Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-08-23

In the Spencer territory, was killed b.
a bull. He had been dead some hour,
when found in a pasture by searching
parties. His body was badly bruised
his back, one arm and n leg broker
and his chest crushed in.
William Owen, arrested at Britton
pleaded guilty to a charge Of Bringing
two quarts of whisky into the state fol
beverage purposes when arraigned al
Aberdeen before United States Com
missioner William Wallace and was
released on $500 bonds to appear be
fore the next session of federal court
1t is the first case brought at Aber.
deem under the new bone dry law.
Aven Miller, living near Hendricks,
Mimi, was arrested by the authorities
of Volga and taken to WATERFOWL,
where he entered a plea of guilty to
the charge of forging the name of a
business man to a certificate of de.
post for 5000. The defendant was
given a term of one year in the Sioux
Falls ~penitentiary, but sentence was
suspended on condition that he refund
the money.
Rev. z. F. Siegfriedt, general mis-
sionary of the Episcopal church and
a resident of Sioux Falls, has been
called to the yacant rectorship of
Christ church, Yankton. the mother"
church of the Dakotas. The clergy
man named has been holding services
at Yarktnp questionable cipoo tha nor
ish has been without a rector and the
pestry decided to try and secure Mr..
Siegfriedt as a permanent resident.
Whether or not South Dakota col.
leges will play football this rear will
be decided at a meeting of the inter
collegiate athletic association in Sep
TENDER, it vas announced by DR.. r.
]. Gilmore of Huron college, president
of the association. There is a strong
sentiment against continuing the
game, reports to DIR, Gilmore indicate,
notwithstanding the fact that the large
universities in the Middle West have
decided to have football.
The Brookings woman who has
taken charge Of the garage business
OF her husband while he is at the army
officers training camp is not a pioneer
along that line. In Pierre Mrs. Gre
bing carried on the dray and transfer
business established by her husband
while he was acting as captain of the
company from that city on the Texas
border last winter and will continue
the business when Captain Grebing is
called to the front again.
In the death OF Mrs. Agnes Johnson
at her farm home at Laurel. in Sulls
county, that county loses one of the
pioneer ONE VINO helped change the
country from one of bare prairie to
u of ranches and homes. The John
son ranch was one of the finest loca-
tions in western Sully county and one
where there was always a welcome
for the traveller. Mrs. johnson was
stricken with heart failure while
working IN ssergaraen and lived but a
short time.
The state treasury has received a
draft for s4G3487, inheritance tax
from the estate Of Edwin c. WAY of
Marshall. Mich. Of South Dakota real
estate mortgages held by Mr.. Way at
the time of his death. With this pay
ment the state tax commission. since
it has taken charge of the Inheritance
tax law. has collected and turned into
the treasury of the state S125,271.32
from nonresident deeedents who were
the holders OF South Dakota real es-
tate mortgages.
Ranehers west of the Missouri river
are working to The limit in the hay
fields, as they want a supply which
viii assure them enough iced for the
winter. At the same time the de-
Irand for hay from the dried up re
gions OF Wyoming and Montana Is
such that every ton which can be
saved for the market means a good
price this fall. Beside the wild hay
every owner Of alfalfa hay can be GER
tain OF a good price from the Eastern
market at d good profit on the invest.
ment.
Chairman Anderson Of the state
sDuIiEH OF NeIenSe hAS received alele-
gram from Washington announcing
that the proposed exhibit BY the war
department which was to be put on at
the state fair al Huron will be dropped
as the department cannot take the
time required to place and handle
such an exhibit. This work was to be
done IN connection with the efforts Of
the state council Of defense and the
decision Of the war department re-
auires = change In the plans Of thar
organization,
Market Commissioners g Living
ston reports the wheat market Is de-
morasized. Elevator men hardly know
where they 4 under existing condi
tions, with the possibility 81 the gov
ernrnentss taking control of the crop
al q set price and that price not def.
nitely known, Some of the elevator
men have been paying from $2s5O tai
s2s6ol 4 bustel Tor wheat at their !
vators and nuw#f3fa#@falk $iA@agEunVs