Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-12

One OF the Oest arteelan wells I'D the
state has been struck on the ranch of
Rhodes Bros, in Charles Mix county.
The well is eight inches and throws
water Al inches above the top OF the
pipe.
Thomas Twostars, an Indian 25
years old, living at Big Cooley, while
enjoying a big drunk at Waubay re-
Gently, drank so much whisky that
ne became unconscious and died In a
jew hours.
A telegram announces the death OF
Mrs. B. B. Blosser at Carlinvile, Ill.
Her husband was until last May edi-
tor and proprietor OF the True Re-
publican at Washington Springs, but
sold cut and moved to Carl inville.
Circuit Judge Campbell has granted
= decree OF divorce to Mrs. Elizabeth
lMusser OF Marshall county, from
aer husband, Edward Musser,
On the ground of desertion and fail.
are to support. The defendant made
40 appearance.
1t is announced that the city coun-
| ell OF Mellette has ordered the saloons
| closed on Sundays. The hoboes had
too great a penchaut for fighting when
filled with booze, to permit a contInu-
ance of the wide open policy on the
Lords day.
Joseph Majors, who recently bought
the Dala mica property, near Custer
was in Deadwood the other day. He
is working quite a crew OF men taking
out mica for shipmen. to the eastern
makets. He expects in a few weeks
Ito make q shipment of one ton that
will be worth $4,000.
A laborer named James Gillespie
lost his life while attempting to clean
out an old well which was full OF air
damp on the premises of William To-
Dey of Ethan, neal Mitchell, a few
days ago. As get the body remains
in the well, every effort to raise it
Ihaving failed. The coroner was mott.
fed.
A body OF armed and masked men
recently called at the home OF j. R.
Casterline, in Hand county, near Bur-
dette, and took him forth into the
night and nothing more has been seen
of him. Casterline is the man impli-
Gated long ago in the robbery Of hors-
ss and goods at Hitchcock and Red
field.
Mrs. Charity Eliot, mother OF Mrs.
Ex-senator G. c. Moody. died recently
at Deadwood at the advanced age OF
100 years, four months and twenty
TOUR days. She was one OF the oldest
residents OF South Dakota and up to
three years ago, when she had a bad
fall, which resulted indirectly in her
death at this time, had been quite &C.
tive.
Adolph Berlin, a butcher Of Column
bia, became so angered by the request
Of his employer, Andrew Stone. OF
| Aberdeen, for an accounting, that he
drew a long steak knife and under
took to carve his beneiactor. But
for the interference of citizens a TRACE
| iy would have resulted. He was ar
| rested and taken to Aberdeen and is
now in Jail in default OF bail.
Bessie Moore, who eloped from
Aberdeen in company with A. FL. Gar.
field, a married man, returned to her
home at Mellette a few days ago. An
attempt will be made to place her in the
| state reform school at Plankinton.
1t is averred that there will be no
reconciliation between Garfield and
his wife. and that a mutual separa-
ton will take place after which Gar
| field and Bessie will become one in
the eyes OF the law.
A special telegram from Yankton of
recent date says the story published
widely in outside papers and later
sent out from Chamberlain as a special
stating that an organized gang of des-
perate burglars exists in Yankton is
wholly untrue. There areno burglars,
there have been no robberies, and the
story is q pure fake from beginning to
end. Eighteen years ago afarmer was
| robbed OF few dollars that he had
secreted in q hay NOW, and this is
probably the story referred to.
Commissioners Lockhart and Audi
tor Nipple have returned to Pierre
from their trip to Sully and Potter
a assessing the land turned into the
the state by w. w. Taylor. They
accepted the lands in Sully county at
the assessed value placed upon it by
the county. In Potter county there
was other property besides lands,
and the realty turned in was partly
| encountered, so that the assessment
OF value by the state could not be
made as directly as it could in Sully
county.
Four prisoners at Hot Springs, Bar
ker and Taylor, who were confined in
the county Jail awaiting trial for lar
ceny, and two half breeds who had
been bound over to the United States
court for cattle stealing on the