Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-06
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Interesting News Items From All
over the state.

| Vile Il woman's ticket won by ten ma
jority.
The Chamberlain fire department a
decided to give Il grand masquerade
hall on the night of Feb. IL. THIS Is
| ALWAYS the social event of the season
in that section.
Col. y. :. Gray. a well known auc-
| tiOueeT of Gary. was arrested loL Hh
| assault and threatening the lie OF MS
| wife and held 10 keep the peace III the
sum Of 800.
4 meeting was he'd at Rpdticld by
| irrigation representatives from All
| Darts of the country. \ committee was
| lppOinted 10 enlist aid from county
| commissioners for experimental lrrlGa-
ton.
Henry Bradley. pest trader at Crow
| Creek agency. has left for 4 Trip 10
| Old Mexico, where he Will inspect Il
! coffee plantation with a view 10 It's
| purchase by himself and other capital
lists, who contemplate cmDafklnS III
the culture of coffee in that region.
The coroner held an inquest upon h
remains of Little Walter Lainson. VINO
| was slot and killed at Pierre by a gun
| N II.G llsllltlS VI IbIilIhN NAhA'
Jury returned a verdict that the occur
renee was entirely the result or an &c
| ,ldent.
Ab1ut eco farmers and business men
ucld a meeting at Waubay, and, after
being thoroughly aroused by speeches,
4 creamery association was organized,
officers elected, and in less than one
hour all the shares were spoken for
| and over 300 COWS guaranteed.
In the case of John &. Freeman VS..
Hle City OF Huron, Judge Campbell
yrantei Il continuance until the March
fprm 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 oral ar
gument.
The executive committee Of the state
Bankers association held a meeting At
Aberdeen TO make preliminary ar
rangements for the annual meeting.
The place and time were left to be
definitely announced by +. +. Hale. a
banker of Scotland. Iankton 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 nierre and
Fort Pierre for some time under medi-
al treatment, took az overdose OF NOR
phine. He was revived with difficulty
and claimed the overdose was acct
dental. The doctors were ~unsucceSs-
full in their efforts to save him. Ii is
generally believed that 1t is a cas- of
suicide.
At Deadwood Judge Plowman hand
ed down his decision in the case of
Lawrence county against Meade
ty to recover $4,000 as Meade cOun-
tvs share Of the floating debt Of the
county at jhe 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
law of the territory, and that Meade
IOunty cOCid not be held to pay any
,ortiOn Of ii.
Harry ID. Renner, at washington
Eprings, u small town in Jerauld coun-
". was arrested, charged with con-
fpiracy to commit grand larceny. 1t is
alleged that he assisted others in steal
ing property amounting to $1,000 be-
longing 10 o. +. Woodruff OF Illinois.
Mrs. Alice Ellis, implicated in the af-
fair, escaped to Canada. 1t is sup
posed she arrived there Monday. De-
PENDANT was held on Sc 600 bail. Pre-
liminary examination Is set for Tues
day. He resides at Lanark, Ill.
Re. .esentative Gamble has intro
dueed a bin to give 1000. OJ0 acres Of
land outright to South Dakota for irri-
cation purposes. The present irriga-
ton law is of no benefit fo South ia
kota because ii is not known whether.
the land which can be selected under
,ne law is susceptible to irrigation.
PR. CANDLES bill provides for turning
100000 acres Of land over to the
STATE 20 be disposed of as the l2gila-
ture shall see fit, and the money OBJ
tanned therefrOm spent in i~rrigating
land anywhere in the state where irri-
eating projects can be successfully car
ried out.
\ Chamberlain paper, which has
carefully investigated the matter, says
that the aggregate flow of the twenty
four large aresian wells in Brule coun-
ty exceeds 10.000.000 for each twenty
four hours. To this immense amount
the new electric light well in that city
contributes about 100000 gallons per
day. Notwithstanding this showing
the sinking of artesian wells has by
no ceased. In every direction
other wells are being hurried down.
and thirty days from now should see
seven more arteSian wells added to the
list, with an additional flow of proba-
bly, about 100000 gallons every
twenty-four hours.