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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
Latest by Telegraph.

Mr.. James z. Voorhees,, youngest son oil
| the Indiana senator, will return to the
| stage and open as a tragedy star in Wash
| ington.
| Miss Ada Sweet is in Europe and the
! Paris Petit journal explains that she was
removed from her Office as pension agent
for writing poetry:
In the dominion in July exported goods
amounted to 50. 539, 901. rs compared
with SO, O35, OPS for the same time last
year. Imports are valued at 50, POS, 22O,
with duty OF 81, 1913, 167 for July, 1885,
| and IS, 7S7, AIS with q duty ofSl ,Si5, 924,
for the past July. This shows a falling of
In imports and exports for the present
year.
Sir Charles Dixie has about given up his
idea of permanent and complete exile, and
contemplates becoming II working journal
list.
The Mexican minister OF foreign affairs
has instructed all state authorities to i'm
mediately report to him arrests OF foreign
ers with a statement Of the circumstances.
Portage La Prairie, Man., the second
town in the province, made an offer to the
creditors Of the municipality to settle the
debt OF $500, 900 by giving them $500, 900
in new bonds. The creditors refused to
accept such settlement, and the town Off.
Gals withdrew the offer and resigned to
prevent payment of accrued interest, and
now tell the creditors to get their money
il they can.
All travellers to Mount Hood this season
say there was never so little snow on the
mountain; the weather has been SO warm.
In the five-cent savings bank OF Charles
ton, S. c.. the colored people have $12I,-
y36.35 on deposit. The largest depositor
has Sc, 600 to his credit.
c. Calverly, n New York sculptor. will
execute the statue OF Burns in bronze, for
which an Albany lady left 100000.
st. Louis will send train of ten cars of
provisions TO the people OF the drouth-
smitten districts Of Texas.
Maud Dollars, a pretty Chicago girl, is to
jump from the Brooklyn bridge for Il purse
of 900.
Geronimo is reported to have sent word
to Gen. Miles that he will surrender at San
Bernardino.
1t is said that Mrs. Victoria Morosini-
SchilIing is getting very tired OF singing and
supporting her coachman husband, and
that she is contemplating appealing to her
father for forgiveness
Ex-State Senator Edward s. Cleveland,
OF Hartford, is an aspirant for the govern
orship OF Connecticut. He is said to be a
distant relative of Grover Cleveland, n
democrat, and looks like the late George
Washington.
Lieut. ScheutE's mission to the mouth OF
the Lena river, Siberia, bearing rewards
from this government Go hative& who as.
sisted the survivors Of the Jeapa ette, has
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

pcdients that could be put in practice
were tried, but the water could not be con-
trolled. Saturday morning Eugene Palmer
proposed that fifteen inch tube could be
driven down to the blue clay, believed to
be about fifty feet, and by thus combining
the force to common center the outside
flow could be stopped and then the one in
the tubing controlled. 1t is impossible at
this time to estimate the damage. Thesouth
part OF the towns more or less flooded and
cellars filled with water. To-day at least
two thousaRd people visited the place, and
no relief has yet been found. The hole has
increased TO the size OF barrel, and the
water is bubbling up some four feet above
the surface, throwing out immense guam
titles OF sand. At least five hundred car
loads have been emptied by the flow, and
a gang Of men are kept constantly at work,
day and night, shoyeling it away. Achan-
mel has been dug for an outlet to the Iowa
river and this channel has double the vol
ume OF the river at that point. There are
seven other wells at Belle PLANE, but they
have all ceased flowing since the outburst
of the last one. The citizens have grave
apprehensions OF the outcome.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
A Hagh.ronsd color.d Wedding.

Charleston(S. CO. News: The biggest col
ored wedding ever witnessed in Louisiana
was that celebrated at Soulouque plan
tation in lberyille Parish. Few white we'd
dings compare whit. There was a special
train from this city for the invited guests, a
string band imported especially for the
occasion and refreshments by the first res
taurateur in New Orleans. BY day the
mansion OF the brides father was mass
OF natural flowers; by night the
grounds were lighted with lanterns
and Japanese fire. All the cream OF
colored society graced tho oceasio n
and not a few white persons OF standing
were among the guests. As for the dresses,
few ball rooms have seen anything finer or
tastier. The contracting parties were
Miss Aladie Allan, daughter Of a member
OF the Louisiana legislature and Prof.
Palmerston Landry, OF Mansfield col
lege, another legislator. The brides
father, originally slave and a
eoachman, bore in those days the
name of S6ulouque. lie has not altogeth-
er forgotten that time, for his sigar plan:
tation, one Of the handsomest and pretti-
est in Louisiana, still recalls the old slave
days in its Soulouque-whereas he
Is to-day the Hon. fheophile Allan:
Every prominent negro politician in the
United States was invited to this event,
and nearly all sent presents or congratula-
tory kilograms.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
AwoNDERFUL SPOUTER.
An Artesian Well at Belle PLANE, Iowa,
Throws Up Immense Volumes of Water,
Threatening to Destroy the Town.

