Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-12
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

N"i'oe iecehtIy gave up
the ghost at Deadwood and his tuner.
al under the auspices of the Chinese
Masonic fraternity was matter 81
great curiosity to the people ofDead.
AT coopertown, Albert Lindsay, an
employe Of the Cooper farm, shot
himself through the head dying in
about two hours. Lindsay came
rom st. Clair county, Michigan. and
was ~ good circumstances and en-.
gagged TO be married. Heleft a letter,
rom which it is inferred that melan.
ehoiy was the cause of suicide.
A soldier who was the worse for
the liquor he had taken was in Man,
dan recently, trying to sell good
overcoat for so cents which was
WORTH several dollars. He gave as
ms reason for wanting to sell that he
was afraid the tariff on wool would
be taken off and he did not want to
De long on wooden goods. 1t is
thought, however, that he did not
wantto he long without drink.
The city council of Woonsocket has
ordered a new fire engine ON trial
nom st. Paul. 1t win arrive within
the next thirty days. With the en-.
glne Is a hose cart and ZOO feet OF
hose, the whole outfit to cost 50 ,450.
Since the high license advocates OF
Mlnnehaha county have secured
about 1000 more names than are
needed to the application calling for
a vote this fall on prohibition. the
prohibitionists held u meeting in
Sioux Falls and raised $500 as a
iund with which to enforce the law.
William kesbeth, of McCook coun.
ty, a fresh youngster 20 years ofage.
was married last Wednesdayat Sioux
Falls to Henrietta Hoffman, a coy
maiden of 50 years.
a number of persons from different
portions OF Browncounty who favor
high license held q consultation in
Aberdeen. They claimed to have
procured the requisite number OF
names necessary to take another
vote upon local option this fall, and
It is understood that vigorous cam
paign is to be fully inaugurated.
At Pembina they are hauling the
fish out of the Red river in large
quantities. Some of them weigh as
much as twenty pounds.
1t is estimated that there are no
less than 800 laboring men and me-
chanlcs now Mt work upon improve
ments in fankton.
An insane man confined i'm the Jail
at La Grace had nearly dug his way
out when he was discovered by the
sheriff The sheriff is of the opinion
that the county should build a new
jail
Martin Head, a Hecla farmer,
whose case has been before the COM
missioners of insanity, was found in
sane. and win be again taken to
Ganktown. The decision was made
upon the testimony of two physicians
who examined him. Head is the
man whose wife wants divorce and
a decd of his farm.
County Treasurer Palmer left
Pierre for Bismarck, where he viii
assume the position of deputy terri
torial auditor 1t is an open secret
that Auditor Ward contemplates re-
signing soon SO as to attend to his
private business at Sioux Falls. and
that Gov. Church will appoint Pal
mer to the vacancy as soon as he
familiarizes himself with the duties OF
the office.
The walls of the Warner building
at Mitchell has settled, caused by the
heavy rains of the past few days. AT
one time it was thought the building
would sink out of sight, but after go
ing Chinaward about two feet the
settling stopped. The building is al
most an entire wreck. 1t was used
as a drug store, and the stock has
been removed without damage.
A natural soap well has been dis
covered 6S miles west of Buffalo Gap.
The soap is skinned from a boiling
spring and hardens by exposure to
the air. 1t is like soft clay, and can
be gathered with a shovel, and is
supposed to be a mixture of alkali,
borax and the lubricating oil found
in many parts of Wyoming A sam
pie has been tested by a prominent
Chicago soap manufactures, and he
reported the discovery worth the full
weight of the manufactured article.
Parties surrounding the springs
nave used the natural article as axle
grease by adding little of the oil
discovered there, audit ispronounced
the finest material ever used for that
purpose The soap will wash in the
hardest of water and leave the hands
much softer than the ordinary article.
The supply is supposed to be mex.
haustibIe.
Lightning struck the house of s. 7.
Mcvoy north ofMandan and knocked
down u brick chimney, broke the
stove to pieces and broke a sill on
which the house stood No injury re.
suited to the occupants. At Stanton
the house OLA. G. Macrorie was struck
similarly and a bedstead smashed,
besides the chimney and stoves, and
the carpets were torn up. One occu.
pant of the house was stunned blythe
shock.
Walter A. Wood & Co., applied to
Judge Mcconnell for aninjunction re-
straining the Fargo 1ncandeseent
Light company from erecting and
maintaining wooden buildings within
the fire limits of the city ofFargo the
city council having granted the com
pany u permit to erect such a build
ing. The court denied the injunction
on the ground that the council had
no authority under the old charter to
pass an ordinance prohibiting the
erection of such n building, and that,
while new charter does confer such
authority, no ordinance bearing on
the subject has been enacted under
the present charter.
A Prolific Family.
Col. Anisansel has been figuring
lately on the soft snap enjoyed by
some of the crowned heads of Europe.
and wishing, incidentally, that be
was one of them. He has finished his