Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-12-01

dons has been called for the 9th of this
month to consider a number of appli-
cations which will be brought before
the board that s3ine.
n~tenniaI Festival.
Without a doubt the most interesting
historical event that has occurred in
South Dakota this year was the visit of
the noted Sioux chief, Hump, and his
band TO the city of Pierre, where they
held a festival of two weeks duration
in celebrrtion OF the visit of Lewis and
Clark to that locality a hundred years
ago.
Insane Minister Ends Life.
+. L. Brown, an inmate of the state
hospital for insane, committed suicide
last week at Gankton by hanging him
self, using a towel and "a sheet for that
purpose. The sheet was thrown over a
Gas pipe, and jumping from a chair
secured the necessary drop. Brown,
who was only % years old and single,
was a Methodist minister at Bangor,
this state, where his parents resrde, and
where his father is also a Methodist
minister. Ill health was the cause of
his mental collapse.
Hatchery to Turn Out 100000 Fish.
The United States fish Matching
station at Spearfish will turn out close
to 100000 young fish this yrar. There
are some zoe, 900 fish on hand now, and
these will be planted in a week or so.
The output of this hatchery for 1908
was 3, 5o0, 900 fish. Owing to floods last
June, a falling off is recorded now
instead of an increase. The force at
the hatchery is gathering eggs along
the Spearfish for incubation. The re
are two egg gathering seasons in this
country Some of the trout spawn in the
summer, while others spawn in winter.
Some new building will be done at the
hatchery another year. A small appro-
priation was made by congress for a
superintendent home, but the commits
sioner does not consider the amount
available and will ask for more.
Pettigrew Prospering.
Ex-senator Pettigrew returned sun
day from California aud left Tuesday
for New York, from where he expects
-oreturn in abont ten days then remain
pssnti, 'rirtFe grs cold. II is
tile intention Of senator Pettigrew,
with Mrs. Pettigrew, u spend about
four months of the winter in visiting
Egypt. While in New York Senator
Pettigrew will make arrangements for
settling up a portion of the bonds of
southern states which he has taken for
collection with Senator Marion Butler.
The two have a right to settle the bonds
at any figure they wish and keep half
the money received as their commits
sion. As the bonds run up into the
millions they will make enough to buy
coal for the winter.
Horse Thief Landed i'm Jail.
Sheriff Weber, of Woonsocket, term
mated a chase Of 300 miles after a horse
thief by landing his nan in Jail IN that
city last Thursday. On the night Of
November Is a team, buggyand harness
were stolen from the farm of j. b.
Wilds. The trail of the thief was at
once discovered and followed to Heron
Lake, Mimi. AT that point an effort
was made to apprehend him in a saloon
lint ha 1paxy N ~ all etazl ~ H.
posse and escaped IN the direction of
Window. The chase was continued
and led to Mountain Lake, st. James,
Jackson and Estherville. Iowa, and
finally at Graettinger, Iowa, where
his arrest was accomplished. He
gives his his name as Sam Hamilton,
of Davis City, Iowa, and confesses
having served three years in Jefferson
City, Mo-, for a similar offense.
Incendiary at Aberdeen.
The ~incerdiary, who operated in
Aberdeen last winter causing a loss to
the people of that city of thousands of
dollars, have evidently recommended
operations. One night a small out
building on the Jefferson school grounds
burned, the fire evidently been pur-
posely started. The next night the fire
department. was called out at l2 o'clock
by some fire in some posts and lumber
that had been placed along side the
Milwaukee tracks to be used in build
fences along the right Of way in the
spring. The lumber and dry posts
made a hot fire and the firemen had a
busy time of it getting the flames extin.
guished. Two thousand posts and
3 1000 feet of lumber were burned, and
the loss is placed at $500. At $3.50 the
same night the alarm was again
sounded, the fire this time starting in a
hay Stack near the barn of Patrick
Trecy, The loss in this case is only
trifiing. A peculiar feature connected
with the fires is that all three have