The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1917-01-10


South Dakota express rate case, has
been served. The state supreme court
Dec. 5, granted . permanent injunc
ton against putting into effect intra
state rates corresponding to inter
state rates.
On = street in Lincoln, Neh., crowd
ed with theatergoers. John Stearns. a
restaurant proprietor, last week shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Nora Nelson
. dressmaker, and then shot himself
dying in = few moments. Stearns was
thirty years old and Mrs. Ne.3on was
about the same age. The woman for
merly lived in Edgemont.
The sheriff OF Lebault county, Kan.
has returned home with Odes Par.
hurst. q young married man arrested
at Sioux Falls recently on instructions
from the Kansas authorities. He is
accused of having taken q fifteen-year
old girl from Parsons, Kan. to Ca.
lena, Kan, for immoral purposes. and
then from Parsons to Burlington,
Ia.
Tax exemptions for farmers on i'm.
provements up to $4,000, q budget
system similar to that prevailing In
North Dakota, which has . board OF
state fficers at its head, and the ex
pressed determination to try and re
duce the legal interest rate to s per
cent and provision for state rural
credits were principal legislative
measures considered in the house last
week.
Sixty speeches will be delivered In thu
eight sessions Of the twenty eighth
annual meeting OF the South Dakota
Horticultural society which will be
held In Watertown Jan. 16. II and IS.
Thirty-fye OF these addresses will be
given by farm and town citizens nf
the state who are interested and who
have had horticultural experiences
ten addresses will be delivered by
practical experts and leaders,
Among the 27s prisoners commit
ted to the state penitentiary In the
two-year period ended June 80. 1915,
there were eighty-one farmers and
sixty.two laborers. according to the
biennial report Of the warden'g of{1ce,
issued recently. Fifty-one occupations
are represented In the population OF
the prison. One artist and one sta
dent were received. Grand larceny
led In the number OF crimes.
Charles Wallace, under arrest In
Minneapolis at the request OF Water
town authorities on a charge Of wife
dessrtion, fought sxtrsditiop at . hear
ing last week before Governor Burn
| Quist. The hearing was continued TO
allow Watertown offlciAls to introduce
further evidence. Wallace Ia accused
| of deserting his wife Dec. 49, He al
| leges that he took her to Minneapolis
and that she left him there to return
to her home.
a. the result of a sensational raid
made at Lennox by States Attorney
Carlson of Lincoln county, three aF
| four residents Of I.ennox have been
held for trial at the next term of the
circuit court on the charge Of selling
| liquor and for conducting gambling
houses. About twenty-five OF the rest
| dents of Lennox were summoned be
| fore the states attorney as VII
| nesses in order to secure the eviden e
/ necessary to warrant arrests being
made.
One OF the most important drainagf
i ;, hn OF q fhi g
i winter is known as the Wipf drainage
/ ditch near Freeman. The total cost
! of the ditch will be 900 to be paid
/ by the farmers to be benefited. The
farmers alone will pay $4,000 each OF
the cost When the land is reclaimed
/ BY the construction OF the ditch II Will
/ be worth not less than $l25 an acre
/ The ditch will be several miles IN
length and will have an average depth
| OF sixteen feet.
Under q resolution introduced In
| the house last week, . committee
would be appointed to investigate the
circum stances Of physical examina
tions and clinics conducted by Prof
Jones OF the state university. This
affair has caused much discussion
over the state. and came near diy!d
ing the South Dakota Teachers a.
sociation at Its annual meeting recent
". Objection was taken to the med
ical examinations OF students as cor
Quoted by Mr.. Jones.
william Miner. who died last week
at st. Cloud, Mimi. led the first rail
road surveying party into this state
opened the first store in Yankton, was
appointed by Abraham Lincoln to Be
the first postmaster OF Yankton, was
first sheriff. FIRST register OF deeds and
first mayor Miner county was named
after him. He was seyenty-seveH
wears old. Mr.. Miner vas chosen D.
the government to verify the survey
between the United States and Mexlll
after the Gadsen purchase.
Outlining his dealings with {. 3
Brown, now under arrest togethei
with Harry Mckinney in Minneapoll
for the theft OF automobiles, II. A
Babcock. proprietor OF the babcac'
A,.omob;la garage OF WatertOWn, Ge