Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-19

me Hearst iiAe Iib4aiy y HSoo h1SS
times a week,
Jerome Longpre, an employe OF the
Homestake Mining company at Lead,
was killed by a delayed explosion.
At Huron a few days ago three
Youngsters, aged eight, twelve n
fourteen years, appeared in the JuVe-
nile court charged with stealing corn
from an elevator. The court suspend
ed sentence on promise of good be-
hayior.
Ralph Wagner, a young man resld-
ing in northern Stanley county, was
drowned in the Cheyenne river when
he attempted to swim his horse across
the swollen stream. Wagner and NAL
colin Dickey had crossed from the
south side some time before, but
when they returned to the stream 1t
had risen.
South Dakota %guardsmen discovered
and compelled the disr1antling OF a
power wireless station with a trans
hitting capacity of 5000 miles on a
farm two miles from Ola, near Cham
| berlain, in a region occupied by Ger
man settlers. The plant was said to
have been built by a farmland who is
an amateur operator.
Miss Mile Heidepriem of Rapid
City, one Of the junior high school
faculty members, had just returned
to her room after serving no coffee
to members of the local volunteer fire
department for several hours during
q fire, when a messenger boy entered
with a telegram announcing the sud
den death of her father at Custer.
Miles Hump, son of the old Indian
Chief Hump, in whose hands rested
peace or trouble among the Cherry
Creek Indians at the time of the last
Indian uprising in the Dakotas, com
mitted suicide by shooting while at
Dupree. The young man was a name
sake of General Nelson A. Miles, who
was a friend of the old Sioux chief.
Finding of the body of Frank Dunn,
forty-one years old, a widely known
Butte county man, near u fence in the
northeastern part of the county re-
vealed a tragedy of ar early February
snow storm. Dunn apparently was
caught in the storm on the prairie and
succumbed after reaching the ineffec-
tive shelter of the school section
fence.
A reward has been offered by the
directors of school district No. 43,
near Beresford, for apprehension OF
the boys who broke up an entertain
ment that was scheduled to be held
in the district school house by plac.
ing the carcass of a skunk in the
| school organ Families from miles
around gathered for the entertain
ment.
Aaolph Kabuseriter of near Pollock
the other day found n of his hogs
in a snow drift, where it had been
buried three months. About Christ
mas several of Kabuseriter's hogs
were buried in the snow, but he sup
posed all had been rescued. The hog
found recently was much thinner thar.
when it was lost, but is re%cuperating
rapidly.
Information has been received by
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kennedy of Hot
! Springs that their son. John Kennedy,
Jr., has received a commission from
Washington appointing him as one OF
the military instructors at Harvard
university. Young Kennedy, has made
good since enlisting in the regular
army seven years ago at Fort Meade
as a private.
At a meeting OF a number of boys
| and young men a Boy Scout organiza-
ton was perfected in Conteryille and
will be affiliated with the Boy Scouts
of America. The following officers
were elected: President, ". R. White;
vice president, b. HI. Hoger; secre-
tary, al. G. Button; treasurer, Frank
Lambertson. S. B. Nissen and P. Y.
Brethorst were elected scoutmasters.
Sioux Falls has been selected as
the meeting place for retail merchants
from all over the state who will at
tend the twentieth annual convention
Of the Retail Merchants association of
South Dakota, which will be held at
Sioux Falls May Ii. is and II Well
known speakers have been secured and
will make addresses during the con
vention on important and timely top
les. saSS
Senator Knute Nelson of Minneso.
To, former Senator Robert J. Gamble
Of South Dakota and former Repre-.
sentative Charles IT.. Burke Of South
Dakota have been invited to speak at
the celebration Of the twenty-ffth an.
niveTsary of the opening Of the Sisse,
ton reservation, which will be held at
Summit the last week in May. These
men were influential in SUPPORT Of the
bill that authorized opening Of the
reservation.
The state supreme court granted
q ~peremptory writ Of mandamus OF;
dering ], u. Handlin, state auditor, Ia
issue warrant On the state treasury
Tor $4,000 appropriated by the 1917