The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 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.

ZACH any part of the Pine Ridge Indian
reservation to any organized county or
The state for judicial purposes has just
been upheld in IN important test case
by Judge MCGEE, Of the state circuit
SQUIRT for the Fall River-Pennington
county circuit.
This decision was rendered in a case
Of 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
.harge Of wife beating, and when taken
before Judge Thunder Bear, of the In
iian court, was found guilty and sem
tenced to serve 30 days in the agency
Jail. Good Lance served the term, n
upon his release instituted in h state
circuit court Of Fall River county a
damage suit against the chief of the
indian police, he judge Of the Indian
court and the United States Indian
| lgent in charge Of the reservation, by
which he sought to recover $4,000 for
unlawful arrest and imprisonment.
I This was the first damage suit of the
kind ever instituted by an Indian in
he 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 that 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 Of the
federal attorney, thus leaving Coco
Lance without any standing in court
30 far as his damage suit was con-
cerned.
There are rumors that an appeal will
MCGEE, but as to this nothing definite
has yet been announced.
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FARMER-Efforts to capture q sup
posed wild man who is said to have re-;
.ently been seen on several occasions in
temote portions Of Hanson county have
hus far been unsuccessful. It Is believed
he Is a lunatic who made his escape from
The state hospital for the insane at Yank-
on. or from the insane asylum Of some
adjoining state. Women and children in
he region where he Is said to be making
lis headquarters have been greatly
alarmed.
KIMBALL-Wm. Koenig, who lives
gbout seven miles northeast Of Kimball,
hreshed out so acres Of barley which av-
ragged 30 bushels to the acre. Fifty acres
| ~ SpSit5 dIIu OdtS IlllAtu u lcep went 70
bushels to the acre. Ben Thompson, one
mile east of Gam Valley, Buffalo coun-
ty, threshed his oats which went 81 BUSH
els to the acre. Ashley Durham threshed
out his oats Sh miles northeast OF Gam
Valley. They went 37h bushels to the
acre.
WITTENBERG-At the annual conven-
ton of the Hutchinson County Sunday
School ASSOCIATION, held at this place, the
4 Nn11nuuia- AffaA-a mona a1naAol o. A..
| coming year: President, John c. Unruh;
| vice presidents, r. E. Boegler, ]. F. Nor
gan: secretary-treasurer, Bertha Welsh;
assistant secretary, Mrs. ]. T. Wilson. The
place for holding the next annual owen
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.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are almost of
daily occurrence here among the return
Ing harvest hands. Four I. W. WIS held
up two independents and robbed them of
! k5 cash and a gold watch, just east of
me city. Wednesday, where a similar rob-
berry took place the night before. An I.
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 Ian
Buage 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
" children on the streets.
P~IERRE-The weather bureau report
ihows that July was the warmest since
1901. The average for the month just past
was 80, and for July, 1901, 1t was 50. Thu
lverage 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
1t 2.55 inches.
BRUCE-A local automobile dealer Is
! ,recting what will be the largest garage
. n Brookings county. II will be 75x1OO feet
n size. III addition to the garage, a
pumber 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
10 a very serious operation. He Is re-
ported as doing satisfactorily. DR.. Seapy
8 a we'll known practitioner along the
Platte line.
KIMBALL-Wil Mckee. was struck and
Killed 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
llso the stack. He was 81 years old.
BRIDGEWATER-L. NJ. Detterman. OF
his place threshed 5000 bushels OF oats
rom q 105-acre field. Corn is suffering
Tor want OF rain and at the BEST will not
held to exceed one-half a crop. Scarcely
my rain has fallen since June 81.
IRENE-Extensive 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-Information has reached here
rom the home OF his daughter at Bickle-
Jon, Wash, that H.. p. Violin, for whom
his town was named. sustained a stroke