Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-10
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Aberdeen list Tuesday
night.
"Shows-good. bad and Indifferent
ARE numerous throughout the state
just now
Joseph Murphy. a sixteen-year-old
Yankton lad is wanted by the sheriff.
He is accused Of rape
Chas. ". Hooper. at one time con-
nected with the White Lake Wave.
has purchased the Minoclua Wis
Times.
Ed Merten. Peter Minger and Ed
Kicker were killed BY the explosion
Of a threshing machine rear Bath
last Friday.
The agents Of she Milwaukee rail-
road viii assist South Dakota people
who wish 70 be 50 foolish as TO pay
sl.o0 for n OF the Columbian half
dollars.
The grading contract fer the Sioux
Falls and Yankton road we're let On
Monday last. The roads fe~venty-fve
miles long and is TO be finished by
Aug Ist, 1893.
State Treasurer Taylor has Just
closed up a deal for the refunding OF
ss25O insane hospital q per cent.
bonds at q per cent. This shows
that the credit of the state ranks way
up.
J. A. Fitzgerald. OF Sioux Falls,
agent for Over Bros music house.
st Paul. and Century Company,
Minneapolis. has abseonded, leaving
many obligations. He deserted his
wife and a three weeks old baby.
The Yankton Bridge Company has
let the contract for building a COM
bined railroad and wagon bridge oyer
the Missouri at that point. Work
will be commenced before The first OF
july, 1893.
Walker beavers. convicted of per-
Jury in a pension case and sentenced
April, 1897. to thirteen months hardla-
nor in Sioux Falls p~enitentiary, has
been pardoned by President Harrison.
beavers is " eighty years old.
Owing to a blunder on the demo-
cratic central committee the ballots.
some 1900 for Lincoln county, had
10 be printed twice. The error was
discovered on the day for official dis
tribution. The loss to the county
viii be several hundred dollars.
The first coursing meet OF the
Mitchell Kennel association was held
last week. This is the first gather
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out OF the ownership OF a large mum
Der OF fine hounds in the vicinity,
which have engaged in impromptu
races in years past.
The Security bank of Mitchell
changed hands on the Istinst., by the
retirement OF G.. III. Rathman and
several outside stockholders and the
transfer OF their interests to A. NJ.
Bowdle OF Mitchell and ]. ". Seaman
of Edgerton will make il 4 purely
Mitchell institution.
DR.. Regina Bigler, who has prac-
ticed at Mitchell for the past eight
Years, has left for Canton, China,
where she will join her former part
ner. DR.. s. L. Halyerson. Both these
ladies are working under the auspices
OF the United Brethren Foreign Mis-
sion society. which has its headquar-
tiers in Dayton, Ohio.
Ed Martin. a cigarmaker OF Sioux
Falls. committed suicide by taking
laudanum. He was rather queer in
his habits. The only clue he ever
gave out regarding his family was
told To one Of his intimate friends,
that his mother lived in Council
Bluffs. He had been married twice
and had a daughter eight years old.
Further than this his past Is mys-
terry.
Two men under the names of j.. y.
Nelson and X. Wilson were arrested
at Aurora for running a blind pig and
brought to Bookings. Their stock
the sheriff. The prisoners were
locked in a room at the Jordan house
and their pants taken from them for
better security. During the night
they removed the lock from the door
and made theil escape.
Twelve trainloads. or re loo ears,
Of fat cattle were shipped 10 market
| from Pierre last week. The total
shipments thus far from Pierre this
fall are nearly 10000 head. and this
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| before the shipping season is over.
When it is taken into consideration
that each steer brings about $40. the
amount OF money that the cattlemen
are receiving is found to be over
500. 200. The growth Of the stock
business west of Pierre has been phe-
nomenal.
Senator Pettigrew let the contract
for thirty miles Of grading for the
| Sioux Falls and Yankton railway, a /
project of his own. The contract on
the first division was secured by Al
| fred Jones, who will gradefrom Sioux
| Falls ten miles south. j. ID. Melon
aid gets ten miles in YanktOn county
and Joseph Sampson ten miles in
Turner county. A proposition has
been submitted to ianktGn citizens
TO grade fifteen miles from that point
toward Sioux Falls.
The acting commissioner of the
general land office has agreed to the
compromise recently effected between
the TOWNSHIP claimants of Lead City.
and the mineral l~ocators, by which
the patents viii issue TO the latter
and they in turn will convey to the
respective lot owners title to the sur
face, By the decision the tOwnSite
entry will be cancelled to the extent
of its conflict with the mineral en-
tries. thus closing a controversy
which has been before the general
land office, in one form or another.
during the last ten years.
4 bill containing e 100 printed
pages of matter was filed in the cir
cult court at Chicago by Mrs. Lucy
L. Stillman. of Pierre, against John
A. j. Kendiz. trustee of the estate OF
Nelson Stillman deceased, and Others.
By this suit the complainant seeks TO
recover a half interest in property
located at East Fifty-seyenth street
and Lexington avenue in New T
CITY. and also a half interest in pre-
misses Nos. l9S. 200 and 202 North
Clark street and No. 166 Clark street
in Chicago. besides IN accounting OF
rents from KendiZ as trustee.
The state Christian Endeayor Un-
ion in session at Yankton last week
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Esther A.
Clark, Yankton: vice presidents,
d. w. Smith, Huron: III. 5. Brown,
MampletOn: Oscar Canouff, Mitchell:
L. f.. Sessions, Sioux Falls: Miss
Levister. Rapid City; \. j. Macker-
son, Centreville: recording secretary,
!. Miss Payne, Madison: corresponding
secretary, Wilbur Lawrence, Column
3 Ibia: treasurer, Lizzie Groves, Plank
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