Belle PlaiRe, Iowa, August 81. An
artesian well four inches in diameter burst
when the depth OF 1S5 feet had been
reached in boring, and instantly volume
Of water was forced into the air to the
height Of several hundred feet. This
gradually increased in size and volume
! until stream OF water fully sixteen inches
In diameter was formed, and the up
ward force OF the stream is equal to
the power Of powder or dynamite. The
water in huge volumes, is spouting in the
air, and the supply seems inexhaustible.
Two gigantic rivers have been formed by
this phenomenal water-burst, which are
running through the town at the rate OF
twelve miles an hour and is carrying every
thing before them. Lives and property
are in danger, and the citizens are greatly
alarmed. Finding it impossible to divert
this damaging flood, an attempt was made
to insert sixteen-inch boiler iron
tubes into the well, but these
were instantly blown ont and forced
high in the air. Finding this plan useless,
the terrified people then attempted to fill
up the huge aperture. FIFTEEN car loads of
stone were enptied into the well, but these
we're instantly blown out and forced up
ward as though propelled by the force OF n
bursting magazine OF giant powder. Bags
oil sand were then hastily constructed and
cast into the well, but these, too, were
hurled into the mir by the tremendous
force OF the spoutng water.
The history of the overflow is as follows
On Monday, Aug. %, William Weir & Sons
began boring an artesian well at the inter
section OF Beech and Washington streets in
Belle Plaine. This is On the fiat about
four blocks south OF the barley house
The contract called for well with three.
inch casing, and flow was guaranteed.
They bored a two-inch hole and theorized
thatt flow ofwater through il would work
it outso they could sink n three-inch casing.
Thursday they struck water at depth OF
1So feet. At this time they had about sixty
feet OF three-inch casing down, and the
water rose with strong force twelve feet
above the surface in solid three-inch
stream, plainly showing the strongest flow
yet struck. Friday morning the flow WIS
under control, but during the forenoon in
the attempt to force a three-inch tube into
a two-inch-hole, il broke loose and wore
away sufficient space outside the tubing to
allow the water to boil out around the
tubing at the surface. Al shutdown
Friday a stream OF water foot
in diameter was pouring out. At
$50 the city authorities we're appeal
ed to to take control and seek relief from
the impending danger. Already many lots
and houses were more or less flooded. At
8 p. m. gang OF men were set at work,
the mayor and council personally superin.
tending them until nearly morning, AL ex-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
Tho Mines Of the black Hills.

The mines of the Hills are attracting
worldwide attention at present, for while
representatives of New York manufactur-
ers are investigating the Southern Hills
district n party OF English capital
lists are similarly engaged in the
extensive Bear Gulch or Niger
Hill district, west OF Deadwood. A large
amount Of work has been performed in the
latter, with excellent results. Large reduc'
tion works are among the possibilities OF a
very near future. Thirty miles further west,
and the oil fields Of Crook county appear, an
expansive area alive with prospectors and
Others, industriotsly at work. A dozen or
more Incorporated companies are repre-
scented but only two-Black Hills and Stand
ard-as yet point to any great accomplish
ment. The Standard is down 800 feet, and
produces three barrels day. The Black
Hills attained equal depth, when losing its
drill operations necessarily ceased Tor a
time. The oil is pronounced the finest lub-
ricant produced in America, selling readily
on the dump Mt six bits-75 cents-a gal.
Ion. The Great Northwestern has two
machines to be delivered on or before Sept.
is, and win strike for China Immediately
thereafter
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

