Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-11

glass struck him i'm the left eye and
crushed the ball, destroying the sight
in an instant.
The grand jury at Sioux Falls
returned IA indictment for murder
against A. M. Fisher, who, after per-
forming an abortion on Miss Olson a
month ago. skipped the country.
There is a standing reward OF $500
offered for his capture by the COM
missioners of Lincoln county.
Walter A. Fawcett, an attorney of
Sioux Falls has created q decided
stir by appearing before the grand
jury and lodging a complaint against
States Attorney ID. r. Bailey, charg-
with Frank Forde, the proprietor of
a notorious gambling den.
The Drake Polishing Works Of
Sioux Falls, have just completed poll
ishipg two granite spheres for the
Minnesota building at the Worlds
Fair. The stock comes from the
quarry at Jasper, Mimi. The globes
are eight inches in diameter and each
weighs "a pounds. The workmanship
is some of the best eve turned out by
the works.
Public Examiner Meyer requires in
addition to the usual quarterly bank
statement a sworn exhibit of amount
of stock paid for in promissory notes,
the amount of loans TO stockholders
Of the bank and to its officers, the
amount Of memorandum notes and of
worthless paper contained in loans
| and discounts. These statements he
oversees by a rigid personal examina-
ton.
Argus Leader: Brown & Saenger
are at work upon a Visitors Register,
which they will present TO the state.
The book will be placed in the South
Dakota building and all the visitors
will be expected to register. This
book will be two feet thick and four
feet wide when open, the pages being
10 by % inches. The book will have
room for 100000 names. 1t will be
bound i'm Russia and will cost the firm
800. 1t will be by all odds the finest
thing in the book line ever manu-
featured in the state.
Sam III. Elrod, receiver of the
Watertown waterworks, has estab-
lished the concern in the hands of
l.. ID. Lyon as his local representative.
The plant is first-class, giving eX-
| cellent service. 1t was constructed in
1888 at acost of 800, 600 and bonded for
| $3.50, 600. 1t Is owned by the estate
of Mr.. Cook, Of Boston, and since the
death Of shat gentleman tue interest
has defaulted to the amount of Sl4,-
900. The mortgage is under fore
| closure and the property will be sold
as soon a the legal p~reliminarieS
can be completed.
During the year elapsing since the
opening of the Sisseton reservation,
1850 nomesteads have been filed upon
it, leaving less than four hundred
open for settlement. These remnants
are largely fractional and are chiefly
located on the hills. The soil gener-
ally is rich, but the pieces left are
not, of course, choice tracts, though
well adapted to stock and general
farming. Three fiourishing towns
have also sprung up-Sisseton, sum-
nit and Etflngton-so that it is safe
to place the white population of the
reserve at $1,000 a clear gain to the
state ia II months.
A rather amusing damage case is
on trial in Judge Aikens' court at
Sioux Falls. Two years ago James
| Barry and f. S. Carter became en-
gagged in quarrel. Barry seized a
| club and knocked Carter down with
it. Carter's son anne out of the
house at this moment and the two
captured Barry, bound him hand and
foot with a rope, tied him to a tree
and kept him there in durance vile
for five hours. On Barry's promise TO
no further modest them, he was re-
leased. Barry now sues for $1,000
damages. A year ago Barry was in
dicted by the grand jury for a deadly
assault, aud this action comes up also
at this term of court.
One of the most important divorce
suits which has come up lately in
South Dakota, has been decided by
Judge Aikens at Sioux Falls. 1t vas
that of Frank A. blood, a member of
the firm of John ID. Blood & Co., of
Amsterdam, n. Y, the wealthiest
and largest manufacturers Of brooms
i'm the world. In April, 1891, the
plaintiff married Catherine New
shafer, daughter of William Newsha-
fer, a wealthy capitalist Of New York
city. The motive stated In the COM
plant is that she had recently inner
tied $100,0 900 from a grandfather and
her father persuaded her to leave her
husband in order to gain control of
this fortune. There was no contest.
A very sad affair occurred at
Brookings. Two small boys, Otis
Alton and Albert Wick, aged twelve
and fourteen respectively, became
involved in a slight alteration about
a trivial matter. Both became angry
and eacn applied numerous epithets
to the otter. Albert Wick finally
demanded that the Alton boy take
back what he had said or he would
kill him, and upon his refusal to do
SO, the Wick boy dropped the curry
ing comb that he had In his hands at
the time and deliberately unlocked a
door in the livery stable office, took a
SO caliber Winchester rifle from its
place, climbed upon a chair and get
ting a cartridge, placed it in the rifle
and shot the Alton boy, the ball pass
ing through his right lung and clear