Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-03-30
lost half a mile from town and stayed

out all night. In the morning liz
craw.cd to a house, when both fee,
and one hand were found frozen solid
He had taken off his shoes. Amputa.
tion OF part OF one or both feet viii
probably be necessary.
William Moore of Cohoes, N. Y.
has begun an action for divorce al
Sioux Falls. The feature of the case
is that Moore was married forty-one
years ago and lived with his wife till
1891, when she packed up heI things
one day and left. The papers In the
case disclose no reason for Mrs.
Moore's strange conduct. The couple
have a daughter twenty-five years of
age.
Cyrus Arndt Of Missouri Valley,
Iowa, has begun an action in the dis
trict court asking for a receiver for
the Kelley Institute company of
Sioux Falls, which is a corporation
organized under the laws of Iowa.
Mr.. Arndt claims to own $50, 900 worth
of stock in the institute, which has
never been delivered to him. and
further that there has been gross mis-
appropriation of its income and
funds.
Hundreds of Iowa horses, many OF
them standard bred, have been ship
ped TO Aberdeen this early, and the
business has scarcely opened. The
city and county were never better
situated in this respect, and the fine
stock interests will take an immense
impetus the coming year. Many Of
the largest real estate wner have
traded lands for Iowa stock, and a
score or more Of promising colts will
be put in active training as soon as
the weather permits.
L. G.. Oschenreider and w. L. Dow,
Of the Worlds Fair board, are home
from the Black Hills, where they
went to look after that sections ey-
hibit at the Worlds Fair. The
Homestake company will exhibit for
two weeks five gold bricks containing
Sl50.0u0 worth of gold, and for the
whole time a gold plated cube, which,
IL solid, would be worth $500 900.
Each Of the % gold mines in the Hills
will make exhibits, as will also the
tin, silver, mica, copper, zinc, and
other mines.
Messrs. Hallett & Gregory, of Aber-
deem have invented and patented a
self-feeder for threshing machines,
which is highly recommended by ma
chine experts. G. Aultman & Co.,
the threshing machine manufacture
ers of Canton, o., gave the feeder a
thorough test last fall, and were so
well pleased with its work that they
have since purchased a shop-rightand
will manufacture them and add them
to their rigs. 1t is claimed that Hal
let's feeder is the only one which
stands the test Of actual work.
The verdict Of the ceroner's jury in
the Minnie Olson cas has been filed
at Sioux Falls. 1t locates the blame
for the girls death upon DR.. Fisher,
who disappeared OF the day the body
was discovered and has not been
heard from since. In this state the
crime Of which he stands charged is
murder in the first degree and the
punishment is imprisonment for life
or hanging. The girls friends in
Canton have decided TO offer a large
reward for Fishers arrest. Heis now
believed To be in Texas.
Prof. John Il. Parkinson, assistant
professor in civil polity at the Wis
consin State University, has accepted
a call to the chair of history, consti-
tutional law and political science in
the Agricultural College at Brookings
Prof. Parkinson graduated from thu
University of Wisconsin in SO with
the degree A. b., and from the law
school in '8S. During the years 1885,
81 he pursued a course OF special
studies in history and politics at
Johns Hopkins. La 1891 he obtained
the degree OF A. M. at the University
of Wisconsin.
A person living in the eastern part
of WATERFOWL. a member ofone Of our
churches, and something of a leader
in prohibition circles, hung his dog
by the neck one morning last week
and left it 10 die by strangulatjon.
After it was dead he took the skin off
and fed the carcass to other dogs.
The dog was a pet and was trained by
his children To do different tricks
and TO draw them on their sleighs.
His excuse is that he wanted 10 make
a pair Of mittens OF the skin, but
there seems to be no excuse for this
inhuman act. His neighborS are very
indignant and the grand jury will
Dc dshtu w luNtSJlGdJc tlilS
matter at the My term of the cir
cult court court.
The new school law passed by the
last legislature makes ii necessary to
have two sets of ballot boxes at the
coming municipal election. The law
provides that an election for school
officers shall occur on the same day as
the election for aldermen. 1t also
provides that two ballot boxes shall
be placed at the polling places and 70
arranged as to be accessible TO all per-
sons entitled to vote at school cleo
tions. AS women are entitled TO vote
at all school elections in South Dako-
ia it is expected a large number will
be at the polls on April Is. 1t is
said women are eligible TO hold a po-
sition ON the school board and it is
probable some women will run for
Office this spring.
The S-uth Dakota immigration
Bureau has completed its organiza-
ton and elected officers. A. p.
Zwemer of Sioux Falls was elected
president: Thomas Thorson OF Can
ton, secretary or state, wee president:
f. K. Burrows secretary, and G. +.