Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-10-12
AROUND THE STATE.
sourH DAKOTA NEWS IN CONDENSED
FORM.
Raiding indians In the Black Hills Court
Oficers Roasted by Judge Edgerton~-
Foreign Persons at Huron-Other Inter
ssting state News.

at Sisseton n q tul.
Ground is being broken nj Sisseton Tor
q Catholic college TO cost $4,000.
The sheriff at Flandreau has captured
J. B. Pase, charge with stealing a horse
near Olivet, s.. ID.
At Britton a few days ago John
Thompson arrested for stealing Il suit
OF clothes from Culver's store, was fined
$50 and costs.
j. 7. Page, who broke Jail and stole a
horse at Olivet recently. was recently
caught at FIandreau and lodged in jail.
He acknowledged the theft.
Henry Eikman's t~hreshing machine
burned with n setting OF wheat while
threshing on the farm OF j. Ii. Roberts,
cashier OF the Farmers Bank OF Milbank.
Andrew Roony, arrested at Britton for
forgery, escaped % few days ago and at
this writing has not yet been appre-
hended. He is a cripple, having lost one
leg near the thigh.
The grand jury OF the Unired States
~CuIJ az u 10 lIsStiLig 1VkAAhNh thiN'
indictments against parties for stealing
cattle and selling liquor to Indians. The
cases were continued.
0. H. Parker OF Brookings, formerly
and commissioners Of the state, but who
was recently appointed superintendent
ii an Indian industrial school at FIT.
Lewis, Col, has left to assume his duties.
About 900 tickets have been sold to
Sioux Falls people who went TO Chicago
expressly to visit the fair. Railroad men
estimate that before the fair is over the
total attendance from that place alone
will reach LOO.
Near Fort Pierre recently a bluff nearly
so feet high and composed almost
wholly OF gumbo, cracked apart and a
mass 500 feet long and $50 feet wide
slide down some distance, ob]strucSipg
the road completely.
Members OF the South Dakota delcga-
ton in Congress have been notified that
Caspar Conrad, appointed from Pine
Ridge as cadet to West Point, has been
suspended by q general court martial
for unbecomng conduct.
The walls OF Ward Hall OF science at
Iankton win be completed within two
weeks ii the weather is favorable. 4
large force OF men are at work and the
building viii he pushed rs fast as con
sistent with good workmanship.
Public Examiner Myers has issued a
circular letter TO state and private
bankers iii South Dakota, in which he
iecries the plan, adopted by banks, oil
advertising less capital than they really
possess, fer the purpose Of escaping tax
alton.
The United States court met at Pierre
on the Sd inst, and adjourned the same
evening. The only business transacted
was the trial OF Bob Evans OF Pierre for
selling liquor to Indians. The Jury dis.
agreed, which makes the secondtrial and
disagreement. The Judge then dismissed
the case.
The attendance OF Grand Army vet
Grams at the Mitchell Corn Palace on
iirand Army Day was not SO large ~
had been hoped. Exercises were held in
the evening ut which addresses were de-
iyered by Governor Sheldon, Jaage
kellam, Col. Price, Mrs, Lncy p. Bryson
and others.
A fire at Hot Springs recently de-
stroyed three frame buildings on Chicago
avenue, occupied by Rymer's CONNECTION
cry store and Chousse & kimball.s
saloon. The loss altogether will aggre-
gate $500. There is no insurance
except $3.50 on Rymer's stock in the
Traders Union OF Chicago.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Kusler, a widow
living four miles south OF Scotland. gave
birth to an illegitimate child. Now she
has acknowledged that her son-in-law.
August Dislan, was the father. Dislan
became frightened when the fact came
out and took poison, dying in horrible
agony. He leaves a wife and two
children.
Auditor II. A. Palmer of Beadle county
is authorized to receive bids for the con-
struction OF a bridge across Foster creek
on the county line between Sphinx and
Beadle counties. Bids to be in Oct. 6.
Also for the construction OF a bridge
across u creek on the township line be-
tween the townships of Washington and
Whiteside.
Senator Pnttigrew had a long talk
with President Cleveland a few DAYS arc
about the presidents action in appointing
nonresident Indian agents in Minnesota.
the Dakotas and other states. The prusi.
dent informed Pettigrew that ii he had
known the truth OF the situation he
would not have made those objection
able appointments.
Several days ago Deputy United States
Lewis rounded up an Indian
named Martin Shield for stealing cattle
from the government corral near Cham
berlain. He was brought before Uuited
Commissioner Morrow, United
States Attorney Miller prosecuting, the
result being that the Indian was held to
appear before the United States grand
Jury.
At no time during recent years has
there been such wholesale horse and cat
tie stealing in the Northwest as at pres.