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atMi-IOfB fii. itcdrx i. O .t tlH)( 1 PRDHIBITiCH BILL MAY LIMIT AMOUNT OF BOOZEONE OWNS Not Thought Measure .Will Prohibit Total rtiJHJitn- Use of Liquor. ^SUPREME COURT W-. TO Building on Capitol Grounds is Wanted.—Will Visit Institutions. S ,w Pierre, S. D.—Legislative leaders •predicted tli.it the prohibition bill, putting into effect, tho constitution al amendment adopted last Novem ber, will not attempt to prohibit the absolute use of liquor by individuals, was but will limit the amount one may have in his possession at one time. R. N. Holsaple, of Mitchell, sup erintendent of the Anti-Saloon league expects to have tho bill ready for presentment this week. Among the other bills for early presentation is one providing for the erection of a new building on the capitol grounds for the use of the supreme court and the state hislori cat department, and another to pre vent the use of trading stamps by the merchants of the state. I Nullify Common Ijaw Konds. Amove also is being made to have & measure adopted making common I law marriages invalid and another giving clerks of court the power to perform marriage ceremonies. Representative Barclay, of Clark,' •It is said, will present a concurrent resolution in the house today for the appointment of a sub-committee of the appropriations committee to visit the various state institutions and make estimates of their needs. The present session take the view that it can belter learn the needs of ,the institutions by personal visits than any other way. The first bills which will be up for a vote at this session are the Swanson act, to increase the annual tax for mothers' pensions from one tenth of a mill to one-fourlh of a 'mill and House bill 11, by Clark, in relation to printing reports ol' pub lic offices. The highway commission is pre paring the new highway code, which will be presented as the new high-, way law for the state. ProlKi State Expenditures. j\ Representative Iiareclay. of Clark county, introduced a resolution yes -terday providing for a special investi gation of the appropriation needs of .' the state institutions and for inves tigation of items charged againsi -former appropriations. The intent of tho resolution is to liave the investigation made by a small committee made up from tho appropriation committees of the house and senate. It is provided that the investigating committee shall have power to summon witnesses and to compel them to testify under oath. Mr. Barclay's move is based upon various reports in circulation that institution officers have been dissipat ing appropriations for personal prof it and in promotion of personal pre requisites. Hints of Graft. These alleged abuses lead into hundreds of different channels. One board member is said to have bought] second hand automobiles for people. under liis jurisdiction, paying new car prices. It is held that, such transactions either involves questionable judg ment or questionable agreements. There is strong support indicated for .the proposed investigation and if this resolution is ado.nted some peculiar conditions may be brought to light. School Book Question. The place where exact facts appear to lie at the bottom of the deepest anil darkest well in legislative mat -•"ters is that of the school book ques tion. Years ago when R. H. Dowdell waS a member of the senate he at tempted to secure a free text book bill, and was charged with playing into the hands of the "book trust" 'Dowdell lias not. been a member for several years, and Senator Amsden, of Grant has been a consistent boos ter for free text books, showing the figures for Grant county, where they have supplied free books for many years, to prove that books can with "being a "book trust" bill, and bailed of enactment. I Amsden lias his bill for free text ?books in at the present time, and ,|says he is for that principle, and i'agaihst anything in tho law which will interfere with Grant county con 'i tinuing its free text book plan. It is j- alleged that the Ginn Company ^representatives have been looking gj t-r ,1'ookliam, F. lb, Soii'hwick. Brooks, n.iwdell. Elections— Gunderson, Mnrviek, Lincoln, 1'rdahl, Amsden, Alseth. Carlisle. Haafke, Uaile.v. Kood and Drugs--Lindland. Pear-!: son. McLean. Wanzer. Gunderson. Will. Dowdell. j: Federal Relations—Pailev. Peck ham, F. P., Johnson, .lavnes, Milli niiin, Glendenning, liowdell. Legislative Phraseology Ander son. Amsden. Reeves. Sharp. Irrigation—Johnson, Evans, .lav nr ,, Haafke, Rossow. Milliman. Frost. Warehouses and Grain Grading—• Berg, Marvick, Odland, Carlisle, Boreson, Gunderson. Dailev. School and Public Lauds—Steph ens, Whiuemore. Alseth, Evans, Pcckham. F. Rossow, Anderson. Incorporators—Wanser, Gunder son, St.mer, '".'ves. Frost. First. Miviips Occur. First mixups in both house and senate featured Monday's sessions, in the house Lyon of Minnchahn iriod to amend the-report of the com mit Ite on rules by adding a commit tee on labor. The speaker held him our of order, as amendments to rules mil-' (ay over one day and I.von sain lie wan'ed rules more responsive to the desires of the house and appealed from the decision of the .'hair. The speaker was almost, unanimously sup )cri I'd. In the senate a motion bv Gundcr cOn of Clay that the govt rnor's mes sage be referred 1 0 diffo II E S I W A E A W I E N ix S W I I Pierre, S. D.