Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-01-12
SOUTH DAKOTA.

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J. A. Bich & Co. of Huron.
Eddie Barnes, a Fargo boy, has such a
yearning for music that he stole a doz-
en- mout organs.
Felix Vincent. m of South Dakota's
early settlers, died at Vermillion. He
was seventy-five years of age.
Sam Lucky. a farmer of Beadle coun-
ty, owns Il full section of good farming
land all in one body.
During the season Of 1898 there have
been shipped from Belle Fourche $500
ears of cattle, valued at S3,275,000.
Literary societies are popular I'm
Sphinx county, there being three such
in the immediate vicinity of Hitch
cock.
Fargo has a police inspector, and he
lis digging up a whole lot of nastiness
that the general public did not suppose
existed.
Two years ago Il. Matthews of Rich
land bought twenty cows for $500, and
has already sold $500 worth of calves
from them.
A Sunday morning blaze in Fargo
damaged Mrs. divers millinery stock
81 200 worth, and Hall Bros music
store $500.
Fire broke out at Plankinton in the
general store OF j. ID. Barlow, which
was entirely consumed, including the
stock.
w. II. Sauerhafr, United States fish
commissioner, is at Speartish, superin-
lteading the erection OF a government
fish station.
The Dakota Telephone Exchange has
1,400 miles OF line already built. and
are now approaching the capital city
at the rate of six miles per day.
Mrs. George A. Dodd died at Water
town from the effects of a surgical OPP
GRAFTON. Mr.. Dodd is one of the lead
ing merchants of Watertown.
Lois Labelle has been arrested at
Sisseton for numbering Joshua SheD-
hard. the Indian found dead with his
skull fractured in an alley there in
October.
DR.. William Blackburn. president OF
the Huron college. was found dead i'll
his room ut Pierre recently. He has
for years been among the most promi-
nent educators of the state.
The partnership which was formed
between Ralph Steenson, recently OF
Sioux Falls, and Kirk G.. Phillips. in
the drug business in Deadwood. has
been dissolved. and X. G.. Phillips will
conduct the business.
Mike Heunessy and joan O'Connell.
two PROSPEROUS mining rJrospectors OF
Lead. wep burned to death in their
cabin on Anna Greek last week. They
had gone on q claim in that district to
do assessment work.
Prof. e.. j. S%hellenger of Bowdle has
been selected by State superintendent
Collins as deputy. He is a prominent
state educator. Prof. Collins expects
TO move from yermillion TO either HUI
ron or Mitchell.
Fred lighthouse of Hecla induced an
other mans wife TO elope with him re-
Gently. but was too slow In getting
away. and. as a result. lost" The
woman again returned to her legal
spouse, who o%verhauled them at Do
land.
a telephone message from Montrose.
Cook county. says the Montrose -four
ing mill was entirely destroyed by fire.
together with 127 barrels of flour and
100 bushels Of wheat stored therein.
iIThe building was insured for nearly its
| full value.
Besides what We're used in the insti-
tuition, the Plankinton Reform school
raised and has stored in It's cellars:
Cabbage, 1900 heads: potatoes. 1.29a
bushels; turnips, 465 bushels; carrots,
"a bushels; onions. 93 bushels; pars-
nips, 80 bushels; satisfy, So bushels;
artichokes. % bushels.
The Mennonites near Bon Homme
have contracted with the city Of Scot
land for the sinking of an artesian well.
This colony. besides doing the work On
several thousand acres of land of their
own. fulfil outside contracts. Every
fall they do a large part of the thresh-
ing in the county.
The jury in the case of the Mer-
chants National Bank VS.. w. X. Steb-
bins ct al. at D~eadwoood, was instruct
ed to return a verdict for the defend
ant on all the issues. The verdict rem
dered was for Si1,4S7 SO. The case is
of long standing, and came about in
the failure of the Merchants National
a few years ago
One of Jacob Huber's daughters was
instantly killed about four miles south
west of Freeman. She went TO the
barn and hitched of the horses to
a buggy. but did not put the bride ON
the horse, and when she started he be-
came un~manageable and ran, throwing
her out. She never recovered con-
sciousness after striking the frozen
ground.
News was received at Viborg of the
sudden death of Mrs. j. i. Tanderup.
Mrs. Tanderup had been to n OF the
outbuildings, and while returning to
the house dropped dead. She was sub
ject to fits and fainting spells, which
Is supposed to have been the cause OF
her death. Mrs. Tanderup was thirty
years old and leaves a husband and
nine children, the Youngest only six
months old.
Encouraging reports are coming I'm
from the Black Hills ranges. There
has been an abundance of snow thus
far this winter and the weather has
been very mild, Not a pound of hay
or grain has been fed yet, and stock
men state that the stock Is in such
good condition that even should there
he several weeks of cold weather In
January they will ceme out in the
spring in excellent condition.
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