in a case
pr an unusual character arising on the
Pine Ridge reservation. Recently
Frank Good Lance. a Pine Ridge
agency Sioux Indian, was arrested by
he chief of the Indian police on the
charge of wife beating, and when taken
before Judge Thunder Bear, of the IN
iian court, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to serve 80 days in the agency
Jail. Good Lance served the term, and
lpon his release instituted in the state
:ircuit court of Fall River county a
damage suit against the chief of the
ndla police, the judge of the Indian
court and the United States indiana,
agent In charge Of the reservation, BY
which. he sought to recover 50, 900 for
nnlaWfu arrest and imprisonment.
This was the first damage suit Of the
kind ever instituted by an Indian in
The United States.
The federal government, through
United States Attorney Robert p.
Stewart, demurred to the complaint Of
Good Lance, the contention Of the
United States attorney being hat the
action could not lawfully be instituted
IN the state circuit court, and that
the state legislature had no authority
to attach the Pine Ridge reservation
to Fall River or any other organized
county for judicial purposes.
Judge MCGEE, after a hearing In the
case, sustained the contention uf the
federal attorney, thus leaving Good
Lance without any standing in court
30 FAR as his damage suit was con-
cerned.
IhPra rn Yl1 Dnro thot a, n rrNo1 ri11
be taken from the decision of Judge
MCGEE, but as to this nothing definite
pas yet been announced.
~
FARMIER-Efforts to capture a sup
posed wild man who is said to have re-
emily been seen on several occasions in
remote portions Of Hanson county nave
nus far been unsuccessful. 1t is believed
&c is a lunatic who made his escape from
NE state hospital for the insane at Yank-
on, or from the insane asylum of some
,djoining state. Women and children In
he region where he is said to be making
lis headquarters have been greatly
alarmed.
K1MBALL-Wm. Koenig, who lives
lloout seven miles northeast of Kimball.
hreshed out so acres of barley Which av-
ragged 80 bushels to the acre. Fifty acres
" spells and oats mixed for feed went o.
80 ~ DSli 1IloillpSoI, C.lC
mile east of Gam Valley, Buffalo coun-
" threshed his oats which went 81 bush
els to the acre. Ashley Durham threshed
out his oats Sla miles northeast of Gam
Valley. They went 37a bushels to the
acre.
WITTENBERG-At the annual conven-
lion of the Hutchinson County Sunday
School association, held at this place, tho
following officers We're elected for the
AOnlnP vapC r. praSilapt 1a1,- " J-,.,,l.
vice presidents, r. E. Boegler. j. f. Nor
gan; secretary-treasurer, Bertha Welsh;
assistant secretary, Mrs. j. r. Wilson. The
place for holding the next annual conven-
ton has not yet been selected.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are be-
ing completed for the annual Moody coun-
ty fair, which will be held in this CITY.
commencing August 2S, and continuing un-
til the night Of August 81. Much attention
will be given the poultry department.. and
the exhibits In this department are ex-
pected to be fine. There will be other
exhibits, including farm products of all
kinds and live stock.
YANKTON-Robberies are almost Of
daily occurrence here among the return
ing harvest hands. Four I. w. WIS held
up two independents and robbed them of
$50 cash and a gold watch, just east OF
me city. Wednesday, where a similar rob-
berry took place the night before. An l..
w. w. also ROBBED. was handed back his
property on his red card being found
WATERTOWN-An unusual case BEFORE
Judge Myers, of the municipal court in
this city. was the trial of a 13-year-old
girl on the charge of using profane lam
Euage on a public street. She was found
guilty, and Judge Myers imposed a fine Of
IS. The girl was charged with using the
profane language while playing with 9th
II children on the streets.
PIERRE-The weather bureau report
shows that July was the warmest since
1901. TIL average for the month Just past
was so, and for July, 1901, it was 80. The
tverage this year was five degrees above
| normal for the month at this place. The
precipitation for the month was $50 inches,
which was just a shade under the normal
st 2.55 inches.
BRUCE-A local automobile dealer is
| ,recting what will be the largest garage
n Bookings county. 1t will be 75xiOO feet
n size. In addition to the garage, a
seInher of other new buildings are in
\ course of construction in Bruce, and the
farmers of the surrounding territory also
| ire making extensive building improve
nents.
| YANKTON-Dr. j. A. Seapy, of Geddes.
Is in a hospital here, where he submitted
I 10 a very serious operation. He IS re-
ported as doing satisfactorily. DIR. Seapy
g a well known practitioner along the
Platte line.
KIMBALL-Win Mckee. was struck and
l titled by lightning about four miles south
iast OF this city. He was pitching off
grain from a wagon to his father on the
tack. The lightning set Mckees clothes
IN fire. burning up the wagon, grain and
! also the stack. He was q years old.
BRIDGEWATER-L. NJ. Detterman, OF
!! Ibis place threshed 5000 bushels of oats
| rom a 105-acre field. Corn is suffering
| .or wan Of rain and at the best will not
Jield to exceed one-half a crop. Scarcely
my rain has fallen since June 81.
MISUNDERSTANDING public improvements
ire being made here. Among other things
;he streets are being placed in first class
condition. A number of new street cross
ngs have been put in.
VOLIN-Tnformatlon has reached here
rom the home OF his daughter at Blckle-
ION. Wash, that H. p. Violin. for whom
his town was named, sustained a stroke
II paralysis while himself and wife and
Two youngest children were visiting at
he home Of his daughter.
GENERAL RAIN