fiercer than the Others. n. 3
lifted itself from the grass s-
like a great bird into the dass
of the trap. The pole which s
the door flew from it's posis;sss
the heavy door of hewn loes ~
with q solid chuck, plaialv
to US on our distant perch 80
Now We will go home.' -.
Guillermo quietly, as he urocsss ! :
climb down the trees knottsS ~
"And leave the tiger?" ALL 81. ssan
Guillermo laughed.
'fHe will stay, Doa Henriso :,
trap is solid like rock and 6ssa 3
iron. He will stay, and to.m 1
you can cage him" 'ie
In the morning we transf..s
brute, which had almost worn ~ n
out in pacing his prison, to az aas
bound cage, previously preparss : IS
the next afternoon he was sh;ss g
via the Inter Oceanic railwavpp
the very few lines OF railway Il a liz
tral America-to Port Cortez =. =!
Atlantic Coast, whence he was +
by steamship OF the New Orl,ss.
Honduras Mail Line to New o,ias
and there delivered to the agent - - !.
ha2s the best known mena-sr;s ~
travelling in the United States ~
had the pleasure the same 1.
noon OF paying Guillermo hi ~
reals, being five doubloons--v,y..1
in our money would be SIT ri +
hard silver. The average nav =
peon for a days work in Hond,,,s~s
one real, or twelve cents, 50 ia. !
his energy and pluck that snss; !
lad in d single day earned as ,ass
money as many who considered thss'
selves his superiors earned bv =.
tinuous labor in two years ~
ease with which it was done tau.S
Francisco that the nimbIe mind ~
boy is often of more value thaa 4
experience OF a man.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

A long but not violent shock Of earth.
quake was felt at Santa Cruz, Cal.
Victoria Morisina, who two wears ago
married her fathers coachman, Ernest
Schilling, has left her boar ling house, with
out the know ledge or consent OF her hus.
band, and her present whereabouts is a Sc
cret.
The Missouri republican convention
nominated J. G.. Cravens for supreme
judge; Nj. f. Butler superintendent of in.
struction and S. w. Crawford railroad
commissioner. The platform denounces
the Democrats for refusing to admit Dako-
Ia to statehood.
Senator Harrison was chairman of the
Indiana Republican state convention which
met II few days ago. The following ticket
was nominated: X. S. Robertson, lieuten.
ant governor; Charles L. Griffin. secre.
tary OF state; Bruce Carr, auditor; J. A.
Lempke, treasurer; l.. T. McHenry, attor.
ney general; Byron r. Elliott, supreme
Judge; w. F. Noble, clerk of supreme court;
5. w. La Toilette, superintendent OF pub.
lie instruction.
Mike mooney created Nhirl of excite
ment in the Joliet, H., prison wire mill by
making murderous assault upon n fore
man named Burroughs. The desperate,
murderer has been watched very closely by
the prison officials since his return to pri.
son on a life term for numbering his eel
mate, John Anderson. 1t took hall a doz.
en- officers and convicts tosubdue Mooney.
Postoiiices established: Iowa: Sam.
vile, Wayne county. Special service dis.
contipucd-Dakota: Flensburg. Postmas.
tiers cbmmissioned-Dako Coal Harbor,
J. X! Hinton. Iowa; Columbus Junction,
;. y, Neal; Hamburg, s. Jacobs: Logan, /
~ Massie. Minnesota: Echo, C. II. Phil,
lips.
The reorganization of the Washington
navy yard is being effected rapidly. and by
Oct. the ordnance bureau will be in full
possession. There are now in course q
construction in the foundry at the Wash.
ingtpn navy yard seven modern guns. Two
oil these are ten-inch hoop guns, intended
for the Miantonomah will be finisbaS
~lthih>slk mo two eight.
men ans "a
, 2aatyin IL
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
Gov. Pieroe's Civil Service Order

Gov. Pierce Of Dakota has issued an ex-
ecutive order to territorial officers, regents,
directors of public institutions, etc, direct
ing their attention to extracts from Presi-
dent Cleyeland's civil service order OF July
II. After quoting the presidents order to
federal officials, Gov. Pierce says:
II this is right for officials holding federal
positio ns, it is right for those who hold
places OF trust and emolumept under np-
pointment from the executive authority OF
the territory. Such officers, therefore. are
requested to abstain from all officious in
termeddling with primary meetings or con
ventions, and from assuming active con-
duct OF political campaigns. If all officials
viii abstain from using the influence OF their
patronage in party nominal ions, leaving
the people free and untrammelled to act as
their wisdom directs, the public service
will not suffer- but win be exalted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
The Bcwitching Miss s tauffer.

