Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-12-17

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handcome new ediice.
Jerry Crowley, who was convscte6
at Sturgis OF horse stealing and SEN
fenced to one year and ten months,
has been granted a new triai
John Gergen, wanted for the shoot
Ing Of Christine Keller at Sturgis. was
captured by Sheriff Brown about
twenty miles west OF Rochester.
M. Hoffman. Jr, OF Elk Point has
received from the government weather
bureau q set OF weather forecast Tags
and now receives daily telegraphic
~forecases, which are indicated by the
days On display.
j. C. Headlee and son Floyd brougzs
s~ixty-nine head OF steers from their
Lyman county ranch to be fattened on
McCook county corn. Frank Wells
contracted to feed thirty-nine and J.
Lambertz twenty-five. -
At the annual meeting OF the fire.
mems association at Elk Point the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Chief,
John Coverdale; assistant chief, An
drew Peterson; treasurer, III. L.
Moore; secretary, Charles Vollmer.
The Masons at Salem elected the
| following officers at their annual cleo
ton: DR.. Robert II. Dott, worshipfui
master; Frank Bush. senior warden
william RI. Gapp, junior warden; w.
A. Nye, secretary; Frank ID Moore.
treasurer.
Ed Lennon OF Evarts is Just I'm
from the range and reports cattle do
ing well; in fact, far better than ex-
pected, considering the condition OF
the grass. Some stock was lost by
drowning while crowding around the
drinking holes.
Amelia s. Hooker will have the
honor to be the first of her sex Co
engage in the mercantile business inl
Lyman county, which Is In the heart
Of the c~attle-raising region west Of the
Missouri river. She has just opened
a general store five miles north OF
Presho.
The following were elected at the
annual meeting OF the Tyndall Eastern
Star: Worthy matron. Mrs. @. w.
Youngworth; worthy patron, Mr. VIII.
hanson; associate matron, Mrs. III. A.
Pike: secretary, Muriel Forrest; trees
urer, Mrs. G. ". Fox; conductress, La
Verne Forrest: associate, Mrs. M. Mo-
Cormick.
A ffty-foot tubular steel bridge has
been purchased from the Campbell
Flagler Brighe company of Minneapo-
lis and will be placed over Brule creek.
five miles north Of Elk Point. This 10
the first steel bridge with tubular sup
ports in this county. 1t Is the policy
OF the commissioners to place one
such every year over the Brule.
Ernest Yahr. who was accidentally
shot at Deadwood, is rapidly
Ing. The danger from the wound In
the intestines has entirely passed and
he will live. There Is doubt. however.
rs to whether he will have free use or
his legs. A portion of the hip bone
was torn away by the charge Of shot
and the surgeons dressing the wound
took out part OF the bone.
James Simpson, an old-time livery
man OF Deadwood and mi of the early
settlers OF the camp. died academy &C
his barn. He vas q native Of Scaies-
wig.Holstein, Denmark, but had spent
the greater part OF his life In the
United States. He came to the Black
Hills In 1875 and was for many years
n OF the praprietors of the famous
Elkhorn corral In D~eadwood.
Bert Wilson, an employee In Strout's
barber shop at Parker. was held up by
two men while on his way home and
robbed of s14. He lives I'm East Par
ker, and 1t was In q hollow threa
blocks from his home that he was rob.
bed. One OF the men was tall and thu
other short. Both wore mustaches. An
Wilson was about to pase them one OK
them whipped out a revolver and
asked him to raise his hands. The
short nan then went through his peck
cts. His watch was taken and them
put back. No clue can be found. but
this and other robberies there lately
are thought to be the work Df local
men. The citizens are asking for q
night watch.
In the early nineties Mr.. and MIRA.
N. Webb of Salem took a boy from the
children's home Of Sioux Falls. whose
name at that time was supposed to be
George Baker. The Sioux Falls home
took the boy. who was about six or
seven, from a children's home In Chi
cago, which had secured him from the
Champaign county house. where In
1893 he had been placed by his mater
nal grandmother. George was bora
March Is, 1887, his mother dying the
next May. His real name Is George
Henry Packer. In the transfer to CHI
cage his rame became corrupted to
that Of George Baker. For some time
Mrs. Mary r. Packer OF Olean, N. r..
has been looking for her grandson.
and has at last found him In the per.
Vol OF George Webb. There Is q COM