Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-24
SOUTH DAKOTA.

ml'ted suicide by banging.
Mclean county recently sold soo 600
with VI BONDS AT a premium of SEQ
August %Broekman, a prominent Gin.
fever. s VI iuhs
jamestown Elks will open club
,oonis IN mat city, there being quite q
Local sportsmen have on, IN ,ho,r
Woih AZ bismarck and shot some cf
the nortEbound geese.
IT Is reported that the Russian this.
I, Tie has almost disappeared from t,is
state and Minnesota.
Three cars of Canadian cattle 20.
Gently unloaded in the western mart r.
the state were bid for at S23 n head
the owner refused to sell.
A report from Blunt ays More cat
tie nave been shipped in the last two
months than in all last year, and vet
we nave room for lots more.
A great many of the farmers, in
sowing wheat, are changing their seed
THIS spring, shipping il In from Iowa
Minnesota PORTS. About the SUI.
al acreage viii be planted.
Farmers In Sully county are report
ed TO be busy preparing for seeding,
ana IN q number of cases have mart Of
their seed in the ground. This is
about a month earlier than last year.
The ranchmen from the west are col
iectiDg some 1000 head Of cattle from
the vicinity Of Canton, to take on for
pasturage during the summer, and
winter, if desired.
Madison will have a vote on license
in April. There are four saloons there
paying $1,000 per year each. An eff
fort will be made 10 divert this sum
from the county and city treasures
into other lines of trade.
The officers of Lake sounty are after
a gang of wheat thieves that have
been making merry all winter. Two
suspects are jailed. and there are sew
en- or eight more in the jungle waiting
for the clouds 10 roll by.
Mrs. William T. Bishop has received
good News from attorneys in Pennsyl-
yania. A fortune is 10 be divided lc-
tween eleven heirs. amountin~ 10 lear
~ S1.0O0.000. Ii is coal and lana
and has been ia litigation many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Thayer of fort
Pierre started from Pierre recently for
Dawson. Mr.. Thayer has been in 1Ea
stock business for several years, bun
has disposed of his interests and win
try Alaska.
The combination of the safe in The
Grafton First National Bank refused
a.. 49, -. 49, L., -. awn nVI nffxy.
importing several Minneapolis eXperts,
IL still remains closed. but the bank IS
open with lots OF money on hand, Just
the same.
The state insurance department has
refused authority TO do business In
this state 10 the Home Forum order OF
Chicago, for the reason that the organ
ization has failed to meet its losses ia
many cases and other minor consider
Gtions.
Farmer GUNNER of Trail county,
who shot and killed a young a who
was stealing potatoes in his garden,
and was afterwards acquitted, has
been sued for $4,000 damages hg the
father of the young man who was
killed.
Joseph Dolrouy, a farmer who Ewes
near Cayour. was arrested ON com
plaipt of Postal Inspector Fawkner
and brought to Huron. Dolroux was
charged with sending obscene letters
through the mails. United states toin-
missioner Grant bound him over TO the
/ federal grand jury in the sum OF sooo.
Redfeld is to have a building boom
IN the spring. a 5000 hotel VIII be
built by V. +. Packard; a $1,000 IN
surance block by Mrs. A. Is. Ahder-
son, and an opera house by a
company. at a cost OF about S4.VoV,
which will have a seating capacl,y OF
about $500. The opera house VIII oe
completed by May %.
I~nspecting Officer Lieut.. Frost ef inc
s ID. n. G., recently inspected coihDa.
nv n Of Watertown. The company Is
/ nj present the largest in the state ana
| is doing splendid work. The company
is nrepared TO perform whatever work
10 ranujred. and should a call '"r
troons be made they will respond
| heartily, both officers and men,
r.aee winchester of Bismarck mas
,,ocIa rod constitutional the law passed
| Inv the last legislature anneAihs ,ne
unorganiZed territory west OF the ME-
souri, river TO Stark and Billings coui-
TICS. The law was opposed by the DE
\ cottlemen. for the reason that IL nleah'
tho taxation of their herds III 'hoH..
COMPLIES. The case will be appeaieu
hy the cattlemen to the supreme court.
Edward Kaske, a farmer, who nves
near Crandon, Sphinx county, Was
| brought to Huron by Postal inspector
| Fawkner. and taken before lAi.su
| states Commissioner Grant, OF .ne
charge OF sending obscene iel.els
tbronph the mails. He was Dounu
oyar in the sum of $500. koske re-
| ceived some comic valentines, u his
renlv to the sender is the cause Oh Ms
| present troubles.
An oratorical contest was heiu AT
| parota university at Mitchell. recent.
w. 70 select a representative for 'ne
| Intercollegiate contest to be heiu a.
Rrookinrs in May. There were nve
Contestants. George Potter, r.: l.; ooit,
ON. .. A..White, Miss Mana oook anu
n s. Whitaker. MI. Cotton was
awarded first place. The suoJect Was
h Decline Of Citizenship Mr.
| Cotton won second in the state con'eS'
in 1895.