Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-06-29
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

opened last Saturday.
Fourteen graduated from the Red
field college last week.
Several cattlemen west of the Mis-
souri, river have been arrested for fenc-
ing government land.
The board of county commissioners
of Brule county have ordered dipping
tanks at Kimball and Torey Lake.
Stephen Gregory, of Madison, eighty
six years of age, was killed Saturday by
being struck by freight train.
Several buildings IN Aberdeen have
been moved to clear the purchased
right-of-way for the Great Northern.
Business men of Oldham and farmers
OF that locality have organized a tele-
phone company and will construct lines
in various directions from that city.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Jones, of near Redfield, died last
Saturday from the effects of being
struck just below the heart with a ball.
Governor Elrod has appointed as
members of the state board of medical
examiners, DIR. A. A. Cotton, of Ver-
million, and Dr. j. w. Freeman, of
Lead.
The reform has just struck Lawrence
county and the saloon keepers have
been notified that the blinds must be
taken down and chairs and pool tables
be removed.
Judge Rice of the district court at
Deadwood has authorized settlement
between the Horseshoe Mining company
and the insurance adjuster. The full
amount to be paid the company is $780,
542.53.
A family of three, father, mother
and daughter, were killed outright by
flying timbers in a storm Saturday
night at Plankinton. the town of
Artesian was also struck and two men
were killed.
1t was recently announced that a
party of South Dakota people who, last
fall, left for South Africa in obedience
to alleged instructions from the Lord
are ready to return when provided
with the money.
The auditor of Meade county has
received a report from the UnitedStates
land Office which states that forty-three
homestead entries have been decided to
Meade county residents during the year
ending May LIST.
A meeting of the Sioux Falls Tennis
association was held Friday evening for
the purpose of making arrangements
for the annual tournament of the state
tennis association which will be held in
that city in July.
w. d. Marvin, of Aberdeen, was hit
in the head with spitoon Wednesday
evening in saloon row in that city and
died the next morning Jack Purcell,
who threw the spitoon, is held await
ing the action of the grand jury.
Charles Willsey, of Hutton, has been
acquitted at Hastings, MINI. He was
arrested on charge of taking money
from the Stockyards Nasional Bank, OF
South St. Paul, on false statement
regarding the ownership of some cattle.
Judge Garland, of the United States
court in Sioux Falls, has appointed
William Wallace, of Aberdeen, to the
position of United States commissioner
at that place. Mr. Wallace succeeds
Theodore Erickson, who recently
rendered his resignation.
Jean A. Krohn, or "Sailor JEAN" of
Augusta, Me-, who is tramping to the
capital of every state in the union push
ing a wheel borrow. arrived at Pierre
Friday. His longest days tramp since
starting was made Monday, when he
walked sixty miles.
Attorneys John Pusey, OF Miller, and
@. @. Glen, of Washington Springs,
saturday, before Judge Gaffy, secured
the release on bond of 5000, of John
A. Young, confined in the Hand county
Jail on the charge of numbering George
Todd about year ago.
Deputy United States Marshal d. d.
Collins brought Edward Ensch and
Katie Ensch, of Seneca, before Com
missioner Wallace on a charge of SELL
ing liquor withot special tax license.
Katie was dismissed but Edward was
bound over to the federal court.
Doane Robinson, superintendent of
census has been called upon to enforce
the legal provisions which were pro-
vided to cover cases where parties
refuse to give the required information
to census enumerators. The case is in
Moody county, where w. A. Davis, the
sheriff Of the county, has refused to
give the required information and pro-