Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-17

A case Of scarlet fever is repor.ei Mt
kidder, having been brought from MIL
bank.
The late term Of the circuit court for
Hyde county lasted two days, when the
Jury was discharged by Judge Gaffy
and the court cases continued for an
adjourned meeting.
The city council Of Pierre has passed
a resolution invitin Pierre Chofeau O.
81. Louis TO visit the city this winter.
Mr.. Choteau is at the head Of the st.
Louis exposition and is a grandson of
n man whose name that city bears.
In the case of Ellen M. Strong. mr.
kinvon. a girl who died at Sioux Fails
early Saturday morning in a local
motel from a dose of arsenic, the cor
oners jury returned a verdict that she
came to her death by poison admin
istered by herself.
Huron sportsmen, together with the
huron u club, are keeling careful
lookout for violators of the new game
Jaw which went into operation Jan. 1.
IT provides that any person having a
game bird in his possession is liable 70
prosecution, without regard to how he
came by 1t.
In the case of William Black ys. the
Board OF Managers Of the Hot Springs
soldiers Home, Judge MCGEE Of Rapid
Clty, decided that the court has moth
ing to do with the actions Of the board.
Black was recently discharged from the
home for disorderly conduct. He sued
the board for damages and also for re-
instatement in the home.
A flow of more than five feet over
the top of the pipe has been struck in
the new power artesian well, just COM
pleted at the Chamberlain Touring
mills. The pipe in a six-inch and isput
down but a short distance from the
spot where the great 14-foot gusher,
the greatest artesian well In the world,
was struck several years ago and
which has since ceased to flow.
The case Of James A. Handy VS..
Smith & Sexton, which has been on
trial in the circuit court at Sturgis, is
ended. The jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff for 81 1900. The defendants
are practicing physicians in Sturgis,
and the claim was for alleged malprac-
tice upon their part in the application
of medicine to the eye which practically
destroyed its vision. Defendants claim
they will appeal.
For h quarter ending Dec. 81, the
United States land office at Chamber
lain transacted the following business:
Homestead entries, 124; acres disposed
of, 16, 10; eighty-five final homestead
proofs were made, perfecting title to
1888 acres, to which may be added
twenty-six committed proofs, involving
4,l45 acres, and five timber culture
proofs, acquiring title to 7S7 acres; the
total amout of the government domain
disposed OF being 34,S70 acres.
j.. G. Pickering has been prevailed
upon to accept the position of postmas-
ter at Virgil, a lively little town on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway, In the southwestern part of
Beadle county. Some time since the
postmaster was removed by order of
the department, and as the business of
the o ce was heavy, compared with
h salary, difficulty was experienced
In finding some one 20 take. the Job.
The department directed the office TO
be discontinued at a certain time un-
less a suitable person for postmaster
was presented, and now J.. C.. Picker
Ing has filed his bond and will soon be
commissioned as postmaster at that
place. The settlement of the problem
rs very satisfactory to the patrons Of
h e,office, who include settlers: OF four
! townships in a prosperous AMI well
settled part of the county.
Word reached Chamberlain OF the
sudden death of Augustus Allen. w1o
for many years has been conducting a
general store on the prairie about
fourteen miles northeast of Chamber
lain. Allen, who was well known in
that section of the state, had he,n in
poor health for some time. and as he
did not show up during the lay, q
neighbor went to the store ana broke
In the door. Allen was folni lying on
the sofa In his clothes and s.o.king
feet dead. one hand clenched over the
heart and the other lying by his side,
with a partly consumed bottle of med
icine on a nearby counter. AS no
lamp was burning, and the fire was
practically out, 1t is presumed that he
must have died Saturday evening.
Allen was alone in the house. having
been divorced from his wife about a
year ago. Both he and his wife resided
at Ithaca, Mich, where the deceased
a several brothers and sisters. An
inquest was held, at which it was de-
termined that the deceased came to
his death from heart failure.