Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-11-30

bank.
A crew is now at work digging post
holes for the first Farmers line TO be
run ont of Butler. The Butler Tele-
phone Co. will own and operate this
line. 1t will rup from Butler to Ben
Bartell's, a distance of l3 miles.
Sheriff Jesse Brown and Deputy
Sheriff John Smell of Meade county,
arrived in Sioux Falls last week and
turned over TO Warden Parmley at the
penitentary. James Hays who is under
sentence of w years aud six months
for horse stealing.
j. w. Shepard, who was assistant
insurance commissioner under III. G.
Shober, and who has been engaged IN
various newspaper ventures since that
time, now being at Veblen, Mars hall
county, has been in Pierre for sew eral
days, and while here attempted to pur-
chase the Free Press. Failing in hat
he will start a new paper in the city
which will be devoted to the 'anti-
machine"
A. w. Janke, a newspaper IN of
many years experience, has pure hased
the plant of the Eagle, a weekly news
paper published at Fairview, and will
have personal charge of the paper in
future. The new editor was formerly
a resident of Sioux Falls, being one of
the union printers who went out on
strike some weeks g for al eight
hour day G.. r Oszorn, the retiring
editor, made a good record during the
time he conducte the Eagle.
Conductor Ryan of Dolan accom-
panied by his son Edward, has been
looking over the country between the
Missouri river and the Black Hills with
a view to securing a tract of govern
ment land in that region. Ryan has
five children, each of whom is entitled
to make entry of 100 acers of govern
ment land under the homestead law,
and an effort will be made to secure
the six farms in body. so the members
of the Ryan family may establish a
colony of their own
Bird Valentine the Brandon boot
logger, who gave the county officials
the slip recently and skipped over into
Minnesota, was not quite as smooth.
He thought the field was clear and he
returned to Brandon, only to fall into
the hands of a deputy sheriff. He is
now an inmate of the county Jail where
he will remain until the two cases
pending against him are disposed of by
the circuit court,after which his board
ing place will probably be changed to
the big stone house on the hill.
Residents of Sully county, announce
the death of Charles Hays, a ten-year-
old son of Frank Hays, who lives on
townsite. The boy was on the prairie
herding. When he did not return, a
search was made, and he was found
dead, his dead body lying under the
body of his horse. There was no evil
dence that the horse stumbled, and il
is belseved that the animal dropped
dead and fell upon the child. The boy
was lying full length under the horse,
and it is believed that he was crushed
and smothered.
The report of the vital statistics
department for October has been com
pleted, and in it Supt. Robinson gives
credit to the interest and fidelity of the
clerks of court for their work, aud
takes the position that today South
Dakota is securing the most complete
and comprehensive vital records of any
state. The births recorded for October
were S5S, of which 404 were females
and 454 males, the births from July
being 1911. Three hundred aud forty
nine deaths were reported for the
moath, of which twenty-three were
from tuberculosis, t~hirty-one from
iANdAt tAOuUAC ahA WI mum ktuOC
The total deaths from July ! TO Novem-
Der l were 1923. The marriages for
the month number 324, making 1,046
since July l. Forty-three divorces
were granted for the month.
Harold Fox, Donald Kennedy and
Fred Warren, three young school boys,
Of Sioux Falls had an experience
which they will not want to repeat
The three lads had dug a cave in a side
hill and were having a jolly time as
kids will on such occasions. Their fun
was suddenly stopped by the caving of
a portion Of the bank which buried
Masters Fox and Warren. Young
Kennedy gave the alarm and q force Of
boys wal o at work digging their
playmates ont. A physician wal sent
for and was on the ground by the time
that Master Warren was removed in an
unconscious condition. Master Fox
had been rpleaoo Z few minuftnn aftor |