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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

How Natures Deficiencies Are Bc-
ing Supplied By Irrigation.

How NATURES Deficiencies Are BE-
ing Supplied By Irrigation.
Mitchell s. d., Special, Dec. 22.-The
subject Of artesian irrigation in South
Dakota is receiving considerable atten-
ton from people not only in this state,
hut in eastern localities. While East
recently Mr.. William NJ. Smith Of this
/ city was questioned in reference to the
success of irrigation and the people
seemed deeply interested in the mat
fer. Mr.. Smith referred them to the
success attained by I'll. F. Hunte, n
the SalZer Seed company on the irri-
gated farm near Mellett, and by the
immense crop raised they clearly DEM
orstrated that artesian irrigation was
the one thing necessary for future
crops. Mr.. Hunter now has a a with
an exhibit of crops from the farm
which he is showing in towns in Wis
consin. Illinois and other states. The
section of the country tributary to
Mitchell Is particularly favorable for
securing wells and for applying the
moisture, from the fact that the water
can he secured AZ n lore shallow depth
and Mt n less expense than in any part
of the state. In Dawson county wells
can ne ShtuTeu al an Va
obout 325 feet and cosr from S150 10
$3.50. Mr.. Smith says:
at can name from forty to fifty farm
ers in this county who will have from
Oh 70 100 acres each under irrigation
tbe coming season, and the only outlay
OF money they have incurred in putting
down the wells is about $500. the res
eryoirs and bitches being made by
themselves. A farmer in the East can
come to the great artesian basin OF
South Dakota. buy land which will
produce crops equal to any country,
mt down an artesian well on every
FORTY acres and still not have half as
much invested as in the more expen-
siye Eastern land from $40 to SO per
acre. and those same Eastern farmers
are beginning to realize this" i.
William Nj. Smith has recently sold
10 Eastern parties lands in Dawson
county who intend to put down arte-
sian wells for the purpose OF irrigating.
West of here. in Aurora and Br,!e
counties. farmers are putting down a
rrrat number of wells and some VI
them are the lar yest in the state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
MAIL BAGS ROBBED.
And Welsh Is Arrested Charged
With the Crime. /

Ana welsh Is sNTtStcu
with the Crime.
Minneapolis, Dec. 31-Deputy United
States Marshal Clement Of North Da-
kota and Inspector James Howard, of
the Minneapolis police department,
captured n young man who is wanted
by the federal authorities to answer
to the charge of robbing the mails.
He gave the name of Harry II. Welsh,
but there is doubt as to whether or
rot that Is his correct name. He will
be taken to Fargo, n. d., and there
answer to the alleged offense. At
present he Is confined in the central
police station. The arrest was made
at the postoffice in this city, where
the prisoner had gone 10 inquire for
mail. Welsh drove the mail for three
months ending Oct. 30, between Bel
mont and Buxton, N. D.. towns twelve
miles distant, and made the round
trip daily. He was employed by the
original contractor, during the absence
Of the latter in the harvest fields.
There is some mystery rs to the -an-
ner in which the bags were opened.
When presented at the return office
there were NO signs of being tempered
with, and the guilty n is thought to
have struck the lock with the butt Of
his revolver, which win at times cause
1t TO spring open. The penalty for the
CfferSc is left in n measure to the dis
erection of the presiding justice, but
the minimum sentence is given as
fifteen years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
aIinsinr

q wealthy Bay City. Mich. broker. Is
mysteriously missing. He and his
wife have been travelling Seuth. He
has been Ill ana slightly unbalanced.
They were on their way home from
Jacksonville and stopped off here.
registering at the Burnett house. On
Tuesday night about II o'clock Knop-
lei ieit his room II walked out anu
has not been seen since. His wife
missed him and has had the police
hunting her husband ever since.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

we're buried without an inquest being
held. County Coroner Tams OF
Chamberlain considering the circuni.
stances ext aordinary, and in answer
20 numerous demands for an inquest.
summoned n jury and had the
remains exhumed and examined.
Nothing wrong was discovered, how
ever, beyond the ailments from which
they had been suiier ers for years, and
thus a sensation was averted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
welded , mining Exucrt

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Dec. 31-Miss Irene
Foeckler. late private secretary to
Frances T.. Willard. and John *. Hal
lowell. were married here last night.
Mr.. Hallowell Is a mine expert and
has an office in the Masonic temple,
Chicago.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
Eniicinx Dnkotn nunKnras.

