Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-09-28


A new two-story hotel is being built at
Sisseton, Roberts county.
1t is said that wheat in Roberts conn
ty is averaging about "A bushels to the
ucre.
Slsseton, Roberts county, q new town
on the reservation is building a $4,000
school house.
The populists have nominated l.. J.
Martin, states attorney in Miner county,
for Judge OF that district.
Paul Walter, OF Brookings, has been
appointed superintendent OF the tailor
ing department. in the Indian school ut
TT. Shaw, Mont.
Thomas H. Ruth, of DeSmet, has been
appointed colonel OF the South Dakota
National Guard, vice Col Vi. ". Sheafe,
whose time had expired.
The two-year-old child of Barney Per-
shang, living near Sioux Falls, recently
drank q chicken cholera preparation in
which was a large element OF sulphnrlc
acid and died within a few hours.
The Southern South Dakota District
Fair, held ut Scotland last week, was
| marked success. The exhibits were eX-
cellent and theentertainment OF visitors
was far ahead OF most exhibitions OF the
kind.
Sioux Falls Fress:-The forest fires
about DeadwoOd were something terri
BILE. The Deadwood Pioneer says green
pines from twelve or feet in height
burned down into the ground leaving
cavities six to eighteen inches in depth.
Burglars effected m entrance into the
rear OF the postoffice at Worthwhile a few
nights ago blowing open two safes, one
in the postottice and the other in the
grocery store adjoining. Over 5000
damage was done and not over So in
money secured.
b. +. Parker, a farmer 11-2 miles east
OF Claremout, had about 40 tons OF hay
burned a few days ago The fire got
away from section men, who were burn
ing the right OF way. A heavy wind
from the opposite direction saved the
farm buildings.
Julius H. Thompson, living two miles
south OF Lake Preston, hanged himself a
few days ago. He tied a rope to the
door knob, threw it over the door got on
n chair, tied the rope around his neck
and jumped off. Dependency from
tinancial troubles is assigned as the
cause.
The postmaster general has sent out
specifications and invited proposals for
carrying mails over star routes in North
and South Dakota for four years from
July !, 1894, to June 30, 1895. The
proposals are to perceived up TO Deem
Der and contracts awarded prior 10 Feb
ruary l.
\ nicely planned attempt Of the pris-
oners at the Sioux Falls jail to gain their
liberty was discovered a few days ago.
Two highly tempered steel bars OF the
cage were found sawed nearly in two.
Several desperate characters are in the
jail and it is lucky their game" was dis
covered in time.
The track layers on the Sioux Falls
Yankton extension of the Great North
ern reached the city limits of Yankton on
the 10th inst, and will have the railway
ready Tor operation in q few days. The
Great Northern will build an engine
house having stalls for sixteen locomo-
tives, and it is rumored that the road
viii Mt once be extended up the Missouri
river to Charles Mix county.
Thompson, the murderer under SEN
tence to be hanged at De Smet October
Z, came near cheating the gallows. He
is n constant smoker and is given
matches with which to light his pipe.
The spare ones he had saved to the num-
Der OF sixty and soaked them in water.
A Jew nights ago he was intending to
drink the dose in the hope that it would
Kill HIM. The Keepers were too sharp for
him.. They discovered and frustrated
his intended suicide.
The controversy over the charges
against Bishop Marty still goes on, and
there are likely to be some important de-
~velopments before long. Father Haire,
who was removed for characterization
by the bishop, and who has since had no
relation with the Catholic church, has
gone to Dubuque, where he will lay be-
fore Mgr. Satolli charges of the glavest
character against Bishop Marty. The
charges are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Cahens-
lyism and immortality.
Sioux Falls Press:-It appears that a
tendency to make trouble for the state
fair existed similar to the inclination to
tell uniounded stories about the state ex-
hibit at the worlds fair. The Milbank
Observation-Disclosures tells OF some citizens
there who went early and came back
with stories injurious TO the exhibit and
| deferred many from going. The trouble
was that some OF the exhibits were a lit.
tie late in being placed and the first
corners did not know the TACT.
The county commissioners OF Meade
county are taking steps toward building
a court house m turgis. 1t is the inten.
ton OF the commissioners at their Octo.
her session to advertise for bids for it's
! construction and let the contract at rs
early a day as the law will admit OF, with
the prospect OF having the excavations
done and the foundation walls laid be-
fore the cold weather sets in this iall.
The plans adopted will give Meade one
OF the handsomest buildings in the Black
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