Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-26
People Talked About.

Lieut.. iHaTy Il learned 10 speak
the Eskimo language with all the ease
Of a native. 1t is almost az easy TO
reach the pole as to acquire that
tongue.
Joseph Jester, a farmer living e
Muncie. Ind, has received information
that he is one Of three heirs to over
300 acres OF land lying in the heart of
Wilmington, Del.
Jason Brown. one Of the two sur
viving sons of John Brown, is about
to leave his home in Ohio and take up
his residence In California. The other
son, Salmon Brown, lives in Oregon.
A good many years ago Mrs. Kelley.
the English actress, who has just Gel
cbrated her ninetieth birthday, said:
Modern theatrical art is like a spring
chicken; II is all legs and wings"
Rev. DIR. Fowler, member of the
national Presbyterian committee on
Y. Il. s. e. E., has resigned his charge
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has ac-
cepted a call 10 Los Angeles. Cal.
Samuel VI. Robertson OF Louisiana.
Harry st. George Tucker Of Virginia
and David F. WILDER Of New York,
members of the new congress, have
ffEtttiti IttiE idtiESIS III tiit iidtiOGdt
legislative body.
Frederick ID. Bannister, who has
Just retired from the office OF chief
engineer OF the London * Brighton
Railroad company, after thirty-four
years service, has been granted a PEN
sion Of 5000 a year.
No mar in Utah has fought Nor
monism more relentlessly than Judge
G.. G.. Goodwin, the editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune, but no man in Utah
has been more active in doing acts of
kindness to individual Mormons-
The "Kafir king Of Cripple Greek,
Col, Is Winfield s. Stratton, who Is
said to be worth $25, 100000. A few
years & he was a carpenter and was
the first man TO discover gold at Grip
pie Greek.
1t is rumored that the infant child
of Prince Adolphus of Teck has been
pronounced blind for life. The queen
and the duke OF Westminster (the in
fant's grandfather summoned special
lists from far and near. but their YER
diet was that nothing could be done.
While Paderewski was in Richmond
some individual sen him a banjo and
asked him TO write on the ~sheepskin a
short musical sentiment. This Is h
Paderewski wrote and signed: Il have
not the pleasure OF being a performer
on this beautiful instrument; am only
a piano player"
The intransigeant Of Paris says II Is
reported that Capt. Albert Dreyfus,
who in January last was publicly de-
graded and confined in a fortress TO
undergo q life sentence for having di-
vulged government secrets, has es-
capped from the fortress in French
Guiana In which he was confined.
Mr.. Reed is the fourth speaker OF
the house OF representatives reelected
TO hat office after an interval during
which other persons occupied the chair
of the presiding officer OF the house.
The preceding speakers thus reelected
were Il. A. Muhlenberg. Henry Clay
and John w. Taylor.
Edward Coils, who has been SEN
fenced to prison FOR eighteen months
In London for bigamy and cruelty,
fifteen years ago, when he vas a
young soldier In the British artillery
In India, at the battle of Maiwand,
held his gun alone against a hundred
Afghans, every N of whom was
firing point blank AT him, and the act
was described as a deed of daring
courage as high IL that of Horatio
at the bridge"