Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-18
Dakota TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Ehs orarar-campesll PEND.

Il ga, IN the matter OF the chaIS@s uA~A ~ ~N
attorney generals Office by Gov Ordway
againet District Attorney Canpoel on pahata'
was adverse 10 Campbell. and sustained Gov
Ordway's specification OF malicious prosecn-
ton and reckless and unnecessary expend-
ture OF public moneys and for that purpose
/ Mesgrs Botalsr and HAight went over the 2iat.
ter al Yankton, and collected a great deal OF
evidences. Their report nils 800 pages. At
torney General Brewster went over This ett
dence thoroughly, IS well A. the digest OF II
prepared by Assistant Attorney General Phil
lips, The matter has, therefore, received the
special personal attention Qf the attorney gen
erai, sad bis endorsement viii undoubtedly be
acted upon by the president
While Flanagan Of Yshkton, who.
some weeks since, was kicked by d mule
has died from his injuries.
Armstrong of Huron believes his
brother to be the victim Of bad com.
pauions.
Bismarck hotels will board ieeisla,
tors at S14 per week.
Charles Wagner, a butcher Of How.
ard, mortgaged property which he did
not own, on which he secured several
hundred dollars from Kendall Broth
ers, and left tho country.
A wealthy English company is nego-
tiating for the purchase of a number Of
tin mines in Custer county.
The Homestake mine produced $685.
900 the first half Of November.
BY 80 majority Huron voted to in
crease the bonded Indebtedness of the
city to $40, 600 to pay outstanding in.
debtedness incurred in establishing the
w~aterwOrks, p
The Madison Sentinel says Walker
B. Smith has given dozens Of ehattel
mortgages IN property that he did not
own and ~decamped, leaving his credit
ors TO mourn to the amount Of between
So 5000 and $1,000.
There are now eleven counties in
Southwestern Dakota which do not
grant saloon licenses, and after the LIST
of January the number will be increased
to fifteen or sixteen.
The voting population Of the city Of
4eadwood, has decreased one-half with
IN the past four years. The vote Of
Lawrence county entire has decreased
nearly l, 400 during the same time, but
is 200 more than in 1882,
A call has been issued for a meeting
ofdelegates from every farmers alliance,
grange or farmers association of any
kind whatever in Dakota, to meet at HUI
ron on Friday, Dec. 10, for the purpose
Of instituting a territorial organization.
A sensation has been caused by the
simmons of a large number of Hyde
county citizens to testify before the
grand jury at Yankton regarding the
title TO q mueh-advertised town site.
Hon. e. p. Wells has resigned the
presidency of the James River National
bank at jamestown, and is succeeded
by George X. Toplhf
A. j. Gibbs Of Diana who was lately
acquitted at the United States court for
forging land Office papers, has been re-
arrested on the charge Of forging other
land Office papers,
Mrs. Ida Cook OF Brookings is in
search Of her eleven-year-old son,
whom, she alleges, was taken to Brook
ings by his grandmother some time ago
since whichtime all traces Of his where
abouts have been lost.
A boy named McCune of Gordon
Prairie tied the halter Of d COW he was
leading around his waist, the annual
ran and dragged the boy to his death.
At Frankfort. James Kelley, a four
teen-ysar-old boy, went into a we'll for
q lost bucket and his brother Thomas,
who was helping him, not receiving any
reply to his questions concluded some-
thing was wrong and called his father,
and then descended on the rope.
Thomas was taken out exhausted and it
was some time before he recovered.
James was taken out dead.
Yankton jokers advertised Eli Per-
klns TO lecture in the opera house, but
when he reached the hall, though bril-
liantly lighted, not a soul was TO be
seen, nor did any n com in during
the half hour the committee spent in
expressing its surprise to the great fab
ricator. Then they took him over TO
market hall where a packed house
greeted him with q great laugh.
Wheaton Special TO the Fargo Argus:
A farmer named Lewis, who lived about
ten miles north Of this place. was found
dead in his bed. He aud his two sons
were in town, and left for nome consid-
erably intoxicated. The neighbors sus-
pect foul play, rs the deceased had sew
eral quarrels with his sons. A piece
of bed quilt found stuffed in The mouth
Of the deceased gives color to the sue
picion.
Dakota cast over $1,000 votes in the
November election. This is more than
the vote of New Hampshire OF Vermont.
1t is 10000 more than Rhode Island,
Delaware and Nevada combined; twice
as large as that of Colorado, and half as
large again as Oregon. Yet Dakota ia
not a state.
w. F. Steele of Dakota, who
has been instrumental in Inaugural
ting the movement for Legislation in
regard to wheat inspection, says the
Dakota legislature will ask q confer
ence, with that of Minnesota, and the
agreement npon uniform Legislation as
TO grading, inspection, elevator rights,
etc. II, he says, Minnesota doesn't
care to agree, Dakota can get along by
sending her wheat through the British
provinces. He thinks, however, that,
as the interests Of the farmers in the