•^1 SCHOOL M OF FEDERAL COURT. Twelve street gasoline lamps will b« ENDOWMENT FUND. MMMMMMMMMM put up at once at Clark. SANE, How It Has Increased in a Half-Dozen Perseml Injury Suits Lead In Number Ernest Clausen was kicked by a YET Years in . at Aberdeen. horse Clark and seriously injured. CONFINED IN AN ASYLUM South Dakota at Whllo the lease fund for the benefit Juige John E. Garland opened a Enough members have bean secured "**«• Ne, (J. of the public schools of the nas term of the court in Oenrrftl T» „ to organize a lodge of the A. O. W. Sensational Experience of a South Dakota Woman— state —¦ Paragraphed. shown an increase of $ 100,000 from Abefieen for the trial of several im* at Pres ho.

• Some Lawsuits W ill Result. 1897 to 1903, the endowment fund for portmt cases, most of them being per- M M M M •• H M N It N Mayor McDonald of Deadwood haa appointed Charles McAllister poll tax the different state Institutions has sona injury suits. One of these is tho A merry “apple war’’ is on at Park- collector for the city. also shown a decided increase in leaso suit Mrs. of Paul who Escaping from an Insane asylum at guarded and the windows were barred of Kirkland St. er now r.nd fancy apples can bo bought ay money. During the past thirty days an by heavy gratings. Mrs. Whitney cal- In 1897 the total endowment sues to $20,000 for injuries al- 50 a bushel. Yankton, S. D., where she had been recover at cents gregate of about 100,000 bushels of fund secured from leases was $1,318.96, lege! she sonflned, aa she believes, because of a culated that she must conduct herself to have been suffered while Nelson C. Bigelow, late of Chicago, grain has been marketed at Frank- as a model prisoner. time while amount received was passenger train conspiracy; wandering two niehts Iu a short iu 1903 the on t Northwestern h*« !ocst?4 st Howard Rnd sne Knew tne routine of the institution from this source was $33,798.17, the at Bedfleld. Her husband also sues through the Missouri bottom lands, al- In the practice of law. The farmers’ elevator at Oldham la perfectly and she was ready to escape. for 15,750. Increase being at a rapid ratio. For The water tank and engine house proving a success. Thus far most starved, not daring to be seen; The heavy shutters of her first-floor 1 Mis. Hester of Texas sues the Mil- great 1897 it was $1,318.96; for 1898, $3.- are completed and Parker haa one of grain have been pawning her wedding ring for money window were fastened by screws. waukee road for $15,000 for the loss about 125 carloads of 397.32; 1899, $5,613.69; 1900, $14,- the finest systems of water works in shipped. to stop at a hotel and buy a ticket to Waiting night of her husband, who was at till a when there 932.17; 1901, $24,045.57; 1902, $29.- killed the state. City; now holding a good posi- would be no moon, she took from the , Evans a year ago last summer, The fall term of the state school for that city enlisting 140.67; 1903, $33,794.17. A tiny lizard, which she swallowed tion In and her in- dining room a spoon. Secreting it till Fred A. McEldowney of Veblen is the blind commenced at Gary with The lands from which the instltu- i In drinking water when she was fluential South Dakota friends to find she reached her room, she succeeded ! suing the Gar-Seott company for $25, some forty-two pupils, eleven of whom aro , tions draw their funds are not, as the a little girl, caused the death of Mrs. her little boy, who has been taken in removing the screws that fastened 450 for injuries sustained by tho loss new ones. public school lands, located all over George Ziegler, a pioneer resident of from her —such is the story of Mrs. the heavy shutters. She knew that at of a leg in a thresher self-feeder made Richard Yearneau, proprietor of tho the state, but were selected in the Hartford. Mabel Whitney, formerly teacher in a certain moment the electrical cur- by the company and alleged to be de- Clark telephone system, baa sold out : counties iu which there was the light- designed the South Dakota school for the blind rent which maintained the incandes- fective in construction. The well which Is to fur- to the Dakota Central Telephone com- Gary. est settlement at the time of state- works U cent lights was turned off for a brief A case of importance is that of the nish water for the new water pany of Aberdeen. Mrs. Whitney, a bright young wom- hood, or where reservations were system has been completed space to switch the current from a Live Stock National Bank of Sioux at Lennox C. F. Huestis Bradley has been of thirty, told story opened and selections could be made, depth of 204 feet. An ample sup- of an her to B. H. dynamo to a storage battery. I ; City against Judge A. W. Campbell, as at a appointed county commissioner to tako Lion of Sioux Falls, member of the practically all such lands being in the ply obtained. a The grounds were patrolled by administration of the estate of Edward was the place