Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-03-09
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

COlutltS III Tic hDtiuCth Jdui1tdi
district failed TO become d law.
Deadwood is to have another
chlorination works i'm the spring,
through TIE energy OF Thomas H..
White.
Charles Mcfarland, OF Huron, was
shot, though not fatally, while riding
ia a buggy behind a wagon in which
was a loaded musket.
Business men of Worthwhile Yill or
iganize a stock company, construct a
flour mill and sink an artesian well
for supplying power.
The treasury department has or
dered that a draft for $4,000 be sent
to Homer w. Johnson, Of Armour,
due him for food furnished Indians
when government wards.
Edward Wilson is on trial at Elan
dreau for the murder of Otto Sol
quist, a young Norwegian boy. The
crime is alleged to have been COM
mitted last November.
The postofice department has is
sued an order that free delivery
service would begin at Mitchell,
April i. The Yankton postotfice gets
one additional letter carrier.
The Great Northern has commenced
running daily trains between B%esson,
Mimi, and Waterfowl, 5. ID. The
service previous to this time has not
been better than three trains a week..
Secretary Noble has issued an order
that If residents of Chamberlain and
Rapid City, submitted sites suitable
to the department., work would be
begun on the Indian schools provided
tor, in forty days.
A. b. Rood, living near Kimball,
found about sixty of his sheep dead
the other morning and lays it to the
alkali bottom hay, upon which they
had been feeding quite heartily.
The rest of his flock recovered when
their feed was changed.
William Anderson, of Norway, has
begun a suit in the United States
court at Sioux Falls against Samuel
f. Donahue. Of Codington county, for
$50, 000. The defendant is a railroad
contractor who is well known in the
state. Anderson claims TO have been
injured by a blast.
Thompson. the DeSmet murderer,
will hang. The motion for a new
trail was not sustained by Judge An
drews and Thompson will be executed
in the Jail yard at DeSmet in not less
than thirty and not more than sixty
days. Thompson took the matter
very cool, showing no agitation.
The supreme court has decided the
quo warranto proceedings brought by
Levi McGee against Judge Gardner
Of the Rapid City circuit. The court
holds the governors appointment OF
Gardner as judge gives him good title
until the legislature provides by law
for the election Of his successor.
Commodore S. b. Coulson of Yank-
ton, well known for his connection
with Mississippi and Missouri river
steamboats, in early years, expects to
receive the appointment Of internal
| revenue collector at the port or Sitka,
Alaska, from Grover Cleveland and is
now circulating a modest petition for
presentation TO the president.
The governor appointed the follow
ing as the Worlds Fair commission,
and all we're confirmed: l.. G.. Och
senreiter of Webster, L. III. Brown of
Sioux Falls, William M. Powers of
Yankton, G. +. Kinds Of Woonsocket,
p. f. Mcclure Of Pierre, r. G. Quarve
of L%angford, John Baker OF Dead
wood, 4. L. Evans, ST., of Hot Springs,
j. Il. Pitcher Of Custer.
Harry l.. Williams, a school teach
er in Minnehaha county, has been
bound over for a preliminary hearing
on the charge of stealing $3.50 worth
of mileage books from the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway Com
pany. The alleged crime was com
mitted Nov. j, 1892. Williams vas a
chum of the night operator, and slept
that night in the depot with him.
Gov. Sheldon mas re-appointed the
old members of the Woman's Worlds
Fair Commission as follows: Mes
danes w. ID. Haynie, Rapid City;
j.. S. Oliver, Huron: j. A. Trow,
Madison: w. A. Burleigh, Yankton:
j.. O. Bennett, Clark; Nj. CASTOR;
Deadwood; A. G. Mellette, WATERFOWL:
l. O. Jeffries, Deadwood; G. A. Silsby,
Mitchell.
Hon. C. M. Harrison, president OF
the South Dakota immigration Com
pany, has gone east in the interest OF
that organization. Before returning
he will establish branch offices Of the
company in New York city, Utica, AL
bany, Boston, Philadelphia and a
score of other eastern cities. This
company is arranging to put several
hundred settlers upon lands in the
state the present season.
During the past week hundreds of
land-seekers have passed through
Chamberlain on their way TO the
coded Sioux lands, where they are
selecting farms. Many of these land
seekers are Russians from counties
farther east in this state, but the
bulk of them are farmers from
different portions of Iowa, who have
disposed of their farms at good prices,
and now come here in search of cheap
farm land.
A. Sloan, one of the employees in the
WATERFOWL tow mill, had his right
arm taken off while at work In the
mill. 1t seems that his coat became
entangled in the gearing of the beater
and I'm attempting to prevent his be-
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