Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-16
Goes TO Class Reunion.

j. L. Browne, of Aberdeen, speaker
of the house of representatives in South
Dakota's legislature, went this week to
Gambler, Ohio, to attend the COM
mencement exercises of Kenyon college,
from which he graduated forty years
ago this summer. The living members
of the class will hold a reunion during
commencement week and MIR. Browne
looks forward to the event with keen
pleasure. He expects TO reach Gambler
on Saturday night and meet his class
mates at chapel Sunday morning.
Schwartz Dies of Wound.
Hugo Schwartz, of Java, was
seriously wounded last week by a gun
shot wound inflicted by his brother-in-
law, whose name is Merkel. Merkei
became a religious enthusiast and made
life so uncomfortable for his wife that
she left him and returned to her
brothers home. Merkel went to the
place and had some conversation with
Schwartz, who left him out side and
was in the act of entering the house
when Merkel drew a revolver and shot
him, also firing a shot at a brother of
Schwartz in the house. After doing
the shooting Merkel rode away, being
later arrested by the sheriff Of Wal
worth county. He is believed to be
insane.
Found His Pocketbook.
A year and a half ago VIM. Curtiss,
of Wentworth township, Lake county,
advertised having found a sum Of
money on the road a few miles north
of Wentworth. Not until last Satur-
day has any one claimed the money,
but now John r. Polon, a blacksmith,
of Colman, is the happy possessor Of
pocket book and wad. The sum was
$50 in three ten dollar bills, a five and
a n which, with the pocketbook ,Palon
described quite accurately before being
given the money. He lost it while
riding along the road with Barney
Morgan, the two that day having been
thrown out of the buggy, and Palon,
up till the time Of finding it, had a
lingering suspicion that Morgan stole
the money.
Life Returned to Corpse"
After lying SO hours in her coffin
Mabel Fearing, the five-year-old
daughter of Q. NJ. Fearing, of Custer,
was revived. The child was saved
through the Intervention Of DR.. +. s.
Norton, a relative, who was at the
house to attend the funeral. DR.. Nor
ton noticed the rose cheeks and
unchanged appearance of the child and
refused to permit the coffin to be closed.
He called other physicians and an
effort was made to revive the child.
At last signs of returning animation
were noted. Half an hour later the
stethoscope indicated a return of strong
heart action. An hour later the child
was sleeping in the arms of it's mother.
With proper care the child will soon be
in an advanced convalescent stage.
Cattle for Export.
johnson Brothers, of Armour, last
week sold a train load of fat cattle for
the export market. They will be
shipped from Geddes direct to the
foreign markets. This is probably the
first trainload of fat cattle ever shipped
from this state for export. They were
raised by the Johnsons on their ranch
south of Geddes in Charles Mix county,
they were corn-fed and as fat as it was
possible to make them. One steer
weights 1850 pounds. The train will
consist Of eighteen cars, and the pur-
chasers will pay the Johnsons $40, 900
for the exporters, the price being 90
cents a hundred above the price paid for
corn-fed cattle for home consumption
At the same time johnson Brothers
will ship six cars of fat hogs to the
Chicago market.