—-Some of (he house members insist that the house should appoint a bodyguard who under stands the Swedish language for Rep resentative Widlon. who found a note on his desk written in Swedish demanding that he call off bis efforts toward his bill which aims to keep members of (he 1. W. AY. off trains in the state unless (hey have paid their fares. The Turner counly mail says he has not much fear of the threat, and that he can take care of himself without the assistance of any bodyguard as he has seen 1. W. \Y. crowds in his (own and they have no terrors for him. Representative Homes, of Pen nington, wants the matter of tn. VMKXlNMMUi commit tees ."ortning bills on various points ippoj ed by 1'rdahl of l.al.e -n 'lie ground that, the governor not expect it and that it won! take more time than could bo spared by some busy committees and if put on record to formulate bills, committees failing, would furnish the opposition danger ous political thunder. Gunderson felt 'he courtesy due tile governor and a real time-saver in obviating pos sible conflicting individual bills and a majority agreed with him-. A favorable committee report was received on the Swanson bill doubling mothers' pensions. lierdahl put a. bill in tlie house to day permitting mutual insurance companies to insure automobiles. Fjiclt of Yankton put the lirst bill in the senate for a Wateriown insane hospital with a ?15,000 appropriation I S portation for shippers of live stcck made a fixed one and not one of wrangle between the shippers and the agent of the road where the shipments are made. lie asks that roads he required to issue free tran sportation to live stock shippers from the point or shipment, to the market point and return, and says in his bill how many men shall he allowed this privilege fixing it on the num ber of cars shipped by the stock owner. lip to Monday (he legislative lobby list was not. long in its extent, with Walter Jacobs of Aberdeen register mi as a general lobbyist W. G. Rickelhaput of Aberdeen as a lobby ist for telephones R. N. Holsaple, of Mitchell, for prohibition, and Monday nineteen other names were '"i in a list of trained nurses who are hero for their bill. ''-IV o— •«fa JSC!... RULING TO MAKE S. DAKOTA DRYER E I S I O N O S I E E O O N W I E O A W I E I supplied in this manner at a cost much below one dollar per pu.nil per year, in fact at about thirty cents according to his figures. The state educational association at its recent, meeting at "Watertown, endorsed a district'selection plan, and it is understood will bring a bill to 'the session covering this feature. A .like bill two years ago was charged .ww.».. 4rt jfover tho Amsden bill and (hat he. sliinds.it Very satisfactory, which may "or may not "be against the bill. In fact regardless of the merils of the bill presented by Mr. Amsden. •i or wt'dhpr it is or is not favored bv tl.e "trust." the county superinten dents of the slate insist that they aro trviusr to secure tho best nossible school took, law for the state, and that they are working for the inter ests of education and the pu.pils ot .the state, and thev are entitled to a healing on their views. More Senate Committees. Pierre, S. D.—More senate com miitees a5in"'i"c"' r-, iJ ,i..»•.......-v ...... .ci. IWKIZE S I E S O W I N I I E S Another aid in making South Da kota completely dry and allowing tho prohibition amendment lo the con stitution to. take full effect was the decision of tho United Stales supreme court yesterday, declaring the W'ebb Kenyon law to be constitutional. Prohibition leaders had declared thai the efficacy of the dry laws depended it.non the decision of the court. The Webb-Kenyon act was passed en March 1, Dil:!. over the veto of President Taft. It prevents the ship ment of intoxicating liquors from a v.'et to a dry state if the liquors tire to be possessed or sold in violation of the state law. The liquor attorneys question of whether tl the federal right to re commerce and thus slop raised the state had interstate the sliip- ,meuL of goods into a commonwealth. 