The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-09-16
NEWS OF THE STATE.
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THE
WEEK IN CONDENSED
FORM.

them are extensive cattle r~aiserS, and
uation, but all of them will be affect
ed by the lack Of leasing of the many
pastures on the reservations, which
lease money brings a nice little spend
ing sum to each Indian. Leases are
fewer and where they are taken up
the lease rate bid is far lower than
has been paid, and this annual pick
up for the Indians Of the different
reservations will be much smaller
than it has been for several years.
Jurisdiction over telephone rates
rests with the state railroad commits
sion, the supreme court held in a de
cision handed down in a case brought
by Huron and Mitchell against the
railway board. The plaintiffs sought
TO have an order Of the railroad board
authorizing the Dakota Central Tele-
phone company to continue its war
time rate after a period Of federal con-
troll ended, reviewed and set aside by
the state high court.
Federal personal income tax re-
turns filed in South Dakota in 1919
reached a total Of $38,614, which was
~ per cen Of the entire number filed
n the United States. The total net
income reported by the returns was
$13~3,174,792 while the tax paid on
them was $3,124, 066, which was %
per cent Of the total personal income
tax paid in the entire country.
Prairie chickens are more numerous
this year than for some time in the
prairie counties west Of the river, &C,
cording 10 word brought back by peo.
pie who have motored through that
country recently, and already plans
are being made by hunters to be on
the ground when the season opens on
Septmber 16.
An increased acreage Of winter
grains will be planted in South Da-
kota this fall, Judging from the in
quiries received by the extension serv-
ice Of State college, where many let
ters have been answered regarding
the culture OF these crops and the
sources Of good seed.
Officers over a wide scope of coun-
try are watching for two armed auto
mobile bandits who held up and
robbed the Bank of Elrod, at Elrod,
Clark county, obtaining only $66. The
last seen Of the fleeing bandits was
when they were heading southwark
from Elrod.
The state tax levy of 1.6 mills for
1921 is the lowest since 1917, accord
ing to the records of the state auditor,
and forecasts a still lower levy next
year, which may even be below the
levy Of five years ago, in the estima-
ton of Milo Drake, deputy state au,
ditor.
II. j. Molvig, aged Sc years, a pio-
zee resident of Beadle county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging in his barn
on his farm eleven miles west Of Vir-
gil, Molvig was a few weeks ago adj
judged insane by the Beadle county
sanity board.
A fire Of unknown origin started in
the garage Of Wallace Perry, in Aber-
deem, and destroyed the workshop
floor containing some forty or fifty
machines. The loss is set at $3.50, 900.
1t is reported that the right of way
is being looked up from Mystic to
Nahant, and from there to Horton and
Upton, Wyo, for a railroad to con
nect with the Burlington line, and that
a preliminary survey is being made.
The people of %Iroquois are tempo
rarily without electric lights and pow
er as the result of a fire, which de-
stroyed the building occupied by the
electric light plant and badly dam
aged the machinery.
Robbers blew the safe in the F. B.
Lawrence store at Fedora and escaped
with about $40 in money. The bulk
of the cash had been banked. The
safe was wrecked and the building
damaged.
Two large stills, three barrels Of
mdSn ana i've DarrelS OF nara C1Qer
were confiscated and four persons ar
rested as the result of a raid conduct
ed in the eastern part Of Marshall
county.
No trace can be found of bandits
who entered the 0. C. Lindekugel gen
eral store in Spencer and escaped with
merchandise valued at about s 1000.
With corn we'll out Of the way OF
frost, farmers of Bon Homme county
are freely predicting an average yield
Of so bushels per acre.
Thousands Of people attended the
annual picnic and celebration OF the
old settlers of Yankton county held in
Yankton Labor day.
The Edmunds county fair, held at
Roscoe, was a great success. The at
tendance reached about 5000.
John Won Eschen, aged So, dropped
dead of heart failure at his home in
Aberdeen.
The Yellowstone Trail information
bureau in Aberdeen has been closed
for the season. During the season
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