Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-07-31


The store of the WHITE Hardware
company at Aberdeen was robbed, and
all the revolvers, knives, scissors and
shears In the stock were taken. En-
trance vas gained from a rear base
ment door, and the ground floor was
reached by the elevator shaft.
At Pierre the jury In the case of Rob-
ert Adams, for the killing of a Mexi-
can named Ed Sanches, returned q
verdict Of m~anslaughter. Adams re-
celved a sentence of seven years in
the ~penitentiary. Albert Anderson was
sentenced for one year, on a larceny
charge.
Chief of Police Martin OF Sioux Falls
arrested Elmer Herring, said to be the
man who was engaged in the fight
with the conductor and brakeman OF a
freight train lear Jasper. MINI. Sher-
iff Black. OF Rock county, Minnesota,
took the prisoner to Luverne, where he
will be tried.
The state land department has tent
out the apportionment OF the perma-
nent school fund to the various coun-
ties. The total o uncalled for
was $3.50. 900. The couties viii be x
pected tt find borrowers to take UP
this, and in case of failure on their
part. to pay interest for the time It Is
in their possession.
There is some great money being
made in and sales in Dawson county,
and an instance is given of quick trans
fers. J. III. Marks of Pipestone, Mimi,
bought 400 acres eight miles north Of
town, about two months g for s2S
per acre. He kept II six weeks and
then sold Il to the tenant who was hv
ing on the place for s35 per acre. The
tenant held the place for two weeks,
and found a chance to sell 1t at an ad-
vance Of IS more an acre. and let 1t go.
George B. McEathron, in charge OF
the proposed sale OF fine blooded cat
tie at the Central Dakota fair, 70 be
held at Huron Sept. 1919. is in receipt
OF letters from breeders and cattle
dealers in neighboring states. signify
ing their purpose TO be present with
stock. Indications are that this feature
of the exhibit will be important and
AFFORD farmers an opportunity OF pur-
chasing as fine stock as can be had in
any part of the country.
The school patrons OF Twin Lakes
township. In Sanborn county have vot-
ed &c ~centralize its schools. Instead OF
having four schools al various places.
they will move two OF the present
buildings to the center OF the town.
ship. and will have q graded school.
Two teachers will be employed, and in
cutting down the number OF teachers.
they will be able TO pay better wages
and get a better class. The pupils will
be carried to and from school. so that
those living at o distance may atteni.
Is well as those living near.
Maj. Mclaughlin Is at Cheyenne
River Agency holding q council with
the Indians regarding the leasing OF
their lands, and also the trail across
the reservation used by the Milwau-
kee railway to bring stock from the
west range country for shipment. Next
Monday Is ration day, and all Indians
will be called in for that day. when a
big council will be elected and all mat
tiers thoroughly settled. Forty thou
sand head Of cattle have been placed
upon the leased part Of the reserva-
ton, which will bring the Indians q
nice sum OF money.
Rival factions in Buffalo, Taopi and
Grand Meadow townships, in Minne-
haha county, are engaged In a bitter
fight over the question OF reforming
the school districts Of the townships,
and the fight viii be carried before the
county commissioners. The residents
of Buffalo township! petitiored the
board for three districts to be made
out of two, and the people of the other
two townships also petitioned for add
itional districts. The board granted
the petitions, tax levies were made In
accordance with the new arrangement,
but now many OF the same people who
signed the petitions asking for the
new districts are signing new petitions
to have the districts changed back to
the original boundaries.
A murder mystery Of seven or eight
years standing at TyndalI. appears to
have been solved. Seven or eight years
ago a Mrs. Kucera, wife of a Bohemian
farmer, disappeared. The husband
said she had eloped with a neighbor.
AS il was known that the couple had
frequent quarrels, neighbors were or
opinion that the woman had been muir
dered by her husband and h body
secreted. Kucera sold his farm, bue
remained in the neighborhood. The
other day, while a pile Of stones near
tine former home of Kucera were being
removed. the skeleton OF a woman,
supposed to be that OF Mrs.Kucera,
was uncovered. SO strong Is the be-
lief that the remains are those of Mrs.
Kucera and tina she vas killed by her
husband, that Kucera a been ar
rested on the charge OF murder.
The action Of the state supreme court
In granting Frederick Page, an inmate
OF the penitentiary, a new trial, will be
of interest to the people OF Klngsbury
county, where Page vas convicted. He
Is serving a term for being a member
of the now-celebrated Kingsbury coun-
ty whitecapping party. which. in the
summer OF 1900, went to the home OF
Nels Sands, an undesirable neighbor.
and used him very roughly In an at
tempt TO drive him from the country.
Page, IL Is believed, Is almost certain
TO be acquitted as the result of his new
trial, as Sands. the complaining witt
ness. moved TO a point In North Dakota
some time ago, and reports are to the
effect that III has since moved from
that point to a place unknown. This
win meet the approval OF the people OF
Kingsbury county, where the almost
gaparaI sentiment nreyafiS that Page