of Janies Landers, who died board of northern and western parts of tho charities when Mrs. Whitney guards, but with great care she man- Coleman, for $4,800 claimed to be due The county officers are occupying several weeks ago. was at Gary. He and other prominent aged stale. The lease funds received for on court house at Parker, but as to loosen the shutter screws, notes executed by Joseph Coleman. the new Steps have been taken to furnish Bouth Dakotans pledged themselves to tl.e last fiscal year by counties show is used, the com- leaving the frame in its place. Her Edward Coleman was murdered, and yet the old furniture Clark with a street lighting system. help the plucky woman. the location as follows; not having received satis- hands were on the shutters ready to ! bis brother, Joseph Coleman, was con- missioners proposed to purchase gasolino Mrs. Whitney, leaving It is after the snatch them away. The lights went I County. Amount. victed of murdering him for life Insur- factory bids for new. lamps place at cor- school at Gary, and them various went to Sioux Falls, out. Instantly the woman tore the Brown $11.60 ance, and is an inmate of the Sioux Ex-Sheriff Struif, twenty miles north taught ners. where she music. She had a grating, dropped it to the ground, Butte 1,133.60 Falls penitentiary. Judge Campbell Miller, has the bonanza artesian disagreement of Professor D. H. Bashford belleveo with a relative, which leaped through the window ran. Campbell 132.40 collected $5,000 insurance on Edward well of Hand county. It is three inch- may and that, on the bottom. ga» have been responsible for Mrs. Tramping along the road Clark 829.49 life, and the sues to es top is about 1,400 toward Elk Coleman’s bank from to bottom, and petroleum can be obtained by Whitney’s trouble. At any rate Mrs. Point, she walked Codington 218.90 recover the amount of Joseph deep flows 400 gallons to the till exhausted. Then Cole- feet and sinking wells to a depth of 700 or 800 Whitney was committed to an asylum she lay in Day 823.42 on the down the woods and slept man’s indebtedness ground that minute. feet. ¦A She tried induce Edmjnds Yankton. to the on the ground. In the morning she 3,650.39 while Joseph Coleman Rigned the note, George Morehouse, president of the authorities to give her an examina- trudged 1,185.60 The careless throwing of a lighted on, keeping out of sight as Fall River cattle secured thereby were for the Bank of Brooking*, died after a linger- tion by skilled alienists. 1,264.61 match in the dty grass caused a prai- In this sho much as possible. At night she reach- Faulk brothers, who are alleged to have been ing illness. He was the pioneer bank- tailed. Her mind might rie fire in the Emanuel Just neighbor have been ed the town, ready to drop with hun- Grant 3.33 In partnership. er of this county and had a wide ac- shattered, but for her hood near White Lake which destroy- concern about ger and weariness. i Hand 1,449.16 quaintance because of his philanthro her boy, who, having : ed about thirty tons of hay. lest his father, She went to a hotel and, taking from Hughes 23.44 r pic the TRAPPED IN FIRE. deeds. was pride of a devoted mother. her finger her wedding ring, said she Hyde 1,000.75 Jacob Meyer, a farmer of Liola wa» was A women’s study club has been or- caught by When she sent to the asylum the wanted to raise enough money to Jerauld 152.76 badly injured by being a One Man and Many Horses Lost in a ganized at De Smet. Officers were tumbling rod little fellow was sent to an orphanage, keep her over night and get a ticket to Kingsbury 57.60 knuckle on a of bis she Blaze at Aberdeen. elected as follows: President, Mrs. which has been unable to locate. Sioux City. The next morning she McPherson 4,611.04 threshing machine. He was thrown to But Ono man, thirteen horses and one C. S. Whiting; vice president, Mrs. J. this determined her to escape. She came to Sioux City. She found em- Marshall 5,831.90 I the ground with terrible force. concluded cow were burned, and twenty persons H. Hubbard; secretary, Miss Annn that she must take French ployment at a hotel as a waitress. As r, eade 1,298.50 After having a hole shot and drilled a escape Wright; treasurer, Mrs. G. E. Mallory. leave of the institution that was prao- a result of the affair some sensational Tennington 364.40 had narrow from death early clear through his body above hia tically a prison. Work lias commenced at Orient on The buildings were lawsuits are promised. ! Potter 4,903.80 one morning recently at Aberdeen In a stomach, Samuel Estlick of Rapid & new Catholic church building which Sanborn 35.29 fire which destroyed the Atlantic house City, who was shot by Charles K. will take the place of a similar struc Sully 2,809.67 and the boarding stable of James Jen- Howard, the cattleman, is getting welL ture which was destroyed by a severe Walworth 1,454.8 not Jack Riley, a farm hand employed a kins. It is known how the