Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-02-15
IN SOUTH DAKOTA


Big Stone entertained the meeting OF
the Grant county teachers Institute.
The Plankinton IRE department is to
have a grand masquerade a FEB. =.
Edwin III. Vance of Miller has been
admitted TO practice by h supreme
court.
Mrs. David Kimball of Hot Springs.
6ied suddenly of hemorrhage OF the
brain.
Work has commenced Mt Pukawana
on the construction OF a new Catholc
church.
} Aberdeen youngsters have been
Ing the women in that place by person
ating a somber-robed ghost.
A Yankton implement firm received
a couple OF car loads of disc harrows
md drills Saturday, a sure sign or
lpring.
The state treasury has received
RATS aggregating 1866 as government
ID for the soldiers home at Hot
brings.
A%berdeen's new automobile. pur-
Eased by a real estate firm there. is to
ridden by one of the purchasers
I'm Chicago to South Dakota.
Ghe state insurance department has
granted authority to the Prairie State
Mutual Life and Accident association
to transact business in this state.
The %coroner's jury al Sioux Falls, in
the case Of Charles A. Nelson. whose
body was found In the Sioux river, rem
dered n verdict of accidental death.
Gov. Lee has appointed, as addition
al delegates to the antitrust conven-
ton at Chicago, NJ. l.. Fox, III. M. Saw
yer and Il. ID. MOrcom Of Sioux Falls.
The remains of VIII ID. Smith, cor
poral Of Company NJ, South Dakota
volunteers, who was killed in battle.
were brought to Rapid City for inter
ment..
The citizens of Bradley continue to
discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of incorporate
ing the town, and II is probable that
steps to that end will be taken In the
near future.
Stocsmen west of the Missouri river
declare that they have W before
seen coyotes SO numerous as at present.
and that considerable damage is being
done to stock.
Rev. j. +. Catlin. for two years pas
tor OF the Baptist church at Hot
Springs, has resigned his position, and.
with his wife, has left to make his
hcme in Iowa.
The A. O. u. w. and NJ. w. of A.
lodges of Bradley have decided to erect
n lodge building. and committees have
arrangements.
An Aberdeen man has just completed
a miniature model OF a first-class bat
tleship of Uncle Sans navy. AL
though complete in every particular, it
Is only twenty inches in length.
The authorities OF Eureka are consid-
sring the enlargement and improve.
ment Of their waterworks system. At
present it does not afford the protec-
ton desired in case Of a serious fire.
Fritz Miller of Humboldt has been
brought 10 Sioux Falls to answer to the
charge of selling liquor contrary to the
state law. He waived examination,
and was bound over to the circuit
court.
The county commissioners OF Stanley
county, on petition Of the sheepgrow-
ers Of that county, have selected III. A.
Scovel, one Of the largest owners OF
sheep on the range, as sheep inspector
for that county for the present year.
George Glover, Jr., son Of George
Glover, ST.. the Christian scientist, has
been permitted TO enter the public
schools at Lead, IN 81 writ of manda-
mus. This is the vaccination case OF
George Glover against the board of ed
ucation.
HnfItnh Dninhn1l 90 GnIAFn xEhA has
been terrorlzing residents of McCook
county, and who could not furnish
bonds TO keep the peace. was lodged in
the Sioux Falls Jail for safe-keepipg
until his trial during the next term OF
the circuit court.
Mrs. Joseph Barber of Madison met
with "A painful accident recently. Her
son picked up a dynamite cartridge or
cap on the sidewalk, and while the
mother was examining ii an explosion
occurred which blew off both her
thumbs and a forefinger Of her right
hand.
The case of the application of s. NJ.
Howard of Gettysburg for admission
to the bar was before the supreme
court recently. A long list of charges
were filed by those opposing his admis-
sion, and, after the hearing, the court
decided to withhold admission for the
present.
w. G.. Porter. assistant United
States attorney, has been notified by
the solicitor general that his request
for an early hearing upon the appeal in
the case of John Bad Elk, a Sioux In
dian who is now in jail at Sioux Falls
under sentence OF death, has been
granted, and that the case has been
advanced, and will come up for argu-
ment before that court on Feb. 20.
The other day there was an exciting
scene at the lower end of Lake Andes.
in Charles Mix county. The Fullerton
Lumber company had built a lumber
office on the ground, which chances to
be under the Jurisdiction of Maj. Hard
ing. Indian agent at the Yankton
Agency. As 500 rs the agent was ap-
prised Of the circumstance, he sent a
number OF Indian police. who tore
down and destroyed the building.
F. b. Smith OF Aberdeen. grand mas