Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-26
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

settlers farther out.-Mltchell Capital.
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
A number of the ladies of Britton
have organized a society the purpose OF
which is to ecure a building and open
a public reading room.
The newspapers of Brookings county
have started the agitation for the build.
ing af a new county court house. That
county is out of debt an cannot afford
to be without a fireproof court house.
The officers of the South Dakota
state guard met a Redfeld last week
and postponed the annual encampment
until June "a. The encampment will
be held at lake Kampeska heal Water,
town.
Frank Meyer, a miner, was killed in
the Columbus mine al Lead ON the five
hundred foot level May 16. He fell six
feet striking his head on a timber and
then dropped into the deep water at the
bottom of the shaft. He was a single
man.
Mrs. Hannah Sage, of Parker, was
one hundred years old May 81, and the
event was celebrated. The citizens and
school children of Parker met and,
headed with the band, marched to her
home where several speeches were made
by prominent citizens.
The artesian well just completed for
the Chamberlain Electric Light COM
pany stands at the head of all the artes,
ian wells ever put down in the artesian
basin of South Dakota. The we'll is an
eight-inch bore, $50 feet deep, and flows
S,497 gallons of water per minute.
Governor Hel-ni1. has commissioned
Ralph L. Miller, of Brookings, and G.
S. Dillon, of Sioux Falls, members of
his personal staff. Both young men
are students of the agricultural college
who have distinguished themselves in
both the military and academic depart
ments.
The teachers Of the Groton schools
have all accepted the positions rendered
them by the board of education. This
is the first time in the history of the
school that the entire corps of instruc-
tors have been offered their old posi-
tons or that all have consented to
remain.
Last Thursday Leslie Stever, eight
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Stever, of Huron, was killed by being
kicked in the head by a horse he was
holding, The lines became entangled
around his arm and he was dragged
considerable distance. The boy was
dead when help reached him.
The town of Bonesteel, in Gregory
county, has grown in less than a month
from a village of 300 to a city Of 5000.
Bonesteel is located at the edge Of the
Rosebud reservation which the govern
ment is preparing to open to home
steaders, and is the present terminus Of
the Chicago and Northwestern railway
Mrs. Alice Wilcox, confined in the
county Jail at Flandreau awaiting the
arrival of an atten dant to convey her te
the state hospital for the insane at
Yankton set fire to the county Jail two
times last week. This is the same
Mrs. Wilcox who did the Carrie Nation
act at Flandreau and Egan about two
weeks ago.
Last Wednesday afternoon the North,
western and Milwaukee freight switch,
ing crews became tangled up in SOM
way at the railroad crossing in the east
ern part of Aberdeen. The northwest
ern cars were loaded and the Milwau.
kee, empty and the sum total in the
way of results was a Milwaukee cal
in the ditch.
Jack Sully, for many years the terror
of the Rosebud country, was killed in q
running fight with United States off,
GERS on the Rosebud reservation last
week. Sully has been recognized as
the head of a band of cattle rustlers
whose depredations have caused serious
trouble and great expense to the stock.
men west of the river.
United States Marshall Kennedy, OF
Sioux Falls, has received word from
Washington hat ''sooners'' have now
camped along the borders of the Rose.
bud reservation which will shortly be
thrown open to settlement, and in some
instances have gone so far as to squat
upon the reservation lands. The mar.
shall has been instructed to remove
these "sooners" at once and to see to il
that they remain off the reservation,
Under the manne in which the land
will be parcelled out the "squatter" and
sooner" will stand no better chance