Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-01
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Carl Beck, living near Claremont. cut
his throat and cannot live.
Elkton has made extensive public
improvements in the way of cement
sidewalks, ETC..
The business men of Alchester are
arranging for the establishment of a
local telephone system.
The business men of Ellington are
agitating the question of establishing
a creamery at that place.
Diphtkeria is prevalent in Letcher.
One NIL is dead and 1t is said that
all the families OF the town have been
EXPOSED.
Mrs. Hemmingway, a widow, resid-
ing six miles north of Bookings, COM
mitted suicide by cutting her throat
with a, razor.
Dan l.. Wilson was crushed between
a threshing engine and tender at Her
vey, and instantly killed. His home or
relatives is not known,
Mr.. Palmer. charged with refusing TO
answer the questions asked by the
census enumerator at Groton, was dis
charged by the court.
Wesley Peet, ]. III. Quick and George
Davis. prisoners in the Jail at Waton-
wan. escaped by digging a hole in the
wall. They are still at large.
Some damage is being done in the
state by prairie fires. Near Kimball a
fire destroyed It's tons of hay and
burned ever considerable pasture land.
Henry C.. Struck. a farmer near
wastport, while cleaning out a Well,
was overcome by gas and fell to the
bottom. Life was extinct when the
body was recovered.
A suit for $40, 900 damages for injur-
ies alleged to have been sustained by
a fall into one of the sewer bitches of
Lead, has been brought against the
city by Chris Larson.
The following deaths have occurred
at Bookings: Mrs. Amanda M. Col
Ter, aged seventy-two; Peter Hege-
man, ST.. aged eighty-one; J.. C. Hack.
aged sixty-four, of pneumonia.
The mercantile firm of Starkweather
& Kludt, which has been doing bust
ness at Emery for some time, has been
dissolved, and August Kludt viii con-
tinue the business as sole proprietor.
The trustees of the Methodist church
in Lead have established a weekly a
per called the Wesleyan, which will be
devoted to church work. Rev. Mr.. Ma
hood is editor, and Mrs. f. Evans is
business manager.
Herb Potter, an old Brule county
resident. has apparently struck 1t rich
Sin Old Mexico. He is the owner of a
large vanilla bean farm IN the prov
ince of Tuxpan, for which he paid
$500, and which is now worth 81, 900.
Judge Moore has dismissed the case
of contempt of court in which r.. d.
Edwards and NJ. d. Polk of Lead were
implicated, for publishing In the Trib-
une an alleged slur on the court. The
judge demanded that both parties
make a public apology in their paper,
which they die.
Lena Bouts, the ffteen-year-old girl
who shot her father a yea ago across
the state line in Wyoming, has been
sent to the Yankton insane asylum.
She constantly imagines that she is
killing her father. The other Gill
dren, five in number, have found good
homes with families In the state.
The capital stock OF the Lead Hotel
company has been increased froIn S75,-
600 to 800, 900, and all the stock has
been subscribed by the business men
of the city. The hotel, now in course
OF erection, will be the finest building
and the best-furnished hotel in South
Dakota.
The report that a deal has been con-
summated by the Montreal mine own
ers of the Alameda group of mines,
whereby the Detroit e. Deadwood Re-
duction will, Nov. j, begin
operating the properties, has just been
confirmed. The Detroit process of
treatment has been found to be adapt
ed to all the Bald Mountain low-grade
refractory ores.
The new Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway extension into Charles
Mix county, from Tyndall. is now COM
pleted, and trains are running into
| Platte, the terminus of the road. The
arrival of the first train was witnessed
by great crowds and much enthusi-
asm was manifested. There are a
| great many people in that county
eighteen years old who never saw a
train until the first ore arrived there
On the first of the week.
A wreck occurred on the Milwaukee
road at Big Stone City. in which some
twenty freigh cars were demolished
| and the track torn up for several rods.
An extra freight, eastbound, was de-
| scending the grade at a high rate OF
speed. and was signalled to stop. The
sudden application of the brakes
caused the track near the center of the
train to spread, and twenty cars left
the track and were smashed in pieces.
The cars We're loaded with grain, and
the loss to the company was great.
That South Dakota is fast taking her
place among the two or three great
creamery states has long been admit
ted by all dairy and commission men.
A demonstration of this fact is a very
handsome silver medal received by f.
s. Rembe. buttermaker of the Smith
Creek creamery, in Brule county, from
the jury of awards OF the Paris
sition, for a tub of butter made by
him and sent to Paris last August.
Mr.. Rembe. who Is a gradute OF tn.
Iowa agricultural college. dairy de-
partment, naturally feels very proud
of the honor.
John Wilson. the alleged murderer.
who is said to have killed Ernest Me-
Names. near Ashton. was captured by