Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-28
/ South Dakota
c.u~., State News
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CrOpSg. ne CdEIS " Ahr &AAAS Az SfAs
from Minneapolis.
A telegram the death, at
Devils Lake. ". D., OF Col w. r. Baird
of Pierre, who left several days on
q visit TO his son at that place.
Henry Nelson, a farmer living in Buff
falo township, near Sioux Falls. was
arrested on a charge OF criminal as
sault preferred by Cora Nelson
The contract for the erection Of the
new Cataract hotel al Sioux Falls was
awarded 10 Nels Peterson OF ST. Paul.
The cost Of the building will be about
Slo0.c0o.
= Charles Roberts, living ar Hillside,
sixteen miles north Of Armour, was ar
rested on Feb. 9 on a charge OF stealing
$50 from Claude Willis. who runs he
SWIMMING station at that place.
> DIR. c. 3. Clark. pastor Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Deadwood,
while getting into a carriage, slipped
and fell. breaking a limb. The accident
viii cause his confinement for many
weeks.
A meteor fell near Arlington recent
~, lighting the heavens as light as day
for q minute. and causing a report re-
sernbling the G~iscnarging Of several
cannon in rapid succession for about i've
minutes.
The business men Of Garretson are
sgitating the question OF putting in q
system OF w~aterworks. and h town
council will shortly be asked TO take
the necessary steps 10 secure this i'm
provement.
= Horace I. Bates OF Mitchell has just
been appointed by h president as first
lieutenant In the regular army. Mr..
Bates was a lieutenant in b South
Dakota regiment that served IN the
Philippines
The fifteenth annual meeting OF the
Western Masonic Mutual Life associa-
ton collected 500, 1912 and paid for
death claims s.i.eoa. The association
has 500 members in good standing zna
3l9a,0a OF net assets
"a report started az Pierre recently
that here vas a case OF smallpox in
the city, but his is absolutely denied
treated the case, who gives out the un-
qualified statement that there Is not a
case in the city.
The new sIea.oo8 hotel which was
built az Lead has ben christened The
Srnsad." in honor OF Walter L Smead.
u Of the head officials Of the Home
stake company, who conceived the q
OF organizing a stccx company and
building the hotel
. II TTrrn r- --~Ts~~- ~ rn- -A1 ~
sition OF warden OF the state peniten-
tiary, has resurrected an old law which
provides that in making state appoint
ments preference shall be given 10
Civil wal veterans. He Is q veteran
and seeks the Office.
J. p. Wilson Of Lead has fallen heir
TO . large estate in England left by
the death Of a relative The estate Of
Kenneth Mckenzie, the deceased. is
valued at s., 100. coo. sln0.e 600 Of which Is
TO De divided among four heirs. J. II.
Wilson being one Of them.
The town Of Aicester has been put
under strict quarantine rules on 2c-
count OF the prevailing smallpox scare
Several cases are reported from there
and in an6 out traffic viii be shut OF
ninth it is deemed safe for the Quarzn-
tine 10 b suspended
Horse stealing is still being in5ulge5
IN. n il is now the firm belief that
u gang Of horse thieves IS working Tire
section around Yankton- Reports are
numerous from different parts. Sheriff
Rathgehar is now looking for a ve-y
valuable animal that was stolen re-
Gently from Frank HAzlett and for
which a good reward IS offered
The Golden Star club. the socsety club
Of Lead, held SIS annual meeting re-
Gently resulting in the reelection al
the officers that serves the past year.
The club has moved into its new quar-
ssrf in the Sp&rgo B3ocG. and has enc
o. the best equipped and most hand
so1nely furnished club rooms in the
Northwest. The membership Of the
club has now increased 20 SsA.
Mrs William Anderson living .
as the result CT an accident She and
her husband was returning from q
neighbor's when their horse ran
away Mrs Williams. who had an in
FAINT in her arms, threw il ort and then
jumped out herself AS q result, she
ruprure6 q blood vessel and before as
sistaace coald be secured she bsed 10
death.
Chief Deputy Carleton. OF the United
states m&rshsls Office at Sioux Falls
has arrived al Sioux Fails with Geo.
CsTenoar. q lf-aree6 INDIAN living
near the Indian school at Flanareau.
As a resnlt Of the preliminary exarnlr-
htSon before sha United States commits.
sooner, Cavsndsr was held 10 appear
before the next federal grand jury ON a
charge az giving Intoxicating lianor TO
pupils OF the government Indian school
Fred Clato, superintendent az the de-
fenuGn hospital at M~lnaeaposis. has
visited Rapsd City to inspect IRE san
posed cases Of smallpox. He declared
tasra 10 DE cases Of senusn smallpox
There are ffteen or twenty cases I'm
the city. The disease appears 10 he
IN a mid form The town is rscSaly
o~aArantt-ed Reports from other towns
would indicate that the infection was
Wei sFread oyer the northern part az
the state