Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-01-20

The annual meeting Of the Black
Hills Federation OF Women eiuDs
win be held at DeadwoosL.
The rostotfiee at Como. Hand county.
=. d.. has been discontinued. Mail
goes To Ames.
Republicans organized the board OK
commissioners OF Lake county At Mad
ison. for the first time in six years.
DR.. III. W. Moore has been appointed
a member of the board of pension ex-
aiming surgeons at Brookings.
Walter Va. Cheeyer. formerly stenog-
rapheF in Judge Andrews court, VIII
begin the practice OF law In Brooklngs-
Christian Il. Brady Of South Dakota
| has been appointed additional farmer
| ar Crow Greek Indian agencs, Mont
m $50 per month.
4 second double dividend for the
Honrestakss was announced for last
month. and the mine paid $4,000, or
! twice the usual amount. the last week
In December.
a Young man who has been work
ing for Lars Nelson. four miles west or
CsnterviIIe. committed suicide by hang
ing. Disappointment in love affairs ~
supposed to Rave been the cause.
a sale of the 81. Elmo. in the South
ern Hills has been made 10 Capt.
Marsh of Omaha and others for STo.-
00. and they will push The miae. In
cluded in the deal IS a Ten-stamp milI.
The state tair officials are nearly the
same as hast year-two or three new
ones. They have announced their IN
tention TO have a better fair than ever
the coming year
Preliminary Steps looking TO the or
ganIgatinn Of Gregory county have
been taken. and a merry VIZ Is In
progress between those who favor the
movement and those who oppose il.
Judge Kemp, at Huron. fined Ernest
Kutschhach s1oo and sentenced him 70
the county Jail for nifty days for the
inhuman treatment of a boy whom ne
TOOK from the Illinois Orphans home,
some months since.
Sheriff Hickey Of YanktGn has re-
turned from Elk Point, bringing with
him Tom Meek. the thief recently ar
rested in Sioux City, and who. on the
nd Of December, b~urgiarized a So
loon in GayviIIe.
Mrs. Saniidge Of Mitchell has en-
tered suit against Fred Widman. sab
Oonkeeger, FOR selling liquor 10 her
husband. known around town rs Jack
OF Spades. Widman had been notified
not 10 sell 10 her husband. and she
now claims $1,000 damages.
The state board Of charities and cor
| rections has awarded contracts for
supplies for the insane hospital at
Yankron. and those receiving the con-
tracts are the Bloomfield. Neh.. MIL
ing company. -four: William BIatt, and
the G.. @. ID. Grocery company of
Yankton. groceries.
Charles O'Neill. a prisoner in jail ar
Gettysburg, awaiting trial for incest,
sawed his way 10 liberty the other
night. He left 4 tote thanking the
sheriff for his Kindness 10 him. and
eoacnEdin=: Catch me IL you can;
bur | don't intend you shall. Yours,
truly. John Dolly Efforts are be-
ing made TO recapture him.
J. X. Sechler, Indian farmer Mt Chey-
enne agency. reports that antelope are
becoming quite numerous about sixty
miles cut on the Cheyenne river. This
is from the fact that raHchers are al
lowing the few which have been left
ia that section 10 increase and are
protecting them. IL they continue lin
that policy there viii soon he many OF
these animals in that section again.
Tho state university III VermiIIion
has again opened for the wisIter term.
n many new students are in attend
anee. besides nearly all who attended
/ last terra Much interest is manifest
eel in the work OF the beard OF regents.
and President Blair's efforts in placing
rhe University Of South Dakota be-
fore the state are praised by every one.
The commissioners of Hughes county
Are attempting TO secure tie payment
OF a portion of the delinquent personal
, property a due the county. by hold
ing warrants due Z all individuals
until they have settled the tax charged
up against them. Their action Ia not
| Just satisfactory to some Of the delin-
quents. but is generally approved.
Two very serious runaway accidents
are reported from Yankton county.
Peter Weber. me OF the most prom
inent German residents near Lester
Vile. was thrown from his sleigh and
nearly killed. 4 farmer near Utica.
Herman Peters. operating . well-drill-
er. was struck IN the head by a falling
pulley and actually scaIped. without
breaking the skull.
For the frther education OF the sehol-
ars of Clay county the superintendent
has arranged a fire lecture course for
the remaining school months. one
number being arranged for each Of the
districts ia the county. Same prom
incnF lecturer VIII be- engaged on each
occasion and an admission charged.
the proceeds OF which are 40 be- used
in furnishing libraries for the dfty-six
schools throughout the county.
q. Leslie Thompson. receiver OF the
Chamberlain National Bank. which
failed during the panic several years
aGo has sold at public auction all the
remaining assets. The fine two-story
brick bank building. Including fixtures.
was BID IN by n representative OF q, a.
Rooster. 4 capitalist of Davenport.
liwa. II Is thought, as a result of the
sale. saepesirors viii receive the re-
naming 10 per cent due them. and
that stockholders. also, viii receive a
snail dividend.
A number of prominent lawyers Of
the First judicial circuit held n meet.
ing at Yankron and organized a bar
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