Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-14
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

county.
j. r. Latham has been appointed
postmaster at Kirkwood, Brul'
county.
John II. Carroll of DeSmet ha:
received a patent for a a and hose
coupling.
The Burlington branch will Don be
constructed to Jasper, giving that
town a through route to Chicago.
Bishop Marty says Sitting Bull
never professed Christianity, as has
been asserted, but died a heather.
A saloon has been opened upon the
sandbar in the river just south OF
Vermillion, where the South Dakota
law can't handle it.
Mrs. Campbell tChaskal is prepar-
ing TO move to Nebraska where her
dusky lord will live among the whites
and become a citizen.
Sonth Dakota's membership on the
independent national committee
comprises Alonzo Wardall, A. w.
Allen and Free Zipp.
A large grading force will be png
on the line of the YanktOn & Norfolk
railroad between Yankton ard
Bloomfield next week.
Bishop Marty intends to hereafter
regularly celebrate the Fourthof July
with a conyocation of Catholic Sioux,
the same as he did recently.
John Naughton, of Sioux Falls, has
commenced work on the Yankton
and Norfolk railroad. He has the
contract to grade eighteen miles.
Messrs. Tighe and Griffin have
located three good mining claims
near Hill City, which they have
named Faith, Hope and Charity.
John Hedge, a brakeman On the
Milwaukee, fell from a a near Bal
tic. His left foot was cut of inst
below the ankle, and was hurt other
wise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boggs, who left
Vermillion, to do missionary work
at Assam, India, will return, Mrs.
Boggs having been stricken with
fever.
A new republican campaign cap is
being sold in the Hills. 1t is made OF
dark felt with a frontpiece of tin. In
the band is stamped the werd PRO
tection.n
In the case of j. II. Drake and c. A.
Bliss VS.. city of Aberdeen, better
known as the railroad avenue case,
the Jury returned a verdict in favor
of the city.
Thompson, the Arlington murderer,
was taken to Huron and placed in the
county Jail for safe keeping. Lynch
ing was feared if he was kept in
K~ingsbury county.
The freight traffic of the Mime
apolis & St. Louis railroad has
increased so that the company has
put on a daily freight train between
Morton and Watertown.
A recent discovery of galena ore is
reported from Bear gulch. The ore
lies in the lime foundation and is ver-
tical. The owners are confident of
opening up a big mine.
The Homestake Company, Black
Hills. has declared a dividend OF tell
cents a share, aggregating sl2,5OO,
making SIS, 900 paid so far this year
and s 1867, 500 paid altogether.
Mrs. Zborowski, in an interview
denies that her gift of $1,000 to the
cathedral was Objectionable to Bishop
Hare, who, sine says, thanked her
very cordially at the time.
The doctors say there is nc sickness
in the state and yet the Wizard Oil
company and Kickapoo Indian Rem
edy company report business good in
most every town they strike.
The Sioux Fall linen mill has COM
menced operations making coarse
crash toweling. The mill has 80
looms and in six weeks $50 hands
will be employed. Minnesota and
Michigan tow is now used.
For the past year there was
received for stamps and envelopes at
the Sioux Falls postofiice S21, 94e.5o.~
This is an increase of nearly ten per
cent. over the previous year. About
$4,000 pieces of mail were handled.
Indian Agent Thompson has stirred
up much wrath by ordering all the
whites off the Sioux reservation and
forbidding anybody to it. The
Pierre Capital says the major thinks
he has a mission and wants to show
his authority.
The commissioners of Fall River
county, removed the county treasurer
some time since, but he wouldn't go,
and sticks to his office, receiving
| funds. The commissioners have now
brought suit against his bondsmen to
test his right to take the cash.
Baron DeSteurs, OF Holland, has
withdrawn his appearance in his W
appeal on the issuance of a decree at
Sioux Falls, in the famous divorce
suit of his wife, who shortly after the
decree was granted was married to
Eliot Zoborowski, of New York.
Paul Hamann, editor of the Sud
Dacota Democrat, a German weekly
paper, published in Sioux Falls, is
reported missing. He left Sioux
Falls to attend the national demo-
cratic convention and nothing has
been heard of him since. The paper
has suspended.
The pleasures of the Fourth at
Brookings, were marred by an acct
dent in the evening. Thomas Rey-
nolds, of WATERFOWL, was severely
injured by a rocket stick, which
nearly severed his nose and imbeded
itself in the upper jaw. Verna, a
little daughter of Mrs. Deeth, was cut
and burned in the face.
Royal B. Stearns, who is holding
down a claim on the late Sioux range
near Pierre is willing to wager that
he has the biggest potato cropin the
state. Mr.. Stearns is very enthusiastic
over the productive qualities and
fitness of the Sioux reservation for
agricultural purposes.
There are more bee hives in the