Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-31
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From ni'
over the STATE.

NrloLhlt Va IN ftStt
the victims of measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Jacobs, a Puk
wanna, have lost two children from
diphtheria.
1t is reported that the hog cholera
has made its appearance in n SWINE
herds at Memo.
The new well ut the Chamberlain
mill has doubled its power since las
fan.
John Hamilton Of Medicine Greek Is
wintenng 1,1O0 head of sheep a
Chamberlain.
Advices from the Hills country midi
cate losses to the stockmen of some i'm
portance and others liable to follow,
A new building il being erected 10
take the place of the one thar was
burned last week at the Ellison SHAFT,
In DeadwO0d.
Mr.. John st. John was found in his
office at Brookings unconscious from o
stroke of apoplexy and Is stiH In q
p~recarious state.
Sixteen cars Of sheep, 200 head,
were shipped from west Of Pierre To
Oenteryille TO be fed for the market.
They are expected TO be ready Tor mar
ket by the first of March.
A young man living near Kimball. by
the name of August Marty, fell and
broke his ankle while hauiing water.
Since the wolves around Redfield
have been killed off the rabbits are in
creasing in numbers rapidly.
The family of John Clemens of Get
tysburg had a narrow escape from as
phyxiation last week. MI. Clemens be-
ing Just able to crawl to the door
the family from nothing worse than a
short sick spell.
Gov. Sheldon has appointed j.. L.
Sweeney of Vermillion as q member OF
the board of regents of education until
March ], 1893, to take the place OF j.
w shannon, who has failed to attend
two successive meetings OF the board
and is considered TO have resigned.
Prof. r. ID. Mckay, professor of
Greek I'm the Baptist college at Sioux
Falls, hanged himself in his o to-
day. He is supposed to have been
temporarily deranged as q result OF
overwork and a slight illness. lie
came here from Des Mones, Iowa,
where his father lives
At a meeting at Huron OF Beadle
county free silver men a committee OF
one from each township and seven
from the city of Huron was named to
look after the interests of the free sill
yer party in his respective locality. 5.
III. Hysham was chairman of the meet
ing and William l.. Miner was secre-
tary.
Forefathers' Day was celebrated by
the CongregationalistS ut Huron, pro-
yiding over 500 people with an old
fashioned New England supper, follow
cd by the finest musical and panto-
mime entertainment ever witnessed
there. Large quantities Of food were
distributed to the poor.
Quartermaster General Carpenter in
his annual report to the governor, rec
ommends $1,000 for the national guard
for each OF the next two years. and
$500 added IL there are to be encamTe
ments. He also urges new companies
at Deadwod and Spearfish. lie shows
that the guard now has property val
ued at $J2,161.
The accidental discharge of a shot
gun caused the death of William Ties,
a young man residing with has parents
twelve miles south of Clark. he had
placed the loaded gun in the sleigh IN
which he and some other members of
the family were riding, with the
Zle resting Oh the seat, and while pull
ing up the robes the gun ives ~discharg-
ed, the charge striking him on the side
of the head. He lived about SIX hours.
Van Moore, the luarter-blocd Sioux
who attacked his step-father, Jake Dol
plus, with a knife and left him for
dead, was brought TO Aberdeen In
chains from the Cheyenne agency by
Agent Peter Couchman and Deputy
United States Marshal Powers. Last
spring he completed q four-year term
in the state p~enitentiary for making an
assault which nearly had a fatal ter
minatiOn. When drunk, as he was in
his last encounter, he rs said to he the
most dangerous man on the reserya-
ton.
There is much excitement In Dead
wood over the great strike of ore at
Ragged Top in the Dacy shaft mines.
The bed of ore continues to show evil
denccs of fabulous wealth. 1t Is the
sensation OF the Black Hills, and hum
drcds are hocking to the scene. II
rivals In richness anything in tho his
tory OF Western mining. The orc is
running over $3.50 per ton. The rich
drift was started on tie assure. ami
the wonderful he'd of ore was discov-
cred within ten feet.
Sheriff Neil of WATERFOWL arrived ut
Sioux Falls recently with n warrant
for the arrest of DIR. w. a. Gcrmain. n
leading physician of that city. A few
days ago Mrs. w. O. Thayer Of Water
town died as n result of a criminal OPP
Grafton. In her ante norton s'"te-
ment she charged TIE crime on her Ii is-
band, and he. on being arrested. de-
clarde that he had come IN Sioux Falls
and procured from DIR. ermain ths
medicine. The affair h e.eit n
great sensation. as DR.. GERMAN is one
Of the leading physicians anil stands
very high socially.
f. NJ. ZIehach OF Yankton has bccn
appointed special court commissioners
to administer oatllS In homestead caSrs
to claimants for land In Gregory colii-
ty which has been opened for iiiing III
Chamberlain. This action * taken for
the convenience OF Gregory county SET
tiers, many OF whom live considerably
more than fifty miles frnin ttIiuirr.
lain. and can thus he sworn I their
filing papers without The m..ssii, III
appearing personally at The Cha i,er.
lain land Office.