Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-02
Longer Stay at Exposition.

charge Of the arrangements Tor the edu-
Gators Of South Dakota who expect to
attend the meeting of the national asso-
citation at st. Louis, has received mott
fcation that the railroads operating in
the northwest have extended the limit
of the tickets for this trip from ten to
fifteen days. The admission coupon
tickets have been arranged for the con-
venience of members of the association,
have also been changed to allow their
use any time after the Goth of June,
instead of the 25th, the date first set.
AS a number of the educators of the
state expect to make this trip, these
changes will be of general interest to
them in arranging for the occasion.
An Old Gun Barrel.
Thomas Brown, of Pierre, has pre-
sented to the state historical society the
barrel of a gnn which was carried by
his great grandfather in the English
service during the revolutionary war.
This man, John Williams, of Cornwall,
was allowed to carry the gun home to
England, and upon his 103rd birthday
he presented the gun to Mr.. Brown,
who, after serving in the Crimean war,
brought the gun to America in 1856.
In 1884 Mr.. Brown settled in Dakota,
and in 1886 had the gun converted from
a flint lock to a PERCUSSION lock. In
1889 the gun was in a fire which
destroyed the Brown home in Sully
county, and nothing but the barrel was
saved and it was found in the ruins
after the fire.
Went the River Route.
Two South Dakota boys have arrived
at the st. Louis worlds fair. They
started from Pierre in a common row
boat on the waters of the "Big Muddy"
and the magnate who lounges in his
private Car enroute to that Mecca for
sightseers might well envy them the
trip they enjoyed. @. l.. Alley, deputy
clerk of the supreme court, and David
Straton, a clerk in the Office of Gov
ernor Herried, are both Aberdeen boys.
Favored by wind and current they
travelled the / 400 miles separating the
capital of South Dakota from the expo
sition city, as the river runs, in fifteen
days. Old river men advised the boys
they could travel no more than sixty
miles a day and their trip is a clear
record breaker.
A Fatal Fued.
A fued which has been kept alive
between the st. Pierre and Chillieu
families, of Union county, for twenty
years broke out again last Wednesday
night with the result that one is dead
and another probably will die. Albert
Chillieu, aged 30, was shot through the
the abdomen, and his attending physic-
ians say he has but one chance in twenty
to recover. Clarence Chjllieu, aged IS,
was shot, and crawled a snort distance
from where the shooting occurred and
died. His body was not found until
the next day. st. Pierre gave himself
up, crossing the Big Sioux river in a
boat and running all the way to the
station. Twenty years ago John Chill
lieu, aged Is, was killed in st. Pierre's
fathers house in a quarrel about a love
affair.
Sued by Four.
Four lawsuits have been filed in the
circuit court of Sioux City against L.
N. Lewiston, sheriff of Union county,
this state, claiming damages, recall a
bloody conflict which took place in
Union county in May, 1902. Sheriff
Lewison and number of deputies went
to the home of Fred Turgeon to arrest
him and his brother, Velaire Turgeon.
A general fight in which many shots
were fired ensued. Two of the boys
shot, one in the body and one in the
thigh, and two Of the women were
knocked down. Suits for $685. each
are filed now for damages against the
sheriff by Fred Turgeon, Mrs. Fred
Turgeon, Mrs. Tharcille Turgeon and
Velaire Surgeon. The suits were
brought in Sioux City to avoid the
necessity of the Turgeons coming to
this state for trial.
A Large Number of Filings.
The figures from the land offices at
Pierre, Chamberlain and Rapid City,
with those from the western counties OF
the Aberdeen and Huron land districts,
show that since the first of January,
1902, and up to the first Of May, 1904,
13,0O8 filings had been made for lands
in the central and western parts of this
state. The Chamberlain office shows
the greatest number with 4,616 filings.
Pierre is second with 1855, and Huron
third with 2,077, all filed in Hyde,
Faux and Potter counties. Rapid City
shows 1856 outside of the mineral fl
ings. Aberdeen 775, all in the western
| COMMITTEES of the district. These figures