Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-18
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

SUUIH UAkUIA NEWS.
The president has appointed Mrs.
Bertha Woodyice To be postmaster at
Custer.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
last week at Madison, Howard and
Carthage.
A new postoffice has been establish
ed at Badger, Dawson county, with
E. ID. Watkins as postmaster.
The tenth annual conclave of the
Grand ~Commandery, Knight Tenn
plars Of South Dakota, viii meet in
Huron on June 10th.
Geo. w. Gallant has been removed
as receiver for the bank of Salem and
A. c. Biernatzki, county Judge at
Salem, appointed in his stead.
Black Hills physicians met at Hot
Springs and effected a temporary
organization. They will form a
permanent organization May 20.
The American Express company
will supercede the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press company on the line OF the Elk
horn railroad the first day Of June.
O. ii. Peterson, a hardware mer-
chant of Litchtield, Mimi, who owns
a branch store at Grove City and
other places, was granted a divorce
at Brookings by Judge Andrews.
Mrs. Thomas j. Mills, while tenn
porarily insane. Jumped in the Sioux
river at Sioux Falls and was drowned.
The body was recovered. Mrs. Mills
was an old settler.
District Deputy w. II. Game Of
saltwater, Mimi, has instituted
lodges of Elks at Sioux Falls and
Watertown. These are the first
lodges Of the order in the state.
White Bros. a firm dealing In
gents furnishing goods at Woon-
socket, has made an assignment.
Liabilities from $4,000 to $4,000,
assets about the same. Low price
Of wheat and slow collections the
cause.
The oldest son OF Louis Nicholson,
of Bradley, while playing with an
other boy Of about his age, 10 years,
was accidently shot and instantly
killed. The whole side OF his forehead
was blown away.
At a depth Of l,025 feet the con-
tractors at the government Indian
school artesian well at Pierre struck
a flow of water, enough so that it is a
constant overflow. The contractor is
confident he will have a regular
gusher after another 100 feet.
The new western telegraph line to
Huron has been completed and is now
in operation. The line gives, for the
first time, direct Geographic commu-
nicatiOn between Sioux City and the
towns along the Northwern road be-
tween Hawarden and Huron.
Harry L. Williams, a young school
teacher, has been indicted at Sioux
Falls for stealing three 2,000-mile
waukee & st. Paul depot here, and
for forging names TO them. Bonds
were put at $500, which he was unable
to furnish.
A. D.. Tomlison sold his farm OF
$50 acres, situated in Middleton
township, eight miles southeast OF
Parker, for $4,000, being exactly
S35 per acre. Ii is conceded by reaI
estate men TO be the best sale ever
made in Turner county, az the land
is several miles from a railroad and
has only ordinary Improvements.
Commissioner Lamareaux has
awarded the contract OF surveying
the boundry line between South
Dakota and Nebraska to Joseph III.
Jenkins of Winona. Mimi, for 81, 700.
The monuments which are to be
placed on the line will be one-half
mile apart, six feet In length and
eight inches square and are to be OF
Sioux Falls jasper.
Hon. +. A. Luse, OF Aberdeen will
be a candidate before the republican
convention for one Of the judges OF
the supreme court. Mr.. sLuse came
from southern Wisconsin to South
Dakota in the spring Of 1880 and
has been thoroughly identified with
the interests of the country ever
since. He graduated from the Wis
~consin law school.
The reception given at Yankton
to Bartlett Trip, the recently APP
pointed minister to Austria, was a
magnificent affair. One hundred
and fifty guests attended. The
speakers were Robert j. Gamble,
Judges Kellam, Corson and Bennett,
of the supreme court, United States
Attorney Miller, Judge Hugh Camp
bell and A. Il. Wilcox, of YanktOn.
Minister Trip will sail on the 10th.
1t is quite likely that Phelps Kroop,
Of New York, will be appointed
secretary OF the Austrian legation.
The state railroad commission con
ferred at Sioux Falls last week with
the Interstate commerce commission
touching the legal right Of the state
commission to determine maximum
passenger rates under the law en-.
acted last winter at Pierre. The
interstate commission took the
ground that the law was unconsti,
tutional and advised the state com
missioners to take no steps under it,
The state commission has decided to
make no movement toward the fixing
of passenger rates in this state. Ill.
G.. Warner, OF the commission, ex'
nrpSSeS fhp belief that the law wa