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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04
Webster, S. d.. Aug. /, 1898

The City Council meet in the council
room in Firemans hall, at it's regular
meeting Monday evening, Aug. 1, 1888.
The following members present: f.
w. Small, Mayor; Paul Gruby, Herman
Olson, j. Winter, Julius Flagstad, pres
ent thas. Hawkinson, II. c. Tegtmeier.
absent.
Minutes of the previous meeting was
read and approved.
The following was then presented and
on motion allowed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04

Mar meetings held at Fireman
If and 3rd Thursday eve-
! Of each month.
. ,ream soda at THUS.
L.,sv harvest is in full blast.
lhrdeen Bread 5 cents at-Baxters.
4, Fsy was in the city yesterday.
Shirts from 25c mp at Baxter's.
q Small handles the best-Chimney
EsEeyour best girl to the dance Fri
night.
,ps shoes best for the price at Bax-
h. festive lightning rod agent is
load in the land,
r fancy drink out OF Thul's soda
rtain.
Machine men are doing most OF the
Bess these days.
eurooi Paint-all colors at Pioneer
gStore.
vey dance or what is more to the
bit eyerybody pay.
NJ baye a quantity OF Oats for sale
Peterson & Co.
David Williams ran up to Aberdeen to
Yesterdays ball game.
EotoE. W. Small for your Lime,
Ii. and Building Material.
blow your patriotism by attending
ball tomorrow night.
c. Chapman has an apprintice III
Pioneer Barber Shop.
be young folks OF the city, have
kmized a Lawn Tennis Club.
he hum OF the binder wakes the
lOs on every side these days.
few pieces OF wheat are being cut
it's reported as very green yet;
B, Seyery returned from a visit to
Twin Cities, Saturday morning.
Z. Howard visited friends in Monte
10 rom Thursday until Monday.
McGlachlen, of Aberdeen spent
sday ant Wednesday in this city.
LB. Herman and party OF lady
nds came up from Waubay Saturday.
Hal stones are quite numerous
fugbout the north west this season.
FOne needed improvements are being
eon the school house and grounds.
all on Malmberg and see the new line
ladies Chatelaine Watches-just re-
Ed.
is. /. B. Gibson and daughter, OF
albay, were Webster visitors Mon
Fhuchter's Fire-proof Paint - oil
FdS-Sl.35 per gallon at NJ. A.
3ufs.
PeO. Laffayettes threshing rig arrived
week and Geo. is consequently
EW,
loot Paints, all shades, best quaiity
ek dryer,$1.35 per gallon at Pioneer
Eg Store.
Or~ merchants have commenced re-
Has the first invoices of their fall
DDS.
ne Egeland family will move into
Z new residence in the first ward
p week.
|uats the matter with Webster gi "
anaFyest home picnic some time
+ month.
IT, 10 the Pioneer Drug Store for
nus the very best OH the market at
100 per gallon.
r@ h.A. Peabody enjoyed a visit
%V.'onyllle, this week, leaving Mon
\ lor that resort.
'a'6ruby has recovered his lost dog.
snothing like the Reporter as an
Pertlsing medium.
webster Is in the city visiting
Od friends and selling patent
Oelne on the side.
ooodmanson the painless Dentist
Oe N Webster Aug. 18th. He is
'nSt-elass workman. tt
plodgett, OF Waubay, spent a
W. q days this week looking over
words IN thecourt house.
''e ordering a Tombstone, call on
4'Hin q Foster and see what they
/" oller. 1t will pay you.
'O'som and family came over from
4 ss' SIDE OF the county Monday for
Ways visit with Webster friends.
annli y Foster take orders for all
llarble work. Let them figure
S' loo before placing your order.
u ars. Nj. a. Thul attended the
= at Waabay Monday, Of Mr..
rs feter Schmidt,s infant son,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04
! m TABLE.
,,..,o Milwaukee & st. Paul KY
HAY N nrVIgICN

u. & d. DIVISION.
EAST 10:41 p. m. Daily.
Pr West 4:E0 q. m.
,rbt East $50 a. IN. Exc eptSun.
West 1886 pm.
.r.a;cbt West 1908 p. IN. Daily.
rains Observation-Disclosures.
isD' -E. A. BRADLEY, Agent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04

Mrs. p. II. Gruby met with u painful
and quite serious accident Thursday
While out wheeling the machine struck
a stone and she lost the pedal, in slip
ping Off the wheel she twisted her ankle
badly, SO badly that for several days
she was unable to use it at all. At this
writing the ankle is much better and the
lady is able to hobble around by the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04
Advertlsed Letters.

