Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-13
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

The citizens ticket won the day in
WATERFOWL. w. A. Davis was elected
mayor and Q. Q. Wiley treasurer.
The Minnehaha county commits
Sioners have offered q reward of $3.50
for the capture of DR.. A. NJ. Fisher
OF Canton, the abortionist.
Allie Boutwell,, a ~l2-year-old boy,
shot and accidentally killed Emory
Sucker, a 7-year-old boy, at a ranch
near Rapid City. The boys were
playing hunter.
Yankton democrats have protested
against the appointment of Hughes
East, of Yankton, to the chief clerk
ship in the agricultural department.
Mrs. Foster, wife of Col. f. w.
Foster, United Stated Indian agent
at YanktOn agency, died last week of
a%poplexy. The remains were taken
10 Bloomington, H., for interment.
The jury in the divorce trial at
Yankton of Mrs. NJ. ID. Moore
against her husband failed to agree.
Moore wants to make up now, but
his wife will not.
A very sad case Of involuntary
suicide occurred at Sioux Falls. John
Finstad, the fOUrteen-year-old-son Of
Ole Finstad, one OF tie leading
citizens, accidentally hanged him.
self.
II. II. SanbOrn, superintendent Of
bridges on the Dakota Central div
isiOn of the Chicago and Northwest
ern, fell from a car near Bro0kings
and sustained severe but not serious
Injuries.
The jury in the Wilson rape case
at Canton brought in a verdict of
guilty. Wilson will ask for a new
trial. If denied the case will go to
the supreme court. The jury was
out twenty-five hours.
The life~size statue of Minnehaha,
the Indian maiden, which was exc
cuted by Sculptor Riordan, of Dead
wood, and given to the woman's
worlds fair commission Of this state,
has been completed and forwarded to
Chicago.
Leo L~ywlander, of DeadwOod, an
employe Of the DeSmet Mining COM
pany, was at work in the open cut,
known as the DeSmet cut, when he
slipped and fell TO the bottom OF the
cut, a distance OF $50 feet. Death
came instantly.
r. b. Hayes Camp No. 6, Sons Of
Veterans, has been instituted at HUI
ron by Capt. Drips, Of kimball. The
officers are: William s. Welcher,
captain; w. f. Van Amburg, first
lieutenant; Thomas A. Nickel. sec
ond lieutenant. The camp has over
forty members.
A host of Iowa, Illinois and
Minnesota farmers are coming into
~BrOOkings county TO purchase land.
They pay willingly from Sl2, so to $40
per acre for il, cash. Some Of them
say they sold their eastern farms for
$40 per acre, but would not trade
their Dakota farms for the n they
left.
Sioux Falls Press: c. Z. Mckinney
returned yesterday from attending
the last session Of the old railroad
commission. The commission made
and turned into tie state treasury
81, 800 over and above its expenses.
This is the first time in the history
of the commission that it has made
money lOF the sIdIe.
Sioux Falls Press: Twenty differ
ent samples of cOrn from Campbell
county were received at the Worlds
Fair headquarters yesterday. As this
county il located on the line between
North and South Dakota and on the
Missouri river the samples show that
the corn belt extends over the entire
state east Of Missouri river.
The attorney for n. r. Thompson,
the murderer CT Mrs. John Brighten
at Arlington on the 4th Of July last,
has received notice that argument on
the appeal to the supreme court of
Thompson's case, will not occur until
the 25th inst. Thompson is under
sentence of death, the execution to
take place during the present month.
Hon. r. L. Blanchard, Inta public
examiner, has been appointed a COM
missioner to make settlement between
the state and counties of delinquent
taxes. This is a new Office created by
the last legislature. The salary is
81 500 per year with 800 for expenses.
The duties are expected to keep the
officer busy for one entire year every
other year.
The farmers Of Walworth and
Campbell counties have at last closed
a contract with a steamboat line to
carry their wheat to Pierre and the
Northwestern railway company is
now laying out new side tracks on
the Missouri at Pierre so that the
grain car be unloaded directly onto
the cars. Over a million bushels
annually will be shipped in this way.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany has sued to f)reclose a mortgage
OF $4,000 held by it against the
| Watertown Waterworks Company.
A receiver for the company was asked
by the plaintiff and granted by Judge
Sanb0rn, with the understanding
that if the defaulted interest, which
amounted to $13, 500 February /, 1893,
should be paid by April %, the re-
ownership should be vacated.
The farmers who live in the vicin-
ity of and around Lake Byron In Bea-
die county are almost wild with