Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-22

Hughes at Portland. The contents
we're saved. Loss, $500.
S. f. Pickert has been commissioned
postmaster at Pickert.
A. L. Abbott, ex-iudge OF probate at
Milbank, has received z, 095 back pen.
sion.
The treasure coach brought into
Rand last week $151, 185 worth d
bullion.
Arthur Fenton, at Salem, made his
third unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide by taking chloroform.
Lieut.. l.. P Dawson, Eleventh infan
try, late Seventh cavalry, has been or
dered to his station at Fort Buford
Oak.
L. Q. Jeffries, late OF Wooster, Ohio
| has been appointed clerk of the Hyde
county court by Judge Church. Mr.
| Jeffries is an author.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul engineers
are now in Emmons county, cross sec
tioning and setting grade.
The increasing demand for oats in
the Black Hills has caused prices to
advance to 1926 per 100 pounds
and the government contractors will
be obliged to ship in grain from the
states.
DIR. w. II. Collins OF Grand Forks,
who was defeated two years ago for
the territorial council, has again an.
nounced himself as q candidate for
the same position.
Timber and prairie fires swept over
a large area north ofthe Belle Fourche,
Settlers fought it two days before get
ting control.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
about dozen ministers in Dakota
and a membership of about seven
| hundred.
Following is list of the gentlemen
who were charged with having filled
claims" on the Aberdeen land Office
Abe Boynton, c. Boyd Barrett, Dem
ocratic editor of Aberdeen; R. II
Broom, Huron; E. A. Bowers, K. H
Calvert, J. w. Cope, E. A. Howard
n. B. Manson, +. r. Washers, A. M
Pierson, III. ID. Pugh, T. H. Russell
Mai. A. L. Burke, E. J. Dean, Am
brose w. Miller and Frank l.. Ran
dolph.
A Chamberlain special says: Trout
who is wanted at Sioux City for thu
murder of Ed Hatch, July 3, was cap
tured nine miles east of Chamberlain
by John Foster, city marshal of Cham
berlain, and Deputy Sheriff Austin
while assisting farmer in making hay
He at first protested his innocence o
the crime at Sioux City, but finally
under close questioning by officers, h,
confessed he was Trout.
DR.. Burchard, the insane cousin 0
ex-President Hayes, who came up from
jamestown and started west, will hav,
to go back to the asylum at James
town and await the arrival of Eastern
friends.
Special from Sanborn: An immens,
cloud OF grasshoppers settled down OIL
a grain field seven miles east of San
born, and in short time had eater
every green thing on about fifty acres
One or two other fields were also in
jured, but Hone so seriously. Befor
shutdown the hoppers rose and winged
their way southeast. 1t is not learn
ed where they alighted.
Sterling s, Smith, recently named BY
President Cleveland as receiver OF tn
United States land office at Devil
Lake is unknown there. The presen
incumbent, A. o. Whipple, sent in hi
resignation in December, to take charg,
of the First National bank at Devil
Lake of which he is vice president
There were number of local appli
cants for the office, and some disap
prevail is expressed at the president
course in appointing an outsider
Oswald, the murderer of McWeeney
at DEVILS Lake, was sentenced BY
Judge Mcconnell to twelve years il
the territorial penitentiary at Bis
marck. The sentence was lighter thar
generally anticipated it would be. TIL,
prisoners brother was the oEly one O
the family present. Before sentenc,
was passed j. F. O'Brien, counsel fol
the prisoner, withdrew his motion fol
a new trial, and asked the lieniency O
the court. The prisoner was taker
Immediately to the tram. In passin,
sentence Judge Mcconnell strongly
condemned the theory set up in th,
trial that McWeeney died from hear
disease. The judge said the theory
was absolutely outrageous.
Aman named Ole Martin shot hi
right arm off near Broken Bone lake
near Grand Forks, by accident. TIL
gun fell of his wagon and discharged
Martin Sullivan, we'll known in Bis
marck and to members of the legisla
ture, as sergeant. alarms of the las
house, died at Grand Forks. HI
leaves q wife and several children.
The seventeenth infantry, just de
parted from Dakota parts for the dc
partment of the Platte, was exchanges
Tor the ninth regiment which has al
| rived.
Hon. Ed Miner of Door county is
candidate for lieutenant governor OF
| the Republican ticket.
Good judges estimate the yiel,
throughout Edmunds county at from
twelve to fifteen bushels per acre
Harvest will begin early. Many field
of wheat will be ready to harvest in
couple of weeks.
A number of young Indians, VIII,
have been attending school at Hamr
ton, Va, arrived in Pierre, havin
completed their three years course a
that institution of learning.
T. H. Lewis, an archaologist of 81
Paul, is surveying a large Indian noun,
near Fargo, and has just excavate.
two large mounds north effort Abe,
crombie, one on each side OF the Re
] river. In both of them were foun,
specimens of pottery and stonewar
in curious shapes and ofancient make
He believes the Wild Rice mound wi
also prove as rich in deposits of pre-
historic relics as the ones at Aber
crombie.
j. S. Houghton was appointed post
l master at Galesburp.