Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-05

Sheriff Strulf of Hand county ar.
rested four tramps recently whom he
took to Washington to answer the
charge of stealing clothing from Sam
Martins store.
A prairie fire, set by q threshing
machine, destroyed about 1000
bushels ofgrain II miles north OF Wau-
bay a few days ago. A hard wind
famed the fire into terrible fury, and
there was nothing left where it passed
over.
U. s. Pitts and George Hayes who
were captured a few days g in
Hickory county, Mo-, recently pleaded
guilty at Sioux Falls, of robbing q
stage near Spsarfsh. Hayes goes to
the penitentiary for life and Pitts for
FIVE years.
At the preliminary hearing Of DR..
E. c. Adams, OF Watertown, recently
charged with committing a criminal
abortion on Mrs. Oda Pendergast, he
was held to answer to the circuit
court for manslaughter in the first
degree.
On August 20, September 10and "a,
1895, the Northwestern Line will sell
home-seekers' excursion tickets, with
favorable limits, to a large number of
points in the West and Northwest at
very low rates. For tickets and full
information apply TO agents Chicago
d Northwestern Railway.
Walter, the Swear old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Thullen, of Belle
Fourche, was drowned in the irrigat-
ing ditch at q that place a few days
ago. The boy had been playing on the
bank Of the ditch at q place where the
water was very deep and in some
manner fell in.
Willard Dowdy, the negro who as
saulted a white woman at Yankton
a few days ago, was placed under
$4,000 bonds to appear before the
circuit court. He cannot give bonds.
One hundred and fifty men attempted
to organize and lynch him, but their
nerve failed them.
The long continued ferry fight at
Forest City has eliminated in a per-
sJnal encounter between General Man
ager Smith, of the Forest City & Sioux
City railroad, and G. A. Allen, a mer-
chant and stakeholder in the oppos
ition ferry. There are several large
herds OF beef cattle waiting to be
crossed, which will have to 60 to
Pierre if the ferry fight is continued.
J. P. Pickett, living in Jefferson
township, Moody county, met with a
horrible accident a few days ago. He
and his boy went up stars after II
O'Clock, aud while moving about in the
room the lamp exploded, setting the
entire upper apartments on fire. Mr.,
Pickett got down stairs Immediately,
taking his son with him, but returned
to pull down a trunk which contain
ed some valuable papers. He was
caught in the flames and burned with
the building, which was converted in,
TO ashes within twenty minutes. Mr..
Pickett leaves a wife, son and daugh-
ter.
A. H. Garfield, who sloped from
Aberdeen with Miss Bessie Moore, oil
Mitchell, has been rounded up at
Winnipeg, and the sheriff of Brown
county has been sent to bring him
back. What a pity. The United
States has g. surplus OF such people
who are constantly a bill OF expense
to the community in which they are
suffered to reside. Later. Garfield
and Miss Moore arrived in Aberdeen
in charge of the sheriff of Brown
county; Garfield was taken before
the police Justice, granted a continu,
ance until Monday the I'd inst, placed
in ia. in default OF bail, and Miss
Moore was held as witness.