Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-10-27

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Joseph Fogclsoii. an early pioneer OF
Redfield, died recently. He was an oiu
soldier, and Il member OF Geo. y. 1honi-
rs post In that city.
Recent rains have put land In hrs.-
class shape for blowing, n q consul
cradle area will be turned over TINS
fall.
The commissioners of Brule sounty
have passed q resolution restoring, al
ter Nov. next. the bounty OF $l.oO TOT
each wolf killed within the limits Oh
the county.
Frank Jackson Of Buffalo Gap has
just returned from a trip to INDIANA.
where he disposed OF a shipment OIL
range horses. He will make nnotner
shipment in a few days, finding snip
mnts to that section profitable.
Two children Of John Delapp of Wa
tertown were severely injured by the
discharge of n gun In the hands of
their brother, eleven years DID. Inc
gun was left in the loaded. Inc
children may recover.
Ben Cornell, a freighter between
Belle Fourche and the Hay Greek coai
fields, was found with his head
crushed beyond recognition Saturday
night, two miles from the Wyoming
line. 1t is supposed he fell from his
wagon.
News Of the death of Mrs. Clark. wife
of DIR. c.. Il. Clark of Huron. late pas
tor Of the Methodist church there,
which occurred Mt Dealwood on Satur-
day, was received With deep sorrow
there. During a residence in Huron or
nearly five years, Mrs. Clark o 4
multitude Of friends.
Arrangements have been completed
for telephone communication between
Armour and Greenwood, thirty miles
south, and Edgerton and Wheeler,
west, on the Missouri river. These
points, i'm Charles Mix county, are off
the railroad, and have no other COM
m%uIication with the outside world but
by stage routes.
A freight car was blown off the sid
ing at Ipswich during the high wind
recently. 1t collided with the regular
train near Eureka, and much damage
to rolling stock resulted. The engine
OF the regular was badly smashed, and
the engineer, John West, injured. A
wrecking train vas sent from Aber-
deem, to clear the track.
Great preparations are being made in
Rapid City by the friends of the SOL
dier boys who are in the Philippines to
send them remcmbrances Of some sort
for Christmas. Each person Is TO DO
sent a small box. lined with tin and
furnished by the local Red Cross socie-
ty. Rapid City has sent more boys to
the front than any other city In the
state.
The Northwestern road has lost sew
eral heavy shipments Of cattle from
Pierre this year, which would have
come here If 1t had not been for lack
Of water along the trails reaching that
place, and the road, to prevent such
occurrences in the future, has let con.
tracts for q number OF dams In the
range country which will be used to
store the water from melting SHOWS
and spring rains.
The residents Of Harding county are
nov attempting to secure a county or
ganization, TO prevent their county.
with several other unorganized coun
ties, from being swallowed by Butte
county at the coming election. under
the provisions Of a law under which
Butte Is to vote alone on the question
of county expansion, and the residents
Of the unorganized districts are to have
nothing to say.
The Republicans Of Moody county, at
their county convention, nominated the
following ticket: State senator, Or
lando Sea-les; representative, T.. s.
Haskins, II. ]. Maxson; county Judge,
w. A. Krause; clerk OF courts. -. l..
Anderson; states attorney, j. Q. Adj
ans; sheriff, C.. b. Ober; treasurer,
A. J.. Waller; auditor, v. X. Lee; reg
lister Of Ceeds, Austin Hollen; superin-
tendent Of schools. May Farrell; cor
Oner, X. +. Robinson; Justices Of the
peace. 1. B. Taylor, b. Newton, And.
Nelson.
Arrangements are being made TO cs-
tablish a public reading room In the
college at Huron. Already many daily
papers, magazines and standard publ.
cations have been arranged for, and
the rooms will be ready In a week or
ten days. Students are also organic
ing an athletic club, and will use one Of
the larger rooms In the college building
as a gymnasium. III. ID. Elliott, of the
Presbyterian Publishing society, has
presented to the college 100 hymn
books for college chapel use. The total
number of students is now 70, and the
100 mark will soon be reached.
Residents of the extreme northwest
ern portions Of the state are bitterly
complaining because n large party of
Sioux hunters from the Pine Ridge IN
dian reservation were permitted, prior
to the first of the present month, to
slaughter antelope, which the whites
are prohibited by state law from kill
ing except during the months of Octo-
Der and November. Investigation fails
to sustain the statement that this par
ticular party .'slaughtered'' antelope in
the wholesale fashion complained of.
In the supreme court opinions were
handed down in the following cases:
BY Corsen: John McLain VS.. A.. ].
Williams, Hutchinson county, reversed.
Il. c. Danforth VS.. McCook county. re-
versed; James IL. Reagan and Gather.
inc Evans VS.. John G. McNibben and
Edward Daniels, Townsend county. af-
firmed; Charles w. Mather VS.. Aaron