Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-04
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
CLEANED FROM LATEST ASSOCIATE
PRESS TELEGRAMS.
Movement for Cheaper Coal-Tratn Lo"as
of Cattle Shipped From Rapid CITY 10
Chicago-Fort sully TO be don
Other State News Items.


Chicago-Fort Sully TO be Abandoned
Other State News Items.
900 cars of cattle were recently shipped
from Rapid City to the Chicago Market
in four days. Many more cattle were on
band but ears could not be furnished. 1t
now looks as though the cattle business
was to be transferred from Texas to
South Dakota. II.
Bishop Marty, OF the Huron Catholic
di ocese, has been in that city with Mgr.
eatoll,, on their way to Bismarck and
Standing Rock Indian agency. Mgr.
Satolli is apostolic delegate from the
vatican to investigate the religious needs
OF the Indians.
Willie Scanlon, the 14year-old Sol oil
Dan Scanlon, of Lead City, shot and kill
ed himself q few days ago while on his
way home from a hunt. The ball went
through his neck, severing his luglar vein.
= he accident was caused by the boy
slipping while climbing a bank.
Rev. Chas. Vessey, one of~Jerauldcoun-
tvs earliest settlers, died at his home
near Crow Lake a few days ago after an
illness OF several weeks. He was 70
years OF age and a native OF London,
Eng. He had been q Methodist pastor
! all his life, and was much loved by all
who knew hin.
Senator Kyle and party while en- route
from Britton to Oaremont a few even
iugs ago met with what might have
been a serious accident. The team be-
came frightened at a Russian thistle roll.
ing across the prairie and ran away.
One OF the party sustained dislOcated
shoulder. Senator Kyle, although badly
shaken up and belated in reaching Clare
mont, spoke for two hours to a well-tll-
ed house upon the tariff question.
Two more men have been arrested and
lodged in jail at Chamberlain for alleged
completely in counterfeitiug in Charles
Mix county. In the first dispatch con-
corning the un%earthing of the gang it
was enormously said that Thomas b..
Rl an was arrested as owDer OF premises
where the den was discovered. The fact
is Ryan is the deputy marshal who
made the first arrest and nIvy Clark
was the first alleged counterieiter arrest
ed.
Criminal assault on the person OF the
ten-year-old daughter of his brother is
the charge against Edward Nichols. who
has been placed in Jail at Chamberlain
pending his examination. The prisoner
is unmarried and lived with the family
OF his brother, A. L. Nichols, in Lyman
county, where the crime is alleged to
have been committed. He declares he is
che victim nj a conspiracy, and stUutly
maintains that he is innocent OF the
charge against him.
What is the use OF Disgusting the fact
that the Russian thistle is gaining on
the farmers OF South Dakota every year.
Why not acknowledge that it is IA very
troublesome pest and go to work to
eXterminate it. And when this cOnciu,
sion il reached why not Just remember
that it cannot be extprminated short OF
thorough and systematic cultivation
coupled with diversified farming. Let
us nave some common sense in the mat
ter. And we just desire TO remark that
the II crop Or lazy farming idea never
dlu nor never VIII win.
Geo. Curr, a farmer, living rear Clare
mont, met with an unpleasant accident
during the high wind a few days ago.
He had just sold his wheat, and drawn
the money for ii, amounting to $50, and
placed 1T, as he supposed, in his inside
pants pocket, but instead, only slipped
ii Inside bis oyeralis, and soon lost it.
On the following morning two of his
nelghbors, while going along the street,
We're much surprised to see five new SIC
bills lying behind a Russian thistle,
where they had lodged i'll an eddy OF the
wind. The money was taken at once to
Curr, who was naturally greatly ~reioiced
to get it.
Fort Sully, this state, is to be aband.
one. in compliance with the recent order
OF the war department for the abandon
ment OF several OF the small United
States army posts throughout the west.
Three companies of the twelfth infantry
B, T. and Dare stationed at Su!ly and
the remainder OF the regiment is al
L~eaveuworth Under command of Colonel
Townsend. The whole regiment will be
removed to Niobrara, Neb., where head.
quarters will be established. The TWEEN.
tieth infantry will be sent from the de.
partment OF Dakota to Leavenworth,
and two troops oil the Eighth cavalry
will &c to Meade and ~Assinahoine to
take the place OF the Twentieth infantry,
This will reduce the force in the depart,
ment OF Dakota under General Merritt
by one regiment.