Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-12-27

A number oil farmers OF Sully county
contemplate sinking artesian wells in
the zeal future.
The Methodists OF Vermillion have
been crowded out OF their church build
ing by force of numbers and will build
q larger editice in the spring.
The Great Northern is securing the
necessary right OF way to reach the
river where the proposed bridge across
the Missouri at Yankton is to be locat-
I'd. and it is the belief. that the bridge
will be built soon.
What will probably prove the largest
mammoth ever discovered has been
Iound recently near Sioux Falls. The
skeleton ia over 40 feet long and 10 feet
wide. One of the animals teethis IL Ia
Inches long, 5 inches across and IL Inches
deep.
W. II. McKittrick [Dem.1 is the win
Ter in the contest case at Chamberlain,
which involves the clerk Of courts office,
OF that county, for the next two years.
The original returns give the office to
Orrin Pardee by three majority, but the
recount results in the election OF Nc
kittrick by three majority.
At a recent teachers association, held
at Clark, a resolution was adopted re-
questirg the members of the legislature
from Clark county to secure the passage
OF a law giving to each teacher of the
state one holiday in u three months
( <orpn CO., tho n,,pnnSa of visiting nfhnr
schools and comparing methods OF
work.
The Auxiliary Of the American Bible
Society have their head quarters in the
store of Leonard & Wohlfarth at
Aberdeen, s. d. A very large
been received and will be sold at what
they cost TO manufacture. Il. A. Wohl-
farth, Treas.
Reduced Rates to Huron. On account
Of the annual meeting Of the State Edu-
cational Association of South Dakota,
to be held at Huron, December 1928,
the North " estern Line will sell tickets,
on the certificate plan, at greatly re-
duced rates. For full information apply
to agent Of Chicago L North Western
R'y Co.
An application ON the part Of the Sisse-
ton Indians for the payment of a part
of the principal now held for their bene.
fit in the treasury has been brought to
the attention OF the South Dakota del
egation in congress. There are two
petitions, one for the payment and the
other against it. The latter leads nu-
merically.
With the successful completion of the
second artesian well at Pierre, the ar.
tesian project is being discussed all over
thatpart Of the state. Steps are being
taken towards sinking a well in Byron
township, eight miles northwest OF the
city, and Pearl township, in Sully coun-
ty, has called All election to vote on
the subject OF a well. By this course the
farme rs are placing themselves in a posi-
ton to be independent OF a rainfall.
New York parties have arrived at
Yankton with $4,000 worth of the
fraudulent school bonds that had been
sold by j. T. Pierce, of Yankton, and
$125,00 worth OF fraudulent tax sale
certificates, bearing the guarantee OF
the American State Bank, of Yankton.
These were indorsed by Pierce. A num-
Der OF the bonds bear date of 1887, and
interest had been paid on these up to
! December.
A sensation was sprung at Webster a
few days ago, by the commencing OF an
action for damages by Sophia Serenson
against FL. A, Peabody and G. ID. Peter
son, druggists. The plaintiff is the wife
OF Sheriff Serenson, who was arrested a
short time ago on complaint of his
bondsmen, for alleged shortage in his
accounts, and she sues 81, 900 damages
In each case, claiming the defendants
have sold her usband liquors and in
capacitated him fer business.
The Yankton Indian reservation,
which will be opened to settlement by
presidential proclamation in the spring,
comprises about Is townships, all of
which are now comprised in the bound
aries of Charles Mix county, which con-
tains about II townships outside of the
reservation. Douglas county, east OF
and bordering on the reservation, con-
tains 13 townships, and will come into
the Legislature this winter, asking that
the reservation be divided between the
two counties. Charles Mix county will
oppose.
A special telegram from Chamberlain
Of recent date says that the anonymous
letter writer has been getting in his work
to such an extent ut that city that the
United States authorities are at work.
One man, who received a letter OF this
kind, warning him to leave the country.
has, he believes, located the party who
wrote the letter. United States At
torney Miller has recently been in Cham.
berlain to investigate the matter and
prosecute the persons who have been
using the mails unlawfully.
According to the report OF Rev. T. M.
Shanatelt, OF Huron, South Dakota,
there are now los Baptist organiza.
tions. or these IA are American. Ia
scandinavian, and ID are German and
Russian. Sixty-iive of those churches