Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-02-25
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has been formally opened.
The Northwestern Stock Growers
association will meet at Belle Fourche
April IA. Is and 16.
William Anderson and Samuel
Lacka met death in the Homestake
mine by the premature explosion OF a
blast.
A building boom has struck Oldham,
and next summe will see the erection
of many business blocks as well as
residences.
Mrs. Andrew Johnson, wife Of the
superintendent Of the coal mines at
Aladdin, Wyo., died at the Belle
Fourche hospital.
The Omaha railroad station at
Mitchell was destroyed by fire. All
the books, papers and tickets were
saved, and some Of the freight from
the house.
The oldham fire company elected
the following officers: r. l.. Jackson,
president; w. S. Shaw. vice presi-
dent; r. ]. Mueller, secretary. and /.
j. Flanders. chief.
Enos Lane. n OF the pioneers of
the Hills died suddenly of infiamma-
tory rheumatism at Whitewood. He
was fifty-three. His body has been
sent to Wayne county, Pa. where he
vas born.
John j. Engbrecht, a young school
teacher of Parker, who pleaded guilty
to an indictment charging him with
sending Objectionable matter through
the mails. was sentenced at Sioux
Falls to pay a fine Of $500.
Diamonds worth 81, 900 or more were
stolen from a jewel ase at the home
of j. w. Campbell and family at HUI
ron. The gems belonged to Mrs.
Campbell and were taken during the
entertainment of invited guests.
A flow of 100 gallons a minute has
been obtained from the artesian well
on the farm OF w. j. Clemens at Ray
mond. The well is a two-inch n and
was drilled to a depth Of 1,025 feet,
the last $50 feet being through rock.
John Brown, colored. is in the Law
renee county Jail, charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon upon Isaac
Hanna, also colored, his partner in the
saloon business. Brown had used a
knife upon Hanna with severe effect.
E. E. Hemingway, state bank exam
liner, who has had charge of the Farm
ers' and Merchants bank at Worthing
ever since the death Of Cashier Ed ID.
Lewis, says the bank is solvent and
that creditors will get every cent that
belongs to them.
Ray Bradshaw, a lad Of eighteen,
who had been in the county jail at
Aberdeen awaiting trial on the charge
Of burglary, went before Judge Mccoy
and entered a plea Of guilty, a sen.
tence of six months In the penitentiary
being the result.
Sam J~orgenson secured a license at
Salem to wed Miss Sophia Holstrom,
and purchased cigars and liquor for
his friends. He then proceeded to get
drunk. Everything was in readiness
for the ceremony, even the minister,
but Jorgenson arrived In such a con-
dition that the bride-elect positively
refused to marry him.
The directors OF the Butte County
bank at Belle Fourche elected officers
as follows: John Clay, Jr., Chicago,
president; James T. Craig. Belle
Fourche. and A. H. Marble, Cheyenne.
wyo.. vice presidents; ". B. Penfold,
cashier; M. w. Read. assistant cash
Ter. The only changes were the addi-
ton of a vice president, the creation
of assistant cashier, and the election
Of Mr.. Penfold to succeed Mr.. Marble
as cashier.
1t is alleged that r. A. Rupert, re-
Gently living on a farm northwest OF
Aberdeen, has deserted his sick wife
and gone to Nebraska, sending ahead
a woman who kept house for him.
Mrs. Rupert is an inmate of the coun
ty hospital, to which she was commit
ted after being returned TO Aberdeen
from Minneapolis, where she was al
legged to be a public charge, her hus-
band having sent. her there on the
pretense of visiting relatives.
Six indictments have been returned
ny the grand jury at Deadwood.
Thomas Wbealan was indicted for
grand larceny: he pleaded not guilty.
Ray George, indicted for grand lar
ceny. pleaded guilty. Nathan Gard
ner was indicted on a charge of shoot
ing Herbert Lewis with intent to kill.
Indictments also were returned
against Ralph Carr, Howe and Davis.
charged with the murder Of Henry
Stokes. neal the Homestake pump sta
ton. Thanksgiving day.
What will be known as the Farmers
Elevator company, with a capital Of
$4,000, has been organized by the
farmers living in the vicinity Of Sher-
man, has offered them the free use Of
his elevator for sixty or ninety days
for the purpose Of enabling them 10
ascertain by practical experience
whether or not there is an opening for
q fifth elevator. At a meeting Of the
stockholders of the new organization
Lasse Vadheim was elected president
and @. A. Grant secretary.
The Farmers Elevator company at
Hartford is in a f~ourishing condition.
1t has shipped out 226, 300 bushels of