fire storm which swept over this region near Harrisburf, was arested at Eldo- , started. last June. The new building will be JACK *33,794.17 on the charge of stealing ÜBIQUITOUS SULLY IN Total ra, lowa, The hotel guests were aroused qnlck- a handsome one i money and jew'els from a companion. up tho ¦ly and the scramble for places of safe- attempted to blow open the State Supt. Nash Is taking Thieves He will be brought back for a hearing. Got Tired of Being hunted and Took Himself Over master of school district officer meet- ty reached the proportions of a small safe of the Farmers’ elevator, at Fer- panic. The majority Sergeant, J. Donahue of ings, and has suggested to county su- fled in their ney. The knob was knocked off and feter Into Domains. night Trop Sixth cavalry, has goue to Edward’s perintendents the following topics aa robes. Several remained behind an effort made to effect an entrance F. to gather belongings, Fort Dayard, N. M., in charge of a good ones to select from: School their but the by the use of gunpowder. The burg- and drove hospital nurse. He has been suffer hoi ses and appliances; ventilation of smoke heat them from the lars left the work unfinished and there lack Sully, the best known cattle elevation commanding building in ing with lung trouble for three months a view of the rooms; decoration of school houses the scantiest of attire. is no clue to their identity. and horse rustler of the West, alleged surrounding country for miles. With Matt Jenkins, a stable employe, slept and is in a serious condition. and grounds; relations of teachers to As an evidence of the change in tw have been involved in the aid of a powerful telescope he was over tho stable. In the excitement he Several farmers around Wagner countless hoards; relations of boards to county ways of the few severalty Indians cutting shooting able to get a view of people approach- was overlooked and his charred re- have engaged attorneys and will con- and scrapes, is now superintendent; how to induce the who yet remain in this part of the ing, and if they were strangers he mains were found in the smoking ru- test in the courts the attempt of tho itx Canada, according to United States rode larger pupils to remain in school; how state, Lone Rock, one of them, is put- away to gulches where it was impos- ins. It is thought that wnile trying to manage! s of a defunct insurance- com- Marshal John M. Petrie. may patrons assist in the management ting in time in the jail in Pierre on a sible to find him. He spent hie nights escape he fell through the burning pany of Watertown to force them to After Sully broke jail at management of schools; reports of dis- charge of w ife beating which was pre- Mitchell In an Indian village where outposts floor and was too badly hurt to make pay for insurance which they allego last summer, trict officers; teachers’ reports and ferred against him by his squaw. with the aid of members watched while he slept. All these pre- his way out unassisted. proved to be worthless. his gang who brought a saddle wages; how to improve the country him cautions wore on him, and Mrs. Sully Among the horses burned were Joe T. N. Matthews expects to begin The first move in the case brought horse, he returned to his Ly- school; trnsportation and its prob- ' home in told mo he had left the country Bush, the pacer, record 2:16 Vi, and work at once u P B9 men!!tig lit-li] at U 2 Fal did not feel any too friendly sciousness until a late hour, although lady of honor; Mrs. Daniel Boone, sold to local men, and the auditors cision in the anti-company case, which which an informal vote was taken on toward the state and that there was a the physicians announce that her in- chief of ceremonies; Charles Furious, and commissioners are reasonably cer- sustains the demurrer of the state and the proposition. A committee was ap- probability of their withdrawal. The juries are not necessarily fatal. recorder; A. Cardier, financier; Mrs tain they can dispose of the entire is- practically upholds law, pointed to consult with a lawyer as to the it is now companies feel that they have been to Each sustained four scalp wounds, Johnson, receiver. sue at home. up to the foreign insurance companies a groat expense in establishing the best method of procedure and the their several cuts penetrating to the bone. Hopkins, The farmers of northwestern lown to make their last move, and there is agencies and they probable expense. After the consulta- Frank H. a real estate that cannot go to Neither received fractur-3 of the and southeastern much speculation to they will the tion a second meeting of citizens was dealer of Sisseton, has filed a petition Dakota are becom- as what additional expense of making a skull, although the bone was founa to ing do. held, which the committee reported in voluntary bankruptcy. He sched- agitated over the horse and cat- personal examination of all the future lie chipped. Aside the