Grand Junction, Colo, Dee. 3i.-Ar-
rangements have been completed with
the Dunkard communities scattered
v e Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska and
Kansas TO settle in a body in the
Grand river valley, near this city, dur
ing the coming spring. Over a hun
dred families, all well-to-do. will come.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

Rio, Wis. Dee. 31.-Squire Elkins of
Cedar Springs, Mich. en- route to st.
Paul. fell or q passenger train east
ce here last night and was ~se.,eusly
and probably fatally injured
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
sunocnted by Coal Gn..

Hummelstown. Pa. Dec. 81 John
II. Balsbaugh and his wife. who re-
side nea Swatara, were found dead In
their rooms this morning from the ef-
fects Of coal gas from a detective
stove pipe. Mr.. Ralshaugh was a d.
rector Of the Hummelstown National
bank for many years.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
Loss. In Lumber.

Cairo, Ill, Dee. 31.-To-day the plant
Of the Wolverine Lumber company
Was destroyed by fire. Tho less VIII
exceed 100000; insurance, ST9,co9.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

London, Dec. 81. - The Times this
morning publishes long dispatches
from Cape Town. Paris and Berlin
bearing on the T~ransvaal question,
which seems to be displacing the Ven
ezuelan question in the public inter
est.
The Paris dispatch quotes The De-
bats as saying: THE London Times
seems to be avenging itself on the
Beers for the moderate one it was
obliged to adopt toward Uncle Sam"
The Debats then proceeds to argue
upon the danger I o French interests
Of allowing England TO seize the
TranSYaal.
A dispatch to the Times from The
Hague says hat Holland attitude on
the question is apparently one of in
difference.
The Berlin dispatch says: The &C.
ton OF the Uidanders in the Transvaal
has given rise to an unusually vio-
lent explosion of anti-EngliSh feeling
in the German press" The National
ZeitunG is quoted as follows: Ger
many, Portugal and possibly France,
cannot allow the Roer republic to be-
come the exclusive prey Of England,
and especially of such a dangerous
parsonage as Mr.. Cecil Rhodes"
The Times dispatch then continues:
THE Kolnici, Zeitung. the Kruez lei
turg and other papers express SINH
lar sentiments. 1t cannot be denied
that while the relations between the
English and German governments are
Ia no way cordial, a widespread feel
ing Of animosity against England ex-
lists in Germany"
The Times also has a column arti-
Gle explanatory Of the Transvaal
trouble, which says: Equality Of
representation with taxation, Ian
guage. law. responsibility Of the ad-
ministration to the legislature and the
removal Of religious disabilities are
among the chief of the Uitlanders' de-
mands. while they desire to maintain
republican Institutions"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

The Interstate c0,nmerce commits
sion tells congress that it IL not vet
able to decide whether the Joint traffi..
agreement of Eastern railroad COM
panies Is In violation of law or not.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

the fei Lake anu White Earth in
dian reservations will be opened
about June !.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
MADMaN AND A GUN.


