Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-05
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South Dakota
r.r.ra, state News
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Hills. a.~,,
Rev. Frank Durant of Flandreau has
accepted the rectorship OF the Episco-.
pal church at Hibbing, Mimi. !,
An important capture was made in
Sioux Falls in the person Of Bastian.
Giesman, who Is wanted In Missouri
on the charge of carrying on Illicit
whisky distilling in Jackson county.
Rev. Father M. j. Mccarthy, for.
merly of Montrose, s. d., has arrived
at Springfield and assumed charge OF
the Catholic parish at that place, TO
which he was recently appointed.
J. Nevan Shoup was arrested at
Huron on telegram from Woon-
socket. He is charged with operating
a confidence game and with having
procured goods and money by false
pretenses.
The proposed sinking of oil wells
east and west of Miller has caused a
close inspection of the artesian wa
ter. At times an oil forms on the wa
ter. At other times the water is heav-
lily charged with gas.
The city of Armour has purchased
new pump, one that will throw a
four-inch stream, and 1t will soon be
attached to the mains. The pump
will be run by the sixty-five-horse
power gasoline engine at the mill.
Two men charged with robbing tho
Great Northern station at Albee were
discovered at Summit by Milwaukee
detective, but fed to Marvin, eight
miles east, and were arrested there.
They were lodged in jail at Milbank
A fire that would probably have
proven disastrous to the Homestake
company was discovered in the old
Burlington shaft at Lead in time to
suppress. 1t required three streams
Of water an entire day to extinguish
the blaze. ~. 2.
Arrangements are being made to
construct telephone line from Int
rior across the Pine Ridge reservation
to Merriman, Neb. 1t is believed the
Indians on the reservation will con-
sent to the granting of right of way
for the proposed line. 1853 III
AS a step toward providing Wlite
Lake with suitable fire protection, a
20,000-gallon iron tank has been pur-
chased and will be used in con-
ton with the waterworks system 9
a reservoir, increasing the pressure
to q considerable extent.
A new trial is to be asked in the
case of Mrs. Jane Hedglin against
Lead, suit for personal damages in
which Judgment for $4,000 was
awarded several days ago. The new
trial is applied for on the ground that
the damages awarded were excessive
An old employee of the Homestake,
L. r. Bailey of Lead, has entered the
ministry, and, having resigned his po
sition with the mining company, has
been assigned to the pastorata of the
Methodist church at Edgmont. He
has removed to that point and as
sumed his duties. E"
. AS the result Of a meeting of bust
ganize a local stock company for the
construction of lodge hall and opera
house at Woonsocket. A committee
was appointed to have plans drawn
and secure an estimate of the cost
of the proposed new building. F..
During the recent quarantine at the
Cheyenne agency school at Forest
City the pupils were not allowed to see
their parents. Four little boys be-
came homesick and ran away one
night. One, nine years old, tramped
twenty miles through the snow to his
fathers teepe, arriving at o'clock in
and was unconscious from cold when
found. He died.
The trouble between the students of
the seminary at washington Springs
and the principal, Prof Shay, which
for time locked as though the school
would have to close, has been salts
factorily settled by the resignation of
Prof. Shay and his wife, Prof. Coop.
er, a member of the faculty, has been
very satisfactory to all citizens of the
town.
What is designed as a golden invi.
tation has been extended by the Black
Hills Mining Mems association to
President Roosevelt, asking him to at.
tend the meeting of the congress to be
held at Lead next September. The In
yitation is engraved on a slab of 49,
carat Black Hills gold five by two by
three-quarters inches in dimensions:
1t was forwarded to the South Dakota
delegation at Washington, by whom IL
was presented to the president.
The grand jury at Deadwood has In.
dicted William and James lie Mar,
aged sixteen and eighteen years re-
spectively, for throwing switches and
endeayoring to ditch a number OF
trains near Terry. The boys were
caught in the act by one of the train
crews after several cars had been
thrown off the track and number of
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