Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-05-17
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

Shades, half way between Fort Meade
and Sturgis, three Irivates Belonging
to Companies A and d, Twenty-fifth
infantry, named Gum, Deal and
! Lockman, we're severely pounded and
/ stabbed. Deal also received gun.
shot wound. None of the wounds re-
ceiyed by the above are necessarily
fatal, though extremely dangerous.
The wounded are now in the hospital.
The hay supply at Fort snlly vii
this year be put up by the boys in
blue, the commandment considering
that cheaper than to let the work by
contract.
A. Perrin, living near Plankinton,
has COW whose descendants in four
years numbered thirteen head.
More final proofs have been made
at the Yankton land Office during
April than for the same time during
two years past.
The county commissioners ofMoody
county have decided to build an iron
bridge of 120 feet span west of Elan
| drau.
At Grinnell, thirty miles south OF
Williston, John w. Jones killed Frank
Fleming. Jones fled, but only to es-
cape lying in jail until the trial
when 1t is expected that he will APP
pear. Jones and Fleming were for
merly partners. Two years ago they
dissolved partnership. Fleming
threatened Jones life, and on the day
of the killing went to Jones ranch to
either chastiss or kill him. He rode
to the Jones ranch bareback and had
another horse saddled and bridled in
his own stable. Jones saw Fleming
coming, and when thirty feet from the
door told him to stop. Fleming adj
vanced until within twenty feet, when
Jones fired revolver and killed Elem.
ing. The general opinion is that Flem-
ing went to kill Jones aud fly. Jones
is well liked. Fleming was quarrel
some.
The editor of the Olivet Rural Voice
loans money. Fortunate fellowl
Most of his brethren belong to the
borrowing class.
A fine monument, erected to the
memory of the soldiers who fell in the
late war, is to be unveiled at Lisbon
on Decoration day.
Last year was was great year tor
the location OF mineral claims in the
Black Hills. This year will be largely
devoted to their development.
At meeting of the county commits.
sioners OF Stutsman county at Fargo
it was resolved that the district at
torney be authorized to make such
arrangements with the officers OF
Stutsman and other counties in. north
Dakota as may be necessary to test
on it's merits, in the supreme court OF
| of the United States. the question OF
liability OF county to refund to tax
sale purchasers money paid at tax
sales for land sold upon which no tax
was due.
The Bowman hotel, at Ashton, en-
joys the distinC ton OF being the first
building in the territory heated by
natural gas.
An 0livet justice has decided that
an American double.action revolver
is not weapon or frearm, but
/ bears about the same relation to
weapons as dumb watch does to
real timepieces.
The Briar Hill Coal company, OF
Lead City, has struck another vein
of coal SIX feet thick, 1000 feet west
of the first tunnel. They know it is
fully as good, If not better, than that
taken from the first one.
A gentleman who has the interest of
Rapid City at heart suggests that q
railroad from that place to the cen
ter OF the tin districts at Hill City
would effectually settle the question
| of supremacy among the cities OF
western Dakota, and that the people
OF Rapid City should take steps to
build such road.
County Attorney Spencer obtained
twenty.nine iniunctions restraining
saloonkeepers in Walsh county from
selling Intoxicating liquors. The evil
dence was obtained by one II. r.
Hore, who represented himself to be
an insurance agent. He filled up every
day and received 80 per day for his
troubles.
The presence OF Supt. Case and 9TH
er Milwaukee officials in Aberdeen, is
thought to be explained by the report
that the portion of disputed Dayton
claim along that road, amounting to
twenty acres which the road will be
entitled to as government land under
the act OF congress providipgi Tor yards
and depot grounds, will be at once
surveyed and fenced in and tracks
laid. The object is to protect its right,
but it is said that extensive yards
and shops will soon be erected.
The Grafton News says that there
is little boy in Grafton. not yet six
years old. who is able to talk quite
fluently in English, Norwegian, Ger
man and Icelandic. He got Norwegian
and English from his mother and
| friends, German from the family OF q
neighbor, and Icelandic in the same
| way.
Some of the Woonsocket grass wild.
overs say that a Dakota man should
be allowed two wiyes-one to stay at
home and the other to visit her
| mother.
The Sioux Falls Press defies a back.
ward spring with this cheering sugges-
ton: "If you want to gather May
| flowers there are several paper ro-
settles still sticking to the Odd Fellows
arch across Phillips avenue that are
waiting to be plucked."
The territorial board of education
has issued acircular letter to school
officers and teachers calling theiratt item
ton to the educational exhibit which
will be a prominent feature of the ter
ritoriel fair to be held at Mitchell next
September.
J. Howard Smith, of Groton, charg-
ed with practicing medicine without a
license from the territorial board oi
health, had his hearing before Judge
Ackley, which resulted in his being
bound over in the sum of $500 to
await the action OF the next district
court.
John Doyle, a farmer living near
the Deuel. county line, has, within
three weeks, buried four OF his chill
dren, the cause of death being diph.
liberia and measles.
Hon. James B. Wynn, one of the