The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-06-12
STATE NEWS.

TrOlan-With simple ceFeiuohles
the stars and stripes were hoisted on
a flag pole to the top OF Terry peak,
the highest point in the Black Hills
and one of the highest In the west.
Trojan is situated at the base or TINS
majestic peak, from whose summit
the entire Black Hills and surround
ing country for 100 miles or more
lies a ones feet. The top OF the flag
staff from which Old Glory now
proudly floats Is 5000 feet above sea
level. This Is the highest point from
which the flag is displayed between
the Rocky mountains and the Alps.
The Flagstaff is Al feet high and Is
firmly set to withstand the fierce
winds which sweep the crest OF this
mountain. A salute was fired as the
flag was hoisted to the top of the
staff.
Edgemont-That Edgemont is to
become the center of a new industry
in South Dakota. the production of
oil, is indicated in the striking of adj
ditional flows In his vicinity. the
latest spouter being the Norbeck-
Nicholson well at a depth of 1,760
feet. When this flow was tapped
last week the oil shot 100 feet into
the air. This field, which In the past
has been enormously called the
"Lusk T." has been worked for the
past four years. The proposition Is
being handled entirely by Edgemont
and South Dakota capital. The field
is contiguous to this city and as Ii
is LOO feet higher. the oil will be
piped here by gravity. Samples
brought in show a good quality of
fuel oil.
Pierre-Ralph Bagby, the Sully
county inventor, has a plan for the
control OF submarines, or rather to
stop their operations. and has sent
his ideas to the navy department at
Washington. his idea being to float
magnets in the field in which the
subs work, each floating magnet hav-
ing a long trailing rope attached
which will foul the propeller when
the magnet attaches itself to any YES
sci approaching hear enough to at
tract 1t. He says a trial on a motor
boat shows the plan will work.
Pierre-Among the papers OF the
late ID. X. Crippen, who died a few
days ago at Fort Pierre at an ad-
vanced age, was found a letter dated
November 30, 1749. which was an
acknowledgment OF the receipt of
four hogsheads OF tobacco which had
been shipped by Daniel Park Curtis
to a mercantile firm, with a state
ment as TO disposal of same and
when remittances would be made.
One of the features of the communi-
cation was that Daniel Park Curtis
was the first husband of Martha
Washington, who was a widow at the
time of her marriage with George
Washington.
Pierre-The state land department
will next week send a surveying crew
up the Missouri river to survey sew
eral new islands which have formed
in the stream in recent years, and
title to which Is claimed by the state
under the provisions of an act OF the
legislature declaring such newly
formed islands to be the property of
the state.
WATERFOWL - Arrangements have
been completed for an officers
school to be held at Watertown be-
ginning June Is for the officers of
the new First cavalry regiment which
the federal government has granted
South Dakota authority to muster.
Vermillion-Enough typhoid vac
cine Is nov on hand at the state
health laboratory at the University
of South Dakota to meet the probable
demand for some weeks to come, &C
cording to DIR. Mortimer Herzberg,
director Of the laboratory. The Sc
rum is distributed only through
South Dakota physicians. Because
of the demand for the serum there
a at first some difficulty in meet
ing the needs of the state.
Scotland - The authorities are
looking for a transient who for some
days had been working on the farm
of John Haney, near Scotland. Ha-
ney left his coat hanging in the barn
while he attended to some work and
the hired man distracted from the
pockets $50 in cash and a note for
$40 and then fled.
Observation-Disclosures OF Brooklyn
township, some milesl from here,
{ have decided to erect a new SIS ,000
church building, which will be one
Of the finest structures of its kind In
an interior point in this part of the
state.
Mitchell-Owing to the excessive
rains and continued cloudy weather,
which makes its impossible to put
the speedway In shape for the races,
b state editorial meet has been
postponed from June Is to July 20.
The races were promised as a fea-
ture of this meet, and with other
matters affected by the weather. it
was thought best to delay the event.