Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-09
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

nlaced IN the CHlCca
arv at Sioux Falls. Their names a
oganses are as follows; William par
oda manslauehter, till July, 1852
Charles Wassaman. periury,till Marcn
1890 lanes Gross, perjury, tn oeP
tom,bsr 1889; William Il. lemon
~srandulently obtaining letters RON
i nostofice, till July, 1888. InnS
makes fifteen prisoners no" III e""
of Mai. Fiuenwider.
The following Dakota postmasters
have been appointed; John W. Da'ey'
Harter. Cass county, vice Alexander
n Candle, absconded; Herman -.
Steel. Sanborn. Barnes county M M
Louis l.. Lehman, resigned.
n~ostoffice at Gustins, Potter county
Dak., was discontinued.
E. F. Bond, proprietor OF oan,
horn house, at Mitchell, died OF blood
no;soning. His remaIns were takeh
to Milton, Wis.,, for burial.
The first annual ball OF the breck.
enridge Division, Brotherhood OF
locomotive Engineers No. $50, took
,lace at Wapheton. Thirty OF the
Motherhood were present 4oo
t;cksts were sold. 1t was the hnes0
social event ever known In Nahp'
ton.
father of Col. w. II. Brown, died at
he son,s home in Grand Forks. He
was q former resident oil st. PAU,
where he spent several years OF MS
life. He leaves a wife OF about d
same age.
Smallpox has broken out in Man
dan. 1t is supposed to come rom
Spokane Falls. Three cases are re-
ported. Local authorities are doing
all possible to keep it from spreading
At Deadwood. Edwin T. Smith, for
the murder OF Jerry Chancey, was
sentenced to eight years hard labor
in tine Sioux Falls penitentiary by
Judge Thomas in the district our
The controller of the currency has
approved the Aberdeen National bank
and the Citizens National Bank at
Fargo.
At Hishmore, the county commls'
| sioners, at the direction ofCounty At
| torney A. n. Vancamp, signed with
him a complaint charging Homer
James, ex-treasurer with embezzlinS
$1,000 OF county funds.
A a load of corn has gone to the
Kansas sufferers, the gift OF the HUI
ron board OF trade.
The bodies of the Hutchinson boys
were found near Gary. They wander
ed four miles south OF home. Becom-
ing exhausted they laid down and
went to sleep. Their bodies had not
been mutilated by wolves, and when
found they were both in each Others
arms.
The county commissioners met at
| Brookings to make a settlement with
| ex- Treasurer Nichols. When the
| books were examined last fall there
was 50, 700 for which there were no
vouchers to show that the money had
been paid as shown by the ledger.
Mr.. Nichols has visited every town
treasurer in the county, and claims
that ne has secured receipts enough
to not only cover the deficiency but
leave the county in debt to him,
Rev. NJ. 3orge, the Lutheran minister
who has charge of the circuit of which
Brookings is one of the stations. has
received a call to take charge OF the
church OF that denomination at La
Crosse, Wis. He has decided to re-
main at Brookings.
A Vermillion dispatch dated Jan.
19 stated that a gentleman whose
word could be relied on had
Just returned from Lake county, and
said that thirty persons were frozen
to death in that vicinity, but that the
local authorities were suppresSing the
news. The gentleman whose word
| can be relied on lied and relied several
times in his narration. But one citi-
zen of Lake county persisted IN the
storm, and he was fishing on the lake
when the storm struck, lost his way
and was frozen to death.
Hon. James E. Teller, Mayor of Hu.
ron, publishes the following vigorous
| denial OF some of the Blizzard yarns:
Indian Agent Kinney sstatements as
to the loss of lite in Dakota by the re-
cent blizzard aregrossiy false, and the
Chicago Tribune was promptly so in
| formed, but refused to correct the
falsehoods to which it gave currency.
The scene Kinney described never oc-
Cured, and the names mentioned are
largely fictitious. No foundation
whatever existed for the story of the
babies dying on the cars; only three
persons persisted in this country, and
the loss of stock did not exceed 100
head. The total death list in the ter
ritory will fall below 200, There was
no suffering or loss OF life, except to
persons wandering on the prairies
without shelter from the storm, which
lasted but fifteen hours, during which
the mercury was only % deg. below
zero. His falsehoods widely circu-
lated, has caused great uneasiness
among people having friends in Dako-
a. and will seriously iniure this Sc c.
ion.
News OF the appointment OF Mai.
Rowley as register OF the land office
at Mitchell gives general sa~tisfacti on
regardless of party lines. Rowley was
the locator of the town site OF
Mitchell, and has a handsome resi-
dence on the site OF his original home
stead.
Two cowboys named Arthur and
Potts attempted to run the town OF
Buffalo Gap, a station on the Elkhorp
road forty miles south OF Rapid CITY:
when citizens turned out in full force
and killed both Of them. Who fred
the fatal shots no one knows nor
wants to know.
Miss Allen, n Of the victims OF the
blizzard, died at Kimball from til
result OF an amputation of her frozen
teet.
At Huron, a 50 $500 fire occurred in
Westdahls tailor shop. Insured for
$500.
Hayti's finances are in q bad a
generally. Against the protests of
A. .z a, I'M