Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-02-09
OLD SOUTH DAKOTANS
CONCERNED IN MURDER
Principals in Recent California
Tragedy Are Former Res
idents of State.

DeSmet. S. D.. Jan. 27-lt has been
learned that Mrs. John Keene. who
vas shot and killed at Fresno. Cal. by
Joel Ped Corbin, who then attempted
suicide, during the greater part Of her
life was a resident Of South Dakota.
She was a daughter of ]. HI. Cross, of
Arlington. She i've many years in
Ningsbury and C%odington counties. Her
slayer also was a former resident of
South Dakota, living many years at
~Brookings. where his divorced wife and
children still reside. During his resi-
dence at Bookings he was a railway
mail clerk and later served as clerk in
the Brookings postoffice.
Emma Cross, later Mrs. John Keene,
was a student Of the DeS1net high
school abou l6 years ago. and is re-
membered by a number OF DeSmet peo-
pie. Following her marriage to John
keene they resided in Watertown. The
husband died and the widow moved
Win her parents to California. Mrs.
keene, at the time of her tragic death,
and for some time before. had been
employed as forewoman and buyer for
a large dry goods establishment i'm
Fresno, living with her parents.
infatuated with Mrs. Keene. Corbin
also moved to Fresno, where he was
employed as a street car conductor.
frlof to the murder and attempted Sui
eide. Mrs. Keene had old friends that
Cofbln was pressing his attentions on
her and had threatened her life if she
dld not consent to marry hom.
Men acquainted with Corbin say that
reverses and family troubles
a11ected him, and that he had become
morose. Information of the tragedy
came as a great shock to the South pa
kota friends Of both Mrs. Keene and
Corbin. "
HUDSON-Peter Andriessau. a Hudson
man, has received a letter from his par
ents IN Holland which sets forth the war
prices which thep people there rave to pay.
potatoes are $3.50 per bushel: beef, so
cents per pound; pork, IS cents per pound:
ss.'o lor ~ eggs; tobacco. 30 cents; butter.
~ per pound; ~raisins. $1.25 per pound, and
other things in proportion. No flour is to
be had, but each family is allowed so
many pounds Of bread per month. MANY
pfoaucts. because of the high prices paid
IN England and Germany. are being sold
to those countries.
YANkTON-Bishop Burleson. the newly
elected bishop of the Episcopal diocese,
tempted to reach Yankton Sunday for
ms first visitation. He offciated in Yer
lniilon in the evening and started for
4ankton at 2:30. He failed to show up
and was lost to the outside world until
the following day. He hal been stalled at
a farm house where he was forced to stop
over night. He was within five miles of
4ankton when the storm made it i,npos-
sible to proceed.
DALLAS-Charles Schultz, of Polish de-
scent and known in Dallas as the Po-
lack had been under suspicion for-some
time by Chief of Police Wood in connec-
ton with numerous petty thefts commit
ted from farmers wagons tied i'm the
business districts Of Dallas and was ar
rested after purloining a valuable fur
robe belonging to l.. w. Usher, a Tripp
county farmer. He was sentenced to 30
days in the Gregory county jail by Police
Judge B. III. Martin.
MISUNDERSTANDING from all por-
tons of South Dakota and the ueislbor-
ing states are in Mitchell for the safe of
Herefords, Holsteins, Aberdeen Angus
and red polled Durham cattle at the state
ravlilon IN connection with the annual
triple gathering Of stock aud poultry
breeders and grain growers.
LAKE CITY-Entering a plea of guilty.
to killing a cow belonging to his employer
and selling It to persons in Lake City, FL
mer Kegley, employed on the Curtiss
ranch near here, was sentenced to a
term OF Is months in the Sioux Falls peni-
tertiary. The sentence was suspended.
CANTON-State's Attorney Carlson has
issued a public notice to the effect that
the state cigaret law ia being violated
throughout Lincoln county. and that he
VIII at once prosecuting those
who continue to persist in violating the
Law.
ERWIN-At a mass meeting OF bust
ness men held here a commercial club
was organized. The following officers
were elected: President. Gilbert Johnson;
vice president, j. w. KRUGER: secretary.
j. w. Earl.