Train.
Chicago, Dec. 2~T.-John Weinhardt,
who says he was recently discharged
from the insane asylum at ~Indianaio-
lis. was taken into custody by the
police to-day. He was a passenger
on the Monon express which left his
city at $50 last night. and the train
was scarcely out of the depot before
he began to flourish a revolver and
yell at the top Of his voice. An at
tempt was made to quiet him with the
result that he began TO shoot. One OF
his bullets struck Il boy in the back of
the head, inficting a slight wound,
David McQuaid, a special detective Of
the Monon road, assisted by some pas
sengerS, made an attempt to arrest
Weinhardt, and a desperate fight fol-
lowed. McQuaid was slightly wound
ed in the face and Weinhardt was
shot in the arm by the accidental. dis
charge of McQuaid's revolver. He
was put off the train at Englewood
but escaped before the police arrived.
He was arrested this morning when
making threats in Il saloon on State
street. The man is probably insane.
Steubenyille. Ohio, Dee. 2T.-During
n quarrel over a crap game among the
coiOred laborers at Bloomfield tunnel.
on the Panhandle railway, James
Rice pulled Il revolver and fired five
times into the crowd. One of the bull
lets passed through the heart Of Jo-
seph Jackson, killing him instantly.
Rice came from Tennessee. aud has a
bad reputation. Last night in a quar-
rel he shot another negro named JAS.
Hamilton. in the groin, inficting Il bad
wound. The murder today almost re-
suited in a riot, and, great excitement
prevailed for 4 time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
ANOTHER ROW ON
SERIOUS TROUBLE BREWING IN THE
TRANSVAAL.
Exaspcrnted Because For
eiGners Desire Equal Political
PriviIeges-Strong Objections in
Germany and France to the aoer
Republic Coming Under the EN-
elusive Control of Great Britain.

johannesburg. Dee. 31.-The polit-
ical situation here is acute on account
of the struggle OF foreigners in the
transyaal to obtain equal political
rights with the Beers. There are per-
sistent rumors of q secret arming of
the miners and warlike preparations
on account of which the ladies and
children are leaving. Gen. Joubert,
commander-in-chief of the Transvaal
forces, has been summoned to Pre-
toria from Natal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

IN
II see the ecnli
night, Ethel
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so cloudy u
Record.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

hit Piso's Cure.
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-01-02

Dost fabulous stories are for tho
'sS weeks constantly COMING
t Iae sonth nsiota gold fields in
10y Hills. The most recent is
operty held and owned Nv the
t tissSse Mining company, who
Et,S;ly maintains and AYERS that
eonn y Unprecedented in former
ii tb ~ May not this acita.
Cta sae varied resources of South
to ~, lSssult in its ultimate ascen.
|.d. !, proud position, honorably
% persistently seeks.
H. .'ers, Cordelia and Caroline
ts |, na'ates OF the Brule county
We're found dead in bed a
bss so' As they we're very AGED
0esn in poor health. they
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
DIR. GRANTS LETTER.

Mr.. J. ~ Huston. Dallas, Texas:
sherman. Texas. November G.--Dear Sir;
Yours OF the 18th instant to hand contain
ing your personal check for STEPS to cover
nv hotel bill at the Oriental, which check
hereby return
The tenor of your letter is In conformity
with your past acts and the acts OF those
associated with you in the recent cam
paign. From the first you have evinced
The fact that you had very limited regard
for my ability and intelligence, and think
this letter emphasizes that as much as
anything you have done or said in this
campaign The sentiments of the letter,
independent of your covert acts during
this campaign, would have the tendency to
appease wrath. but since know 1t to be
continuation of the methods pursued
throughout the late fight, 1t does not full
fill its intended functions. During the
campaign felt 1t my duty in the interest
of the republican party Of Texas. the re-
publican party OF the Nation and MoKin-
ley and Hobart, to accept all indignities
and discourtoses inflicted upon myself
nv friends and the unquestioned friends OF
Mckinley, but now, since the campaign Is
at an end, and sentiments openly expressed
Will not injure any Of the aforementioned
parties. consider 1t my right and privi-
lese to assert my opinion and defend my
own manhood. the decency of and the in
tegrity OF our party in this State. which
from this date propose to do. and those
who have been fritting away Its rights
speculating upon its vitality and prostitut-
ing its decency may expect to come III con-
tact with my wrath.
will say to you and through you to
so,ns of those associated With you, that /
have been connected with public and pn-
yate life now for number OF years aud
during my entire career have not sur
,ared as many discourlesies, indignities
and insults from any class Of men, now
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
Manufacturing NJ vcin.co.

