Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-11-16
NEwsY STATE NOTES.

two-thirds Of them being full. blood
Indians.
j. II. PARROT. of Pierpont, is at Huron
where he is working as deputy grand
master workman of the A. o. u. w.
lodge of South Dakota.
Copper ore has been struck in the
Homestake minis in paying quantities
and this mean much to the City of
Deadwood and the State of South
Dakota.
A nine-year-old son of A. f. Berg
storm, of Beadle county, fell from a
wagon last week and the wagon, wheels
passed over his hand and cut off three
fingers.
Reports from Sturgis say that the
wolves and coyotes are more numerous
this fall han they have been for many
years and are killing stock in large
numbers. United action has been taken
by the cattle men for their destruction.
News comes from Beadle county that
II. II Kirk, a prosperous farmer and
stockman, committed suicide Friday
by shooting himself with a shotgun. He
was at one time sheriff of Turner
county.
DIR. DeLorme w. Robinson, presiden
of the state board of health and head
physician of st. Mary's hospital at
Pierre, is at that hospital suffering from
a severe attack OF pneumonia. He is
reported as improving.
The November term of the Yankton
county circuit court is in session this
week the most important criminal case
is the case of the state VS.. Sam Carr,
who is charged with numbering Gran
vile Thornton last summer.
The proposition to bond the City of
Aberdeen for $35 900 for the erection of
a municipal lighting plant carried the
city November 10 at a special election
by a vote of 628 to SO. Only about half
the total vote of the city was polled.
lu0 mluucSObd btdbC uniNCiblty AOOt
ball team on Friday last defeated the
team from the South Dakota agricul.
tural college at Brookings by a score of
| 81 to O. The Dakota boys were much
too light for the Minnesota champions
Bishop O'Gorman, the official head of
the Catholic church for South Dakota.
held services at Flandreau on the 15th
of this month and confirmed a class of
eighty-two sons and daughters of the
members of the Catholic church of the
City of Flandreau.
l. Lipsey, q representative Of the Chi
cago Produce company, has commenced
the construction of a large warehouse
at Cavour. The building when com
pleted will be used for the storing of
onions, potatoes, cabbage and other
vegetables which are grown there in
large quantities.
Willie Rellic, of Clear Lake, the son
of L. E. Bellic was returned to his
home today by the sheriff, who caught
him in Mason City Sunday. The boy
was making another effort to u away
from home. He wa found in a pitiable
plight. He had broken his arm in
some manner
The White River Railway company
has filed with the secretary Of state
notice of its intention to extend its line
from it's present terminus in Lyman
county on through Lyman, Stanly and
Pennington counties to Rapid City
where it will acquire terminals. The
papers are signed by III. f. Hunter, vice
president of the road, and e. w. Adams,
secretary.
A r~attlesnake den has been discovered
in the southwest portion of Gregory
county, and 1t is planned to use dyna-
mite in the effort to exterminate the
reptiles before they scatter over the
country next spring. Information In
reference to the discovery of the den
was furnished by Theodore Musch,
who has a homestead i nthat portion of
the Rosebud reservation which about q
year ago was coded by the Indians and
opened to white settlement. Accord
ing to the last report, two men had
killed seventy-three Of the rattlesnakes.
Gam Valley, thirty-five miles south
of Ioquois, according to the Chief, is in
the whirl of a society event. The hero
is Bob Spotted Eagle, a Yanktonese
buck, and the heroine is Blanch Old
Mon. The couple had eloped from their
home in Charles Mix county and sought
refuge on the Crow Greek reservation,
where they were arrested and placed in
the Buffalo county Jail. 1t seems that
the squaw in the case was the wife Of
her present companions brother, from
whom she is seeking a devorce. The
c ouple speak English well and are
about 20 years old.A teacher at the mis-
sion southeast of Iroquois says that it is
quite . fad among the Indians there 70
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