Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-17

pIaycu tneIr Rafne OF billiards ut
MITCHELL, for$200 and the champion.
ship OF Dakota. Shauer finally. after q
long contest. won the purse and cham
pionship, making his 500 points TO Stern's
498 points.
Information has been received at
Brads:reet's st. Paul Office that N. G
Mcconnell, retail clothing dealer at
Grand Forks, has made an assignment.
No particulars were Civ IN regarding
assets and liabilities, but it is not
probable that the figures are very
large.
Fifty.hea0 of horses belongingto half
breed outfit at or near O'Fallon creek
have beer run off, as it is claimed by
white lei
Maj McGillicuddy, agent Of the Red
CtouJ indians, has written a long letter
to the secretary of the interior with ref.
erence to the charges that have been
made about the methods by which the
assert of the Indians vas secured TO the
Sioux treaty. He denies point blank
that the Indians, either collectively or
individually, were baiidozed into sign
ing the trt atty.
The business of the Huron Land Office
for the past year consisted of taking up
of S,0O0,s0 acres OF government land,
and Col. Lowry, the receiver, hasturned
into Uncle Sans treasury the sum of
81, 200, 1000.
Bickham w. Lair, one of the parties
indicted for the murder OF the Ward
brothers, has been released from the
county jail at Grand Forks, where he
has teen confined for tile past few
months, his friends having furnished
the requisite bonds.
The annual meeting Of the Cass County
Medical association was held in Fargo,
DIR. III. Galloway in the chair. After adj
hitting several members. a committee
was appointed to attend 10 organizing
the North Dakota Medical association.
TO embrace all tn 4 part OF Dakota north
| of the forty.sigth parallel. The follow
ing officers were elected for the com ng
year: H.G. Fish, Wneatland, president
j. j. Buckley, Fargo, vice president; III.
| C~apehart, secretary; w. Z. Shurlock
treasurer: Drs. itepeburn of Grandin
anil Wear of Fargo, censors for the
year.
A short time since a barber living in
Sioux City, named Joseph Bucknan,
ran away from that city with a young
woman, Mary Vansickle, and came to
| Mitchell, where the guilty. pair lived to-
gether as husband and wife. Bucknan
got employment in a stylish barber
| shon ON lower Main street, and SON
made himself quite popular with his
customers. The sioux City authorities,
learning that Bucknan was in Mitchell,
procured transportation and Sent bis
wife and five small children on there, al
they were quite destitute and about te
become q charge 10 that city. She
marched up 10 the barber shop witt
their live offspring, and found the hus
band and father. The meeting was :
stormy one.
Mr. ard Mrs. C. ID. Thomas were
fo1nd at their residence st Valley City,
! in d state OF as~phyxiation from coal gas
| Although under the influence OF the
gaseous inhalation for ten hours, they
will cover.
g. w. cambridge was arrested al
| Sioux Falls, charged with committing a
rape upon Margaret Frazier, wife OF
William Frazier, and Fred Baker was
also arrested, charged with aiding and
| abetiiHg the crime. cambridge IS an
| old settler, being over sixty years OF age
aud has always borne a lair reputation.
| The victim ia u youag woman OF less
! than twenty years, and her physician
| reporta that sac bears 40 marks of In
jury.
Joseph G. Fairfield, judge of the pro-
bate court OF Douglas county, has been
arrested on a charge of wilful and cor
rupt perjury alleged to have been com.
m tied before United States Commits
| sioner Kouyabe in the contest of q
| homestead claim. He will be tried be-
fore the United States courts as iHiik-
ION. He has given bond. The arrest
creates a sensations, AS Judge FAIRFIELD
is widely known.
At Mitchell a jeweler ramed J.C
| WEIGH, employed in N. G. Gales store,
attempted to murder his wife al their
| rooms in the Commercial house at q
late hour. The eaase was l~eaiously
stimulated b, whisky. His wife was
lately a teacher of music in the Baptist
| college at Sioux Falls. She W II seek re-
| lief n the courts. The case creates q
| great sensation.
There is much excitement at Grand
| Forks owe the wheat question. A
meeting of the commissioners of Walsh,
Grand Forks and Pcmbina counties has
been called to devise means Tor facili.
Eating, by public aid, the construction oil
: dir,.rt railway line from there to Di-
lrth:e or in default Of that, q branch to
The Northern Pacific. running from