Nelnsco. Texas. November lO.-Mcssrs
Harding Bros. proprictors Of the Houston
i'oN factory, are placing their saw mill
machinery here, preparatory To the erection
OF building and the removing of their
factory 10 this place about the list Of Jnnu.
AIRY. These gentlemen have been getting
out timber from the Brazos al Columbia
and they have found freiehts on the nm
sawed logs 30 high that II has been un-
proiitabic for them to operate at Houstpn
and as n result they have located on the
Bra1os at Velasco, where they can have
logs RATED down OF minimum cost md
iurn out the lumber sawed lust as they
need II. These gentlemen say they haya
found an almost ineNhaustable nupply OF
cotton wood, sycamore. Whit oak ash and
elm. and expect from now on to do large
business. The locating Of this saw mill her.
with the box factory caused inquiries frori
parties in San Antonio. who want to start
FURNITURE factory; parties In Kansas City.
VINO want TO manufacture ice boxes and
refrigerators, and party who wants to
manufacture excelsior. These people want
10 come here so as to have the timber
sawed out IN the manner and shape needed
for the finished product
The annual snceting Of the Brazos River
Channel and Dock company Texas Land
and Immigration company and the VelaEcD
Terminal Railway company will be held
here on the 18th. AZ the election Of Nc
Kinley and republican congress has been
considered the only obstacles In the way
OF the advancement Of this enterprise. II
tx now supposed that the syndicate will
take hold and push the great scheme to
completion. Indications poiSs that way.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
NI1CHEs DEMo,iH ATS.
silver Organization to He Kept Up.
Thc NcHrn pnnuIists.

Neches Texas, November 9.-Thc Nechci
Democratic club met Friday evening for IN,
purpose OF ratifying the election Of tho
state. county and precinct officers. IL
short. democratic revival was had,
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted;
whereas, The democratic party. meeting
with temporary defeat last tuesday.
makes It the more necessary for MS to
keep UP this organization, in order that we
may be In better shape to struggle for
the restoration Of bimotallism at our next
Federal election. therefore be II
Resolved, / That the name Of this club
be changed and known hereafter as tho
Ncches Free Silver club.
g That We may the more cffectually keep
before the people the principles we ad-
vocate. We will hold monthly meetings, or
meetings AS often as the president or tho
club may deem best for the mex, four years.
Resolved. That we tender The Houston
Post our thanks for the gallant rRht IL
made In the recent election for democracy,
and as 1t Was the only great daily IN the
State that did not desert the democratic
party and cspouse the cause Of the cor
porations and trusts as against their own
people IL is the duty of every democrat to
at once subscribe for 1t and remain on its
mailing list MS long as II utituus inc rIIn
ciplcs for which We are battling
Resolved That we tender our thanks to
the Palestine Advocate for IT'S heroic stand
in the late campaign and especially iCr it's
effective work In aiding to defeat the man,
who, for the sake OF office. bartered Il g
Jury to the negro. 1t is the white mans
paper and should be patronized by every
one In this county.
The following was offered by j. O. Nc
REYNOLDS
Whereas The white people Of Texas have
for thirty years used every effort to con
vince the colored race that we were t. cir
friends. that during those thirty years We
have shared with them our school fund.
been taxed to maintain a school syst3u en-
joycd by no colorcd people in any other
State, and gave them every principle We
enjoy under our laws; and
Whereas in the recent election. they, by
an overwhelming majority, supported the
populist party. which has plank in it's
platform favoriDg pro rating the school
funds between the white aud colored races,
many Of them bpastingly declaring that
they did not need the white peoples as
sistauce TO educate their children; there
fore be II
Resolved. /. Tha; this club demands Of
our representative In the lower house OF
they USE every efforts TO shape legislation to
conform TO the expressed wishes OF the col
ored race as set out In the platform they
supported In the recent election. and, IL
necessary. TO introduce n resolution to
change our constitution that such appor-
tionment OF the school fund can be made
@ That each and every member of this
club obligates himself to support no man
in any primary, now In office, who fails
TO use his best efforts TO secure such legit-
lation, or anyone else who becomes a can
ddatc for office who viii not oblgate him
self TO support such measure.
ID. r.. Brown, Secretary
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11

