Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-10-30
give me 4 drink Of any kind for a year
I want TO quit. Dick Edwards.

ty.fye acres Of wheat by prairie tirs'
The suspended Bank Of Dakota Is
RAPIDLY settling With its creditors
j. f. Baker has 1000 chickens Oh
his Huron farm.
Mayor Gale 81 Canton, 80 brntaiiy
assaulted recently. has had Ed S. Row.
lev arrested. charged with the crime,
and the latter has been held IN sl,oVt
TO appear at the district court. SIS
The body of Mrs. Martha Grimm
an old lady who was missing from her
home neal Webster. has been found IN
a small lake near her former home
Circumstances showed that she had I'M
doubtedly destroyed herself.
Several daring attempts at burglary
we're made at Fargo. The wholesale
grocery house OF f., NJ. Raworth & Co.
was broken into and the job Of drilling
the safe showed the work OF profes'
SIGNALS. -. a
The illinois secretary of State has is
sued license of incorporation to the
Farmers Elevator company, at Dakota,
Stephenson county; capital stock, S20,-
600. Incorporators: John Brown,
Harrison Deimer and W. Il. Aumann,
Business of the Fargo laad office fol-
the week ending Oct. II: Number OF
homesteads, 80; 5000 acres. Tree
CLAIMS, 20; 5000 acres. neclaratory
statements, ID; 1850 acres. Soldiers
/ declaratory statements, /; loo Acres.
Final proofs, "A; 1880 acres. Total
filings, 12S; 20,4S0 acres. Total col
lections, s7,3l0.60.
DIR. G. Berry, who went to Brook
ings, to investigate small pox. says that
small pox has been in the county since
the tst Of June last and many people
have been exposed, with strong proba
bilitics of more cases in the near future.
unless it's quarantine, with vaccination
and reyaccination, is enforced.
Fargo, Special. The post mortem
on the body of Melville Bessey, assas.
sinated by Thomas ", Magil at Memo,
ken, was held Wednesday morning. One
of the loads from the gun entered the
left breast, passing directly through
the heart, spending its force In the left
shoulder blade. The heart was blown
to atsms and a round hole an inch in
diameter penetrates the lungs. As the
time goes on more mysterious becomes
the cause for the shooting. Many rum
ors of a singular character prevail, and
censure is getting strong against Ma
gill.
LIE Bean Leader: We learn Of hard
coal veins being discovered by the sc,
ologists-one seven feet, II eight
feet one nine feet aud one eleven feet,
all being some inches over even feet.
That there is an abundance of fine an.
tharcite coal in the Moreau country is
settled fact.
J. d. Lawler, of Mitchell, wa.
in Milwaukee a few days ago. In talk.
ing with a correspondent in relation I,
the agricultural outlook in his section
he said The raising Of fax seed Ina.
assumed neutrality-suspicious. in south
ern Dakota this year. Two mlllioi
bushels have been raised and the farm
ers are selling it for $l.l0 per bushel
1t goes to Chicago, whence ii Is distri
buted to the oil mills in Ohio and otheI
places. Ii is better than sod corn for
first crop. The farmers can raise OF
breaking, the first year. The yield pc
acre is about the same as wheat. II
, cultivation involves no more labor thai
that of wheat yet, while the farmer cal
get only 80 cents per bushel for hi
wheat, he gets 81 10 for flax seed.
Mitchell Special. Alexander McKer
zie of Bismarck arrived in the city
few days ago on matters connected wit
the New Orleans exposition. He re
fused the warrant for 81 900 donates
by order Of the board of commissioner
Of Dawson county to aid the territor,
in placing an exhibit in New Orleans
because an appeal had been taken iron
the act of the board in granting tn
sum. Mr.. Mckenzie says he will no
accept anything that is not freely givel
and where exceptions are taken by an,
citizens. A note Of 81 900. signed by
number of business men of the city, wa
ACCEPTED by Mr.. Mckenzie instead 3
the warrant, and will be used by him i
raising funds for the exposition. Nh
Mckenzie saw that forty counties in al
have responded in sums from 500 up
ward, and he feels very much encoura
ged thus far with his efforts to plac
the Dakota exhibit among the very bes
to be made st the exposition.
Fire broke out in the upper story G
DIR. Hathaway's saloon at Huron. TIL
hremen speedily arrived, and threy
three streams of water on the flames
which we're ss.s:S.:=hsA Thc c.:@:
is o mystery. II was the first test o
the Holly system, Just completed. Tn
loss is estimated at az, 400. The Fire AS
ISOLATION Of Philadelphia had 81, 800 o.
the building, and the British America
association had 81, 800 on stock and fix
lures.
Il. l.. Spence, probate Judge Of Brow
county, was indicted by the grand iur
at Aberdeen for assault with intent /
kill upon John III. Drake, editor of til
Dakota Pioneer. Ii IS reported tina
Spence left town.
The outbuiidings and sixty tons o
hay Of p. A. Sanders OF Lisbon wer
burned by a prairie fire.
o. p. Stokes, a pioneer business ma
of Deadwood, died in that city, age
forty. four years.
Columbia has a new Baptist church
costing 90 500
Miss Cynthia Elois Cleveland, wei
known through tho territory as a ten
poraAce lecturer. is stamping Indian
for the democracy.
The Isnkton district of the Congrr
gasiohal church ;..s ovvn divided, an,
a rev district comprising ten countie
between the James and Missouri rivers
viii be organized in Mitchell the mddI
of November, and the first session he'll
there at that time, ~ \