Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-11
IL SOUTH OAK i I.
interesting News Icrs From all
over the State.

Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman, rcsidin'
e a Bath. We're thrown from a buSs!
and seriously injured,
1t is claimed gold has been foun'
twenty miles south OF Miller, the a.
assaying SO TO the ton.
Preparations are Being made TO hoit
the Lake Madison Clautauqua al
usual.
! The Adams school was struck hy
lightning at Aberdeen and the teach
ers and scholars badly shocked. Oth'
err buildings were also damaged.
Mr.. Sorn Gerttson, an old gentleman
sixty two years of age. was found dead
in his house. about seven miles south
east Of Gettysburg. He had been dead
for three or four days when found.
The Edmonds corntv commission
ers. in extra session. appointed +. j.
Track clerk of the court, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of j. IL.
Hughes.
Commander, John Ackley, Aber-
deem: senior vice commander. John +.
Baker. Hermosa; junior vice cunl-
mander. X. Il. Hall. Mitchell. All
/ were elected by reclamation.
The Republican county central COM
mittee of Edmunds county has issued
q call for the convention to meet at
Roscoe. June IS. to send delegates to
the state convention at Aberdeen.
X. w. Brown, Il one legged bicy-
clist. started from Madison for a trip
on his wheel around the world. He
goes by way of Sioux City, Omaha
ardDenver TO San Francisco.
A barn belonging TO J. NJ. Peasle,
living eight miles northwest of New
ark. near S~traubville, y. D., was DE-.
strowed by fire. Mr.. I'easle's four
year-old son. who was playing in the
barn. persisted in the flames.
Prof. Elmer II. Fitch of Clinton,
Iowa. was chosen superintendent of
the Aberdeen city schools by the
board of education. He has mad large
experience in Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
The state has received patents for
$3.50 acres OF land in the Aberdeen
aud Huron districts. The land goes
TO the agricultural college. normal
school, school of mines and public re-
serve.
W. S. Wells will ship about 100
horses from his ranch on Moreau riv-
ar To Huntsville. Ala. Dakota horses
find Il ready market in the South ut
good prices. and shipments are made
from the Wells ranch every year.
The annual encampment of the
Sonth Dakota g. A 4. was held ut
WATERFOWL recently There was a
fine turnout of the old veterans. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
The Saaborn county Republican CON
gention elected the following delegates
to Aberdeen: G.. w. Crawford. \. b.
Fishc%. III. .. Kettleson. w. II. Will
G. II. Boaney. Louis Tysdel, Fl.
Is. Ashlnore, j. J. Hughes.
The Pierre water works were sold
ut receivers sale and were bid in by
a. \. Aylesworth in the name of w.
K. Merriam Of 81. Paul nj SLASH. sub
iect to the bonded Indebtedness against
the system.
A cyclone in Mcpherson county
struck the farm Of Stephen Miller
and completely demolished every
thing in the shape of buildings and
"a u ASd' iititti Unit WIS III rs lEd+ll.
The family escaped by going into a
The United States land Office at Alb
has done the following busi-
in May: Homestead filings. 10.
embracing 1901 ceres: homestead
~, embracing 3.62S acres: tim
b~er-culturc proofs, 20, embracing 1,2S1
acres.
The general presbytery of Central
was in session at Pierre re-
and examined and licensed for
ministry Charles :. Blackburn. A.
Mckenzie and G. NJ. Mcleod. The
former will at once take up mission
work at Pierre.
The preliminary examination CT
Christianson. charged with
murder OF his wife, whose body
was found hanging Ia a tree last
Wednesday, closed at Clark. He was
held to the next term of the circuit
without bail.
w. T. Parker, mail contractor OH
line between Fielder and Fort
Bennett, was kicked on the side of the
head by a broncho while al Fort Ben
nett. Parties WHO came ia after n
report his condition serioas. |
md he is not expected to live.
Isaac De Witte, n young man living !
n the north part Of Hyde county, bad
bis head broken by a crank on a we'll
machine. the force Of the
blow was sufficient 10 knock him ten
FEET away from, the machine. 1t is
expected lie will ectver.
Fire broke out in G. c. Ewes & Co.'S |
hug store at Nermillion. but was
gotten under control by the
ire department. Henry and Pick |
who room over the store. mar |
'owiy escaped suffocation. The loss. |
smoke and water, will amoun to |
$1,000. fully insured. The origin |
the fire is a mystery.
Ex-Gov. Mellette left a will executed |
before the Taylor defalcation. in !
which Mrs. Mellette was made the sole |
but the estate is not worth |
,robating. as every dollars worth of |
Mellette owned was yolun- |
arily turned V e to the tate. Mel |
cite had his life insured for 500. 600. |
Ill of which goes to Mrs. Mellette.
NJ. d.. Miller. a consulting engineer |
or the Great Northern. has been ap- |
vanaral nn,;+C II