Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-22

A Worthy Mission Among Hostile Indi-
sns-A Doctor Shoots his Wife Then
Himseif-sensationaI Eiopement from
Aberdeen superintendent of State Teie-
graph FAX Taylor Donned the Stripes
The Brookings county fair will be
held at Brookings September 25 to
27 notwithstanding three days be,
fore the state fair.
A. d. Freeland, 0nawa, has been
granted the contract for furnishing
Crow Creek and Lower Bruls agencies
with lumber and building material to
amount to $1,000.
NJ. d. Freeland OF Onawa, la, has
been granted a contract for furnish
ing Crow Creek and Lower Brule
agencies with lumber ind building ma
terial to the amount OF $1,000.
A telegram announces the death In
Chicago Of Louis Holzner, the lead
ing clothing merchant of Watertown.
He was there purchasing mis- winter
stock Of goods and was taken sick.
Rev. Joseph Kissell, of Sioux Falls,
and two daughters we're thrown vio-
lently down an eight-foot embank-
ment by a runaway team q few days
ago, with probably fatal results to
Mr.. Kissell.
On Feb. II, 1894, a stage was held
up and robbed on the highway near
S~pearfsh, S. ID. Chief Postofice In
spector Wheeler has just been notified
of the arrest at Springfield, Mo-, OF
Ulysses G. Pitts, charged with this
robbery.
Robert and Ben Dorman have been
bound over to the next term OF Ly-
man county court for cutting and
removing wood from a school section.
The state authorities evidently in
tended to prosecute similar cases
against other parties.
The supreme court has handed
down an opinion holding that the
governor hsd no authority to remove
President Shannon of the board OF
regents. The court is said to stand
two to one, but it is probable there
will be M dissenting opinion.
The southern South Dakota district
fair will be held at Scotland Septem.
Der II to 90. The exposition has
been q great success 10 previous years,
and this year promises to surpass in
all its features all former exhibitions.
The sporting program will be unusual.
ly complete.
George w. Dixon, a school teacher,
residing at Watertown vas accident
Iy shot in the arm a few days ago.
The charge took of most OF the mus
Gle from his arm above the elbow
tearing it's way through the arm pit,
coming out by the shoulder blade.
He will recover
A few days ago a storm, with hail
and a strong wind blew the Great
Northern Depot at Caremont from
its foundation, totally wrecking it.
1t also blew down chimneys and out
buildings about the town. The rail-
road agent and his wife had a narrow
escape, as bricks from the chimney
fell ali around them.
The many friends in the newspaper
fraternity OF Amos c. Jordan, OF
Waubay, S. d., will regret his recent
dcath. Deceased was a brother OF j.
j. Jordan OF the Grand Forks Herrid,
and w. HI. Jordan, OF Oakland. Cal
ifornia. MIR. Jordan was q good
newspaper man and an exemplary citi.
zen.
The officers of the South Dakota
District Fair Association are making
great preparations tor the fifth an
nual exposition which will be held in
Ce~nterville on September p, %, 28
and 81, 1895. The district compris-
rs Turner, Lincoln, Clay, Union and
Yankton counties. A program has
been prepared and purses amounting
to $4,000 for premiums, racing,
baseball and relay races, ETC., has
been hung up.
The closing day of the ireman's
tourney at Rapid City was distin-
guished by some remarkable fast
races. The $50 yard hub-and-hub
race was won by the Gate City hose
team: time, 2S LIS, being but 1920
of a second slower than the national
record, made in Denver in 1884. The
l00.yard foot race was won by
Frank Graves, OF Rapid City; time,
10 seconds. The Juvenile hose race,
coo yards, was won by Rapid City;
time, 81 3-4.
The scarcity OF the hay crop in
Michigan, Illinois and some parts OF
Wisconsin, says the Brookings Reg
lister, leads one to comment upon the
almost invaluable native grass yield Of
South Dakota. Only one year in
fifteen has there been anything like a
failure of an abundent crop in the
state and this year we will have
plenty and enough to provide for the
state mentioned where shortage
nac,,rc It will nav armers To hail