Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-08

SHY c1uScQ Dy The transfer u ~ EuCA-
idan Jones to the state board OF
regents.
2 Two small steamboats, viii compete
for the carrying trade of Charles MIX
county this fall-the Capitola Butte
owned by the Pease Valley Transp0r-
tatioa company, and the Castaila
owned by the Charles Mix company.
The municipal saloon scheme at
Sioux Falls was killed by the city
council, the vote standing three to
eight for the adoption of the minor
ity report opposing the measure and
indefinitely postponed action on the
majority report.
Miss May Fluent, of Elk Point,
attempted to fill a gasoline stove
while burning with the usual result.
The can exploded. the house burned
and nearly everything in the house
was lost. The family have but che
clothing on their back. Loss, $1,000:
house insured.
Rev. Edwin Brown, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Wolsey for
eight yegrs, preached his farewell
sermon othere. Mr.. Brown has ac-
cepted the professofship of the class
in Latin and Greek in the Pierre
university. Nobody has yet been
secured to fill his place.
John III. Weeks, postmaster at DAN
forth. Hand county, Is under arrest
for rape on the feeble-minded and
deformed daughter of Charles Dan
forth. Weeks is a man of family.
The crimes are alleged to have been
frequent since last May, and his vic
tim is said to be e~nciente.
The worlds fair levy against Clay
county has been all guaranteed by
the citizens of Vermillion last week.
Each business nan gave his note for.
a small amount, payable provided no
other arrangements were made to
furnish the necessary $500 for Clay
county exhibit.
Sol Starr of Deadwood declines to
accept the nomination for state sem
ator in Lawrence county, giving as a
reason therefor that his private
interests and duties as mayor OF
Deadwood will not permit him to
make the race and would prevent
him from qualifying If elected.
The United States has a topograph-
ical surveying party taking the sound
ings and level of the Missouri river
from the headwaters to the mouth.
The crew, under Capt. Leightner of
Yale college, and are now twenty
miles below Chamberlain. They
expect to complete their work to
Sioux City about November l, and
will ''lay up" there for the winter.
Rather smooth scheme was worked
a Mitchell merchant by a tramp
who came in the store, called for a
bottle of lemon extract, pulled the
cork and drank the contents of the
bottle, and having no money rendered
his coat in payment. The first n
worked the scheme all right but the
next one ran into the arms of the
police.
Sullivan's grading camp on the Bur
lingtOn road near Deadwood was the
scene of a horrible accident. Fifteen
were engaged in blasting an open
cut and a drill of thirty feet in depth
had been driven in the rock and a
quantity of giant powder exploded
therein. James Vaughan and John
were blown to atoms, and
Andrew Arnold, Geoforey Andolski
and AndrewHolt were fatally injured.
Jane Ellen Fuller is at Sioux Fails
suing for a divorce from A. S. Fuller,
alleging desertion. The defendant is
a brother of Mrs. o. S. Clifford, of Can
ton. He became familiar with a
pretty school ma'am and skipped to
Missouri. The parties to the suit
were divorced in Iowa twenty years
ago. on the application of the wife,
and were remarked at Sibley, Iowa,
in 1914.
The celebrated Williams divorce
at Rapid City has ended. Judge
after hearing the dispositions
read bearing upon the value OF Will
liamS' property found him to be
Elizabeth Il. Williams, the first wife,
a decree fors30.O 600 absolutely, with a
conditional allowance of 5000 for
attorneys fees, which attaches if
Williams tights the decree.
Assistant Adjutant General
Ackley, of the G. A. r.. department.
of South Dakota, has forwarded his
semi-annual report to the adjutant
general at Albany, n. Y. The report
shows the number of men in good
standing to be 2,770 and posts
in good standing SO. The aggregate
gains in membership are 1903. The
losses are: BY death, IA; by
honorable discharge, 20: by transfer,
As; by suspension, 136; total losses,
21S; net gain, IS.
An interesting exhibit at the worlds
fair, from the Black Hills, will dis
play in novel form the minerals found
in the Hills. The exhibit when
arranged Will be in the fern Of a two
story and a half cottage. The frame
work Of the structure is already built,
and is in the style of the Renaissance,
with towers and numerous gables.
1t is impossible to decide on all
details, of course, until all the mater
ial has been collected, but the fol-
plan will be carried into
effect as near as possible: Tie foun-
datiOn will be made Of pure white
limestone headed with a layer of Buff
falo Gap 'callco" stone. The first
story will be yeneered with pink
Above that the handsomest
rocks obtainable will be used-copper,
mica. schist. needle, spar, garnet, etc.
The lower part of the tower will be
made of rubies and the upper part
some sparkling substance. The
windows and shingles are to be OF
and the steps of marble. The
cottage. will no doubt prove an
attractive feature of the state
exhibit.