The following letters remain unclaimed
in the p~ostoffice at Webster, s. ID, for
the week ending Aug. 2, 1898.
ii w Broderick Gust Berg
Walter ii Cobban Peder NJ Fosse
lnga Peterson
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-08-04

When calling for the above, please say
advertised" and give date.
JOHN w. ARTHUR, p. M.
The herald., 1898-03-13
VESSELS AND DOCKS
The Dry Dock Question Is Difficult to
Decide

WASHINGTON, March 12.-The naval
committee of the house did not reach any
conclusion today relative to the number
and location Of dry docks to be authorized
Ia the naval appropriation bill, which is
the main question left open. The general
opinion in the committee seems TO favor
three or four new docks. The Bunce board
recommended new ports at Portsmouth, n.
H., Bosom Algiers, La. and Mare Island,
and an enlargement of the dock at League
Island so that it will accommodate the
largest battleships. The PENNSYLVANIA
delegation is straning every nerve to Sc
cure an entirely new dock at League
Island. Docks capable of accommod oda ting
battleships would have to have a depth
of channel leading to them of thirty feet.
and Commodore Matthews of the bureau
of yards and docks, who was summoned he
fore the committee today, rather startled
the committee by his statements as to the
depth of the channel to at least one of the
proposed docks, that at Mare Island. Cal.
He said the channel was not over twenty
feet for two miles, and that 1t would re-
quire S200,Cc0 to dredse 1t TO the requisite
depth of thirty feet The channel at Bos-
ton is only twenty-seven feet, and the
hanne al League. Island is about the
same depth. This compicates matters
more or less, and when the committee ad-
ourned today little progress toward a
The herald., 1898-03-13

conclusion had been made. The committee
has decided that one of the three battleships
they decided to authorize yesterday shall be
built on the Pacific coast. These great war
vessels. which are to be the peers of any
ahoat, are to cost SO, 900 600 each, instead of
100000, as reported yesterday. Chief En-
gineer Melville appeared before the COM
mittee today and urgently recommended
an increase of S100 in the engineer officers
of the navy. He said such an increase
was imperatively necessary. These ad
ditional engineers, if authorized. would
have TO be appointed from civil life. Rep
resentatives Russell, Hill and Sperry of
Connecticut were before the committee to
oppose the recommendation of the ord
nance bureau for the establishment of a
government cartridge factory. The bureau
recommended an appropriation Of $5Q 600 for
this purpose. The business Of making
cartridges is a large industry in Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island, and the representa-
tives from those states opposed the pro-
vision for a government factory as a
menace to their own industries.
The herald., 1898-03-13

volunteers had been determined upon;
but that the publication Of the intsntisn TO
disarm them was premature.
The news Of the recrudsscence OF the
revolution In the Philippines was received
with great disgust by the Spanish resi-
dents and with corresponding satisfaction
by the insurgent sympathisers.
A NETWORK OF MINES
NEWPORT NEWS. Va, March l2-Ac-
cording to Captain Greenmyer OF the
steamship Castillo. from New Orleans to
Hamburg, which is now coalins here, there
is a network Of mines In Havana harbor.
Three years ago. he says, his vessel Wa
about to steam into the harbor when ne
was signaled not to enter. Pilot
boarded the ship and explained that the
engineers were planting mines and that
It would be necessary for him to wait sew.
eral hours before proceeding into port.
Captain Greenmyer was then master Of the
Albino. He was at one time in the Ger
man army.
The herald., 1898-03-13
ARMS AND MEN
Triple-shift Work at Warrington
NAVY Yard


