Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-03-23
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

The state temperance convention
has been indefinitely postponed.
Rev. p. T.. Holp has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational
church in Watertown.
Said that Gov. Sheldon has decided
City, as mine inspector.
Another applicant for the Yankton
p~ostotfice has entered the contest, in
the person Of Mrs. Doctor Ross.
A. Odiorne, proprietor OF the Mer-
chants hotel in Yankton, had a
brother burned to death in the big
fire in Boston.
United States Judge Edgerton has
fully recovered from his recent attack
of neuralgia Of the heart, and is able
TO hold court again.
A cow owned by a Hutchinson
county farmer committed suicide by
drowning because she had lost her
calf, which had strayed away.
Mrs. Owen, wife of Attorney j. II.
Owen, of Milbank, has been admitted
to the bar by Judge Andrews TO prac-
tice in the courts Of South Dakota.
Mrs. Dilian Thompson, of High
more, has been bound Owe in $500
bonds to answer to the charge Of
sending obscene letters through the
mails.
The Indian police who shot and
killed Bill Fielder, the squaw man.
for resisting arrest, will have a hear
ing before the United States COM
missioner.
The case Of the state VS.. Ed. Wilson,
charged with murder, has been trans
ferred from Moody county to Lincoln
county, where it will come on for
trial April 3.
John II. Haigh Of Cavour has been
spending some time in Illinois and
says that a large number Of Illinois
farmers will migrate to South OAK
ota this year.
John r. VanMetre, of part Indian
blood, is a candidate for agent al
Cheyenne agency. He resides al
Fort Pierre and is engaged in the
practice of law.
j. L. McDougall, one of the mOs'
prominent business men OF Britton
was nearly suffOcated by coal gas
When found in the morning he cOult
: scarcely move
Specifications have been received
for the new Masonic temple at Brook
y ings. 1t will be three stories high 0
modern architecture and will be
credit to Brookings and an honor t.
/, the founders.
! The following patents have beer
, issued residents of the state: Type
writer, Nathan III. Lamb, VerdOn
brickmould sander, William Lamb
t Aberdeen; wagon tire, Casper Tim
: norman, Sioux Falls.
Il. S. McAllister, the former Hart
G ford druggist, is having a gay time o.
: other peoples money. UP TO cat
drafts aggregating S3,665 which h
: had cashed have passed through til
banks of Sioux Falls.
Don. G. Needham, of Jerauld coun
ty, is organizing a state immigratlol
bureau. His plan is to form a st0c.
: company Of 1000 shares, TO be sold a
= SIS per share. He thinks that $1,000
S could easily be raised to advertise tn
e state and it's resources.
q Work has been commenced on tn
a sinking of an arteSian well at TN
y United States government India
. school located in Pierre. Swan Bros
= have the contract and expect to reac
water at 1000 or 100 feet.
A meeting of the officers Of tn
" Grain and Stock Belt association wa
held at Huron and arrangement
made for publishing a vast amour
Il Of literature descriptive Of the ASST
citation and for thoroughly adverti'
u ing the same in the east.
: Foster predicts q great equinoctif
" storm for March -. He says tn
is storm will be terrific in Missouri, ar
,r that from Watertown and Huro
:. south it will be lively, and quit
:. severe about Sioux City, Omaha an
along the Mississippi river.
1t Is reported that Superintendent
~ J.. S. Childs, now in New York, wi
return to Hill City soon, with abs
ly lutte authority in the management {
the Harvey Peak Tin company. An
that the mill will be started at ono,
ie with a force of l,0G0 men.
Miss Minnie Olson, of Canton, die
in Sioux Falls from the effects of a
abortion supposed to have been pc
formed by DR.. Fisher, Of Cantor
er Before she died Miss Olson said 81
had been betrayed by a young ma
X whose name she refused to disclose.
Is The supreme court has sustaine
lie the decision of Judge Campbell in I'll
In case of the Huron Waterworks Con
pany a~gainstthe city of Huron, ar
the plant of the company will not
es interfered with under the proceeding
m instituted by Mayor Myers agar ag
Hattie Wrenn, proprietor Of a pal
tial bagnio in Yankton, died la
1g week. She was being treated for I'll
ad morphine habit by a local bichlorit
NJ of gold institute and died in gre;
-, agony. She leaves a large forum
he but nothing Of her past life is know
"a The state board of regents have a
=, pointed Hon. w. Il. Upton on I'll
III board of trustees Of the state unive
he sity, to fill the vacancy caused by I'll
tn appointment of MI. Hale on ii
m state board, and p. ID. Kribbs, of lie
5h 10 IN all tho yaoappy an tho hoard