'The law divests in toxic? ling liquors of their interstate character in some! cases. I The decision of the court will! simplify enforcement, of the amend iinent. to a market degree. It h. Si 'previously been the cusioui of whole-! sale liquor linns in the Twin Cities' to ship vast quantities of liquor into, the dry parts of the stale and virtually defeat the local prohibition! .measures. With the declaration that Itho Webb-Kenyon act is const it ution nl, this practice must stop and al! the attention of the state officials can Tie devoted to close scrutiny of ship ments and drug-store sales. Trees Used for Cisterns. Among the most curious of trees is the gigantic baobab, which flourishes in central Africa, the trunk of which sometimes attains a diameter of 4U feet, according to the Los Angeles Times. This trunk serves tis a natural cistern, retaining rain water in large quantities in a cavity formed at the toil. The Arabs artilieially hollow out the trunks of large baobabs and fill tlieni with water during the pre valence of rain as a provision against the dry season. These cisterns are in many cases lilt feet in height and eight or ten feel iu diameter. ... .. ...... PiPOSE PROBE INTO JOSfS' CLINIC I I W S N A E I I O I om S rorvrY wori I I I N I A A S O A I O N A I I N I A N Pierre. S. II.-- The resolution pre sented by Representative Fred Kvan der. ot Roberts county, proposing that a joint committee be named to (represent, the investigate, the activities of Prof. \Y (ot the Col'.e Franklyn Jones, of the University of South Dakota, with regard to bis "educational clinics'' and alleged sexual examinations of girls, lias created a stir among the legislators and probably will be pressed until doiinho'--notion results. Since the. matter was first, aired by The Mitchell Republican, the press of the state lias taken up the matter and urged that if be silted to the bottom. The general belief has been express ed that (he educators South Da kota. in their endorsement of Pro!'. Jones at their annual meeting in Wafertiiwu". did so without, complete understanding of the efforts which might result, from the theories evolv ed by (he Vermillion professor and itlie interpretation which might be placed upon the- matter by the peo ple of the state. The recent, statements by (wo prominent, educators, heads of the departments of educations in Colum bia university and. the .College of (he Cily of Xtfw York, declaring that the theories ajlve.w:te! by Prof. Jones were not v.*U'i rv'vancod pednengie-C ideits. has cleared th« situation in Die minds ot many who have been, following the fa.e. j- SCHERMERHORN ACCEPTS CHAIR O I I W E S E N A I E I I E I E O O E O A O A W E S E A N A S N E W E S I E Dr. W. D. Schermerhorn. who was elected to the presidency of Dakota Wesleyan on December IS and who recently inspected the school here, this morning sent word to S. E. Morris, president of the board of trustees of the institution, that be would accept the proffer, lie will doubtless be inaugurated in his new office next summer. The new president will be tile youngest: man to ever hold the posi tion here. He is now in his forty second year and is a man of unusual promise. Since his graudation from Kansas Wesleyan, he has finished his theological course at Garrett. I'ibli eal institute, served six years as a missionary in India, and finally re turned l.o become one of tho strong est professors at Garrett., the theolo gical seminal at Xei thwestern Uni versity. When uie position was offered to Dr. Schernierhorn. announced that he would make a trip I re av,d consider the work. He was well plea.— red with tho MUiation and the upper tlinities it afforded, but said he would [•reserve his decision until his return to Chicago. The board -.v.-,., (Van'iii '"that he might decline, hut notice of his acceptance was received today. In llie short lime that he was in Mitchell, the new president created a very favorable impression among those who met him. lie has a strong (pleasing personality, is a -cholar ot'j high ranlc, and gives promise of achieving much for the advancement of Dakota Wesley an. I Tho first duty that Dr. Sohermer-j •'horn will perform in his new capac-j ity will occur this week, when he will school at the sessions! President"' association, which is convening at. Chicago. He stated his willingness to do the work,! and loss been wired instructions toj attend the meetings. H. S. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE READY 1 1 S O O I E S I S I I I I I I O A N O N N E As usual. Sioux Falls will be m"t. early, the gam*- being played at Mit jchell October HO. Then follows Red field, Parker. Vermillion. Huron, and Elk Point, the season closing at Aberdeen Thanksg ir-: are the dries October 5 October 13 October Jl.i ell. October 2 7 November chell. November November Aberdeeu, LADIES' WOOL DRESSES cellent values in these, about a dozen splendid regular $7.00 to $8.00 values at 1 tire values in silk and serge dresses, a nice lot of good style dresses, but they will be a little heavy for spring, though just right now. Regular values from $12.00 to $15.00, these go at, each $10.00 FUR BARGAINS -Armour al Mitchell. Madison at Madison. —Sioux Falls at Mitieh- Kcdfield a! Redfiehl. --Parker al Mitchell. 