WASHINGTON. March l2.-There is gen.
eral activity at the Washington navy yard.
three shifts OF men working twenty.four
hours continuously. The completion Of the
big guns there Is being pushed ahead with
all possible haste. The rush has led to
large demand for machinists Of all kinds.
which up to now has not been met. An en-
listment Of men for bluejackets was
opened at the yard today. Thirty ma
rines have been detailed from the yard to
go with the Columbia or tho Minneapolis.
They are held In readiness to start at o
moments notice.
Some Of the four-inch guns nave been
completed this week and were shipped to
Indian head to be tested Not a day passes
but guns of some caliber are finished and
taken down by the tug Triton to the
proving grounds to be tested.
Two or three of the monster thirteen.
inch guns, with the exception Of a few
finishing touches to be put to the breech
mechanism, are ready to be tested.
The enlisting of skilled mechanics. ma.
chinists, seamen and ironworkers was
continued today at the Brooklyn navy
yard. but all applications from apprentices.
landsmen and coalpassers were refused.
as there Is already a full compliment Of
these classes. The torpedo boat Stiletto has
been put In condition for sea.
The work OF transporting ammunition
from the yard to the steamers down the
bay was continued today.
The herald., 1898-03-13
PERAL'S CLAIMS
Not Borne Out by Condition of the
Wreck

wreck
HAVANA, via Key West, March 12-It
is impossible to send direct from Havana
anything in refutation of Captain Peral's 5
statement of yesterday regarding the views
of the Spanish court of inquiry regarding
the Maine disaster However, an Ameri
can officer, who Is an expert, says in ef-
feet and his words are worthy of all
weight, as he knows absolutely of what he
is talking:
Il am graduate of the torpedo school
and have studied che effects Of torpedoes
ard mines from observation and expert
ment.
"A torpedo exploded at a depth of six
.eet would throw a column of water one
hundred feet into the air; at twelve feet
Zen feet in the air and at thirty feet deep
would hardly raise small wave. A de-
:unator of guncotton in the open air makes
mark of its own size in steel or blows
stone into fragments. In the water, tor
o. do itself would not be felt at any great
distance. 1t requires the resistance of a
sulid body and would be disspated in mud
OF water. This disposes of the wave the
oYy and the affecting of shore or boats
IN the harbor."
AS to the hole in the Maine, the expert
IN question makes the most important
statement that the Maine drew twenty
s;x to thirty feet at the time of the explo-
zion. and had about ten feet of water be-
low her bottom to the surface of the har-
Dor mud, On the port side, where the
United States divers are now at work,
there is at present forty-seven feet of
water. May not This be the hole which
Captain Peral says could not be found?
if 1t is, the hole was more than seven feet
deep when the explosion took place and
had greatly filled with mud since. AS to
the finding of dead fish, tho United States
The herald., 1898-03-13
DERISION AND SCORN
For Those Who Speak Against Pop
ular Habits

One hundred years ago ministers and
laymen alike were accustomed to use some
spirits, as well as tobacco, and the one who
spoke disparagngly of either Of the famous
nullifiers of good intentions was sure to
bring down on himself derision and scorn;
but the hard, cold facts move along IN a.
most uncompromising way, and those who
persist in placing themselves In the road
are ground up with more or less degree Of
promptitude.
The same conditions today surround the
drug we know as coffee. The self-respect-
ing Individual dislikes to hear Ill reports of
his favorite beverage, but that does not
alter the fact that the physical aches, Ills
and miseries of tens of thousands Of good
people come from the little-suspected cof-
fee pot. Ten days to months trial with
out coffee and tho use Of Postum Food Cof-
fee In its place will prove the facts. and
good, bounding health Is we'll worth the
experiment. Postum. well brewed, is dell
cious and gives one the exact kind Of food
needed to rebuild tho body In . most per-
feet manner.
The herald., 1898-03-13
NOT THE WORK OF AN IRRESPONSIBLE
WEYLERITE OR FANATIC
The Conservative and Inspired Army and Navy Register Asserts
That the Cruiser Was Destroyed by Government Sub
marine Mine Planted in Havana Harbor
and Deliberately Exploded


