The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-21
STATE NEWS.


Lesterville-O. A. Carlson, a local
druggist. lately nominated for the of
flee OF state treasurer by the socialist
party at their Mitchell convention,
has been arrested by government
agents on a charge of violating the
espionage act. He Is being held
pending a hearing.
Huron-A total registration of 900
women was recorded here during the
recent registration of women, ii was
announced by Mrs. b. e. Beach,
chairman of the women's committee
of the county council OF defense.
This is 81 per cent OF the number of
of registration age in Huron.
Brookings THE South Dakota
Corn and Grain Growers association
will hold its annual meeting at Red
field on March As. Among the spe-
cial speakers from other states are
Carl Vrooman. assistant secretary
United States department of agricul-
ture and President e. F. Ladd. North
Dakota Agricultural college. Gov.
Peter Norbeck will preside as toast
master at the annual banquet. Seven
hundred dollars in prize and a silk
banner are offered for grain exhibits.
Deadwood - Charles Miller, a
Deadwood man, faces a term In the
Sioux Falls penitentiary as the result
of a second raid made by officers on
his place vel a restaurant, when
about five gallons OF liquor and four
gallons OF wine was found and con
fiscated by the officers. Several
weeks ago Miller was arrested for
another violation of the statewide
prohibition law, and is serving a 90
day sentence In jail. A conviction
on the second charge will mean a
term in the ~penitentiary.
Parkston-Funeral services for
Private Fred M. Unger, of the TWEEN
tieth engineers. and formerly of this
city. who was lost on the transport
Tuscania, and was buried On the
coast of Scotland. were held here at
the Catholic church. A solemn re-
QUEEN mass was read by Rev. Joseph
Unger, Of Clair City. a brother of the
lost soldier, assisted by Rev. Father
Dahlmanns and Rev. Father Harring-
ton, Of the parish. The large church
edifice was crowded with relatives
and friends. Practically every bust
ness house was closed during the GER
emonies.
Sioux Falls-Mrs. Ole Haugen, one
Of the pioneer residents of the Sioux
Falls territory. was taken to a local
hospital, where her husband is a pa
tient, in order that she could bid him
farewell after physicians had told her
that she had but a few hours to live.
The husband wished to be taken to
their home so he could bid his wife
farewell, but instead the physicians
decided that, In view OF his W Sc
rious condition. 1t was better to take
the dying woman to the hospital to
see her husband for the last time.
She died q few hours later, pneu-
monia being the cause of her death.
Aberdeen--Former Circuit Judge
Frank McNulty and other South Da-
kota men have just perfected the or
ganixation OF the Federal Fuel COM
pany, with an authorized capital Of
$4,000 600, having for its object the
development OF Ignite coal fields in
the Dakotas, 1t Is stated the COM
pany has control OF a patented pro-
cess for briquetting ignite coal with
out . binder. and that It will be able
to put the ignite briquets on the
market at a price which will afford
Dakotans coal at a moderate price,
and of a quality almost equal to the
best anthracite.