Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-06-20
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Armour.
The South Dakota Sheriffs' associa-
ton viii hold it's annual meeting al
WATERFOWL in July.
II. L. McNutt has handed In his res
ignation as superintendent OF the board
of health of Brown county
Bon Homme county farmers suffered
seriously from the lightning of the re-
cent electrical storm. over thirty head
of cattle were killed.
Land Commissioners Eastman has APP
pointed j. G.. Damn TO ill the additional
clerkship in his office, provided for by
the last legislature.
William Mahoney was arrested on the
charge of passing counterfeit money at
Sioux Falls, and was held to the next
federal grand jury.
Fred Gebhart, the prominent New
Yorker, who took up his residence 10
| Sioux Falls about two months ago. has
decided to build a s15,0 900 ersidence.
A uniquae family reunion was held
at the residence of O. c. Potter, in West
Sioux Falls. The ages of the SIX per-
sons who participated in h reunion
aggregate 423 years.
Isaac Tribbits of Portland township,
fearing, Ii is said, arrest for incest With
his fifteen-year-old granddaughter, SUI
icided by taking rat poison. He was
sixty-eight years old.
The story from the East regarding
the engagement OF a daughter of ex-
Senator Pettigrew to William La Porte
of New York, is a great fax Senat"'
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wakonda has a gang of organized
thieves, who ave been stealing hogs
from farmers. Officers have captured
two men, Sam n Will montgomery
one of whom succeeded in escaping.
Jacob Clerk, in a quarrel at Yankton,
inflicted such severe injuries upon Neis,
Anderson that fatal results are feared
The weapon used was a ball bat. a
dispute over a horse caused the trouble
The eleven-year-old son of andrew
Swenson, who lives nine miles SOUTH
east OF woonsocket, was kicked In the
head by a vicious horse. The boy
skull was fractured, and he died soon
after.
The we'll on the Wadleigh ranch,
twelve miles north Of Pierre, has been
completed at a depth Of 1900 feet, with
a flow Of 200 gallons per mute. n a
supply of gas estimated at 10000 feet
per day.
A fire broke out in the brick block at
Yankton belonging to Architect Naien-
tine. Axel Hjorth's photograph outht
was entirely destroyed. The loss on
building and stock will amount to
about $4,000.
n.x A 49, - ~ n rfftnC md HOr-
rections held a short session at Red
field. The work of installing the furni-
ture and fixtures in the asylum for the
feeble-minded was found to De pro-
crossing satisfactorily.
The state land department will, In a
few days, send out the interest and In
come fund due to the schools OF the
state at the present time. Calls for the
permanent fund are slow, only an oc-
casional call being made Roberts
county took out $60C last week.
Business at the government lard of
fee for the Huron district for May was
the heaviest of any single month dur
ing a period OF ten years. The total
amount of land acquired by final PROOF
and homestead entry was 24,142 acres.
all went to actual settlers.
w. G.. Porter. assistant United States
attorney, has filed a suit in the federal
court at Deadwood against Odo Reder.
a prominent Black Hills man, and the
Black Hills Lumber company, of which
he is president. for the recovery or sS,-
/ 3sG. az, the amount claimed to be due the
government for timber unlawfully cut
After the funeral OF Mrs. Or. Baiior,
at Lead, the audience Of friends gath
cred at the platform outside of the
congregational church, to pay their re-
spects TO the remains. The support OF
the platform gave way, percipitating a
dozen or mere people to the ground
fifteen feet below. A number We're Sc
yerely injured, but none seriously.
OF ffty-nine candidates who report
for the entrance examinations
week. only twenty-five passed SUI
fully. Among them are: p. ]. r
of wisconsin: j. Lund of low
Peterson of Illinois: J. b.
North Dakota; j. r. StarF
nois; II. L. Wells OF Michi'
Towns which We're to
into the organization OF
ment are getting in
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