Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-06
I'm SOUTH DAKOTA.
~uteYestinx News liens fro" ~
over the state.

Al rla ScDOOl slettl'h h''H
vile a woman's ticket won by ten h''
iority.
The chamberlain fire department mas
decided 10 give a grand masquerade
lalI on The night of Feb. II. lhls is
always the social event of the season
in that section.
Col. y. $. Gray. a well known u
tioneer Of Gary. va arrtsJeu 10. an
assault and threatening the lie OF u"
wife and held To keep the peace III IAe
sun of 500.
4 meeting was he'd at Redneld oN
irrigation representatives from an
parts of the country. y committee was
aDpointad 10 enlist aid from couhtS
commits toner's for experimental lrrlSa-
lion.
Henry P,adlev. pest trader at Crow
Greek agency. has left for Il trip to
old Mexico. where he will inspect Il
coffee plantation with a view 20 lLS
purchase by himself and other capltai-
lists. who contemplate embarklng III
the culture of coffee in that region
The orone held an inquest upon the
remains of Little Walter Lalnson. VINO
was slot and killed at Pierre 5y a gun
IN The hands Of Tommy Holmes. The
Jury returned a verdict that h occur
renee was entirely the result Of an &C
cldent.
About 200 farmers and business men
held a meeting at Waubay. and. after
Oring thoroughly aroused by speeches..
/ creamery association was organized.
officers elected. and in les than one
hour all the shares were spoken Tor
and over 300 COWS guaranteed.
In the case of John &. Freeman VS..
the City of Huron. Judge Campbell
Eranted a continuance until the March
ierm Of the circuit court. giving the
parties an opportunity to agree upon
1 statement of facts and present the
.ase on law points instead of CTal ar
gument.
The executive committee IF the State
Bankers association held Il meeting at
Aberdeen 10 make preliminary ar
engagements for the annual meeting.
The place and time were left TO be
definitely announced by +. f. Hale, a
Banker of Scotland. Yankton was gen
orally favored, and June l was thought
to be about the right date.
Ben Welch. a stOckman from the
range. who has been in "Ierre and
Fort Pierre fer some TIME under medi-
al treatment. took an overdose of NOR
phine. He was revived with difficulty
and claimed the overdose was acct
dental. The doctors We're unsucceSS-
full in their efforts to save him. Ii is
generally believed that 1t is a case of
suicide.
At DeadwoOd Judge Plowman hand
ed down his decision in the a S of
county against Meade
TO recover $4,000 as Meade coun-
tvs share Of the floating debt Of the
at the time of the division of
the county. The judge held that the
debt was null and void. because in eX-
cess of the limit named in the organic
Of the territory, aDl that Meade
i9unty could not be held TO pay any
of ii.
Harry u. Renncr. at washington
trring2, q small town III Jcrauid coun-
", was arrested, charged with con-
fpiracy to commit grand larceny. 1t is
alleged that he assisted others in steal
ing property amounting TO S11, 900 be
TO o. f. Woodruff of Illinois.
Alice Ellis, implicated in the af-
fair, escaped TO Canada. 1t is sup
posed she arrived there Monday. De-
PENDANT was held on sc, 900 bail. Pre-
Urinary examination is set for Tues
day. He resides at Lanark, Ill.
Representative Gamble has intro
duced a bin to give 1000 000 acres Of
land outright to South Dakota for irri-
purposes. The present irriga-
ton law Is of no benefit TO South .Da-
kota because ii is not known whether
land which can be selected under
me law is susceptible to irrigation.
MIR. Candles bill provides for turning
100000 acres OF land over TO the
.tatr 20 be disposed of as the legisla-
shall see fit, and the money OBJ
therefrom spent in irrigating
land anywhere in the state where irri-
projects a be successfully car
RED out.
y Chamberlain paper, which has
carefully investigated the matter. SAYS
the aggregate flow Of the twenty
four large areSian wells in Brule coun-
ty exceeds 100000 for each twenty
hours. TO this immense amount
the new electric light Well in that city
contributes about 6,OO0, 900 gallons Der
Notwithstanding this showing
the sinking of artesian. wells has by
no means ceased. In every direction
other wells are being hurried down
and thirty days from now should see
more artesian wells added to the
list, with an additional flow of proha-
bly, about 10000, 900 gallons eycrv
twenty-four hours.