cuts and at & from ules his liabilities at and as- tle thieves that have become a post. Preston Hannett of Mitchell, who risks that may be favoring incorporation as a town and $12,423 written, as the law contusions about their heads and fac: j Thousands of dollars’ worth of cattle, are the attorneys for the thirty com- requires. v. as accordingly authorized to have a sets at $Bl4. Of tho assets, property they escaped injury. l ogs and horses have been in panies that are represented in tight survey made to establish the limits of to the value of $382 is claimed to he stolen the One of the members of the local M. C. Conors Is a year. the firm well-known cattle proposed corporation. exempt. A similar petition has been less than a Owners realize Cat on law. said before the case was will go to Chicago to with tho confer the man of Spearfish, of the firm of Cor. filed by Olive E. Biever, a milliner of something more vigorous than the or- oommenced that it was expected that managers of companies As soon as the survey can be made the interested, ners Bros., sens of the late M. C. who places her dinary channels of justice must be if the companies lost they would carry and they will a census will be taken to determine Flnndreau, liabilities then determine what Conors. Sr. Miss Gammon is L.w adopted to protect property. the case to the circuit court of appeals course t’ e number of citizens, and the county at $2,368.83, and her assets at they will pursue—carry the daughter J. Gamipon, cf I*. an exten- eimmissioners will spe- $1,236.80. The Black Hills district of at St. Louis.and perhaps to the supreme cat,e to the higher courts or then order a withdraw sive raiser of fine horses and other <» » Honor held its regular sossi at court at Washington. from the business of election, at which the citizens re- At the business session of the state the state. live stock. >eadwood. Mr3. Marty Newell of siding within the proposed corporate encampment of the Union Veterans’ WOULD LIKE A Sturgis, grand chief of honor, presid- DECISION. dlers until the r~”* legislature con- limits will vote on the proposition to union at Yankton Edrnond English Found Two Skeletons. F. ed. There are in this district seven- venes and anot ;w, framed to incorporate. If the proposition car- of Yankton elected major general Merchants Want Otto Huwc, who resides near Hristol. was teen lodges, which is to Know the Legal . each of entitled 3taud the test ot courts, is enact- res at this Rpeclal election, the com- commanding the department of South Standing of Peddlers in South Da- has received a deed to one of m*.- to three representatives at the annual ed. i-Lssloners wiil then authorize the in- Dakota. R. T. Paine of Aberdeen is kota—Last Case Before Supreme finest farms in this part of the state. district meeting. There was almosx a Frank Crane, clerk of the state su corporation. The next step would then Beuior brigadier general, Oscar C. Pot- This In itself would he of no panic.: full representation. The next annual Court. prome court, in answer to a letter ol he th«* election of town trustees. ter of Sioux Falls, brigadier Merchants throughout the state inquiry lar interest, but the land was paid for Junior meeting will be hold at Terry. from E. J. Mannlx of this city, It is purposed by the citizens to in- general S. J. Moore, Mitchell, surgeon have been anxiously awaiting a deci- as the result of a curious and As usual at this season of the year, secretary of the South Dakota Retaii unliiuu corporate all that territory between general, and H. A. Van Dalsem of Hu- sion by the state supreme contract. the question of an open w.nter or a court on the Merchants’ association, does not hold v.nat la known as Golden Gate and the ron, chaplain. Aberdeen waa selected validity of what is known ped- About six years ago Hu we entered hard one is being discussed, and the as the out much hope of an early decision be- t*ayvllle cyanide plant of the Home- for the next meeting place. dlers' license law, which into a contract with Samuel F.trring- old-time signs are carefully examined was enacted ing rendered in the test case, owing to Kii»ke Minin? company, including that by legislature ton of Bristol for the purchase Judge William G. Rice has decided md results predicted from Iso- the last The arrest of the large volume of business before of t.uvt occupied by the Columbus mill them. peddler in refusing farm. The terms agreed upon In favor of the plaintiff in the case of ldes the corn husk, muskrat and a Sioux Falls for the court which has to be disposed ol and adjacent dwellings and extending wild he pay Meade county against the North West- Tooee, scientific theory to take out a license as required by before the test is that should down the sum of to the top tho each the of genera! case reached. of hill on side of Railroad company, averages the new law resulted in a test case S3OO in cash, and that as soon as ho De&dwood