Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-24
DAKOTA NEWS HOTEs.

,;shas IN the Custer City jail, charged
g;,h Filling Stansbury Arthur at that
nlace some months ago.
The constitutionality of the city
charter OF Bismarck will be attacked
/ in a Forthcoming suit In the aistIic.
court. 1t arises on sidewaik '"N
/ case.
g NJ. Wagner, OF the Dunseitn her-
aid was arrested charged with forgery
and when brought before the Justice
acknowledged the crime and was
remanded to the care OF the constar
BILE. During the night he mace ms
escape, and is now being followed
He is a Young man, the son OF new
Work minister, and was quite promi-
nent in local political circles. 1t is
thaucht he went vest, and his fatner
Mad refused to give him any assist
ance, as ne had been in other trouoies
before.
A petrifed monster about the SIZE
of a barrel in diameter ana rom
twenty to forty feet in length mas
been discovered neat Medicine Blum
ON the south side of the Missouri
river. Several soldiers from fore
Randall are engaged IN digging oue
tbe stone and sections OF 1t VIII &c
sent east to be examined by experts
One cablegram costing S57 Tor
| transmission went from 4anktoh
Il AUxF<N
recently to England. 1t covered TWO
naoes of cap, and the words were
written closely together.
A Young gentleman at Bismarck,
Weldon Webster, has invented a type
writer that double discounts the ma
chimes in use as far rs speed is con-
cerned. Il should make eighty words
a minute in the hands oil falr writer.
| Mr.. Webster has been working on IL
for a year and filed a caveat IN the
patent Office to protect hisrevoiutlon.
The old-timespirit of lawlessnesshas
been revived at sturgis. One night at
the halfway house between the town
and the fort, colored damsel carved
/ a soldier OF the same hue as herself.
With one fell swoop she hewed him
from collar bone to hip. He was not
/ killed and no arrest was made. IL is
| said that two men were shot IN the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle company OF
Rapid City sold it's horses and horse
brands to Bolard & Gould, OF this
place. The price paid was $50 per
head. The number sold is not known
;et as the count has not been made.
! Tue sale is one of the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenweider, of
the United States penitentiary at
| Sioux Falls, received pardon from
! President Cleveland for Herman Gun
Their, who was q soldier in the United
States army and was sentenced from
Bismarck to sixty.6ve days in the
| penitentiary and to pay tine OF
/ 1000 for mayhem.
The Sioux Falls high school has
been presented with over sixty maps
and charts by the interior depart
ment. The collection is highly priced,
and will be OF much benefit to pupils
who are posting themselves on the
United States.
Fire destroyed eleven business
places in Blunt aggregating in value
SIS, 900 with only $4,000 insurance.
Several people narrowly escaped with
their lives. Some OF the business men
are nearly destitute, but all will re-
sumo. The Hughes County Bank, a
millinery store, two butcher shops,
confectionery, livery stable and law
Office are among the buildings destroy
| ed.
Planting the first tree in new
country is not usually made an event
of much Importance, but the New
| Englanders of HettInger county have
! thought it worth while to record the
fact that the first tree was planted
on the 10th OF April.
Mrs. Richard Higgins, who was al.
ficted by the death OF her husband in
| Aberdeen during the last days of
! April, and then again by the death OF a
| young son week or so later, received
letter Monday night bearing the sad
! intelligence of the death of her father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs, r. S. Raw.
don, on the same day at their home
in Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.
Minot has citizen. John Hyatt by
name, man of some 20 years of age,
who has never had a tooth, none ever
| having grown. But has a set of gums
| that are almost as hard as a stone.
| He says that he can eat anything, and
while in the army he had no difficulty
in getting away with the bareback.
The Sioux Falls vinegar and pick.
| ling works have secured cucumber
| seeds and these they are going to dis
| tribute among the farmers and then
| enter into contract with them for Gu
! cumbers. 1t Is the intention to put up
several hundred barrels of pickles
this fall, and the price to be paid for
cucumbers will make it big induce.
: ment tor farmers to engage in this
| business.
A Finkiestein, who formerly kept a
clothing store in Black River Falls.
recently shipped about $500 worth OF
| goods to Chicago in the care of a clerk
named Henry Stein. But, instead of
sending them to Chicago, the clerk. IL
Is is charged, had them shipped To
Indiana and various other places
Stein has been arrested.
The 12-year-old son of J. B. Speers,
OF Worthwhile, while playing with a
loaded revolver recently, shot himself
through the hand.
Diversified farming is being adopted
this yearmore generally than hereto,
lore IN central Dakota. The farmers
are learning that they have got to
nave some kind ola paying crop every
| year.
While workmen were engaged in
raising store building at Aberdeen.
the lackscrews gave way. Anton Bur
an' a workman, was caught between
the failing building and the one ad.
Joining. His cries for help we're piteous.
IL was hfteen minutes before he was
released. He is injured internally and
may die. A number of other work.
men narrowly escaped.
John A. Chadwick, one OF the first
settlers OF WATERFOWL, is dead at the
age oil u years. He took up his resi-.
hence In Jefferson County IN 1897.
Alfred Englestadt. editor of An Ea,
Claire temperance paper has received
letter saying he will be "Haddock.
ed. II he does not ''let up on the ga.