10—Vermillion at Mit- November 1 7 -—Huron at Huron. 2!—Elk Point al Mitch- Thanksi iving Day Aberdeen Foirn E I 'i I I S New ork City.- Snndav quiet, on treasure amount in 000,000 of which was in cash, was During the Willi street to $170. 7SO.0OO.OoO ranspoi ted through (he deserted street un der the escort of heavily armed policemen. Tlte occasion was the moving of the Metropolitan Tru.it company into new qua..?' lers. inalClearance COATS About a dozen good med ium conts, assorted styles, good every day garments, regular priced from $7.00 to $12.00, your choice. .$5.00 A BARGAIN IN DRESS SKIRTS A small lot of good staple dress skirts of good mater ial, and well made, mostly black and navy, regular values, $4.50 to $5.50, only $3.98. and there is a chance for you very low price. There is some Our fur sale is still on, some splendid furs at a best styles and values yet for you lo select from. WHITE SLAVE BAND .ALLEGED AT LEAD :P:MIT A I N S It YEXR S I O A S I E E I I A I S E A S O N With seven contracts already sign ed and two others agreed upon, the I III 7 football schedule of Mitchell high school is now in shape and shows a good lineup of games for the coming year. Five of (he nine con tests will he played on tho home field liut one important change has been made ill the teams to be met and that has been the substitution of .Madison for Yankton. Athletic re lations were broken off sharply with Madison in the fall of'l'Jll, following what were believed to be qiio-eion-' able practices by the then Madison •'coach. The management lias now changed and the school will be plac 1 ed back on the schedule. iving day. Follow-i pursuit of youiu elsewhere in the IMMOKAI.IT. S I S A E S S A E S S OF S E E I .„. SLWDAI. S I S ,1 head. S. D- pi oport ions |wholesale arre en tho charge W E It 1 1 .1.S A sensation of lar.:e is ciealetl he"" bv ts of men about (own of coutribut ing I he lirquency of young girls of l.e.id, or.ic of (hem under sixteen vear of Thus far live defendants haw been arrested and warrant-! are said lo be out for others who are c-h.-'.rged similar offenses agai'.i-l young girls. said that two of the girl* -in •d have mads, written conies before the state's attorney, confessions are sail' to mpli number of men in addii ion Pierpont, S ing closely on ers and members are residents of ago Vickers had broken and \\'"s injured in an lie has Heavy Fa!! and Winter Goods Some splendid bargains that are seasonable now. In order to make a final clearance of heavy goods, we have put the knife in deep, and did not consider the cost, we prefer to invoice the money rather than the goods. BARGAINS FROM THE READY TO WEAR STOCK garments, .$5.00 to get of the There will be many other items added to the bargain tables as we go over our stock, and it will pay you to keep in touch with pur store for the next few weeks. It will mean a saving on many items you may want. H. D. BUTTERFIELD CO. The Store of Good Values 1 1 -Ileal .-ions These cate I 'lose nights before being found. taken before the county court on ch.irt es of delinquency, and there is little doubt, that they will be order ed. The girls themselves will be school at. Plankinton. Their names are withheld from publication for the reason that a state statute prohibits the publication in a newspaper of tile names of juveniles who are taken be fore the county court on delinquency charges. Woman I.eaiL Fight The roundup and arrest of the Lead men are charged with having contributed to the delinquency of these iwo as well as other girls, is the result of a warfare, which litis been inaugurated against this lass of Dead men by Miss Carrie Yoigt. Lead's civic welfare officer, and States Attorney Francis J. Parker, who is making his entry into office with a determination to dean up the city where cleaning is most needed, it is staled by the officers that this girls in Lead and Hills a.opears I ilack to be carried on by a.i organized band, and is developing into a spe cies of white shivery. So the officers regarded it as high time to interfere with the operations of the villains. The ages of the live men thus far arrested range from JO 10 "JS years They give their names as George Trevena, George Moss, Mack .Mc Laughlin, P.enny Stmts and W. J. Ritter. I'pon conviction they will be subject io long terms at hard labor, in tho Sioux Falls penitentiarv. Pluv will be vigorously prosceuteii. JINX ON TRAIL OF PF'^POAJT FAMILY D. •"he jinx is camp 1 rail of Fred Yiek of his family, who •rnont. Some weeks of his legs i" he "wise severely at. from which the not. yet fully recovered. ,v weeks ago bis oldes! son A I'o bad to be operated on for appendi- SOME GOOD THINGS IN CHILDREN'S DRESSES One lot children's wool dresses, sizes 3 to 12 years, good $2.50 to $3.00 values, go at $1.50 each Another lot. same sizes, but better values, regular $3.50 to $4 for $2.00 These make good school dresses, and are cheaper lhan fixing the old ones over. CHILDREN'S KIMONAS Made of good quality and pretty styles Eiderdown, good values at regular price of $2.00 each, you can buy them now for $1.25 jcilis. and now the family is mourn ill.