gulch. ern a suit for tax by tho weather bureau would being es. The amount involved was about indicate an open winter. The carried to the supreme court. Those Double Keels. had delivered at a Bristol elevator to record supreme the ; |5,000, and payment was resisted by of the Pierre office up to the If the court upholds the “A yachtsman of New South Wales credit of Farlngton an aagregaio first of 4,400 bushels ' BLAME ON DISPATCHER. the company on the groun 1 that the November shows a deficiency of 175 l'w. merchants in all parts of the state proposes to lift the cup with a boat of of wheat he should ue levy was in excess of that allowed by degrees in will see that it is vigorously enforced. fitted with twin keels. He’ll given a deed to the land. Farrington temperature for the year be thor- Responsibility for Wreck of Purdue case was argued Should the law he declared unconsti- oughly cured of making took his chances on the market price law. The at Dead- •ip to that date, and an excess of about any further Team Fixed. tutional and void, the merchants nttompta of the grain. Football wood 3ome ten days ago, Meade coun- two inches in precipitation for the of if he tries it." Indianapolis, 17. •• Nov. Coroner yt being represented by the theory South Dakota will again be at the mer- ‘‘l see. Sort o’ Keeley One-half of the wheat crop raised t : James Mc- same time. On of aver- double cure, Satur- Nenny, cy of transient merchants and ped- the farm each year was to be deliv- Tutewllcr rendered his verdict state’s attorney, assisted by iges, there should be mild tempera- eh?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. wreck ered to Farrington until the last busn- day on the Big Four which oc- Charles J. Buell of Rapid City. ure and liitle snowfall. curred city Oct. 31. The cor- A.t a meeting of the board of educa Rev. N. C. Mallory, formerly pastor el of the amount in the contract was in this Central, Golden Gate and TerravlUe Several thousand young black baas oner blames B. C. Byers, the chief considering tlon at Clark it was voted to divide f the Baptist church in Aberdeen, delivered. citizens are the advisabil anrl trout have been planted this year A few days ago train dispatcher at Kankakee, who, he Ity of incorporating as a city. A |iy R. the primary department of the city Iroppnd dead whi’e running Huwe turned over com- O. Robertson of Nemo. He has to catch says, failed to notify the Indianapolis mittee, Reilley, * 1.900 bushels of wheat, half of what Edward Thomas Hart obtained the trout at the United State* ’ • , schools, owing to the crowded W ' . condi train at Aurora. 111. yardrnenter special VJ he raised this year. This made up the that the train was and Matt Plunkett, was appointed to fish hatchery station at Sp'earflsh, tlon, sad to employ an extra teacher t orn Is yielding about seventy-five and total of 4,400 bushels, and he is now coming. Sixteen people were killed determine whether to Incorporate i quantity of blAck bass of C. K. Mias Myrtle Boyle, who has a kinder u’Bbels an aere around as San- Alexandria: the possessor of the farm. in tho wreck, fifteen of whom were a town, village or city. wick of Galena. garten class at Milbank, was profTcred vheat average! about twenty, barley Purdue students. Citizens of Vermillion are talking of The regular fall the position as teacher of the ext re ~!vty and rye f''rty-'iva. term of the circuit Whipped by Whites. organizing a stock company for the -fn rt opened' at Yankton. division, and at once notified the boar The news cf the The case death of R. B. Tur- ! purpose of establishing a factory for 4" , New Orleans. Nov. 17. —Race riots New Recruits Arrive. if W. H. Meirsteine ra. Sarah F. Kyea of her acceptance. The lecture roo "~r. sup'*-:nfep ’ent of the Kearsarge large proportions progr<*«s Stargis, 8. Nov. About the manufacture of cement- Experts dismissed at the request of the Lutheran church will be fitted old mine in p pl’cited of are in D., 17. vas of the a 3 Miss. eighty recruita arrived at the Sturgis *ay that the quality of clay In this lo llaintlff. The of up for the children and will be read' -~nv frnre?.-’-ns rf In Scott and Smith counties. case N. I. Cramer va. sorrow from the c *Hty is first- "daKS. An investment ot tele Kyes for occupancy Dec. 1. A fine, up "''¦in* frstcr-itv rf The whites whipped the occu- denat yesterday afternoon from Jef* was taken up and a jiry to the HMlt, where » * dollars pants ne-rro cottages anu fcr«'m barracks for Fort Meade. They ew thousand in machinery secured. The suit ie to recover • data school bouse Is to be erected in r. T'-it-t was well i nown. He of numerous n visited wou,d up a plant that would bring ’promissory note which Ifca spring. hat region several months ago. driven them from the state. immediately proceeded to the poet. i reads fbaO la a yearly income of at laaat $50,003. Imre* hut l! CKO la wHtiav

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