Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-12-28

were arrested Friday night IN Sioux
Falls and were convicted of petty lar
ceny and sent to the county Jail for
stealing an o%vercoat
Dan O'Brien may die as the result of
trying TO drill ont an old blast of
powder on the 500 foot level of the
Homestake mine at Lead. His left leg
was terribly lacerated and small rock
was blown into his stomach. He
thought that the blast had been fled.
Governor Elrod has granted requisi-
ton to the governor of Virginia for
Philip McIntyro, wanted in Lawrence
county on a charge of forgery.
Mcintyre is at present confined in the
state prison of Virginia on d like charge
and the South Dakota authorities want
him as soon as he is released in that
STATE.
John F. Smith, a ranger in the
Black Hills forest reserve in South
Dakota, will succeed Capt. Seth Bullock
as supervisor of that reserve. A change
in the title will be made later. and Mr..
Smith will be classified as ranger in
charge. This appointment will be made
by promotion, nearly all of the places
on reserves now being in the classified
service.
Preparations rapidly are being COM
pleted for the state poultry show,
which will be held in Sioux Falls, Jan
uarv s to - The premium list shows
that many special prizes are being
offered this year. The association has
secured two of the best judges in the
country TO place the awards. Every
evening during the show there will be
pit game contests. The game cocks
will be muffed so they cannot hurt
each other.
AT the ~post-mortem examination of
the body Of John Albion, the hired man
found dead at the Benjamin Wenzel
home near Miller. nothing was
developed hat indicated foul play. IL
seems that Wenzel and Albion had
taken home several gallons of alcohol
and drank freely of it. 1t crazed the
former, and he is now in Jail without
bail, for assault on his own daughter,
while Albion died from the effects of
the drinking.
Captain Seth Bullock has returned
from Washington, where he has just
received the appointment of marshal OF
South Dakota. He states that he will
make his office after Feb. LIST in Sioux
Falls, dividing his time between the
eastern and western parts of the state.
There will be no change In the deputy
marshals, for the time being at least.
Capt. Bullock will act as an advisor TO
the new rsnger for some time in order
that some of his ideas may be carried
through.
The state land department has sent
out 81 Isl 40 tresspass money to the
different endowed state institutions,
this being receipts for December. The
amounts to the different institutions
are: Aberdeen normal $76. u; State
university, t41.60; Agricultural college,
S456. 10; deaf and dumb $25 60; reform
school $74.26; northern hospital, $i44 20
blind asylum &65 80; school Of mines
$191 A: Madison normal, $37. %;
Spearfish normal S37. 26. The depart.
ment has been looking closely after
tresspassers on endowment and public
lands for the past year and has secured
several thousand dollars for the educa-
tional funds in this way.
ID. II Richardson, OF Dell Rapids,
had u of his livery rigs pretty well
Used up in an accident over at Jasper
about 8 O'Clock Thursday night. The
driver, a boy by the name of Myron
Nelson, was taking a travelling man by
the name of Cotton over to Jasper and
when they were crossing the Great
Northern track the rig was atruck by q
freight train that was going a bigf
speed. The rig was cut loose from the
team and the occupants and buggy
were carried for quite a distance on the
engine pilot. Young Nelson received
some scratches and Cotton was bruised
up considerable. How they escaped
with their lives is a mystery. One Of
the horses was pretty badly cut up and
the buggy Of course Is q wreck.
When the federal building at Pierre
was planned, the rooms arranged FOL
the land office were placed ON the
third floor. As the land department il
one which will have more business te
transact for a number of years than any
other department except the postofice
objections were made and Congress
man Burke took the matter up q,
Washington, securing a change in the
plans 80 a to place the land Office OIL