The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-10-07
STATE NEWS


Swanson, of Page county, Ia, traced
to Grant County and recovered an
automobile which was stolen from
him on July Is, and incidentally
Frank McKernan, a Grant county
auto liveryman, Is out $440, the price
he paid for the stolen car at Mime
apolis.
Iroquois-E. M. Noe, a farmer OF
this vicinity. suffered a loss Of sew
eral hundred dollars when his horses
became frightened and ran away
while he was hauling a double-box
Glad of flax to a local elevator. A
great part of the flax, worth more.
than "a per bushel. was scattered
around the landscape and lost.
Farmer-Walter Witt, o OF Mr..
and Mrs. August Witt, of Farmer,
was shot in the knee by the acci-
dental discharge of a revolver which
he did not know was loaded. He was
rushed to a hospital, where surgeons
worked over two hours striving to
find the bullet, which Is believed to
have lodged in the knee joint.
Aberdeen-Tom hester, said to be
a Roumanian, is held to await the
action of the state circuit court on a
charge preferred by the parents of a
14-year-old Aberdeen girl. hester,
who has been acquainted with the
girl for some time. is accused Of hav-
ing enticed her to accompany him to
Frederick, where the pair wer found
at q hotel at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. Nester's bail was placed a.
$4,000, which he has not furnished.
Pierre-Three boys of Pierre. who
were hunting In the rough hills north
of the city, found an old cast iron
shell. about an eight FOUNDER in size.
1t was filled with black powder and
plugged with a cedar plug, both the
shall and plub showing that they had
been exposed to the weather for many
years. Just how this shell, which re-
sembles those used about civil war
times got into the location where II
was found. is a subject of speculation
as there Is no record of any fights be-
tween whites and Indians in this To-
cality.
Pierre-Prairie fires have been re-
ported the past week In many Sec
lions Of the state as far east as Tur-
ner count. and west to the state line.
The loss has been largely of hay In
stack and feed on the fields. In one
case where q rancher from the cry
section of the state where a rancher
from the dry section of the state had
come down into Stanley county to
get feed for the winter, and was just
ready to move down his herd, all his
stacks of hay, and the ground he was
counting on for winter range was
burned over. While the losses are
not heavy except In ARE cases, the
aggregate from fires this fall Is a
rather heavy toll on the stockmen of
the state.
Flandreau-A. b. Levea, his wife
and child, of Egan, had a narrow es-
cape from death when their car turn
ed turtle on the Red. White and Blue
trail near here. Levea noticed that
several cars were having trouble In
the road and brought his car to a
stop. As he did SO, 1t slipped from
the embankment and turned over,
pinning the three occupants beneath
1t. The steering rod broke and was
thrust through Mrs. Leyea's thigh,
causing a dangerous wound. Mr..
Levea was slightly injured, but the
child received only a few scratches.
Men working on cars which were
stalled along the read saw the Levea
car go over and went to their assist
nee