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

Dan Davidson, of Buffalo Gap, ian.
,r;shes IN the Custer City jsil, charged
with killing Stansbury Arthur ~ ena'
place some months ago..
The constitutionality of the city
charter of Bismarck will be attacked
i q forthcoming suit IN the district
court IL arises on d sidewalk TAX
case.
& NJ Wagner, OF the Dunseith Her
aid was arrested charged with forgery
and when brought before the Justice
acknowledged the crime ana was
remanded to the care OF the eonsta-
ble During the night he made his
escape, and is now being followed.
He is a young man, the son OF q NeW s
Work mieister, and was quite prom.
nent in local political circles. IL Is
thouoht he went vest, and his fatner
had refused to give him any assist.
anca az he had been in other troubles
before.
A Mortified monster about the size
of a barrel in diameter and from
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
the stone and sections OF 1T VIII &c
sent east to be examined by experts
One cabiegram costing S57 Tor
transmission went from fankton
recently to England. 1t covered two
pages OF cap, and the words were
writer. closely together.
A Young gentleman at Bismarck
Weldon Webster, has invented a type,
writer that double discounts the ma
chimes in use as far as speed If con-
cerned. IL should make eighty words
a minute in the hands OF lair writer.
Mr.. Webster has been working on IL
for a wear and filed q caveat IN the
patent Office to protect his revolution
The old-time spirit oflawlessness has
been revived at Sturgis. One night at
the halfway house between the town
and the fort, a 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. 1T Is
said that two men were shot in the
same row.
The Buckeye Cattle company q
Rapid City sold ats horses and horss
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.
The sale is one of the largest stock
transactions made here this year.
Recently Warden Fullenweider, OF
the United States penitentiary at
Sioux Falls, received a pardon from
President Cleveland for Herman Gun
ther, who was a soldier in the United
States army and was 7entenced from
Bismarck to sixty.five days in the
penitentiary and to pay fine oil
81 900 for mayhem.
The Sioux Fails 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, a
confectionery, livery stable and a law
office are among the buildings destroy.
ed.
Planting the first tree in a 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
flicted by the death OF her husband in
Aberdeen during the last days oil
April, and then again by the death OF a
young son week or so later, received
a 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, a man of some 20 years OF age,
who has never had tooth, none ever
having grown. But has set OF gums
that are almost as hard as 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 he 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 oil
goods TO Chicago in the care of a clerk
named Henry Stein. But, instead OF
sending them to Chicago, the clerk, it
Is IS charged, had them shipped to
Indiana and various other places.
Stein has been arrested.
The l2-year-oId 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 year more generally than hereto,
lore in central Dakota. The farmers
are learning that they have cot To