Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-10

mas nled notice of the appointment of
William l.. Montgomery Chamberlain
as its agent in South Dakota.
The year just closed shows a re-
markahle activity in real estate trans
fers at Woonsocket, 73, 760 acres having
been sold in that county alone. 1t is a
small county, only twenty-four miles
square, and the transfers equal nearly
one-fourth of the aggregate number of
acres in the county.
The state land department has sent
out seVenty-three patents to %purchas-
ers OF state lands who have made final
payment. OF this list, Turner county
gets the largest number, twenty-four
going to that county. Hutchinson coun-
ty gets thirteen; Yankton county, ten.
Those going to other counties are:
Lake, six; Lincoln, Clay and Minneha-
ha. each, four; Deuel., three; Kings
bury n C%odington, each, two; Brook
ings, one. .-
Fire destroyed a business block at
Custer recently. IT was first discov-
cred in the rear of the Vienna hotel.
The flames destroyed the hotel, two liv-
cry barns, a notion store, meat market,
taxidermist's shop and dwelling. The
loss rs $4,000; insurance, 81, 500. The
cause OF the fire lis unknown. No mo-
tiv for incendiarism is known. The
town being wholly u~nprovided with fire
protection, only a strong northwest
wind prevented its entire destruction.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Queen City Oil company,
at Pierre, with a capital of 81, 900, 900.
DnnrVNnrntnr II1s-ng,I NFsNrz--
Whipple and G.. w. Pattison. For the
Buster Bench Mining company, at
Pierre, with a capital of $50, 900. In
corporators, Fred II. Busby, Guy G..
Caldenm and G.. V. Pattison. For the
Yoho Oil Development company, al
Pierre, with a capital Of 500, 900. Incor-
porators, Carl Landecker, julius Hart
and II. NJ. Storud. .
In accordance with instructions from
the war department at Washington,
the United States attorneys office in
Sioux Falls has just instituted a suit
against Abe Jones of wildwood, s.
D., and his bondsmen, Charles Francis
and John Monheim of Sturgis, for fail
ure to comply with the terms of a con-
tract to supply the quartermaster's de-
partment at Fort Meade with fifty
three artillery horses. Mr.. Jones may
institute a counter suit against the
government to recover the sum Of
$1,000, which he alleges he expended in
eD~deavoring to comply with the terms
Of the contract. The result of the suit
against him will be watched with in
terest, not only by army contractors in
South Dakota, but those in other states
as we'll.
Andy Swanson, a farmer in the west
ern part of Jerauld county, was held
up OH his way home from Alpena by
an unknown party, n it is only by
accident, it is said. that he escaped
murder. He had been to town with a
load of hogs, n was returning home,
when, within a couple of miles from
home he met a masked man in the
road, who ordered him to give up his
money and commenced shooting at
him. Swanson failed TO obey. and tried
to escape by urging the team. The
would-be robber stepped to the side
of h team and attempted TO grasp the
lines, when Swanson struck him or h
head with a broken fork handle, when
the robber fell to the ground and the
Il an d"dy oi dNSOuhL VA AiC IVY
Der pulling one of the lines from Mr..
Swanson's hands, and by the time
Mr.. Swanson could return to where he
met h robber the latter had escaped.
There is no clue, though some arrests
been made.
The Pine Ridge Indian reservation
has recently been h scene of several
fatalities among the Indians, II in
one instance all previous records were
broken, as one OF the deaths was the
result of over-exertion, probably the
first case of it's kind in the history of
the Indian tribes ri the West. The in
dolent nature Of the Indian, and the
fact that the government supplies them
with all they wish to eat and wear,
does not tend to cause many deaths
from over-exertion. Fortunately, for
the pride and honor of the average no. |
bic red man the person who dice from
this unusual cause was an Indian wo-
who bore the name Of Mrs. An
MED Big Turnip. On the same reser-
the ~ive-year-old daughter or
Spotted Elk was killed by an Indian
woman running into her n breaking
back. About the time of these ia
a young Indian policeman,
whose name has not been ascertained,
becoming weary OF life and some fam
lily trouble in which he was involved,
ended his days and secured a quick
passage to the happy hunting grounds
by sending a bullet from his six-shoot-
err through his heart.