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Show FARMER'S SOU SOLVES DREAM OF INVENTORS Takes Electricity From the Air lo Furnish Fur-nish Power for a Practical Motor-Secret Motor-Secret Sought for Years by Inventors. In-ventors. Now York. South Dakota cities aro supplied with electric lights, tho power for which Is generated by artesian arte-sian wells; farm machinery Is run by motors, and turblno wheels operated by tho gushing wells between tho Missouri Mis-souri nnd James rivers, but It has also been left to a South Dakota farmer to discover that enough electricity may bo taken from tho nlr nbovo tho buttcs to furnish tho power which will run electric tights, thrashing machines and water pumps. Such a discovery Is ono or tho marvels mar-vels or tho electrical world and a dream or inventors for decades, but John II. Stranhnn, son or a well-to-do farmer near Miller, S. D., hns mado tho discovery, and from Sully buttcs may bo seen n number of tandem box kites, whllo half way to tho earth on a No. 4 coppor wire, hangs a. strango whlto box tho slzo or n bcohlvo. From tho copper wires which descend de-scend from this box onnugh electrical onorgy Is secured to run tho motors with which tho Stranhnn homo Is lighted, a reed grinder nnd threshing toachlno operated, and n big olectrtcal pump which pours wntcr Into irrigating irrigat-ing ditches. |