Fay" the sprightly correspondents
OF the Louisville-Courier Journal
writes from Saratoga OF Miss Staufier,
who bewitched Mr.. Tilden out Of
100000. Having met Miss Celeste
Stauffer three successive summers at
Richfeld, and hearing each year that
Mr.. Tilden had named her in his will,
was not surprised when / read thai
he had settled upon her 100000.
Miss Stauffer crossed the ocean on the
same steamer with Mr.. Tilden the last
time he visited Europe. TWAS onths
return trip that the handsome girl Boz
witched him. He presented to her .
diamond bracelet said to have cost
$4,000. While Miss Stauffer was
staying at Cranston's Mr.. Tilden sent
his yacht up, that she might use it icr
pleasure. She kept up a correspond
ence with Mr.. Tllden, but | never
heard it intimated that he had asked
her to marry him. 1t always seemed
more as if he had adopted her as his
daughter and enjoyed making her hap
Ply by gifts and favors. Miss Staufier
possesses all the requisites for q
belle. Without being particular
ly beautiful, she is snowy
and striking hooking. She has many
admirers. She wears her lovely and
costly toilets as though they were
part of herself. She is finely formed
and dances gracefully. She is a crack
tennis player, and it is said that she
composed, as well as delivered, the re-
ply she made to Rex when he chose
her for queen during the Mardi-Gras
festivities in New Orleans two years
ago. 1t requires some nerve and all
the sustaining qualities of vanity Tor
young woman III private life to as.
sumo the mimic robes of royalty and
ride through the public streets oil q
large city, to be stared at by the vul-
gar crowd who, on such occasions,
flock to New Orleans. She spoke last
summer of not feeling a bit nervous
when making her address. Miss Staut-
fer has been in the habit OF dividing
her summers between Richfield, Bar
Harbor and Cranston's. Her parents
and brother form her party. Her par
ents are very plain, uninteresting-look-
ing people. Her father is prosperous
hardware merchant in New Orleans,
though not native OF that city. she
Is passing this summer in Europe
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
How Fortunes are ACQUIRED

How fortunes may sometimes i.
picked up is illustrated by sto,,,
told by Long Branch Corresponds
of the Philadelphia Press, IRON wh.b
the following is an extract: Twoe
Gus characters drifted into the e,,
rent of fashionable lie here receut.v
They came in a private palace car i,
which they had been travelling abous
the country for the past six month.
Both are men of great fortune, thougk
not yet in the meridian OF life. On i.
a Philadelphia, the other a Jerse,.
man. Five years ago neither Of them
dreamed OF hiring a private car, vet
single stroke of good fortune brouaht
them out OF the commonplace Of if,
and gave them positions of proai
hence in the world of affairs. One mad
his money out of glass signs and the
other from a patent medicine which h
compounded in the seclusion Of hi
Jersey home. Nine out OF ten busi.
ness men would laugh at the idea d
making fortune out of bits OF elsas
two feet long with guilt lettering, and
many would hesitate before giving IN
even a moderate income to risk 81
time with patent cure-all remedy.
But now the lifework OF these two
men is done so tar as the accumuls.
ton of money is concerned, and thev
live for the sole purpose OF beina
amused by the world. They came
down here with a car full of.ti,s MANY
good things that wealth Commando
a hamper OF champagne and d lardsr
in which Delmonico chef would reyel.
A stable Of horses had preceded them.
and when they were not luxuriatinalz
their home OH wheels they were spin
ing along the bluff behind team that
took dust from no one. Yet they tired
of all this in two days, and just becarss
q slight rain-storm set in stared
down to Cape May for chang. ~
one of them said. The person who
first thought of attaching a ball to
the end Of an elastic cord, SO that it
would return, went to Caleb Cushing
yeare. aSashave him make out tho
application TO be sent to Washingson
for a patent. Mr.. Gushing was busy
at the time with an important law
case and wondered that the man was
willing to pay the large fee he always
demanded for his work, when b.
learned the nature OF the patent. u
will have to charge you almost as
much as l imagine you viii make out
of this thing" he suggested to the IN.
ventor. "Well, I've already made q
contract that will net me $4,000,
was the surprising reply, "and | can
see my way clear TO ten times that
amount"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

