Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-22
South Dakota
ra.o~o, State News
- Photographed.


bAooblii6S ~ AhNS
factory in operation.
Work is in progress on a fine new
school building at Alchester.
An application was filed for a pardon
for James Morris, sentenced from
Meade county for larceny.
Henry Donge of Bryant has secured
possession of the Foster house at Red
field, and will manage 1t in future.
The new town hall at Emery is near
ing completion. When finished it will
be dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies.
The hardware and implement firm or
EngeI & Serr, at Scotland, has been
dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.. Ser
continuing the business.
A circuit court jury at Redfeld
awarded c. II. Meyers $70o, and j. M.
Miles $500 in condemnation proceedings
by the Milwaukee railway.
Warren Elmore, fourteen years old.
was run over by a freight train at Ver-
million, n both legs were completely
severed just below the body.
Machinery and fixtures for the new
creamery at Nora, Union county, have
been received, and the creamery will be
in operation in the near future.
State Treasurer Schamber is prepar-
ing to make q call for $500 of out
standing state warrants. The call Will
be made about the 10th of the month.
Anne, the ten-year-old daughter of
Stephen Janish of Waubay, was
burned while assisting her brother in
burning Russian thistles. She canno
recover.
Gov. Lee granted a requisition a
rant on the application of the govern
or of Nebraska for N. e. Witcher,
wanted in Sherman county, Nebraska,
on a charge of larceny.
The Black Hills & Fort Pierre Rail-
way will commence the cree
ton of q new ~roundhouse which will
cost SOS, 900. 1t is TO be located at the
head Of Poorman's Gulch.
At the time the Beresford telephone
system was put in a switch board was
ordered which would accommodate
fifty Instruments. The system has
been a complete success, and Will have
to be enlarged in the near future.
o. o. England, who has been in the
puHAlANDS "S
Springs for the past eight years, has
sold his stock of goods md store build
ing to William Kennedy, who recently
moved to that place from Parkston.
The question of county seat removfp
from Bangor to Selby was defeated by
a vote of 376 for Selby and ga for Ban
gor. Bangor will remain the county
seat of Walworth county, as 1t re-
quires a two-thirds vote to emove 1t.
The South Dakota Children's Home.
at Sioux Falls, is to receive a beneht
from wagers made IN the result OF the
recent election. Harris Franklin, cat
tleman, banker and mine owner or
Deadwcod, has decided to donate a
portion of his winnings to the fund for
maintaining the home. I
The artesian well at Meilette Is oncst
more on the rampage, and citizens will
hold a meeting to determine upon what
is best to be done. The flow is seri-
ously affected by sand or some other
substance settling around the bottom
of the well.
Mrs. j. s. Gantz has returned home
to Rapid City from an extended trip TO
the Klondike and Cape Nome. She has
beer absent over two years, during
which time she has visited many OF
the principal northern mining camps.
She has made a good-sized fortune
from mining properties, and will re-
main in Rapid City.
The office of the United States attor.
ney for South Dakota in Sioux Falls
has been advised Of an important de-
cision of the United States supreme
court, in the case of the United States
VS.. Goodshot, a Sioux Indian. who was
convicted last year in the federal court
at Sioux Falls of the murder of his d.
vorced wife, Emily Goodshot, on the
Pine Ridge reservation, and sentenced
to life imprisonment in the Sioux Falls
p~enitentiary. The case was carried to
the United States circuit court of APP
peals, the point being raised that there
was no law upon the statute books OF
the United States providing for III
punishment of Indians convicted of
capital crimes committed upon Indian
reservations. The supreme court de-
cides that the circuit court of appeals
was without jurisdiction, n that, be-
cause OF this, the application for a writ
of certicrari must be denied. Thus.
the contention of Attorney Porter is
sustained by the highest court In the
land, and the question of whether or
not United States ourts have the pow
er to punish Indians convicted OF cap
ital crimes committed on Indian reser-
vations is definitely determined.
Sheriff Olum of Brookings county is
making a reputation for arrestiRg prs
oners as they emerge from the Sioux
Falls penitentiary. after having COM
pleted terms for former crimes. A few
days ago he was in Sioux Falls when
Harry Gould was released from the
penitentiary, and at nee arrested him.
Now he has just arrested Gould's
brother, Daniel, who has also com
pleted a term In the penitentiary. The
two nten have been taken back to
Bookings county. 1t is alleged that
the bi others, a year or more ago. stole
two horses in Bookings county. and
escaped with them into Kingsbury
county. After reaching the latter
county they broke into a house and
stole some wearing apparel n a small
sum of money. The sheriffs of both
counties were OF their trail, but the
sheriff of Kingsbury county succeeded
in o~verhaIling and arrestlng the men.