for two years for the republican party of
Texas, have brought order out of chaos,
have created something from a political
vacuum. year cf that time | have been
working day and night Tor William Me
kinlev. and no one knows it better than
he, and II YOU think you can deceive him
after my arraying myself for him against
the combincd forces i'll Texas, | think that
you VIII find before you get through that
you are as far from the truth AS you have
been i'll nca"y everything you have I'M
dcrtahen IN this campaign. except TO dis
grace yourself politically and everybody
connected with you ! propose. before this
matter Is through with. TO absolutely
stamp out of existence the present vcrmin
that have infested the recent campaign in
Texas-those of the state and those out
OF the State. You have made yourself the
laughing stock OF the people of all parties
In Texas. and think the spontaneous sen
timeni Of the people of this State will sat
isfactorily prove that 10 Mr.. Hanna and
Major Mckinley without any assistance
from me. You can take your detectives.
your bouncors and your superaunuated
politicians back with you. and realize that
you Will leave in your wake wreck of
something that, had you kept your hands
of, would have stamped upon 1t victory
instead OF defeat.
The S72 hotel bill have paid ont OF my
own pocket as ! have been paying out
other expenses Of every character. form
and description since my induction into
office as State chairman two years ago.
My address Is ana will be sherman,
Texas. at which place you can see me al
any time you may desire. Yours truly,
Inbu
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
LulInr. Teyas. Novemher lot
The Famous Moore Cus~.

Waco, Texas, November l0-Tho case Of
the Waco building ASSOCIATION VS.. James
l. Moore. which has become celebrated on
legal points involved and It's history Of
trials and reversals Ia again on trial In the
Nineteenth district court. Hon. Marshall
Surratt presiding, Tho suit is for $40. 600
The United States circuit court Of tho
northern district OF Texas at Waco viii
convene IN this city next Monday. Noyem-
Der l6 long law docket will be encouu-
tered and the court will doubtless be in
session several weeks.
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There is Strength and Health in This Greatest
Of Discoveries!
At Every Stage of Life Where
Freedom from Pain and Normal Conditions
Celery Compound Remedy Will Really Make You WE'LL

The first women in the land have
in
OF
o
writer's words or eNassetate
Ia simplec a miracle
all dfor
pound steadily iaiy while the
5 Wins on
Of
Mrs
Conscssmcn L.
Charles II II
q
W f. Smith
Or Mkp
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11

Buffalo. Texas, November io-District
court convened at centreyilie. this county,
Judge J. NJ. smlthers presiding. with Hon.
II. ID. Dashiell. district attorney, at the
wheel. The grand Jury Is composed OF
the following good citizens: E. u. Bate
man, foreman: A. +. Choat. Tom Kennedy.
b. r. Boyd. II. NJ. Newton, VIM. Holleman.
Richard Hcatley. Il E Barnes, Sam Craig.
James Bennett. Jack Benson and Frank
Motion. The local attorneys are l.. Graves.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
Wharton Notes.
Wharton.

Wharton Texas. November i0.--Thc
steamboat Bay City owned by Captain
John White left this morning for her sec
ond trip to Bay City. Her inItinl trip was
very satisfactory, proving the enterprise
an undoubied success. She left today with
fun cargo o. merchandise. and gco,!ly
number OF passengers, and Will return to-
morrow
Wharton's golden acres are active In the
market Two hundred acres OF uniinproved
land sold FOR 81 cash. II. Flerlage pur-
chased another plat Of PIT acres ut 81,
part payment. These tracts are bottom
lands Ave miles from town.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-11
Narrow Encnt,c,

Valley View Texas. November 9.--Last
night Carl Newton barely escaped seri-
Gus accident While he was crossing
freight train II started and caught his
foot between the draw heads. MASKING his
foot badly and carrying him some distance.
when the train stopped to switch he man
aged to get from between the cars without
beinp RIM nypI