Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-01-01
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G. II. Clark Of Letcher sold Ill head
Of cattle for $3.50.
Fred Bear and Charles Peterson OF
Fulton, have been arrested on a charge
OF robbing a saloon at Fulton.
Fire at Deadwood destroyed the res.
idence of w. X. Frazer, entailing q loss
Of nearly $4,000, with no insurance.
The new telephone system at Letch-
er is nearly ready. Miss Iva Kirkpat-
rick will have charge Of the central Of
fee.
Fred II. Wilcox has purchased the
lots at Huron formerly occupied by
Dthe opera house, and will erect bdsi'
ness houses upon them in the spring.
The agitation in favor of the early in
corporation of Fulton is bearing fruit.
II Is probable an election will be or
dered by the county commissioners at
their next meeting.
E. E. Brown, arrested at Sturgis on n
charge of assault with intent to Kill,
was bound over. He is charged with
cutting James Bulls at White Owl
with a butcher knife.
The large general merchandise store
of Fitch & Miner, at Hudson, has been
sold to Oscar Olson of Canton. The
consideration is unknown. TIL etrans-
fer will occur about Jan. /.
Ole Gesley, one of the oldest citizens
of Watonwan, is dead, after a lingering
illness. He was president Of the Mer-
chants bank, which failed during the
hard timpa In the early '9OS.
George Cornwall has resigned as
for the Harrison Telephone
omnauv in the Black Hills, and his
nIace has been filled by the appoint
inert of C. D. Cook Of Chicago.
A call has been extended by the Ar
tesian Presbyterian church 10 heF; N.
A. Brough of Currie, Mimi. he mas
accented, and will at once move MS
family from Minnesota to Artesian.
The Marshall county bank, reorgan-
tod az a state bank, has opened at
pr;+tou h officers are: II. L..
stokes. president; John s. Jlnes' vice
president: George Bingham, CASHIER
The Elks superintendent an entertain
ment at Huron for the LADY members
oF North Bros Theatrical
who lost their wardrobes when the op-
ora house burned. The proceeds were
satisfactory and the audience large
and appreciative.
The Deadwood board OF education
has engaged Miss Rose Harvey and
Miss Nellie Murphy of Terrav1lle, TO
Ar the places vacated by Miss Mary
Shaughnessy, who was recently mar
ried, and Miss Blanche Betz, VINO re-
signed to enter upon mission WORK IN
Mexico.
A train on the Fort Pierre branch OF
the Burlington was derailed at White-
tail gulch crossing, and several cars
were precipitated down an embanK
ment. Thomas Briggs, conductor, re-
ceived severe injuries to the head and
hod and his condition is critical. The
air brakes failed to work.
The attorney for Patrick G.. Carberry
of Deadwood, who has been serving a
term for perjury, has been notified that
a pardon has been granted by o Her
reid. Carberry was sentenced In. con-
nection with the a against HERBERT
u, Caddy, his brotherin-law, Who was
being tried for the robbery OF M. K.
Russell in the fall of 1899.
The Lincoln County Teachers asso-
citation held its regular winter con-
vention at the court house in Canton.
The attendance was good, and all parts
of the county were represented. Prof.
J. B.. Clendennen. county superintend-
emit: Prof. Geo. w. Nash, state super
intendent-elect; G. G. Bras of Mitchell;
Prof. G. G. Lawrence, OF the Canton
schools, and Prof. A. G. Tuve, OF Au-
gustana college, took an active part in
the discussions.
W s. Little, special referee, has
been taking testimony at Pierre OF the
noted land contest case OF Jane Wal
dron VS.. Black Tomahawk, Cor a half
section of land adjoining Fort Pierre,
which both claim as an Indian allot-
ment. The Indian department granted
the land to Tomahawk, and the case
Is being fought through the United
States courts. The government ap-
a for Tomahawk.
There was a furry OF excitement at
Lead over the escape of two Finlander
m from the county pesthouse, In
which they had been placed on account
OF smallpox. 1t was Jared they would
spread the c~ontagion broadcast, bat 1t
has been ascertained that they fol
lowed circuitous routes, avoiding all
h~abitations, and the places where they
were received having been thoroughly
disinfected and isolated, it is thought
that no evil results will follow.
William Cassavant, under indict-
ment at Nellie Fourche for selling beef
without exhibiting tn ehide, as re-
duired by law, was convicted and fined.
Charles Hall, for grand larceny, was
acquitted. Jesse Bogue, who was cap
tured by the officers through the medi-
UNI Of a decoy, a few weeks ago, in the
act o Highway robbery, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to eighteen months
in the p~enitentiary. There had been
several robberies OF intoxicated men,
and a young man was started out with
instructions to display a flash roll of
currency and simulate drunkenness in
Bogue's presence. The bait was TAX
en-, and in o few minutes Bogue was
taken with the money in his posses
sion. Several civil cases were tried
and the calendar cleared.
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