Visitors to the park on the 9th and
2sth uit, who happened to be in the vicinity
Of Firehole basin witnessed rare spectacle.
The Excelsior geyser. situated in Hell's
Hall Acre, undoubtedly the most power
full geyser in the world, and which has been
in a state Of quiesence for over four years,
suddenly broke ont about three o'clock
Friday afternoon and continued to
play for over twenty-four hours.
The witnesses pronounce 1T the grandest
and most awe-inspiring display eve: heheld.
The spoutings were heard several miles dis.
tant, while the earth in the i'm
mediate vicinity was violently shaken
as il by an earthquake. The noise OF the
escaping steam and the internal rumbling
was deaiening. An immense body ofwater,
accompanied by steam, was projected to an
altitude OF about three hundred feet, and
the Firehole river. which is only few rods
distant, soon became a torrent of boiling
water. The display was kept up for while
with gradually decreasing force when the
Excelsior went back TO it's normal state.
As it is an exceedingly erratic geyser, 1t
may remain inactive for years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

cases from top TO bottom, and were badly shat
T0Nsad from sleep or Interrupted IA their even
Ing pursuits BY the sound OF the ruin being
erected above and around them. rushed out
into the streets and huddled together awaiting
the end, whatever it might be. Invalids wer
brought on matteesses and deposited on tn,
roadway. No thought was given to treasures
left behind. Until long sitter midnight the
sight OF their homes Through the long
hours that followed few were the eyes
even Of childhood that were closed Ii
sleep. Charleston was full of those whC
watched for the morning, and never in any city
In any land did the first gray shades that marx
the approach of dawn appear 50 beautiful and sc
welcome TO eyes as they appeared to the thou
sanks OF people who hailed them this morning
from the mids of the countless wrecked home.
In our thrice scourged, but still patient still
brave, still hopeful, still beautiful city by the
sea
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
TIE WIVES KISS.
There's tn. li.. pressed on tho lips Of th'

There's the kiss pressed on tho lips OF th'
child
OF lovers when parting at night,
The kiss Of mother our sorrows beghiieo,
Making the face CHEEKY and bright
The kiss so silly OF girls who meet
Who so bIisslessly kiss In iieui az.
But the kiss that lasts and makes his
sweet
Ia the kiss OF the wife that's true.
Kisses in kinds as countless as sands
OF friendship betrayal, deceit; =.
The kiss on the eyes, the forehead and
hands.
The kiss that Is awkward and neat;
The Kiss that's given, the one We steal,
The kiss that awakes us all through;
Rnt the sweetest kiss that lips can feel
Is the kiss OF the wife that's true.
There's the kiss OF youth and the kiss oil
years,
And the kiss we lay in the grave;
The kiss We press in the sunshine ana
tears
The kiss for the brow oil the brave
But tho kiss that is the kiss OF life,
To him who the gsmut runs through
That brings surcease to anguish and strne,
Is the kiss OF the wife that's true.
-Syms Kay Martin.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09
Death i'm Boiling Steel

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
1t is long since the newspapers re-
corded any accident so horrible asthe
death OF the Woolwich moulder who
was overwhelmed by a cataclysm Of
boiling steel, and it is not often that
SO strange ceremony as the burial
of poor Moriarty is described in black
and white. The fact is, the poor lei
low is now part of a sixty-ton gun. In
which form he will continue to serve
his country. Yet, oddly enough,
he was buried recently. For
some ashes and fragments Of
clothing was collected from the ingot
and shoveled into the coffin, which
was followed to the grave by what q
called an imposing cortege. This
solemn but consolatory farce calls to
mind another case somewhat similar,
which forms one OF the chastity legends
OF Middlesbrough. A LAIR
tumbled head foremost
liquor and nothing o.
But they ran coffin
an inquest over it,
secrated ground
manner.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-09-09

The story OF the plot by the Home club
Of New York to assassinate Mr.. Pow DERBY
causes much indignant comment among
the Knights OF Labor. One OF them said
The Home club has Brought much disgrace
in the order. | could tell of numerous in
stances in which this has occurred 1t is a
notorious fact that the recent investiga
tion by committc OF the general assembly
has been a whitewashing affair. The Home
club must rule or ruin. Any one who is
opposed to their principles viii be driven
from the order, il possible. Iff, man applies
for membership and they imagine that he
will he an enemy to them he will be black
balled. fear that they will try to disrupt
the order il they cannot control the Rich.
mond meeting. At that time will occur
the greatest struggle ever known in the or.
der. The Home clpb will stop at nothing
not even murder, to effect their ends. Vic,
tor Drury, the leader, is an offshoot OF the
Paris commune ,, and he has been trying 10
make District Assembly No. 40 an engine
of socialism.