Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-10
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

tarily goes to receive sentence for hors,
stealing.
w. w Mount, who for several year.
has been the efficient game and fish
warden of Grant county, has resigned
his position and forwarded his resigna,
ton to Governor Elrod.
State Auditor Halliday has completed
the estimates on wolf bounties for last
year and finds that the annual appro
priation of 5000 will pay 81 cents on
the dollar on claims filed.
The little two-year-old child of Mr.
and Mrs. Williams, who reside neal
Langford, went to sleep on the railroad
track last week and was struck by a
passing train and instantly killed.
In some localities it is estimated that
fully 80 per cent of the prairie chickens
We're drowned. This estimate applies
to low, flat land. Where the country
is rolling more chickens gre reported.
Judge Mccoy sentenced Frank Lewis
Oscar Johnson, Henry Hehner, o. l..
Hedemark and Robert Lang. each to
fourteen months in the penitenliary
They pleaded guilty to having robbed a
store at Helca,
V. H. Shlwell, of Waukon. Iowa, a
bridge carpenter in the employ of the
North Western railway near Kuron,
was hewing timber when the ak
glanced, striking his right ankle. An
artery was severed and Mr.. StilweIl
became very weak from the loss OF
blood.
Mrs. Bertha Bakken, the woman who
disappeared from Sioux Falls some days
ago under mysterious circumstances,
has been found with her baby on a
farm near the little town of Colman,
Moody county. Mrs, Bakken is young
and attractive and Is the wife of a
farmer living near Baltic.
Rentley's new operahouse at Milbank
is nearing completion. The promise
that it would be the prettiest theatre in
the state is fully realized. The com.
pleted building will cost $24, 900, the
citizens headed by w. B. Saunders,
contributing $1,000. and L. H. Bently
the balance. The auditorium will seat
ZOO.
James Doody, of Deadwood, has been
arrested for perjury. He made home
stead entry at the Rapid City land Office
and submitted final proof showing that
he had resided on and cultivated eighty
acres of land. An investigation resulted
in report stating that Doody had
never resided on the land and has not
cultivated it.
The 12-year-old son of Peter Gluhm.
of Howard, had his leg badly cut in q
wire fence Friday afternoon. He was
taking horseback ride and the horse
became unmanageable and ran into q
fence, the boys leg being caught
between the horse and the wire and
dragged along the barbs in such way
as to tear and mangle the flesh fright.
fully.
An item has appeared in number of
papers recently to the effect that deal.
ers in cigars are now compelled to des.
troy all cigar boxes as soon as they are
empty. Collector Ellerman, of the
internal revenue department, says that
this is mistake. Dealers who KEEP
boxes must destroy the stamp but il
they give them away they must also
destroy the caution notice and factory
number.
The Flandreau Sioux Indians will
receive a final payment of their trus
from the government this week through
Special Discussing Agent Pierce. Eacf
member of the tribe will receive $50
DIR. Charles Eastman is a member Of
this tribe and draws his $50 for him
self and five children. He has nevel
severed his tribal relations, but hal
drawn his annuity money, % q. year
with the poorest redskin in the bunch
A. G. Holt, the civil engineer for the
Milwaukee railroad, who has been in
charge of the extennon from Armour
was ordered to report at Madison d
once for further instructions. The
suppoeition is that the Milwaukee peo
pie have come into possession Of thu
South Dakota Central and will divert
its extension from Cotton to Madison
| instead Of to Wentworth. Five or 81,
other civil engineers were with Mr.
Holt on his way TO Madison.
Guy Harrington, Of Elk Point, wh'
in the face Of charge Of rape VA
married three weeks ago 70 Rose Fen
ton. l5-year old girl, deserted her and
returned 70 his home in Dunlay, Icwa
Harrington has another wife living 3
whom he was married under simila
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