Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
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South Dakota
Csr.ra, State News
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ciety will hold its annual meeting in
Sioux Falls, Jan. 21-23.
Mrs. Mary A. Sloane of Elbowood, N.
D., has been appointed a laundress at
the Pine Ridge India school.
George Leath has been appointed
postmaster at Earring, Lyman county.
vice Ellen M johnson, resigned.
Joseph Hall of vermillion committed
suicide in the Milwaukee station at
Yankton. by drinking carbolic acid.
Bryant is now provided with up-to-
date re-fighting apparatus, and fires
will not be feared so much as In the
last.
James Smell, ST., a shift foreman in
the Homestake mine, died Tuesday OF
pneumonia. He was a native of Eng
land.
James r. Keelirg of Huron has been
appointed a stenoe rapher and type
writer in the surveyor generals office
at Huron.
A piece OF rice lodged in the ear OF
Mrs. Gottbot Hoar, a bride of Freeman.
and an operation will be necessary to
remove it.
The state treasury has called in $25.-
600 of bonds which ere not due for ten
years, but which the holders have
agreed tc surrender.
George Chase, postmaster at White.
has announced his candidacy for APP
pointment for the position of inspector
OF rural delivery routes.
The state treasurer a received q
draft for $500 from the general govern
ment for United States our room rent
for the quarter ending Sept. 20.
Pensions granted: Increase-Cyrus H.
Johnson, Pierre, IS; Frank s. Kittredge.
Hudson. $40; Nile p. Case, Redfield,
$40; John s. Harp. Hot Springs, $lz.
The headquarters for the Long Pine
Deadwood division OF the railway mail
service will be removed from Long
Pine, Neb.. to Deadwood Immediately.
John f. Anderson of Chamberlain
has been awarded the contract to fur
nish building material to the value of
SO, 900 to the federal authorities at the
lower Brule agency.
Peter Beryl and one of the parties re-
Gently convicted at Oacoma on a charge
OF cattle rustling, and who vas given a
three-year sentence, mas appealed his
case to the supreme court,
Business men of Lead are agitating
the matter of organizing a club. There
has never been any organization of
Lead merchants, and it is intended to
effect one Immediately.
Calls have been made during the past
few days for 5000 of the permanent
school fund. or this, Brown county
took $1,000; C~odington, $1,000: Rob-
erts, 81, ZOO. and Sully county. $500.
The new $50, 900 stone building at st.
pleted and ready for occupancy. 1t is
erected by the Sisters of the Benedict
Inc order, and is three stories high.
Arrangements are being made for the
of a cold storage warehouse
at Howard before spring. The butter
and egg shipments from that point have
reached such proportions as to warrant
the investment.
Rev. Fl. s. French, ID. d., president
of Huron college, has returned from
New York state, where he has been for
some weeks in the interest of the col
lege His trip will result In financial
aid to the college,
Edwin Farmer, father of Mrs. @. G.
Ware, Died at the home of his daughter
In Deadwood. Friday, OF acute asth-
ma. He was \ native of England, and
had made his home with his son-in-
law. Archdeacon Ware. since 1855.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin, during the last
week Of tie year, added three more
companies to the Second regiment of
the S. d. s. @. One at Gary, Deuel.
county; one at Flandreau, Moody coun-
ty; one at Canton, Lincoln county.
r. w. Noll, of the firm of Rahelsen &
Noll, OF Geddes, as the result of a trip
to Verm.lion, purchased a roller mill
at that place. and it is now being re-
moved to Geddes. where 1T will be put
in operation as soon as possible.
Petitions are being circulated and
literally signed at Hudson asking the
town county to call a special election
for some time In January for the pur-
pose of voting upon the question of is
suing bonds for the purchase OF con-
structlng new water mains.
T. N. Matthews Of Spearish, a well
known cattleman, has gone to New
York, where he will undergo a surgical
operation, in the hope Of obtaining re-
lief from ~sciatica. He has been a suf-
ferer for years. and has been in a crit
lcal condition for several months.
Seven Sioux Indians living on the
Crow Creek reservation, VIII press a
claim to have the government reim-
burse them for the loss Of ponies which
they are alleged to have sustained
while rescuing two white women, Mrs.
Wright and Mrs. Emma Deely. and six
children, from hostile Santee Sioux In
dams.
Eighteen young women Of Deadwood
were in a runaway al Lead while
sleigh riding with a four-horse team.
They were all bruised to some extent.
The most evere injuries received were
by Miss Myrtle Grimshaw, a deep cut
the eye; Miss Dorothy Goldbioom.
and confusion OF the nose;
Miss Mary Knowles. injury to back.
The horses ran until freed from the
sleigh.
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