Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-30
m. s.nate committee on Indian affairs

Tn. senate committee on Indian affairs
has decided to send q subcommittee,
consisting OF Senators Jones and Man.
der-on aud a third senator, to be named
by the chairman. to visit the RoseDuu
.nd Lower Brule Indian agencies, forthe
purpose of Investigating the desiTatiiity
OF consolidating the two.
Prof. Gerhard Gierstcn, OF Minneapolis,
who was arrested by F. II. Snyder, OF
the Cataract house, Sioux Falls, on the
charge OF obtaining board under false
pretenses. but who was released because
there was no evidence to show h q ne
pracriced fraud, has given orders to his
attorney TO sue Alr. Snyder Tor SlO,ooO
damages.
A deal was contaminated a few days
ago whereby the Valley Land Company
oil Huron sold to an Illinois syndicate 81
900 acres OF farm land in Edmunds
ty; in the Aberdeenland office district, TOR
nearly $50, 900. Many OF the tracts
are improved farms and occupied by
tenants who have raised pretty iaircrops
this season.
Cyrus Slower, a well known rancher
living in Elk Creek, has left his wife and
ranch and mysteriously disappeared.
He had recently sold about 81, 900 worth
OF cattle and had been drinking and
gambling, and it is thought that having
lost all his money he became discourage
ed and left the country. He is supposed
to have made for Colorado.
A decree OF divorce has been granted to
Joseph Shanbarksr, OF Sioux Falls, from
his wife, Marietta Shanbarker, who lives
on, a farm with her children near Le-
banon, Potter county, this state. He
claimed that there was n systematic at
tempt made by his wife and children, to-
gether with a lover OF one OF the girls, to
get him out OF the way by means OF
poison.
The Faulkton Milling company has
been organized at Faulkton by the
adoption OF articles OF Incorporation,
with a capital stock OF $10,0 OO, three
fourths OF which is already subscribed.
Arrangements have been completed with
the railway companies for tracks and
ground and the work CT erecting a hun
dred-barrel roller mill has been commenc-
ed. 1t will be equipped with the very
best OF modern machinery.
Ex-Gov.A =. G. Mellette has executed an
affidavit which charges A. ID. Tinsley,
who has been nominated by President
Cleveland for postmaster at Sioux Falls,
but not confirmed by the senate, with
perjury. Mr.. Mellette charges under
oath, that Tinsley served on two United
States petit iuries within a year, and
that he asked Tinsley il he had served on
a United States jury within a year, to
which Tirs!ey answered no. b erecords
OF the court show that he did.
An opportunity will be afforded your
eastern friends to visit you by the low
rate Home-Seekers' Excursions arranged
BY the Chicago & Northwestern Railway
for September IL and % and October O.,
1894. Ii you will forward to w. A.
Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, the North Western Line, Chicago,
ILL.,, the names and addresses OF your
eastern friends to whom this informa-
ton may prove interesting, a circular
giving rates and full details OF these ex-
cursions will be promptly mailed.
The new university hall at Yermillion
is being pushed along as rapidly as the
work will permit. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that school will open in the new
building, yet there is much werk to be
done. The wings will both be finished
in n very few days, and the heating ap-
paratus is being put in. Material is ar
irving for the three iron towers, which
will be a great addition to the appear
ance OF the building. Two are to be 70
feet high, and the third. the bell tower.
135 feet to the top. The citizens OF Yer
million are beginning to agitate the bell
question and hope to be able, with the
material in the old one to start on, to
place the best bell in the state, or per-
haps a chime OF bells. The prospects for
students are excellent.