Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-05-24
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arranging to build a new church.
Several farmers have been cultivat-
ing their wheat with apparent good
results.
C. NJ. Klotzbach's livery barn at
Madison, burned with Al horses, and
$1,000 insurance.
The Aberdeen city council has de-
cided to erect drinking fountains in
several parts of the city.
Officers are looking for tramps who
stole watches and jewelry from Beno
Scoyel's house at Miller.
1t is probable the May term of cir
cult our for Brown county, set for
the 22nd, will be postponed until the
18th.
Miss Kate Taubman, for six years
principal of the Aberdeen high school,
goes to Deadwood to accept a similar
position.
Harris Farmland was arrested at
Watertown accused of assault on Decla
Ernz. Both were employed at the
Kampeska House.
Henry Stricken, clerk in Holben's
store 1t Miller, is under arrest and
$3.50 bonds, charged with embezzle-
ment and petit larceny.
The plant of the Letcher Blade has
been purchased by John Adams. OF
White, who will move it to White and
publish it as n Republican paper.
The people of Marion feel so good
over the recent establishment there of
a newspaper, bank and other institu-
ton that they are now contemplating
tho instrumentation nf tha fnytrN
1t is probable that q rate OF So for
the round "trip from Aberdeen to st.
Paul and a free ride or a nominal rate
from that city to Duluth will be made
by the railroads for the L. c. L. grand
lodge.
In the circuit court at Pierre Il. Will
liams and William Tumath were each
sentenced TO one year to the peniten-
tiary for horse stealing. Jack Kiefer
was given a Jail sentence on a petty
larceny charge.
o. Il. Pink, recently convicted in the
state circuit courts ut Sioux Falls of
attempting To roD the store of Alfred
Reid ut Rowena, was sentenced by
Judge Jones 10 n term of four years in
the penitentlary.
A. III. Belts and A. A. Truas have
completed Ia deal by which they be-
come the owners of the Mundt line Of
elevators on the Omaha railroad and
obtain the houses at MontPose, Hart
ford and Humboldt.
The sale OF 800 acres of mining pro-
perry in the Ragged Top district to
Colorado parties has been completed
at Deadwood. 1t is the intention of
the purchasers to organize n company
and erect Il 10o-ton cyanide plant.
Two men were arrested at Pierre
and on being searched a fall set Of
burglar tools, as well as a part of the
property stolen at Miller, was found
ON them. They refuse to give their
names ana are being held for the Mi
Ter authorities.
+. Il. Hemingway, of Brookirgs, for
merly state bank examiner of South
Dakota, has resigned his position as
travelling representative for a st. Louis
publishing firm to accept a like posi-
ton with a coal company of Sheboy-
gan. Wis. His territory will be
South Dakota and western Minnesota.
A new state bank is to be establish
ed at Wagner, one of the new towns
on the Charles Mix county extension
of the Milwaukee railroad. The in
corporators are Albert Boynton, w. II.
Wilkinson, III. Il. Beckwith and George
Il. Foster, ak Of Mitchell; DR.. A. Slam
an Of LennoX and Harvey Brothers OF
Armour.
Government river improvements Is
now being pushed vigorously, and it is
believed that about six weeks will be
sufficient to complete it. The east
dyke, which last fall was extended in
to the river from the Nebraska shore
for a distance of LOO feet, will be
made 1000 feet longer, making it
ABOUT seyen-eighths of a mile in length.
Census enumerators in this state
who have engaged to canvass for hail
and life insurance and the like while
taking the census are liable to run
against a snag. The law particularly
provides hat enumerators shall follow
no side issues while taking the census
and those who do are liable to re-
moval as well as loss of pay. Through
the efforts of Supervisor Williams,
Senator Kyle and congressman Burke
and Gamble, the remuneration OF the
enumerators was fixed at 81 per day,
which is more than will be received by
those who do the work in other states
the per capita plan. 1t has been
stated officially that the enumerators
will not be permitted TO engage in side
issues for pay while taking the census.
A movement is on foot at Sioux
Falls to secur a pardon through ap-
peal to President Mckinley for Pri-
vate Jesse f. Barlow. of the Both
States volunteer infantry, for
merly a private of Company Il, First
regiment, South Dakota volunteers,
was recently court-martialed and
is now awaiting sentence at Manila on
the charge of desertion. Barlow's Of
Tense consisted Of absenting himself
from company headquarters from the
18th to the 2Sth Of last February.
Sioux Falls men who served with Bar
low in the Philippines believe that an
Investigation into his physical and
mental condition at the time Of his al
legged desertion would furnish proof of
his responsibility for his peculiar ac-
tion.
The commissioners OF Sully county
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