Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-07-06
! sad and fatal accident occurred a,

were playing about the basement OF the
| house when they found an old shotgun
and one of them snapped it several times
and then pointed it towards the 4-year-
old son OF Mr.. Swanson. when 1T went
off, the charge striking him in the head
| andliterally tearing the whole top OF his
head off and killing him instantly.
keystone gold mines near Rapid City,
s. D., has made its first successful at
tempt to reduce the refractory gold ores
| OF the southern Hills. 1t will be increas-
| ed to GO stamps. This decision was ar
| rived ut during President Stones recent
| visit. The plant has been in successful
| operation since February / and the ac-
| ton OF the company will naturally re-
SUIT in activity along the entire gold belt
OF Pennington county 20 miles in length.
Governor Sheldon appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen of this state Delegates
to the railroad convention held in
Lincoln, Neb: Maj. A. r. Anderson Of
Hot Springs, William L. Dewey, Jr.. OF
Iankton. w. j. Thornby OF Hermosa,
| Capt. j. Ii. Hauser OF Aberdeen, Col. s.
NJ. Laird OF Pierre, w. III. III. Beadle OF
Madison, w. s. Palmer OF Carthage, II.
+. Hunter oil Mellette, S.. c. Leppelman OF
Gettysburg, +. III. Smith OF Groton.
James CHM shot and instantly killed
Abel Bruyer at Vermillion a few days ago.
CHM is chief Of police. Some men were
riding through the streets too fast and
making considerablenois Ginn's story
is that he fired to the ground when he
told them to stop. They whipped up
their horses instead OF hating and he
| attempted to take the team by the bits
when a blow from one OF the horses dis
charged his revolver the second time, the
ball entering Bruyer's heart.
The big timber fire along the Black
Hills & Fort Pierre railroad between
| Leads and Piedmont has been extinguish-
ed after a loss of 10000 cords OF wood
and a number OF thousand feet of logs.
The fire originated three miles from Elk
| Creek, extending along the line 10 miles
tc Runkle's saw mill. which barely escap-
ed. The railroad construction crew from
Leads with section hands along the line
did excellent work and saved much
| property. The fire in the Homestake
wood pile at Leads has been mastered
and the mines and mills have resumed
operations. Some 20, 1000 cords OF wood
were burned.
otto Peemiller, OF Yankton has been
appointed United States marshal OF
South Dakota. He is a German by birth,
having e%migrated to this country in 1859.
He resided in Milwaukee until 1879, when
be went to Madison and studied law in
the office OF Senator Villas. He has al
ways been a staunch democrat, but has
never held a political Office. In 1889 he
was the democratic candidate for
secretary OF state and for four years has
been chairman of the state central com
mittee. His appointment gives universal
satisfaction throughout the state. Mr..
Peemilier was endorsed by the democrats
OF South Dakota and says he expected
the appointment.
The details OF the PIankinton bank
failure give it an ugly appearance says
newspaper report. The bank closed on
Saturday morning and only the evening
before it took in $500 on deposit from
one mar, Besides the $4,000 or more
OF county funds that have disappeared.
Township Treasurer G. J. Anderson loses
$4,000 OF township money and $4,000
OF his own, and Treasurer Freudenfeldt,
of the state board OF regents, il said to
have several thousand dollars of public
funds on deposit. An Investigation OF
affairs is now IN progress and further
disagreeable developments may be look
ed for. On the other hand, the con-
servatively managed banks in. that part
oil the state We're never in a more sound
| condition.
Details are just at hand OF a double
crime, occurring on the Pine Ridge agency
5. d., n lew days ago. Bear Stops, an
Ogallala, lives in a house on Wounded
Knee creek, about eighteen miles from
the agency, and a daughter about IA
years old attends school near by. On
Wednesday, Switchtail, q lower Brule.
n W Arrows, a Standing Rock
Sioux. lay in wait Tor the girl on her way
home from school aud seizinc her Mt
tempted an outrage. She got away
from them and ran home, When her
father heard the story he started ont
with a club for a weapon TO find the
fiends. Just what happened is not Unknown
but Bear Stops was stabbed with q
knife through the heart. The murderers
fed to Nebraska and are being pursued.
DR.. VI. f. Dittmer, a prominent physi-
clan OF Sioux Falls is 1nder arrest.
charged with murder. Mrs. Matilda
Hargren, a widow 81 years OF age. EN-.
ployed as cook at Bishop Hare's school,
died from the effects OF an abortion. Be
fore her death she signed a statement to
the effect that a criminal operation had
been performed by Dittmer June IS. She
said that her seducer is Gustof Rudolph
Langerholm, a tailor formerly EMPLOYED
by Geo. Gallagher. Langerholm is now
in Eagle Grove, Iowa, where the dead
woman's parents live. The coroner's
Jury is investigating, meanwhile Dittmer
is held without bail. Bishop Hare made
the complaint to the states attorney
and was an important witness at the in.
quest. Langerholm has a wife and three
children.