Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-12-10
In SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
over tke state

removed TO Lincoln county a few days
ago from k~ingsbury county.
Salem is reporting n number of i'm
provements. Ii has some new build
ings and several new business firms.
Parkston merchants report a better
trade than they have enjoyed for
years.
W. w. Allen. a prominent resident of
C~enterville, is dead. He ven TO his
barn TO saw some wood, and his wife
shortly after found him there dead.
The Kimball creamery has been run
ming successfully the present season,
having received from 1900 TO 5000
pounds of milk daily.
Many Marshall county families have
provided themselves with straw burn
ers this winter, in order to beat the
coal trust.
man of Ver1nillioE, committed suicide
for the deed.
The state university has provided IT.
self with an athletic park. 1t has n
quarter-mile pedestrian and cycle
track, a skating pond and a tennis
court.
Owing to several case of diphtheria
In the vicinity Of the town, the public
schools at Pukwana. Brute county. are
closed for the present. Several cases
ave been reported at Armour.
Steven NJ. Liddane Of Winona. n
brakeman on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway, lost q portion of his index
finger and thumb while coupling ears
in the yards at Huron.
The trial Of w. III. Coney for caus-
ing the death of Commodore Coulson
by a bite, which was followed by blood
poisoning, has been postponed at Yank-
ton until next term.
A pigeon-shoot was recently held at
Parkston. The attendance was not
large but the shooting was good. r..
A.. French Of Trip .arried off most OF
the prizes.
Rev. Father Weixcdbergen. pastor OF
Sc. Mary's Catholic church at Salem,
died recently. He was held in high
esteem, not only by members Of his
church, but by all who knew him.
Mrs. Jacob Weidenbach of Parkston
on returning home. found her four
year-old girl lying in the middle of the
room, its clothes all burned off. the
full of smoke and the child dy-
ing.
Dave McAfce. who was arrested for
perjury in swearing in his vote at Brit
ton when not % voter. has been bound
over to the circuit court. The evidence
shows that he has been in the state
only since July 20.
L. n rAxI-.1oYr -
ton with n revolver in the abdomen
M leg at Aberdeen. Both men live
az Frederick. Coddington will recover.
Coykendall was said to have been ieal-
Gus.
NJ. II. Parker, who has been deputy
superintendent of public instruction for
two years, handed in his resignation.
and will return to Watertown. his
former home. Superintendent Crane
a not yet announced his successor.
John Pye, principal of the Egan. S.
d., schools. and lately n graduate of
the Madison normal. has been elected
TO the high school p~rincipalsliip of the
Mitchell city schools, made vacant by
the resignation of A. C. Shepherd.
Reports from Chamberlain. Pierre
and other points east of the Missouri.
to the effect that great morality ex-
lists among the cattle on the northern
ranges is without foundation. Cattle
men just in from the ranges state that
stock was never in better condition to
Withstand a hard winter.
John Carmichael. a Choteau Valley
farmer. has reason to be pretty well
satisfied with South Dakota. During
the past season hc raised close to TO-
600 bushels of grain, which he esti-
mates will bring him The neat sum Of
$4.OOO at present prices, for his sea-
sons work.
Judge Kemp, at Huron, sentenced W.
II. Turner to pay n fine Of $40 and
serve twenty days in the county Jail
for stealing coal from cars on the Chi
cago 4 Northwestern Railway tracks
at Iroquois. Turner's son.. Edwerd.
was convicted OF the same offcnse and
fined $40.
The roller mill at Kimbali is doing its
share toward beating tn. coal rust.
bran instead of coal being utilized for
fuel. AS 1t would be impossible to
feed the furnace in the ordinary way
without endless toll. Engineer Perkins
invented a contrivance that feeds the
bran to the fire box automatically. The
continuance holds the steam gauge Mt
so pounds for hours at a time without
regulating.
The Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge
Agency have been considering the mat
ter OF claims due them from the gov
eminent, and subscribed $500 among
themselves to send a delegate to Wash
inSton to look up their claims against
the government. The delegation Is to
consist Of Chief Red Cloud and two or
three others. They propose to lay their
claims before the Great Father, and al
so Insist on n change in the administra-
ton of affairs throughout the Pine
Ridge Agency.
City Marshal Conway of NIobrara
has received a communication from n
captain OF the Twelfth infantry, sta
toned at Vancouver, Wash. request
ing him to look out for Roy Clare, who
is a deserter from the regular army.
Glare is said to have flown with a
married woman and her child during
the absence of her husband. who has
been away from home working to pay
for a farm, and had forwarded $500 to
his wife for that purpose. CIare's pa
rents reside at Niobra RI, and are high
ly respected.