Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-27
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

License was defeated In faulktOn Dy
one vote.
The Milwaukee Railway company
have just completed $4,000 depot at
Yankton
Sioux Falls succeeds Aberdeen as state
headquarters for the Maccabee frater-
nal order.
License had very close call in
Highmore on election day, only getting
through by two votes.
Edward McDougall, of Britton, has
received the first alternate appointments
to West Point from South Dakota.
The family of Henry Christophers on,
of Watertown, narrowly escaped death
by asphyxiation last week due TO coal
gas.
The Minneapolis Journals Juvenile
band will be one of the attractions at
the Travelling Mems big meet in Water
town.
wells in Sully county which, mp to the
last three years, was considered outside
of the artesian basin.
Herbert B. Tysell, proprietor of the
Britton Journal, and Miss Lucille Jones,
of that city, were united in marriage on
Wednesday Aprsl 10, 1905.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
cattle were shipped from Hurley one
day last week. Pretty good showing
for one South Dakota town.
Mrs. Gamble, wife of Senator Gam
BILE, who has been quite seriously i'll in
Washington, is recovering and expects
to return to Yankton next week.
William S. Peck, who was leader Of
the Pierre Capital City band during the
late campaign, has moved to Water
town where he has accepted a like posi-
ton.
Fire destroyed the residence and
household goods of A. NJ. Marks at
Garretson last week. The city water
works were out of repair and no water
could be secured.
A strange woman left baby three
months old at hotel in Canton last
week The baby is to be congratulated
for it has been adopted by Mrs. r.
Edwards of that city.
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany has purchased the right of way
and will soon build its tracks TO and
put handsome depot in the very heart
of Huron's business portion
General Mark w. Sheafe. of Water
town, went TO Chicago last week to
arrange for the purchase of 5000 head
of Texas cattle which he will ship TO
his range west of the Missouri.
George Gurnes, the Negro porter for
the Aberdeen Commercial club, has
sued Chief of Police Zerbes, of that city
for 81 900 for damages alleging as a
basis for his claim false imprisonment.
James YaroslH who was the retiring
auditor of Brule county in March, who
left the county just before his term
expired and has not been heard of since
was at first thought to be short 81 30O
but the amount has now climbed to
50, 300 and is still ascending.
There is to be no more fighting or
glove contests in Belle Fourche or Butte
countv, Sheriff L. l.. Alderman has
decreed that the lovers of this sport
will have to go elsewhere. a number
of fights have been pulled off there
recently, and it is declared demoraliz-
ing
S. Daggett, living mile and half
southeast of Dell Rapids recently sold a
fine bunch of fat cattle to representa-.
tives of the Cudahy packing company
of. Sioux City, to which place the stock
was shipped There were thirty six
head iii the lot and they brought Dag.
gett about 81 800.
Walter Grebe, of Yankton, was in
Sioux Falls last Friday for the purpose
of taking an examination under the
auspices of the civil service board pre-.
paratory TO entering the Annapolis nava
academy Young Grebe has been
appointed to the vacancy by Senator
Gamble and if he passes the required
examination he will secure the place
Friends of H. K. Ross are ,endeavor
ing to secure his pardon in Wyoming
where he was convicted of the murder
of Amos Robinson at Beulah, in 1896
He was well known in the Black Hills
1t now is declared on reliable authority
that he did not fire the shot that killed
Robinson, and that in the trial he
refused to give up testimony that would
have convicted the proper person.
An application has been made to the
war department 20 have Capt. George
B. Clever, now at Brookings. detailed Al
military secretary to Gov. Elrod. The