Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-24


alton sent delegation to Pierre this
week TO confer with the state board of
equalization in regard TO the raising of
the assessment of the mining properties.
Two cowboys attempted to give an
exhibition of rough riding in Aberdeen
Saturday night but in the race their
hats blew off and when they attempted
to get them they landed in the city
bastile.
George s. Tussey, who has repre-
scented the Minneapolis Tribune in
northern South Dakota for the past ten
years has resigned the position to
become travelling auditor for the Dakota
Central Telephone company. His sue
cessor has not yet been announced.
Bert Allen, 81 years of age, who was
in Omaha for about month, was
arrested there by Sheriff Pickett, of
Lyman county, to answer the charge of
stealing a set Of harness and double
seated rig, which he is alleged to have
sold near Verdegris, Neb
John Pallom, alias John Fusan, alias
Amos Tuncony, the farm hand who
was recently shot at Glendale, N. d.,
by his employer, Ed. Towne, suffered
the amputation of the injured leg at ST.
Luke's hospital at Aberdeen. Gangrene
had set in, making amputation neces-
sary. Physicians think he will recover.
Fire at Carthage Friday morning
destroyed a half block of business
places, the principal ones being Satter's
general store, loss 1000; Strands
general store, loss s12 900; operahouse,
loss $1,000; Shields hardware, loss
81 900; Typley block, loss $500.
Small losses in other places. The water
supply saved the town.
The hearing of Zach Flute, theIndian
charged with the murder of Colby and
Peterson, was held at Sisseton last Fri
day before Justice Prindeville. Flute,
by his attorneys Sears & Potter of Web
ster, waived preliminary examination
and was bound over to the October
term of the circuit court.
| Just before the June rise in the Mis-
souri, river r. M. Snyder, who lives at
Fort Sully, discovered the end of a flat
boat sticking out of the bank of the
river He found that il was buried
under twenty feet of earth and ash
trees foot in diameter growing on the
bank above the boat The rise in the
river prevented his digging at that time
but now the water is lower and he is
going to work at it.
| Anskor Skartvedt, of Canton, is
carrying his left leg in splints now on
account eff runaway last Friday. The
team he was driving on the farm was a
fractions one, and became frightened,
ran away, threw Anskor out, and that
not being enough for him, he caught
the team and again they sailed through
the air and so did he. This time he
gave it up as bad job as the bones in
leg were broken and the ankle badly
sprained.
Chris Hagge, a Yankton county
charge, died Saturday, and owing to
the fact that he may possibly have sue
cumed to injuries which he received in
an alteration with one of Yankton's
saloonmen, Thomas Pfefferle, an
inquest will be held. Hagge was
employed in Pfefferle's saloon, and a
disagreement arose over wages. A
scuffie followed. in which Hagge, who
was man of 60, fell to the floor and
broke his thigh.
The new bridge across the Sioux
river east of Canton will be completed
within couple OF weeks as the material
is on the ground and workmen are now
engaged in putting the structure
together. This bridge has been wanted
for years, and will be great convience
not only to the people of Lincoln county
but farmers of Lyon MINI, county who
are tributary to Canton and who have
heretofore been compelled to 90 by the
way of Beloit when the river was not
fordable.
The first prosecution under the new
automobile law is that of Hans. Melby,
a farmer of Deuel. county, against A. f.
Schultz, of WATERFOWL. Schultz's
machine going at high rate of speed,
frightened Melby's horse which ran
away and was seriously, perhaps fatally
injured. Melby was thrown out and
narrowly escaped death. Schultz did
not lower the speed of the auto nor
attempt IN anyway to render assistance.
The Parker New Era has begun the
publication of the Holy Bible in serial
form. Last week Bro. Hackett had
the beginning of the first chapter in
Genesis, and declares that he will con-
tinue the work until Revelations shall
have been reached. The idea is at
least unique, and who knows but that
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