« the .sudden death of the only jdauglitei. Miss Grace Vickers, who dicd .soon after being (he victim ot an attack of pneumonia. The re maining members of the family now are wondering as to what sort ol misfortune will next befall them. WEBB-KEN YON LAW UPHELD BY COURT S E O wi:r CHILDREN'S CAP AND SCARF SETS A clean up of all broken lots at a big cut in price. Children's sets, regular 75c values for 48c Larger sizes and fancy styles, good $2.25 values, for $1.50 Children's wool hoods, assorted colors, to close the lot, 25c each Some excellent quality knit toques, good 65c values for 45c A few infants knit cab robes, in good dollar values for ,65c CHILDREN'S COATS A small lot of children's coats, up to misses sizes, regular values $7.00 to $12.00 for $5.00 One lot children's coats, good comfortable school garments, worth $3.00 to $5.00 for, each $2.00 ANUNDERWEAR SPECIAL A lot of ladies two-piece underwear, good weight, fleeced, would be good values at 35c to 40c a piece, we are clos ing it out at 25c a garment I O O I 1 1 lllRlin N O I O I S (Ml 1111.- IN(i O S I E E TRIIU XAl "Washington, D. C.- -The' Webb- Kenyon bill, designed lo prevent li quor shipments from wet to dry stales, today was declared constitu tional by the supreme 1 iquor tu common who a I read have h.-eu iirre.n-1 The federal Webli-Kenyon Act of 1 DO::, and \W-l \'it'ginia'- arch court by a vole 'jof seven to two, which also upheld l\Wes Virginia's prohibition ainend iment. prohibiting citizens of tha 1 slate from receiving shipment.-) of for individual consuniplion by carriers. prohibition laws were brought be fore the supreme court ill two test eases ot the .hums Clark Distilling ,1'n., of Cumberland. Md.. against the American Express Co.. and Western Maryland Railroad. Whether .prohi bition states, under the Webb-Kelt yon law or otherwise, may prohibit shipment of intoxicating liquors, in 'interstate commerce, for personal •use of citizens in "diy" territory was the principal question raised. In I he two Wist Virginia cases, the liquor interests asserted that it. was not necessary for (he supreme, court to determine constitutionality •of the Webb-Kenyon law unless the (oiift. should uphold the West, Vir ginia statute prohibiting West. Virgin ians from "receiving or possessing liquor secured in interstate lommeree by transportation over common car riers. An incidental question raised was whether proiiobition state which per mit. their citizens to "have and use liquor may orohibit interstate ear ricrs from transportaing liquor lo 'such citizens for linir individual use and not. for fle. Effectual enforcement of "dry" I legislation in prohibition states was 'said bv prohibition advocates to de po-id largely upon validity of the Webh-Keyon Act, designated lo give "dry" slates tho right to prevent liquor shipments from "wet" states. Counsel fitr the liquor interests con tended that the Webb-Kenyon Act ,is void if it delegates lo states the I federal right to n'glar interstate 1 commerce. They also contend that, lis West Virginia's prohibition laws permit citizens to have and use li quor, although prohibiting its manii fad lire or sale, an amendment of 1!) 1prohibiting citizens from "re ceiving or possessing" liquor by com mon carriers in interstate commerce is unconstitutional. 1 Tlie Webb-Kenyon law was entitl ed "an ad divesting intoxicating liquors of their interstate character in certain cases." It was named lor its -authors, Re.p. Webb of North Saleo Carolina and Senator Kenyon of Iowa. The act was passed over Presi dent Tail's veto and provides that shipment of intoxicating liquors from one stale to another, "which intoxi citing liquor is intended by any per son interested therein, to he received possessed, sold or in any manner' used in violation of any law of such jf.ate ,. iif hereby prohibited." CHAS. BORESON DOES BUSINESS A I S O S E A O 2 O I E S O I S I S E A E A I A I E E S E N A I E Pierre Capital Journal: This world is coming to see that mere introduc tion of many hills and much talk does not make a good legislator. They Unips-.