Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Chas. G. Vinullette has been made
postmaster at Centennial, Lawrence
county.
Gabriel Renville, chief of the Sisse-
ton Indians, is not dead as has been
reported.
Hans Torrens, of Yankton has
secured a patent upon a lever for
buggy tops.
EngineerW. p. Butler, of Huron, was
before United States Commissioner
Grant to answer a charge of yiolat-
ing the United States postal laws.
Bonds were given and the matter will
be settled in the United States court.
Theodore f. Mentzer. a former
attorney of Mitchell, received the re-
nomination as a candidate for the
state legislature out in Washington.
During Dakota's territorial days Mr..
Mentzer served a term in the senate.
Lewis Truehan, postmaster at
Edgemont, has been taken into
custody by Deputy United States
Marshal Mathieson on a charge of
making false cancellation returns and
d~efrauding the government to the
extent of $500.
Hon. NJ. I. Lightner, of Ipswich,
has sold his interest in the Lightner
& Bickelhaupt elevator system to
w. G. Marling, of Milwaukee. He
will likely build and operate
a house at Bowdle and Eureka this
fall while closing up his other bust
ness matters.
VIM. Smith, a Northwestern brake
man, committed suicide at Piedmont,
by hanging himself. The act
was deliberately planned, Smith
not employing the old method of
jumping off some freight car, went
into a barn, tied the rope about his
neck and then grasped a leg in each
hand and held them upfrom the floor.
In this position he was found a few
hours later. Smith was crazed by
liquor.
The North American Loan and
Trust company of Huron, in the cir
cult court at Miller, took execution
papers on 100000 acres of land belong
ing to the Colonial and United States
Mortgage company, OF Hull, Eng,
and will sell the same to satisfy a
$45, 900 judgment. The land is stu
ated in Hand, Beadle, Sphinx, Kings
bury and Brookings counties. The
10000 acres in Hand county will be
sold September ID.
Gov. Mellette was in Fandreau one
day last week to decide a school land
caSe which is being contested by
w. III. Dockstader and county com
missioner Hendrickson. The latter
bought a piece of land near his farm
at the last sale of school lands, but
after the time for selling had eX-
pired. The county superintendent
made the sale. The governor GEN.
sured him for selling the land at the
time he did, for it seems that he
made an effort to favor the purchaser.
Both the superintendent and county
commissioner are independents. The
governor is now considering his deciS-
ion with Land Commissioner Ruth.
A bill passed by congress before its
adjournment changes the time of
holding United States court in this
state. Hereafter the terms of the
circuit and district courts will be
held as follows: At Sioux Falls, first
Tuesday in April, third Tuesday in
October. At Pierre, first Tuesday in
March, first Tuesday in October. At
Dead wood on uhe first Tuesday in
September, first Tuesday in February.
Judge dgerton states that the passage
Oh this bill will not affect the adjourn
ment term at Deadwood, bnt that it
will be held on August 22d, as per
adjournment, but all subsequent reg
ular terms will be held at the times
and places above indicated.
Robert nompscn, son OF the Arl-
ington murderer, and who has been
in Jail at Huron on a charge of being
implicated in the crime for which his
father is now in custody, was released
on bail last week. When liberated
he thought of returning to Arlington,
but a party from that locality warned
him that his prospects for living
until after the worlds fair would not
be enhanced by his return to the
scene of the terrible tragedy of July
4. The boy therefore wentin another
direction and is nov at work in
harvest fields. Thompson is still in
jail and has abandoned all thought of
committing suicide. He at first tried
to starve himself, but after a few days
concluded hanging would be pre-
ferabla, and therefore called for an
extra supply of food. He eats heartily
and apparently enjoys the reputation
he has made.
The prohibition state convention
will meet in Aberdeen on Sept. 14th.
Mary Mckenzie has been appointed
postmistress at Wayerly in Codington
county.
The state pharmaceutical ~associa-
ton held its regular annual session at
Sioux Falls this week.
Chairman Greene of the republican
state central committee has appointed
J.. H. Scriyen, OF Mitchell, as sec
rotary.
Acting Secretary Chandler has
decided for Erwin @. Newberry and
against Thomas Cox, in the Chamber
lain district.
A political meeting was held at
Waubay last week at which the
Indians were addressed in their w
tongue by Rev. Thos. Crawford.
Fire at Westport on the 18th,
destroyed two large elevators, the
loss was partially covered by insur-
ance. A bolt of lightning was the
origin of the fire.
Miles I. Wooley, of Yankton, well
known as a government surveyor by
all the early pioneers of South
Dakota, died at Hot Springs on the
18th inst, the result of an attack of