Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-06-20

Occu suCCeScluiiy sldEbtO.
The total membership of the Ma
sonic order within the state is 1926.
Bad Hair, a Pine Ridge agency In
Han policeman, has been bound over
At Hot Springs for cattle rustling.
The body OF Ben Murphy, a young
canchman drowned in Cheyenne river
a few days ago, was found floating in
the Missouri river.
Cattle rustlers have been operating
in the western portion OF Jerauld
'ounty. Lawrence county is also in
iested by tina same class OF gentry.
Gov. Sheldon has issued a commits
sion to r. d. Jennings OF Hot Springs.
as a number of the state board of
health for four years from Apid 1
1895.
The eleventh annual commence
ment OF the South Dakota normal
school has just taken place at Mitch
Ill. The institution is i'll a fiourishing
condition.
The Dakota Methodist university
at Mitchell is one of the most pros
porous institutions OF learning i'll the
state. 1t has just been closed Tor the
summer vacation.
The Washington Springs seminary
held commencement exercises a few
days ago. The affairs OF the school
are in a high degree complimentary to
the officers and faculty.
The state has been advised that re-
payment OF $3,259 by the govern
ment for the amount Illegally collect
I'd for taking the census OF Dakota
Territory has been made.
The Aberdeen city council recently
adopted a resolution to reassess a
water main tai which was at one
time declared illegal by the courts in
1890. The amount involved, with in
~terest, is now c $1,000.
Deputy U. s. Marshal Lewis recent
Iy arrived at Chamberlain with Solo,
mon Yellow Hawk, a Lower 3rule In
dian, who has been lodged IN jail on a
charge of robbing the post office at
the agency a short time ago.
Judge Edgerton, OF the United
States court, does not care to hear
the Benedict babeas corpus case, and
postponement was taken until July
7th, when Williams, Of Little Rock
Ark, will hold court at Sioux Falls.
A terrible hail storm occurred at
Woonsocket a few days ago. Garden
vegetables were pounded into the
ground. Small grain is sure to suffer
from it. All glass on north side OF
houses vas broken. 1t was the worst
storm OF it's kind We ever had in that
vicinity.
The Northwestern Colonization
company of Chicago is proposing to
place a large number of sheep and
cattle among the new settlers OF
South Dakota, whom the company
will locate on lands which it has Sc
cured from loan companies under
favorable arrangements.
The Masonic Grand Lodge, recently
in session at Pierre, elects tine follow
ing officers: Frederic III. Files, Sioux
Falls, NJ. flames Lewis, Canton, d. NJ;
Albert w. Coe, Deadwood, S. W;
Louis G. Leory, Webster. J. W.. J. l..
Logtutter, Iroquois, T.:George A. Pet
tigrew, secretary.
The report is being cir culated that
cattle thieves have been operating in
the western portion ofJerauld county
for some time past. j. r. Eddy had
several head stolen, and other farm
ers make similar Complaints. The
cattle stolen from Eddy were sold at
Kimball and the owner has located
them in a heard in that vicinity.
The great northern has put a gang
Of so or more men at work on the
road near Huron. They are widening
cuts, leveling grades, repairing bridg-
es, and putting the line between that
city and Watertown IN splendid con-
ditIon preparatory to large business
the coming fall. Station houses and
depots at many points will be remod-
eied and enlarged.
Agent GIBBS, OF the Milwaukee depot
at Sioux Falls, has received an un-
dated letter from H.. J. Ericsson, the
billing clerk who recently disappeared
from sight. Erickson practically ad-
mits that the reason he skipped out
was becsuse he did not want to get
married the following Wednesday, as
he was billed to do, and he did not
have nerve enough to go and tell his
fancee OF his desire to cancel the
plighted troth.
A special Milwaukee train from Chi.
cago was at Mellette q few days ago
bearing officials OF that road, who
came to see the Hunter irrigation
farm and the Salzer Seed Company's
and state of South Dakota's expert
mental plats. The visitors were:
Roswell Miller, president; A j. Earl
irs. general manager; H. Z. Williams,
assistant general superintendent; j.
r Williams and p. ID Armour.