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has been pointed out by Captain Sharp.
In charge of the wreckers. All Of these
facts are known by the United States court
of inquiry, having been ELECTED in the ex
animation of those in position to know.
The expert interviewed by the corre-
spondent expressed the belief that the
Maine was blown up by what is known as
Newport torpedo, stationary torpedo,
or something Of the same nature. This
engine of destruction is the Joint produce
ton of the labors Of Commander Lon-
verse, commander of the Montgomery;
Lieutenant Commander Mclean. now IN
command of the torpedo station at New
port, and Lieutenant Holman. ordnance
officer of the Maine at the time OF the
explosion. The Newport torpedo can be
planted from a small boat, and the expert
believes that this one was exploded by be-
ing struck on the port side Of the Maine.
forward of amidships, as she swung to her
moorings. He thinks this more likely than
that wires were laid from the Shore as
the wires, II of any length, would sink deep
in the harbor mud. 1t would be singular
If 1t should prove that the Maine was
blown up by torpedo, in the invention Of
which one of her principal officers. Lieu
tenant Holman, bore a notable part.
All of the foregoing statements of facts
and surmises come from authority on
which the court depends for much Of Its
evidence, and is given to the correspond
ent without reservation. except as to the
name and rank of the giver. The expert
further believes that the destroying mine
was made up Of four torpedoes of thirty
six pounds each of wet and dry guncotton,
or 144 pounds In all.
In the Judgment of the correspondent,
the United States court of inquiry is fully
aware of the views which the Spanish
court will promulgate, and has also made
a careful investigation on the same lines.
so as to be able either to refute or con-
firm the Spanish statement.
A story is current here, but is not con-
firmed, that Captain Sampson has been
advised from Washington that President
Mckinley is ready at any time to receive
the courts report, and that Captain Samp-
son replied by long cipher cablegram to
the secretary of the navy.
Captain Sampson is not looking well, and
great anxiety Is felt lest he be deliriously
i'll. The doctor Of the Montgomery thinks
such fears are groundless. while others,
who should know, do not entertain them.
A careful watch is kept on board and
about the cruiser Montgomery, but the
officers of that vessel say that no such
nervous vigilance Is shown as is displayed
by the Vizcaya and the Almirante Oquen-
do. both of which are moored near by. The
Spanish ships at night constantly have
patrol boats out, which frequently stop
hnrbor boats coming within the lines OF
the pickets.
Senior Sagasta, the Spanish premier, has
written a letter to an intimate friend,
which was read at meeting of Conserva-
tives last Thursday. In this letter tho
premier says that the disarmlng Of the
The herald., 1898-03-13

ana what their nature was. Further the
spanish divers often so down only long
enough to wet their suits and then come
up and hide behind a blanket on the barge.
where they sleep or rest for a couple of
hours and then go ashore and report that
they cannot see anything in the mud and
water They could not have found the ram
OF the Maine, since they have not been
down In the locality Of that part of the
wreck. They have not located the turret
with the ten-inch guns, though the spot
The herald., 1898-03-13

,now smpuuHed. without rensrennsfo to any OK
listing emergency. although 1t has been
made all the more impseesivs by the Span
jsh crisis.
CuBAN REPORTS
The Spanish minister. Senior Polo, re-
ceived dispatch today from Capt. Gen.
BlAnoo. stating that the condition OF this
Cuban reconcentrados was greatly i'm
proved. Gen. Blanco states also that he
had prepared full data on this subject 10
be forwarded to Washington. 1t will be .
timely contribution to the Official material
on the condition of these unfortunate peo-
pie and is doubtless drawn out by the har-
rowing stories of distress and starvation
which have induced the sending of large re-
lief supplies to Cuba by Americans
Scnor Polo has not yet opened business
negotiations with the state department cx-
cept in the formalitics of presenting his
credentials. He Is first attending to spe-
cial duties incumbent upon new minister,
and after calling on the president today he
spent the rest of the day in calling on
ambassadors and ministers.
The herald., 1898-03-13

court Of inquiry has not seen solitary
fish since work begun on the wreck The
bodies recovered from the Maine have not
been touched by fishes. Some of the fish
ermen in Havana testified that there were
no fish inside the harbor, the waters being
too foul for them
Further. as to the alleged discoveries of
Spanish divers reported to Captain Peral,
five American divers have been working
on the port side of the wreck on an ave-
rage of seven hours per day each for near
The herald., 1898-03-13

ly three weeks in space fifty feet long
and twenty feet wide. The Spanish
divers have never been inside the wreck
at all, neither have they ever been on the
port side, devoting the short hours which
they have been under water to the star
board and forward and outside the hull.
Recently, to their own surprise, they
brought up two cans of ammunition for
the sx-nch guns, not exploded. They
dropped them back when the light of the
surface showed that they were unexploded
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-19

