Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-03-30
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Mellette is to have q bank.

Meilette is to have a bank.
Hartford is talking of Incorporate
ing.
Sioux Falls expects to have a whole
sale drug house.
The states Worlds Fair exhibit has
been shipped TO Chicago.
A camp Of the Sons of Veterans
will be organized at Huron.
Herbert Hall Winslow, the drama
fist, was denied divorce at Yankton.
Thirteen counties in this state have
women county superintendents of
schools.
Col. j.. f. Elson of Huron is a can
didate for department commander of
the G.. A. r.
j. w. Neville, a shoe dealer Of
WATERFOWL, has made an assignment
for the benefit Of his creditors.
George Stewart of Mitchell, whose
wife has applied for divorce, abducted
his daughter from Sunday school.
iu"did ~. DONcIS VI "dSIllHSl ION,
late of Groton, this state, has been
appointed assistant commissioner Of
the general land Office.
South Dakota grown peanuts will
be exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
IIley will come from Aurora, DAY.
ison and Clay counties.
Henry Mullen, who was tried at
FJandreau for adultery, was convicted
and sentenced TO one years imprison-
ment in the pe%nitentiary.
The prohibitionists of Waterfowl
are indignant at the city council for
adopting the Sioux Falls plan of
licencing saloons by fines.
Huron old soldiers are arranging
for a campfire and sociable to occur
on the evening Of the 3lst inst.
Congressman Picker and wife will
be there.
Duncan Mcfarland, of Day county.
has been appointed clerk of the sem
ate committee on education and labor
by Senator Kyle az IN annual salary
of 81, 220.
The governor will appoint a col
oDel of the First regiment, national
guard. about the first of June, to sue
coed Col, NJ. w. Sheafe, the present
incumbent.
Gov. Sheldon has appointed Judge
c. 5. Palmer Of Sioux Falls as a COM
missioner of the Soldiers Home at
Hot Springs. The term Of Office lasts
for six years.
Judge Campbell has denied the mo-
ton TO dissolve the attachment of the
National Cordage Company on the
warehouse, books, accounts, etc, of
the Farmers Alliance Co.
Rev. Helps car of oil has arrived at
Watertown and as soon as tested will
be delivered to consumers at about
4 cents per gallon. Citizens have
been paying II TO IA cents.
Hon. b. f. Mccormack has been
transferred from the TT. Bennett In
dian school, where he was superin-
tendent. to an Indian school in Okla
homa, where he will hold a similar
position.
George Merry, of Dell Rapids.
brought in a hog that weighed 665
pounds and carried back $46.55 instead
of the hog. 1t seems strange that a
good fat hog is worth more than two
ordinary cows.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men are arranging for a grand an
nual demonstration at Huron early in
April, to which representations of
the order from all parts Of the state
will be present.
The proposition of G.. l.. Gray to
erect and operate a tow mill at Aber-
deem has been accepted by a commit
tee of business men. A bonus of $500
will be given a id the mill is TO be
completed as rapidly as possible.
Eight of the Indian boys who were
brought to FIandreau from the Lower
Brule agency TO attend the Indian
school. escaped from the grounds and
started TO walk home, but were cap
tured at Winfred, % miles west.
A. b. Melville, one of the best
known and NEST successful attorneys
in the state, has gone TO California to
seek a new location. He has dis
posed of his practice at Huron to At
bOIUGy SlldLuUSlldlDs lOi IlSIIg Vi
Gettysburg.
Great quantities of whisky are al
most daily being struggled TO the In
dams from towns adjoining both
Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies,
and Marshal Fry says a determined
effort will be made TO bring the Of
tenders to justice.
The Indians at the Cheyenne
agency will hereafter receive double
rations on tissue day." orders from
the department to this end having
been sent to Agent Lillibridge. This
will save one trip each month to the
agency to get rations.
Earnest Gale, who was a few days
ago put under bonds Of $500 for the
seduction Of Miss Elizabeth Higgins
of Sioux Falls, was last week made
the defendant in a $4,000 breach of
promise suit brought by Miss Higgins.
He was arrested and his bond placed
at $4,000.
Mai. George French, of Des Moines,
oL;oe l;y;c;anal nfSfcap Of tho Saliva