Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-20

he has been offered and refused $50
for. 1t is the first penny ever issued
by the government OF the United
States. and was coined In 1857. On
one side is stamped the sun blazing
on a sun dial, fugio and date. On the
other side are thirteen links repre-
senting the colonies and in the center
the words 1--WE are one" AT the bot,
tom are the words "Mind your bust
ness The piece is a great curiosity.
A Deadwood man will contribute
to the Worlds Fair IN urn or two
handled Jug which was cut out OF a
solid block of Black Hills pine. This
is Is inches high, and graceful ana
pleasing In its proportions. Through
the side of the urn are 100 three-quar-
ter inch holes, and inside are four
balls OF pine, each about four inches
in diameter. These balls have been
followed out, and inside each n is
still another ball. This work was all
done through the t~hree-Quarter men
holes with an ordinary jack-Knife.
Mrs. VIM. r.. Todd, of st. Paul, is
making music for her husband, who
left st. Paul last June and has since
been living at the Horton house OF
Canton. this state, with Mrs. Marga-
ret e. Kennison, a divorced woman,
and a former school teacher in South
st. Paul. 1t is reported that Todd
has secured a divorce from his wife
and Mrs. Todd is using the wires to
corroborate this report. If IL is true
she will endeavor to have the decree
set aside. She e~ndeavored 20 have
her husband arrested in Lincoln coun-
ty for adultery, but the states at
torney refused TO swear out the war
rant.
Judge Sanborn has granted a new
trial i'm the case of VIM. Fullerton VS.,
the Homestake Mining Company,
At the last term of court Fullerton
secured a verdict for $4,000 for the
loss of both feet in the Homestakt
mine, in which he was engineer
Judge Sanborn held that the dam
ages allowed were excessive; that
Judge Edgerton's charge were full o.
defects: that one of the jurors durlnl
the trial was known to have played
cards with the attorney for Fullerton
and that injustice had been done the
Homestake company. Judge Moody
appeared for the defense and Judge
Garland for Fullerton.
1t has Just been discovered that the
DR.. Buchanan, who is now on trial III
| New York charged with having poi
soned his wife, was once a temporary
resident of Sioux Falls. About eight
cen months ago he came there anc
stopped at a leading hotel. He an
nounced his purpose of securing a al
vorce from his wife. While there ht
drank. heavily and constantly, devot
ing nearly all his time to the ba,
room. He very seldom spoke OF hi
wife, and the grounds on which n
proposed to secure his divorce va
desertion. He disappeared suddenl.
one day, and the next heard of hin
was in New York, and the death o
his wife followed in a short time.
A dispatch from Chicago says: TIL
attraction at the woman's building
| Of the fair was a cloak composed en-
tirely of feathers Of prairie chickens
sent as part Of the Dakota women
exhibit. The cloak is a curious piec
of workmanship and was made b
a Dakota woman, who spent 10 year
in getting the material. Some ide,
can be gained of the number Of bird
it took to furnish the material from
the fact that all the feathers are of
lovely and peculiar hue and onl.
three or four found on each bird
Each feather is held in place by n
less than eight stitches. The yalu'
placed on this garment by TIN
woman who made it is 81 1000.
Merritt H.. Day, at one time a dem
ocratic leader in the state and a lead
ing citizen of Rapid City, is missing
and issupposed TO be in Canada. Sew
eral years ago Day organized a horse
company, enlistlng eastern capita
for the purpose to a large amount
Recently the eastern directors, unabl'
to obtain any information in regard
to their investment, came out t.
Rapid City. All access was denied
them to the books and property o
the company and even the orders o
the court were resisted by Day anC
an armed force of his men. A shor
time afterward Day disappeared ant
an investigation is said to have shown
that he appropriated V 100000 0
the c0mpany's money to his own use
Definite information Of his where
abouts can not be had.
The latest sensation in the Brook
ings college muddle is the pub lCatiol