Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-23

ritory for the government Of railroads.
Sec. II All acts and parts OF acts In con-
hict with this act are hereby repealed
A section was added to the bill authorizing
the commissioners TO nix the maximum amount
OF freight, but the same was afterwards re-
pealed by a supplemental bill
Coal has been found near Gage City,
county.
Peter DAILY, the man who shot Plum
mer at Clifford, in Trail county, has
been committed to ioil without bail.
G. w. Morgan, a member of the leg
islature from Trail county has failed in
business.
The dead body af q nan named Pat
rick Cronin was found near Sanborn on
the prairie.
d. Elwell is negotiating for the pub
LEGATION Of q new prohibition and wo-
mems rights tri- weekly paper to be pub
lished in Sioux Falls.
The dwelling house on the Goats a.
Hollister farm, about amile from Sioux
Falls, was burned recently with all its
contents,
The Barnum farm, near Sanborn, has
been sold to Albert Bagemill for ST.
500.
Rapid CityItes voted to issue 81, 900
with which to construct water works.
A pocket book los. by John WEIGH,
near Alexander, last summer, was
found April LIST, with all its contents in
o good state Of preservation.
Hans Erickson, of Blunt, formerly a
resident of Litchfield, Mimi, died SUD
denly in an Aberdeen saloon, of sup.
posed heart disease or apoplexy.
At the first election under the new
charter at Milbank II. G.. G. Rose was
elected mayor by 16 majority and 292
votes were cast-not q fall vote.
Guy Little, of Bismarck, whose viii
was recently probated, gives $1,000 tc
Pembroke Academy, at Pembroke,N N. H..
The deceased was formerly a student
at the academy.
A two year old child Of Fred Hess,
living near Alexandria, was found in a
we'll of water eighteen feet deep, the
other day, where he was clinging to a
creyice in the wall with both hands,
afioat in water up to his neck.
A justice of the peace in Charles
Mix county named Smith has been ar.
rested for assaulting his wife, but es.
capped from the officers.
Miss McLane, living with her parents,
near Glendale, in Dickey county, acct.
dentslly shot herself with possibly fatal
result, while taking a shot gun from its
place on the wall.
On the 10th of May next the new
Methodist church is to be opened in
Deadwood. The spring session of the
Methodist ministers of the Black Hills
mission begins there the 9th of May.
The jump in wheat is stimulating the
farmers to put in every acre possible in
North Dakota, AMI it is believed there
will be considerable increase over last
year.
A frst-class wagon road is to be built
from Minnewaukan north through
Towner county to the international
boundary.
The farmers of Minnehaha county
are sowing fax and planting corn this
season, aud doing very little wheat
seeding.
A raport ia enrrent in Deadwond that
rich ore has been found in Iron Hill.
Stock in the mine jumped from 40 cents
to rs cents Immediately.
Therace for the iudgeship Of the Far
go judicial district is being carried on,
both there and in Washington, with re-
newed vigor. The prominent candi.
dates are all residents OF Fargo, being
Messrs. Mcconnell, Redick and Ben
ton.
The district court convened at Pierre.
Judge Smith charged the grand
jury, after which an indictment was
found against Bell, the murderer oil
Small. The defendant was brought
into court before the jury for the
purpose of making any challenge he
might see fit, to any one on the panel.
A young farmer named McCarl, liv-
ing southwest of Miller brought IN
town an old yellow scrap of paper which
was found on his claim in a bottle tight
ly corked, bearing the following "Mon
day, July l. lS6l--My name is Sam
Black, and 1 am going to die. / was
wounded at Big lake first, then / ran to
the hills, where the Indians followed
me and caught me, and left me for dead
right here. / have lots OF money, and
put 1T under this rock-$5,0 900. 1 am
getting weak. When you find this think
of Sam Black. Iowa was nv home. >
The above letter was a badly written
and badly spelled epistle. The lake re.
ferred TO is now called Wall lake. The
hills are called Rec hills, and were a
rendezvous for the hostile Indians in
those times.
At the election in Bon Homme coun.
ty, Lyndall received a majority over all
competitors, and is therefore chosen a.
the county seat. 1t is stated however,
that the ballot boxes and poll books Of
one precinct have been stolen and Scot.
land nov claims the county seat.
The dwelling house on the Coates s
Hollister farm, in the south part o,
Sioux Falls, was destroyed by fire
with its entire contents, Loss, 81 .OO(