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

Senators Kittredge and Gamble and
Congressman Burke left Thursday to
spend the holiday recess at home.
Representative Martin will remain in
Washington.
Professor f.. II. Coolbauch has
arrived in Rapid City to take a place
among the Instructors of the school of
mines. He is a graduate of the Colo
RADIO school of mines.
A sociable at the Cheyenne agency
Melted the Episcopal church there 1925,
the Indians vieing with the white mem
bers of the flock in contributing towards
the handsome mount.
Benjamin Wenzel, charged with
assaultiug his ~13-year-old daughter,
went to Miller voluntarily and was
placed in $500 bonds to appear at the
next term of circuit court.
Articles of Incorporation have been
flied for the Peoples State bank, at
Canova, with a capital of $40, 600.
In~corprators, Willie H. Butler, Ciarance
Beverage, Geoege Duxbury and Will
lam A. Duxbury.
he board of regents Wednesday
afternoon unanimously adopted resolu-
tions retaining Garrett Droppers as
temporary president of the state univer-
sity at Vermillion during the remainder
of the present school year.
John Williams, of Deuel. county,
taken to Wisconsin on a charge of horse
stealing, proved TO be the wrong man
and the victim of mistaken identity.
The Wisconsin authorities paid all the
expenses of the trip and paid Williams
for his time.
The drillers at work on the site of the
permanent bridge at Pierre Friday
struck hard rock at a depth of 81 feet,
The rock is composed of SAINT and
shale. Several cores were taken out
Friday and started for the Chicago
officers of the Northwestern. The
drill was moved Saturday to another
corner of the pier.
Word was received in Pierre Tues.
day night that the land fraud case. in
which William L. Horsnell of st. Paul
and Royal b Stems of Fort Pierre are
involved was decided against them.
Stearns is sentenced to spend eighteen
months in the penitentiary and pay a
fine of a thousand dollars. Hornsneil
was fined $500 and is to go TO Jail for
five months The case was appealed.
The Title Guarnty & Trust company
of Scranton, Pa, has notified the state
insurance department of its withdrawal
from the state rather than to comply
with the requirements of the deposit
law of the last legislature, which
requires such companies to deposit not
less than $20,0 with the state treasurer
before they can legally transact business
in South Dakota.
r. A. Thompson, an Aberdeen photo
grapher was preparing chemicals We'd
nesday evening to take a fiashlight
picture of the Eagles hall in that city
Wednesday evening, the chemicals he
was mixing exploded severly injuring
him and Ed. Hamper and Harry Wet
ter, Of Aberdeen, and o. A. Pond, IF
Redfield. The cause of the accident is
a mystery. The men will all recover
Rosebud citizens took Crazy Bull and
Will Jones, half breed Indians, from
the deputy sheriff who had arrested
them for theft, and dragged them at
the end of ropes until the Indians were
sure they would be hanged. They
were finally safely lodged in the Fair
fax Jail, and are said to have made
confessions of horse thieving operations
which implicate prominent people on
the reservation at Milbank.
Representative Burke has introduced
and had referred to the committee on
Indian affairs a bill for the establish
ment of an Indian sanitarium or school
to be located at Pierre, or Fort Pierre,
South Dakota. The measure author
ICES the secretary of the interior to
acquire a site at the place named and
erect suitable buildings. and $4,000 is
made available u Of the treasury
direct and $40, 900 out Of the interest on
the permanent fund in the treasury of
the Sioux Indians.
senator Kittredge of South Dakota is
being congratulated by fellow senator's
by reason of his promotion to the judic-
larry committee. This is the committee
to which the lawyers in the senate
aspire, and the selection of the junior
senator from South Dakota 10 taken
here . a high honor to him and his
state. Kittredge also moves up a peg
on the Panama committee and it Ia
generally understood here he will be itl