Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-12

/ Ice in the river is over four feet thick.
| The town of Avon Is without hotel,
the former proprietor having left the
| business Contractors are drawing
plans for new hotel to cost $4,000 or
! $4,000.
The Homestake Mining company IL
| planning to replace the old Homestaks
hotel, destroyed by fire at Lead, with
! a three-story brick and stone building
| to be used as hotel The loss by
fire is estimated at $1,000, on which
there was $4,000 insurance.
One Of the schools at Deadwood has
| been ordered closed on account Of
| diphtheria among the pupils. Several
| cases in a mild form have appeared.
! The school will open in week IL no
| further cases appear. In the meantime
the building is being fumigated.
Salem is suffering from coal fam
inc. There has not been pound OF
coal in town for several days and
| farmers are out. Some have been In
town every day hoping to be able to
get coal. Dealers have plenty on the
way, but it is evidently sidetracked
! somewhere.
Fire at Lead destroyed the BretteIl
| block, causing loss of about $4,000,
with insurance of $4,000. There were
two storerooms on the first floor, con-
Quoted by Slayonians, the contents OF
which are lost or seriously damaged.
! George Brettell died two years ago
and left the building to the Odd Eel
! lows, to which the estate was prepars
| ing to turn it over when it was de-
| stroyed.
/ left home to spend the evening with a
neighbor. Before his departure he
/ raised the trap door to a cistern and
placed pail containing 81 600 In cash
under the floor at the top OF the cis-
| tern. When he returned he found the
! trap door had been raised and on the
| floor near 1t was scattered $500 in pa
| per money, which evidently had been
dropped by the thief in his haste. The
other $500 was gone.
A man named Mead, who was con-
fined in the county jail at Ipswich
! while awaiting the next term OF the
| state circuit court, has succeeded in
| making his escape and no trace OF
| him can be found. He was confined
| in that part of the jail intended for
| women prisoners, and had no difficulty
in cutting through a wooden stairway
| with the aid of a spade and Ratchet
which were in the cell.
Another forged check was received
! by the Citizens State bank of Armour
| with f. E. Lawrence's name attached.
Mr.. Lawrence is a business man OF
Armour and the check was cashed In
! Spokane, Wash. 1t was drawn for
| SIS and Endorsed by A. b. Wilson.
These checks have arrived at various
intervals from different parts of the
United States for the past year. The
| same forger has signed them all. They
have ranged from SIS to $35 each.
A new discovery of gold ore has
/ been made on the head of Falsebottom
creek along the wagon road between
Deadwood and Portland, and near
Deadwood gulch, by Il. p Farnham of
Central City, who has been working a
tract of eighty-seyen acres of land for
several months under bond and lease.
| The property lies in the phonolite
| ing all the characteristics OF the rich
| ing all the characteristics of the rich
ore the Pennsylvania company is work
| ing near by, and closely resembling
much of the ore of Cripple Creek.
4 There has been much speculation In
| the Hills relative to the electric-cya.
hide custom mill at Mystic, some de-
| claring the gold-saving process started
| by f. H. Long of Chicago failure be-
cause the mill was occasionally idle.
| A little newspaper criticism has
! brought forth a statement from Mr..
! Long relative to his new process which
throws some light on the subject He
declares that the plant has proven all
| claimed for Il, and although run peri
odically, 1t has really been no fa:1iitt on
1 the methods. The trouble has been
lack of ore for steady work.
Capt. Lucas, commandant of the sol.
diers' home, has just received draft
! to the amount of $S0.65 from the gov.
eminent, When he mustered out he
was in such haste to get home - a
sick wife that he did not stop. to Sc
cure transportation to his home, pay
| ing his own way A few months ago
he was notified that a balance was due
him and If he would execute certain
papers sent the amount would be paid.
This he did and few weeks later re-
ceived draft in payment of the bill.
Thirty-eight years had gone by since
the debt was die, and now 1t is paid.
The strange part is, Capt. Lucas did
not know his Uncle Sam owed him O
cent.
There is almost a panic in many ru-
raj school districts on account of the
large number of marriage in the ranks
of the schoolma' ans. The teachers