Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-09-16
TN SOUTH DAKOTA
s~rte.e.tinx Ncrs Items From aF
over the state

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The residence of +. Nj. Holorook'
manager of the Glover Hill Cheese lac
tory in Theresa township. near HURON
burned recently. Loss, about Sl,VVV.
The Republican judicial convention,
| embracing the counties Of MiRnehaha,
| Lake. Moody. Lincoln. McCook n
| Union, was held at Sioux Fails, ana
| Judge Jones was renominated.
lanes Gertson, an old settler living
| Eve miles north Of Kimball. took u
| dose of %strychnine and ended his lie.
| Domestic affairs had not been runnihg
| smoothly in the family for some time
past. An inquest will be held.
An electric light plant is being dis
| cussed by Tyndall. The power is 10
be furnished by the large engine IN
the city mills. and il is reasonably GER
/ tain that the plant will be n operation
by Dee, /.
Mrs. A. f. Butler, wife of a piomi-
nent stockman of Pierre, was found
| dead iu bed. Death was caused py
| apoplexy. The remains will be taken
TO her old home, Norwood Park, III,
for interment.
When William Anytime, living near
Miller. returned home from tc~n, ne
| found that his fif~teen-year-old Or
| phans' Home boy had set fire 10 the
| stacks and barn, destroying consider
| able stock, and then run away on a
fine horse.
The state auditors office reports that
|. the d%elinouent taxes due The state
from the various counties on the LIST or
July. 1897. amount TO a total of S4ll,-
| 220.1G. as against SAG. T54.SO Tor the
same date last year. This leaves a
| difference in the amount due of 49,
534 GA in favor of the state this year.
Pukwana is enjoying a building
boom that speaks eloquently of the
return of prosperity. Among the
buildings now under construction are
q hotel and a large store building. be-
sides several smaller structures. Inc
town was nearly wiped out OF exist
ence by two disastrous fires last year.
The adiutant general of the state
arsenal In Pierre, about 800 SOCIAL
Der rifles to the United States arsenal
at Rock Island, Ill. These rifles have
been in the hands of the Sons OF Vet
Grams. and have been called in under
the provisions of q recent act of con-
gress.
a harvest hand, who was travelling
with and feeding a tramp, was robbed
and beaten nearly TO death by his
tramp companion in Villas. He recov-
cred his money, but is suffering from
a broken jaw and is badly bruised
about the head. The tramp has not
been caught, but the sheriff rs after
him.
The new Presbyterian church which
was nearly completed at Marion juno
ton, was burned recently. together
with two barns. Fer a time il looked
as though the town would be wiped
out. The fire is supposed to have
originated from smoking in the build
ing. The loss is estimated at $1,000.
No insurance.
At Buffalo Gap an ~eastbound cattle
train was stopping on the main line for
water, when a second cattle train. ut
full speed, dashed into the rear end,
completely demolishing the cabooss
and killing II. A. Vaughan, a promi-
nent business man of Whitewood. The
engineer and fireman jumped n es-
capped. Vaughan vas alone in the car
at Nv lAlN .
A bold attempt was made at opening
Wood Bros store at Milbank by two
burglars. When Night Waterman
Sam Merry came up, one of the men
ordered him to hold mp his hands and
fired, the bullet going through Merry's
hand. Merry pluckily knocked the re-
volver from the robbers hand, grabbed
it and fired four shots at the two as
they ran. The men got away. A lot
of gamblers and toughs infest the
town.
The great government artesian well
recently struck at the Lower Brule
Agency, is on the rampage, and after
belching forth coal, sand and other
substances, became partially choked
up. 1t is feared that it will be neces-
sary to reduce 1t in order to make the
well again flow freely. When first
struck the well forced a solid six-ineh
stream nearly twenty feet above the
top OF the casing.
Gov. Lee has appointed commission
ers TO the national congress at Lincoln,
Neb.. Sept. % to 80: s. A. Cochrane,
A. X. Saunders, Bookings; O. VI.
Mann, Ofiebojo; James M. Ward,
Rapid city; c. A. Trip, Hillsview;
as delegates to the national congress
at Allegheny in October, N. f.. Phil
lips. Sioux Falls: G.. w. Ainsworth.
Plankinton; George w. K%ingsbury,
Yankton; Mrs. Anna Simmons, HUI
ron.
BY the latest ~veriication of figures
In the matter Of railroad assessments
1t has been discovered that. on ac-
count of an error in former calcula-
tons. there Is still a further raise of
$500, carrying the total increase
within n few dollars of $4,000. The
difference is due to an error in former
reports In regard to the Willmar AZ
Siouy Falls branch of the Great North
| err.
Court Commissioner Zinsmaster has
bound over Peter Wandel at Pierre. on
a charge of selling liquor to Indians.
Wandcl is an old man who lives sew
eral miles up Bad river, and who has
been making large quantities of wine
from native grapes and cherries. part
4 which he has been disposing of to
his red n%eighbors, which is in viola
ton of the statutes made and proyjd-
ed, and he will be chilled unon 70 rive