Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-06-13
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He was thirty-five years old.
The young son of Andrew Berg was
killed ct Dalesburg by lightning.
Over 10000 pounds of butter was
shipped from Miller in one day recently.
The business men of Bryant are agi-
tating the question of erecting a flour
mill.
A p~ostoflce is to be established at the
pumping station of the Homestake mine
at Lead. 1t will be named Hanna.
Harry Ingall, confined in jail at Cam
ton for three months for larceny, mace
his escape by digging under the wall.
c. Guenther has purchased the inter-
est of DR.. A. A. Wipf in the drug store
at Freeman. The new firm VIII be
Guenther & Co.
The lower portion of Lyman county Is
being rapidly settled up. Moving out
fits, droves of horses, cattle, etc, are
familiar objects.
One. and possibly two new professors
will be added to the faculty OF Huron
college. Charles H. 'Corbett VIII take
the chair of natural sciences n Latin.
Special Agent Burdett Thayer, of the
geenral land office at Washington, has
been looking over Western SuIly county
and ordering those having government
lands fenced to remove the fences at
once.
John Miller of Davis, while wandering
over a hill near his place, picked UP a
four-pound cannon ball. which it is
thought va placed there when the hill
was crowned by a fort, about forty
years ago..
Efforts to apprehend A w. Van Slyke.
who for some years was agent or the
Northwestern Elevator company at Cor
son, have thus far proved fruitless. He
is said to have defrauded farmers out
Of $1,000 worth of grain.
A train load of stock was shipped from
Flandreau recently to Chicago. II con-
sisted of thirteen cars, ten of fat cattle
and three of hogs, all raised in the vi
cinity of F~landreau. The train load
represented about SIS, 900 worth of fine
stock.
The county treasurer at Madison paid
out for gopher tails last Friday $1,000,
and probably as much more will be paid
out. The prices authorized by the COM
missioners were 2 cents for striped go
pliers; 3 cents for gray gophers; D
cents for pocket gophers.
The new Masonic temple of Deadwood
IS TO be dedicated on the evening OF
June 81. The Scottish Rite Masons and
the Shriners will have a grand conven-
ton during the four days previous, the
MaSons occupying the first three days
and the Shriners the last day. The tenn
pie has been built at a cost of about
$4,000.
The appointment OF Roy L. Sharp OF
Deadwood to the position OF major Of
the First squadron, South Dakota cav
airy, is generally received with salts
faction all over the Black Hills. He has
been captain of Troop A, S. u. G.. n. OF
Deadwood for some time. His appoint
ment coming as a promotion. Maj.
Sharp is city editor OF the Daily Pion-
ee--Times of Deadwood.
Mrs. r. F. P~ettigrew, wife OF ex-Sen-
ator Pettigrew of Sioux Falls, recently
received a draft for $500 from Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst of New York city, one of
the principal owners OF the Homestake
mine. and another for s., 900 from T. r.
Grier, superintendent of the Homestake
mine. to be used in completing the
Dakota Children's home, now un-
der construction at Sioux Falls.
The entire faculty Of the state normal
school of Spearfish has been reelected,
with the exception of the instructor in
music. who did not apply for the posi-
ton. Miss BrOuilette of California was
elected TO the place. The state board OF
have been In session in Spear
FISH for the purpose of taking action on
matters pertaining to the institution. 1t
was decided TO establish two new de-
partments in the school, those OF Ger
and Latin and criticism. Miss Mar
garet Lampey OF Illinois was elected in
in the first department, and
Miss Ora Frost OF Spearfish Of the lat
ter department. At this meeting OF the
regents a bid for the furnishing Of the
new dormitOry, for which the appropri-
alton OF So. 500 will soon be available.
was accepted from a Kansas City firm.
Ever since the golf club was reorgan-
lied at Sioux Falls, early in the spring,
and the grounds belonging to 1t in the
outskirts OF h city were improved and
fenced, trouble has been experienced by
lawless persons cutting the wire fences
surrounding the grounds. Finally II be-
necessary for the club to hire a
TO guard the fence, and Tilden
Watson was engaged for the
About 2 o'clock, a morning or two Ego
he saw a suspicious stranger within the
enclosure, and upon the intruder falling
to answer a query of the guard as to
the purpose of his visit, the guard fred
a shot into the air, thinking the man
take to his heels and hasten to
cover. But, on the contrary, the strang-
sr promptly, returned the fire, and sew
eral shots We're exchanged. The last
shot OF the Waterman caused the in
truder to cry out with pain and disap-
peer In a grove near at hand. His ident-
lily is yet a mystehy.
William III. Brown & Co. of Devils
Lake, whose energy and enterprise have
placed them among the foremost real
estate dealers In North Dakota, are
sending to their friends neat maps Of
North Dakota and also OF Ramsey
county. The maps are well executed
and apa fnl1a1 hnt-aA- .,,es