Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-04-02
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South Dakota
Gerera, State News
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Adelbert Smith has been convicted
at Deadwood of assault with intent to
commit criminal assault.
Mrs. Almira McChillis, aged ninety
Tour years, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Whayley, at Hot
| Springs.
Owing to bad roads and Indictment
weather the farmers meeting for or.
gani:ation at Elkton has been post.
poned to April 4.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin has commits,
stoned ]. E. Platte of Clark, as pay.
master Of the South Dakota national
guard, with the rank of major.
Richard Hays, who was convicted
OF criminal assault at Flandreau and
sentenced to five years, has been
granted new trial by Judge Jones.
The $1,000 of school money for the
water works system at Bonesteel has
Just been received and work will be-
gin on the well and bitches immedi-
ately.
A picture canvasser who gave his
| name as Michael Ginsburg was the
first victim of the new peddlers' IL
| cense la wat Madison. He was fined
SIS and costs.
Joseph Meyer was run down by an
engine on the Milwaukee road four
miles east of elias, and killed. He
was going from Winfred to Howard
on railroad veloCipede. FL.
w. Riley Gibson died at the soldiers
home at Hot Springs after an Illness
Of year or more, caused by softening
of the brain. He served three years
in Company c, Fifty-second Pennsyl-
vania volunteer infantry.
The Sioux Indians OF the Ponca DIS
! trict of the Rosebud reservation have
| been holding councils the past week
regarding the new bill relating TO the
opening for settlement of 10000
acres Of their land in Gregory County.
They unanimously agreed to approve
the bill, being better pleased with the
provisions of the new bill than they
were with the original bill introduced
o year ago.
Among the features of the visit Ct
| President Roosevelt to Sioux Falls
next month will probably be horse
| back ride in the afternoon OF Sunday
April 5, in company with Capt. Seth
Bullock of Deadwood. In the fore
noon the president, accompanied by
u L lyA mill nffnnH CDyNyfCpg
at a local church. 1t is planned to
have him address the school children
Monday m, wing, April 6, prior to the
parade.
The liquor question will be tested
again at the spring election at Can
ton on April 81. A petition with the
necessary number Of signers calling
for submission of the question was
fled in the city auditors Office. The
saloon men are encouraged by the
fact that in the election year ago
the saloon proposition was defeated by
only 81 votes, which was a decided
falling off in prohibition majorities
from the year before.
The new 100000 hotel at Dead
wood. which hss been named the
Franklin, will open June /. IT will be
one of the best in the state, and is the
most pretentious building in Dead
wood, being four stories high, the first
of white stone, the other three OF
pressed brick and white stone trim
mings. The lobby, two dining rooris
and parlor are finished in golden oak.
Several persons are negotiating with
the hotel company for tho manage
ment. ...... ..-
e. J. Drake, who is employed by the
government to inspect the range
horses of Fall River and Custer coun'
ties to investigate the French dis
ease that has been reported to be
so serious, says that during the past
few weeks he has found and killed
about seventy head of horses that
we're infected. Many OF those killed
were owned or have been owned by
the Indians, although the disease has
gained a foothold among more excel
lent grades of horses owned by horse
raisers. Mr.. Drake believes that with
the prompt measures that are being
resorted to the disease will soon be
overcome.
Stockmen from practically every
part of the range have been In Pierre
the past week and report 1t clear OF
snow and cattle ranging ana feeding
in every direction. In the nNthern
range where there was light snowfall
scarcity of water is reported from
some sections, while this trouble is
not found further south where melt
ing SHOWS have filled the ponds and
water holes. What loss occurred for
the winter was in the section where
water is plenty and grazing the best
now. and cattle are picking UP rapid.
", The highest estimated individual
loss in any herd is not to exceed 10
per cent, and that only in exceptional
cases.
During the regular March meeting
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