Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-01
The Bank of Cooperstown - 7nds
by reason of the Lehman Ele' ator
company failure,


to dig a canal from the city to Lake
Kampeska. The distance is about
two and one-half miles
The PIankinton. Academy associa-
ton has been organized by members
of the Congregational church. An
effort will be made to secure funds for
building and endowment.
The county treasurer at Grafton has
furnished new bonds 5000. The
office has been re-opened.
A large number of miners have
staked claims in the snow at Ruby
basin.
Avon'post officein Bon Homme coun
ty, has lately been re-established and
K. l.. Wilson, appointed postmaster.
Snow in the Bald mountain is from
four to five feet deep. There is danger
of a destructive flood when the break
UP comes.
Another very valuable tin ore find
has been made-six miles north of Gus
ter. The tin is in minute particles and
evenly disseminated through therock.
The Dakota Agricultural and Live
Stock association organized at Mitch
ell, and resolved to offer $4,000 in
premiums.
Miller received $212.5O premium on
$4,000 water bonds just sold, the
highest price ever paid in the territory
for municipal BONDS.
A government engineer was at Cham
berlain recently looking up the loca-
ton for q pontoon bridge at that
place which the Milwaukee railway
company will construct if the reserva-
ton opens.
Judge Seward Smith, formerly ofthe
fifth judicial district of Dakota, isfail-
ing rapidly and little hope of his re-
covery entertained. He Is still In the
asylum at Mt. Pleasant.
The Russian colony at Wayne will
build an elevator and ship their own
grain to market.
John Hammond of Elk Point has
been granted 81, 800 arrears of pen
sion.
Rev. Stewart Sheldon, for thelast six
teen years general missionary and su-
perintendent ofhome missionary work
in south Dakota, has been appointed
to the field secretaryship of the Con-
gregationaf trfton CfftIrcff Detiestrtg So
! ciety, Boston.
David Conway died suddenly of bron-
chitis, at Hurley, aged seventy-two
years. Mr.. Conway was one of the
oldest Odd Fellows in the United
| States.
In twenty-five of the states the CEN
sus shows there are 3OS,OO more
women than men, in Dakota the men
exceed the women by 29,415.
Mr.. Tauss, OF Wahpeton, suspected
a Mr.. Beacham of being unduly init
mate with Mrs. Tauss, and after at
tempting to kill him filed a petition tor
divorce. Beacham has left town.
The Dakot:s Agricultural and Live
| Stock ASSOCIATION is the name under
which Mitchell will hold fair next
| fall. Ten thousand dollars in premi-
| ums will be offered. The following are
| the officers: President A. NJ. Bowdle;
| vice president, S A Goodykoontz; sec
| rotary, w. NJ. Hitchcock; treasurer,
George A. Salisbury.
Bishop Hare has written from Phil
| adelphia a very touching letter to the
| Episcopal congregation in South Da-
| kota on the occasion of the special
mission services which have Just be.
| gun
Applications for admission to the
school of mines already overrun its
| accommodations, and additional APP
| preparations will be asked from the
next legislature.
The Mitchell postoffice will be made
second-cIass April l. Salary $4,000
per annum.
DR.. Archibald, Supt. w. Nickeus
Stuart and one or two OF the trustees
of the North Dakota insane hospital
went to Yankton after thirty or forty
patients, who belong at jamestown
but have been in the South Dakota
| institution.
A man named Hunter went to his
fathers house at Grand Forks in an
intoxicated coINktion a few days ago
and getting into dispute attacked
the old man and punmeled him Sc
| verely. He also struck his mother
and sister, telling them to the floor.
He was choking the old man when q
younger son struck him with a club.
He was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Charles James, indicted by the
United States grand jury at Bismarck
for receiving government property
from soldiers, was found guilty by the
jury.
Rev. A. Buchanan, rector of Grace
Episcopal church at jamestown for
two or three years past, expects to
leave April l for Knoxville, Tenn,
where he will make his future home.
The banking firm of Green e. Kin
dred, at Fargo, has been dissolved,
the latter retiring and Mai. J. f. Wis
ner, one of the richest men IN North
Dakota, becoming Mr.. Green's part
ner.
The total appraisement of the late
J. B. Raymond's estate is $12O. $50
81; liabilities already filed, $136, 522 -
81, with others to hear from. r. Mar
tin, T. C. Hall and w. Ii. Best are the
appraisers.
The treasure coach from Daadwood
recently took out S250,00o bullion.
At Milbank, in the case OF
Henry L. Barnett, for shooting and
killing w. w. Morgan at Big Stone
City last October, the jury brought in
n verdict of acquital. The indict.
ments against Megler Bros, for arson,
was quashed.
DR.. W. w. Bradley of Lisbon was
brought to Fargo and lodged in Jail.
He is charged with irregularities in
connection with the election in Sar.
gent county in the fall of 1884.