Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-02
In SOUTH DAKOTA.
interesting Nerve Items FROM as
over the state.

ISNt at tNipbA a
neighbor'S stock.
Mrs. Harris OF Tetonka attempted 10
commit suicide by taking laudahuil'
but res,oratives saved her. Donieslie
troubles were n cause.
Thomas A. williams of South ia
kota has been appointed assistant I'D
the division of agrastology, agricui-
turai lei art,nent ct $1,000 a year.
Word has been received al Nermil-
lion of the death of NJ. j. Lewis OF
~pleurisy in New York city. He was
cashier of the First National bank OF
yermillion and well known throughout
the state.
The land commissioners Office 81
Pierre has sent to h genelai iaha
office for patent a list of 10000 acres or
land in southern Hyde and Hand coui|
ties, which has bee selected for coH~
mon school indemnity land.
Regardless of hard times the people
of South Dakota are paying thelr
taxes. On an estimate of S9J,o0o Tor
the quarter ending May 81, the state
received SOS. $50. This is a better SHOW
ing than was expected under present
financial conditions.
On recommendation of the board or
pardons a pardon has been issued Tor
John +. Hudson. sentenced 10 he state
pcnitentiary from Yankton county Tor
robbery. Hudson was in he last
stages of consumption and the pardon
granted is to allow him to go home TO
die.
James Wobben was fatally injured
.,hfln at ,x-n,ly In tNaCn NJ p mine.
Yellow Creek. He was engaged III
breakin- down ole in a tunnel. when
a mass Of rock from the root fell. bury
ing him. His chest was crushed IN
and he received ether injuries.
The ProhIbitionists Of South Dakota
will meet in mass yention in the
city of Madison, on Friday, July the
10th, for the purpose of nominating a
state ticket. The convention will be
held on the Chautauqua grounds. Able
speakers will be provided.
Miss Edith Davidson Of Salem is
dead from injuries received by the
oyerturning of a carriage in which n
was riding. AT first il was thought h
escaped without injury. She vas very
popular. and her death casts a gloom
over n large circle of friends and ac-
quaintances.
The Clark county teachers institute
convened at Clark for a w weeks
session. Supt. w. A. Curley will be as
sisted in the work by Professors n. q.
Wark of Watertown, s. X. Clark OF
Tyndall. Miss Ella McNearn and Prof.
Aylesworth. principal of the Clark
schools. Nearly 100 names were en-
rolled the first day.
News comes from Pierre Of the filing
there of incorporation papers for the
Sioux Falls Transportation company.
1t is the purpose OF the company To ask
the city council fer a franchise and II
this is granted. build -four or five miles
of electric railway in Sioux Falls. The
matter viii be laid before the council
at the next regular meeting.
Matt Matteson, a miner in the Home
stake mine, at Lead, met with an accl-
dent which will probably result in his
death. He was carrying a stick OF
powder in his bootleg, a habit
miners have, when for some reason or
other it exploded. The flesh was
stripped from the bone from the ankle
to the thigh, and the bone shattered
and broken for almost its entire length.
The land commissioners Office has
just made the first apportionment for
1896 of the interest and income fund
to the various counties of the state.
This is the fund which goes directly
to the schools. and the total of the
present apportionment is S9S,S27.55,
which gives 95 cents per capita to the
104.O29 school children of the state.
While the taller at Pierre succeeded
in keeping it quiet, it is finally out that
John Raglan, one of the United States
prisoners in jail for appropriating let
tiers of another. gave the officers the
slip recently and is yet at large. He
placed a dummy in his cell, hid in the
corridor and lodged out while the
turnkey was locking the cell.
1t is reported from Huron that ar
rangements no We been made for a con-
vention at Lake Madison Chautauqua
grounds from July g TO :. In the call
all who care for the retention and en-
of prohibition in South Da-
kota are invited TO be present. Rep
Of churches, reform clubs,
leagues, temperance unions, etc, are
urged to be on hand.
A special term of court Of the third
convened at Castlewood, Judge
Andrews presiding, for the purpose Cf
receiving the plea OF Otto Jacobson.
charged with rape. Jacobson plead
guilty and was sentenced to nine years
in the state penitentiary at Sioux
Falls. The crime was one of peculiar
~ revolving circumstances and the peo-
pie feel the long sentence to be a lust
1t is currently reported that the
chemical analysis of the stomach of
Mrs. Christensen, whose body was
found hanging on a tree claim some
time ago. and whose husband. Chris
tian ChristiansOn. is now confined in
Jail mt Clark, charged with her muir
der, discloses the prese nee of arsenic
In quantities sufficient to have pro-
duced he death of three persons.
Three tramps were arrested bv the
sheriff for stealing some goods from
). M. Weiner's store at Alexandria.
The examination before the police ms
tice resulted in binding them over.
They are the fellows arrested Mt
Mitchell a few days ago for having
suspicious tools awaiting them at the
express Office. and later turned looca