Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-31

Fair-A school District Controversy-A
Gang Of Horse Thieves.
!. M. Carpenter 4 Son viii soon
creamery in operation at Gettysburg
McCook county 10 preparing to make
an exhibit at the Mitchell grain palace.
$50 teachers attended the Minnehaha
county institute recently in session a
Sioux Falls.
The electric light wires OF Sioux Falls
are said to be responsible for a recent de
structive fire.
Lyman Winter has been appointed
agent OF government to make allotments
OF land in seyeralty to the Sioux ATOMS
of Indians.
Father Hogan u that a paro-
ehial school is to be established at FIX
Point to be conducted by sisters from
Denver. If it proves u success q building
to accommodate 500pupils will be erect
ed.
A fine. clear flow has been struck in the
artesian well at Worthwhile, $. d., at a
depth of $50 feet. The pressure is strong
and a portion of the water will be utalz-
ell in running a -four mill soon to be
erected.
A fire at Sioux FallsreceDtly destroyed
two of J. #. Gilbert's store buildings.
Loss, So, 400; insurance $4,000. Il.
Beecher, tailor; kuehner, furniture and
| George Nichols, notions, occupied the
buildings. Their loss is about total.
Harvest in the vicinity OF Springfield is
over and threshing has commenced in
good earnest. The yield OF wheat varies
considerably and ranges from Twelve to
| fifteen bushes to the acre. The quality
is exceedingly good and the farmers are
pretty generally satisfied.
The farmers in the vicinity OF Gettys-
burg have commenced threshing their
grain and so far the yield is much better
than any OF them expected. Only one or
| two machines are at work, as o OF
the farmers will stack and let the grain
go through the sweat, owing to the low
| price oil wheat.
As a matter OF fact showing the in
crease OF the acreage in small grain in
| the vicinity OF Springfield, the two IA
chine firms have put out forty-two har-
vesters and other machinery in proper
, ton and quite a number of other settlers
are expected to arrive as soon as the
! crops are safely harvested.
Judge +. r. Aikens at Sioux Falls has
| granted bail to DR.. A. NJ. Fisher in the
sum OF $4,000. Fisher has been working
for bail for several weeks. He a Y he
| will be able to secure the necessary bonds.
There is nothing new in the Crandall
bail matter and his friends have about
given up hope in securing his release in
this way.
The building boom still continues at
Bridgewater. The Beverage Meredith
| brick building is nearly completed. This
makes five two-story brick building on
| the west side of Main street-Bank OF
| Bridgewater, office of W.. A. Morse, Bev-
| erige-M Meredith drug store, Farmers and
| Merchants bank, and Stark weather 4
Dwights general store.
Near Carthage the other day Frank
| Oxender and Harry Redield Were out in
| the country with a gun in the buggy
| with which they were trying to keep the
| prairie chickens from under the feet of
| the horse. The gun was accidently dis
charged, however, tearing through Ok
| ender's wrist and lodging in Redteld's
leg. Both were badly injured.
young fellow by the name OF Thomp-
sop OF Highmore, s. d., stole a team OF
horses recently OF Edward Mccullough,
| who lives seven miles southwest of Car
thage. He was easily traced aud cap
tured, together with the team and wa
gon. He had made only twenty-five
miles when caught. He is the son of the
oma who was in jail on the charge OF
setting fires at Highmore.
The artesian well at Springfield is a
grand one. An excellent flow, the pres
sure sixty-two pounds to the square inch.
The water mains are to be laid at once
in the principal streets and Springfield
| will then have water protection against
fire. A call has been madefor a meeting to
| organize a fire company and in the Dear
future Springfield will have ample pro-
| lection from the fire fend.
Some two weeks ago the saloons OF
Watertown were closed by their pro-
prietors to avoid injunctions which they
thought had been issued against them,
but as everything appeared quiet they
| opened up again, it is said, only to be
closed up again by the sheriff. That ia,
two of them were closed under iniunc-
tons and the balance shut up before the
officer got around to them.
A young man named S~amuelson, 20
years OF age who has been working for
Marshall Mcconnell, Ave miles north OF
Valley Springs, was instantly killed q lew
DAYS ago by one OF Mr.. Connell's horses
kicking him. He was feeding the horses
at the time and In going behind one OF
them was kicked. Mr.. Mcconnell was at
| work on the outside of the stable and
on going inside found the young man
dead.
A special telegram from WATERFOWL
says the sports OF the city are gathering
in the chickens by the dozens and have
been for three weeks past. When the
law made the open season m on
| AnUl1ef II rho onnrtcpray, Df thn $780,