^ thai members with (his thought in mind secure one result, and one only ft namely, (hat cluttering up of the statute books, to the intense disgust '.' of their fellow members and the world in general. And the general sen tinieni is swinging around in favor of the man who simply represents thes counly or district from which lies conies, expressing their sentiment. on questions of the stale. One of the best illustrations of this fact is found in Senator lioreson. of Davison counly. lie has been a mein-:»i her of the house two times ill the past, itiiid this year was returned to the: lipped chamber and he has never in troduced a hill, lie has no prejudices -, iigaiust it is not trying simply to make a record but has up to this, •time simply so. I no necessity of ad ditional laws froai his hand, lie has done as the people of Davison county iiavo desired concerning proposed legislation he has not been a wind-/ jammer--lie has been a true repre sentative. Senator Horeson is rather an old .timer in South Dakota, too. lie came lo this country from Xorway in 1 SS:* .when lie was seven years old settl ed in Davison counly and has lived there ever since. He has grown up with the country from the boom days of Mitchell, and lie knows what it wants and needs. And as this is a legislature of many farmers, he is ono .of the leaders, lie's been at it ever i«inee he was thirteen years old-— worked when lie was fourteen on tho farm of F. C. Hoffman, this session a rejiresenlat ive from Davison-- -nml got. fifteen dollars a month, which was considered a princely wage for work at that. time. 11" is now one of the chief stock men and land owners of eastern South Dakota and is and has been president of several farm ers elevators and similar co-operative concerns in his part of the sta'e. He is a member of the Consistory Ma isons and York Kite, .and the Shrine. He was a house member in 101 I :and again in lilt.'i, and a senator this 'term he hasn't introduced any hills yet and he doesn't "know as lie will" (his year, liut his personality and the 'repented confidence expressed in him by his people and his early recogni tion of the fact thiit. a legislator is not required to in a lot of bills Ao make himself known and the re gard in which is held by his fel low members, old and new. make it .certain that he is. of all things, a true representative of the people of Davison county. ESTATE GIVEN TO RELATIVES I ion sio.ooo i:\i)i:i wiuix 1 1 I S A I S O A I O O N A W Will:. Parker, S. 11. —Alter litigation ex lending over a period of about lour years, the tight for the $-10 0 0 0 s- tate of Xols Svendsen, a pioneer Turner county farmer, who was killed in an automobile accident, in February. l!ll:i, finally has been ter minated by a decision ol Judge Tripp of the state circuit court, in sending the case back to the counly court, which will have charge ol distribut ing the estate among the heirs of Svemlsen. When Svendsen's death in the an-', tomobile accident, was. announced a. 20-year-old young woman who was living in the Svemlsen home at. the time of his death, set up the claim that she was the common law wife of Svendsen and sought to secure possession of his estate, opposing the children and other heirs of the dead man. following the death oT Svendsen the children applied lo have one of Choir number appointed administra tor of the estate. This appointment, was opposed by the young woman who alleged she- was Svendson's com mon law wife, who engaged an at torney and prepared for tho long litigation which has resulted. As the result, of the hearing in th-' county court, the claims of tho common law wife were denied and one of Sevndsen's blood relations was appointed administrator. Then an appeal was taken to the state cir cuit court, where, after a prolonged trial, the action of Hit- county court was reversed and a decision rendered in favor of the common law wife. The blood relations of Svendsen then carried the case to the stae supreme court, where the circuit, court was reversed, the case being remanded back to the circuit, court, lor a now trial. At a recent term of circuit court the case again was tried, and Judge Tripp, after hearing the arguments, sent the case back to the county court as the final act in tho long litigation. The estate now will be distributed among the blood rela tions of Svendsen. For a time during the prolonged litigation the fight for the $40,000 estate was somewhat complicated by the appearance of a Sioux City attor ney. representing a young woman employed-in a department store in Sioux City, who claimed to be an il legitimate daughter of Svendsen. Her claim finally was thrown out of court. O I I O N m' ni-:s. Pierre. S, D.—The five presidential electors ol South Dakota met. this morning and formally voted for harles Evans Hughes for president ot the United States and selected a messenger to carry the votes to Washington,