Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-31

to the asylum at Yankton from Huron
on Friday. Before leaving he confiden-
TALLY told the sheriff that he had gold
buried on the farm, and the two went
to the place and dug up 800 in coin.
The money is now in the bank awaiting
the recovery of the young man.
One of Norbeck & Nicholson's well
crews are hard at work at the Northern
Hospital for the Feeble Minded drilling
a six inch artesian we'll Work is pro-
crossing nicely and the prospects are
that the well will be completed within
a short time. This is q much needed
Improvement to the institution and will
lgreatlv add to its facilities.
James Houligan was put in the new
Jail at Warner Tuesday for being
drunk and was released on Friday
morning. That night he went to the
Jail and set the building on fire out Of
revenge. The building burned to the
ground and Houligan Is now in the
Aberdeen Jail with fair prospects Of
serving term in the Sioux Falls peni-
Tertiary.
The Aberdeen Commercial club is in
correspondence with capitalists from
Madison. Wis, who want to put in a
beet sugar factory at Aberdeen If CON-
ditions are favorable The capitalists
have been invited to visit the city and
look over the ground. Sugar beets
raised in the vicinity Of Aberdeen yield
II per cent of sugar before sorting out
inferior beets.
The residence of Edward Handlin, at
Hereford. has been destroyed by fire.
Mr. Handlin had been called to dis
tant ranch on business and Mrs. Hand
| lin left her two children at home while
i she went to look after herd of sheep.
4 When she came back all hour later the
house was in ashes. The children had
| set fire to the structure while playing
with matches. The children ESCAPED
without injury.
4 w. B. Tobey, of Ethan, has COM
menced suit against the Milwaukee
railway company for 49, 200, as dam
ages owing to injuries sustained by his
tson, Eliphus Toby. The young man
was riding on top of a hack that was
driven across the tracks of the company.
A switch engine pushed car into the
carriage, and young Tobey was knocked
off, the car crushing his arm so that it
had to be amputated.
| Deputy State Veterinarian DR.. Chas.
futile and Sheriff Opsal were called to
the farm of John A. Nelson, in Canton
township, Lincoln county, last week to
kill several horses which were afflicted
with CHAMBERS. Four horses were des-
troyed and buried Mr.. Nelson feels
that he should be reimbursed by the
county or state, and to the outsider it
does appear that in cases of this kind
the state or county should make some
provision to pay portion of the loss
where the animals are killed by order
of the county board of health.
United States Marshal John Petrie,
of Chamberlain, has caught John Como
yer, noted halfbreed of the Rosebud
reservation, for whom the authorities
have been searching long time. Con-
oyer is also wanted by local authorities
for assisting his brother charged as a
horsetbief, in escaping from Sheriff
Sproul, of Gregory. On August 8 at
the big Rosebud anniversary, Sproul
arrested the brother. John rode up
and by beating the sheriff with his gun,
succeeded in pulling the prisoner away
and they rode out of town. He is also
wanted for house breaking near Dixon.
| A special election which was called
for Sept. 8, for the purpose of voting
upon the question of leasing the muni-
ciphl water works system in Sioux Falls
to the Peoples Water company has
been called Off 1t has been deemed
advisable to postpone action until the
United States supreme court decides the
case involving the right of the city to
operate its own water works system,
which is now before that court. The
decision of the court is expected to be
handed down in October. Should the
decision of the federal supreme court
be against the city it is probable the
agitation for the leasing of the munich
water works system to the Peoples
Water company will be renewed.
Some time ago the Pierre city council
adopted a resolution ordering the prin-
cipal streets Of the city brought to the
established grade. A representative of
the Northwestern road appeared before
the council at the meeting in which
this resolution was adopted, asking that
no action be taken before the first of
November, by which time the road