| issued a bulletin summarizing Commodore
| McCallo's official report on the recent en-
gagament at Ccnfuegos and adding some
minor features on the prospective exchange
| of prisoners, etc.
These bulletins are not proving Of i'm
portant news value though they are pfac-
tically all that comes from ths navy de-
partment with its official approval
Late In the day Secretary Long joined the
war board, which had been In slssiDn for
some hours. to participate In the discus
sion of their plans, which are believed to
have been materially mod Ned by the news
received from the Oregon.
The cruiser Charleston, which started to-
day on her long journey to meet Admiral
Dewey at Manila, should arrive there in
about twenty-four days. allowing couple
OF DAYS at Honolulu for coaling.
Nothing better illustrates the value of
the swift, long range cruisers of the type
that make up the Spanish flying squadron
than the fact that they would be able to
make such q run as this directly from San
Francisco to Manila without stopping any,
where for coal al rate of sp ed about rs
per cent greater than the Charleston.
Admiral Dewey's cablegrams show that
he is able TO maintain the ground he has
gained until re-enforcements arrive and
the Chareson will probably get there In
time TO serve his purpose The stock Of
ammunition which the Charleston carries
is believed to be of great essential value
just now for Commodore Dewey.
There is a great deal of talk at the war
department today Of the possibility of a
call by the president for volunteers, but
careful inquiry tends to warrant the state
nent that this Is at least premature and
no further call is likely to be made until
the aggregate number of soldiers already
called for have responded and have been
duly eprinred for service. This matter OF
equipment Of new troops Is the main fea-
ture of delay and promises to become even
worse in the future
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-19
Nap Distances Directions SAVED FROM
Ihdia South Amer Do.4r
NARROW ESCAPE OF MISS MILLER
AN AMERICAN MISSION ny.
british boats Crew Lands In MI.
TO hescuc Her from Bioodthirsty
Natives in Africa.

London, May 1S.--Mail advices received
mere today from Freetown, the capital of
the British colony of Sierra Leone. West
AFRICA give details of the rescue of Miss
Muller an American missionary, who was
alone in the mission house in the Sherboro
district when it was invaded by natives in
rebellion against the hut tax. Terrible ex-
perlences are recounted by the advices For
three days there was awful blooasbed
throughout the town, while the natives
We're engaged in the work of massacre and
destruction. boats crew from a British
warshlp just reached the mission house IN
time to rescue Miss Muller. number of
the natives frightfully besmeared with blood
OF earlier victims had already surrounded
the mission when the soldiers appeared On
the scene
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-19

10 SIMPSONS force in the near future. IL.
indeed it had not already augmented the
admiral's strength.
The Oregon left San Francisco about s,v
weeks ago before the war had opened, and
at that time 1t was not admitted that sbs
was 70 Join the ships in Atlantic waters
she stopped at Callao for dispatches ana
then Went around the Horn and then I'm
'he east coast of South America. In all
the trip she covered more than 20 ooo
miles. The last stretch from Bahia IN
inc Wlndward Islands has been followed
with anxiety by naval officers. for, by a
simple coincidence, the formidable snan-
ism squadron of armored cruisers and tor
pedo boats, approached the Windward Is
iands at the very time when the OREGON
was uue there. 1t has been suspected that
the Spanish admiral would try to interoent
tue oregon with his superior force and
before leaving Bahia. Captain Clark Of no
oregon was warned to kesp a close look |
out for the Spanish fleet. In reply Can
lain Clark expressed his confidence In
ing able to hold his own single. handed |
with the Oregon against the Spanish flee,
TIE only apprehension he felt was as ~
mo torpedo boats under the Spanish ad-
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-19

COMMISSIONS FOR TEXANS,
John j. Ryan VIII BE Namcd-Hope
for the EN-Rangera


Especial Dispatch to The Post)
washington May 1S.-A few days ago
congressman slayden applied to the presl-
dent and to General Greedy, chief of the
Slgnai corps, for a commission for John
D. Ryan of San Antonio. He is advised
this evening that Mr.. Ryan's name will
so in tomorrow and that he will be com
missioned.
Mr. slayden today renewed his efforts to
nave Lee Hall given a regiment and for
captaincies for Mcneil of San Antonio and
mckenzie of San Angelo. At the request
OF the assistant secretary of war, Mr.
slayden gave him the special qualifications
Oh these gentlemen. From this unusual
interest he hopes that If cavalry regiment
10 paced in the "immunes" these gentle
men VIII be given show. Otherwise If
more volunteers only are called for COM
missions will have to come from the gov
errors.