Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-29
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Threshing is again in progress
around Huron and immense quantities
OF all kinds OF small grain are coming
TO market.
Miss Eva Bankson, a teacher in the
Aberdeen public schools, was so badly
hurt from a fall on a cement sidewalk
that she is suffering conclusion of the
brain.
The barn of August Purath, near
Orient, was burned and his young
nephew from Minnesota, living with
him, is reported to have been burned
to death.
Forty itudents of the state school
OF mines are in the bad lands, study
ing the formations and gathering fos-
sils. under the direction of DR.. G. q.
OsHara.
George Murray was arrested at
Clark for stealing a harness from
George Morrison. He was fined SO
and given until shutdown TO get out of
the county. He has disappeared.
Great trains loaded with cattle and
hauled by two engines may be seen
almost any hour OF the day at Huron
going eastward. Cattle shipments
from the west and north are very
heavy.
Mice gaining access to matches, which
were supposed to have been in a
Ethreshing hanc's vest, are presumed
TO have caused a fire near Brookings
which destroyed the fine barn Of
Van Maanen, together with eyc
horses and ten head of hogs.
II. A. Braese of Madison put in an
experimental patch of tobacco last
spring, and has a very lusty growth,
the plant reaching four to five feet in
height. The leaf is of excellent quail
ity and now that the experiment has
turned out SO well, Mr. Braese will
plant several acres the coming season.
No doubt in time this viii become an
important industry In the state.
The merchants of Canton and coun-
ty are preparing to resist the action of
the state board Of equalization which
recently raised the county assessment
on goods and merchandise 65 per cent.
The merchants will resist on The
ground that the equalization makes the
tax too high and is therefore unjust.
A meeting has been held, a committee
appointed to make a full investigation
and attorneys are being consulted.
The laying of the corner stone of
the new German Catholic church at
Aberdeen took place Sunday afternoon
NTH, tx.nrorcfxrn ..ar1rap-faC oDnl..ofal
by Rev. Dean Mensing, Rev. FIR
O'Hara and Rev. FIR. Keane. The oc-
casion was especially noteworthy from
the fact that this is the first instance
in South Dakota where the second
Catholic church has been established.
The structure viii cost about $4,000.
A destructive prairie fire burned a
large tract southwest of Clark. 1t is
estimated that about 200 stacks of hay
were consumed. E~ighty-nine stacks
were counted which were in flames at
one time. Thousands OF acres of pas
ture land were burned over and many
grain stacks were destroyed. 1t will
be hard on the stockmen OF this sec
ton, as only ten days ago the same
townships were swept by a fire. "A
young man caused the FIRE, it is said,
by throwing the match with which he
had lighted his pipe upon the ground
The famous Gilbert divorce case,
which has been pending at Rapid City
for several years, was terminated hJ
Judge MCGEE granting DR.. Frederick
G. Gilbert a divorce from Nellie j. Gil
bert. The oral decree in favor of DIR.
Gilbert was issued by Judge MCGEE
on the ground of ~intoxication. Judge
Moore, attorney for Mrs. Gilbert, as
serts that the case will be taken to the
supreme court. Mrs. Gilbert and her
brother, William Gum of Cleveland,
Ohio, who have been in Rapid City for
several weeks for the purpose of op
posing DR.. Gilbert's application for a
divorce, have returned Ec1ne. 1t Is
asserted that the decree was granted
on the strength Of certain transactions
at Rapid City recently. Judge MCGEE
allows Mrs. Gilbert 500 attorneys fees
and $50 a month allmony. The case
has attracted much attention.
A party of Indians arrived at Dead
wood last week from Pine Ridge
agency and went into camp. There
are forty of them, under Chiefs Kills
a-Hundred and Looks Twice. They
left the agency on Oct. 6, with twenty
days leave Of absence, visiting Rapid
City for the purpose Of placing some
Of their children in the government In.
dian school. Their trip to Deadwood
Is chiefly for the purpose OF seeing
Congressman E. w. Martin, as they
are anxious to be given permission &c
kill deer and antelope and believed Mr.
Martin was in a position to withhold
the operation OF the state game laws
In their favor. They were much dis
appointed that he could not obtain for
them the desired privileges. They
will give a war dance for the public
OF the twelve or fifteen families in the