Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-02-09
SOUTH DAKOTA.

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John Mordaut, one Of the first set
tiers Of Hutchinson county, died re-
Gently.
Pat Tiffany, who has been confined
I'm the county Jail at Woonsocket, sO
the charge of wife-beating has been
released on a writ of habeas corpus.
A Chicago gentleman named Deut-
sche has leased n building on Dakota
avenue, Huron. and will soon open a
cry goods house.
The Acme Harvester company, rep
resented by j. A. Cleaver, is arranging
TO put up n large building for their use
the approaching spring in Huron.
s. ID. Dinneen IS erecting a large ag-
rfcultural implement warehouse at
Huron, and will engage in the business
the coming season.
|, Sven SwenSon. residing in Sanborn
county, in making a call at a neigh
bor's. was attacked by the latter'S
vicious dogs. The brutes got him
down. and he was frightfully bitten
and torn before he could be rescued.
John Theirs. another old resident of
the Black Hills, died of heart failure in
Deadwood. He was found dead In
front OF the door of his ROOM, and an
autopsy showed an enlargement of the
heart. He came to the Black Hills in
1876, and was a placer miner for years.
Rev. j. ID. Skaggs has resigned as
ipastor OF the Methodist church at
~Spearfish. and will go to Crook county,
Wyoming, where he WINS elected prose
cutting attorney last November. He
will be succeeded by Rev. +. M. Wight
OF Bloomfield, Neb.
A prominent stockman named Geo
Evans was arrested at Belle Fourche
for stealing cattle from the herd OF the
WV. Cattle company, and he was held
to the grand jury in 5000 bonds. He
sold some beef TO a Deadwood butcher,
and 1t Is alleged that il was stolen
from the range. Evans owns q large
herd of cattle himself.
Mrs. r. A. Vaughn Of Whitewood
has commenced a dan age suit against
the Elkhorn Railway company for the
death OF her husband. over a year ago.
at Buffalo Gap. Vaughn was riding in
n cattle train, and while asleep In the
caboose another train ran into his car
ard he was instantly killed. The suit
IS for $4,000.
A crusade has been in~augurated at
Centerville against disreputable char
~acters. Mrs. Rosenberger was arrested
and convicted of being an inmate Of a
disorderly house. AS the town Jail
was not deemed fit for her occupancy.
the authorities rented a building form
erly used as a millinery store, and con
fined her in il.
M. l.. Beebe OF Bookings. secretary
of the state o~TatOrical association, has
been at Huron arranging with the Off
GERS OF the Huron College Oratorical
association to take part I'm the state or
a~torical contest. TO occur In Mitchell
next May. In the state association are
Brookings, Yankton, Vermillion, Red
field, s1itchell and, soon, Huron col
leges.
Il. II. Van Antwerp and a number OF
other deputy United States surveyors
have been at Huron during the past
few days. comforting with Sur reyor
General Morris concerning contracts
upon which they will enter as soon as
the weather viii permit. Much field
work will be done the coming sum
mer. and many uncompleted contracts
for surveying government land will be
closed before fall.
John May, one of the most popular
young miners in the Lead district, fell
forty feet in the shaft OF the Sunset
Mining company, at Terry, and died
from the effects Of the fall. He was a
leader in several society orders, and
was considered the most skiIlful min
er in the district. His parents live mt
Cornwall. England, and he has one
brother here and another in South At
RIGA.
James West and Edward Mccarthy
had preliminary examinations at Sioux
Fails before United States Commits
sioner j. 9. Conway. on the charge of
passing counterfeit money. West was
accused of purchasing a newspaper
and rendering in payment a 50-cent
piece. which was afterwards found to
be spurious. AS a result of the exam
~ination he was held in bonds Of $500 to
the next federal grand jury. McCar-
thy was dismissed.
The fifteen-year-old daughter Of Dan
Eel Groyer was missed from her home
Sunday, down on n farm near Bend.
Her father had been gone from the
house some time, and when he re-
turEed his daughter was cone. After
careful inquiry In Rapid City he found
that the girl had eloped to Terraville
with a young man who had come down
for her. The old man intends to get
bis daughter back, as she Is under the
E~rriageble age.
Fire broke out IN the upper story OF
the property OF Mrs. G. A Crothcrs OF
Aipena- occupied by B. K. Schrover.
The fire was not discovered until Il
was well under way, and the depart
ment was obliged to do hard work.
Mr.. Schovsr. the occupant, lost consid-
cradle in the way Of clothing, dishes,
etc. but the furniture was nearly ali
saved. The damage to the house in
considerable, and the property was un-
insured.
Another odd pioneer passed away in
Deadwood with pneumonia The vic
tim was Washington Henry, a colored
man. He was the FIRST negro to enter
the Black Hills, having been a team
ster with the Jenny expedition, in 10,
TO explore the western part of the
country. He settled down on Il claim
near Spearfish and endured the hard
ships of a pioneers life. He reared a
family Of children, and has given each
an excellent education, n son being 4
graduate OF Spearfish normal.
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