Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-25

A recent fire 10 jamestown destroyed
property to the amount of $1,000, aud
not SIS, 900, as at first reported-whicb
was largely covered by insurance.
Among the prominent candidates for
Tor speaker Of the next house are Mark
Ward, of Mitchell, Williams of Bis
tnarek, and Martin of the Black Hills.
Ex-Vice President ColfsS will deliver
an Grafton at the sixty-sixth anniversary
celebration to be held by the Odd Eel
lows OF South Dakota, in Huron, oG
Monday, April 81.
Business at the United States land
Office in WATERFOWL has materially in
creased of late, so tho officials state, in
the line Of contesting, cancellations and
original filings.
Holabird, on the Dakota division OF
the Northwestern, and Portersille, Wis,
on the Chippeway Valley division of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul, have been made
regular stations.
X. Thompson, f. Estenson, j. J.
Gunderson, S. o. Henium and j. W.
Walters we're arrested for removing
stone from a school section at Dell Rap
ids, and taken to Yankton.
Capt. Rockwell of Fort Lincoln has
been appointed chief ordnance officer
of the department of Dakota, vice Cap
tain Bennett who goes to Washington
as inspector OF rifle practice.
A deputy United States marshal at
tempted to arrest Lean Ella, Red Shirt
and other Indians at Cheyenne agency
for horse stealing, but Agent Swan re
fused to give up the redskins,
The we'll known Tcwner farm, heal
Mapes, comprising 2 ,240 acres, 1000 Of
which is broken, and upon which there
are some frst-class buildings, was pur-
chased by John S. Sinclair, a Scotch
capitalist.
Claus Slegiman, formerly agent OF
the st. Paul harvester works at Andov-
err, has been convicted of robbine
George Humphrey Of SOB, the money
being found under the floor of Slegi
mans clam shanty.
The Sioux Falls polishing mill is
turning out q large grist of polished
cement and jasper octagon pavement
blocks; also elegant columns and plates
of jasper and pipestone porphyry, tc
be sent to the New Orleans exposition.
e. J. Travis, formerly agent of the
Gilmer & Salisbury stages, of the Fort
Benton steamer line, while suffering
from mania potu at Deadwood, attempt
ed to kill himself with a knife. Travis
Lad been sheriff of Lincoln county,
New. but lost friends and standing
through gambling.
The Episcopal Indian women Of Elan.
drau have established a guild on the
sewing society plan. They not only
manufacture rancy articles with the nee
die, but make pipes, ornaments Of
pipestone and retail the latest gossip,
according 20 the most approved fashion
of their white sisters.
Robert Earl, of Howard, was arrest
ed and pleaded guilty of adultery with
the wife Of James Otter, formerly of
Grand Meadow, Mower county, MINI.
Mrs. Otter was recently adjudged in-
sane, and is the mother of a large
family, some of them grown to manhood
and womanhood.
Methodist statistics for Dakota show
that the denomination has increased
largely in that territory during the con.
ference year just closed. AT the begin
ming Of the year there were 20 churches,
with a membership, including proba,
TONERS and preachers, Of 1889. Nov
there are 81 churches, with a member
ship Of 4,522.
A board Of officers has been appoint.
ed at each Of the posts of Fort Magin-
mis-, A. Lincoln, Meade, Totem, Ran
dali, Ellis, Bennett and Pembina to ex.
anime and report upon the qualifca-
tons Of enlisted men for appointment
as post quartermaster sergeants. The
pay and allowances which attach tC the
position Of post qu~artermaster sergeant
make it a very desirable one, and the
appointment is much sought after by
those who consider themselves eligible.
Edmund Hsckett, the husband Of the
woman who attempted suicide by cutting
her throat with a butcher knife at Min
newauken, is a former mayor of Bis
merk and at present a commissioner OF
McHenry county. The following note
was found concealed in the woman's
sleeve: Edmund, / do not know the
secret. I am innocent. That child is
yours. I swear it. I die easy. See
what your Oldest son has done for both
Of MS. I want Mrs. Welch TO take the
baby. Iwoald like to see my husband
psnt tell mother"
Chicago Herald, There is no more
similarly between Dakota aad Nevada
than there is between a desert and O
garden, a New England state and a
wldernes1. Dakosa shorld be a state,
not because Nevada is one, but because
il is populous enough for admission and
deserves it as the most progressive OF
all the territories. As the matter
stands, Dakota should be the ste spd
Nevada the territory,