Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-01

lEOul Nduutd ldst WSCh, DuNiuS Al Cus-
tody Peter McDermitt, who recently
stole a note and after forging his name
to same received the meney aud made
his way to Canada.
In reading the public press john
Rockefeller must be convinced that the
country is able to discern the difference
between the way his fortune has been
made and the honorable way Marshall
Field made his remarkable fortune.
Because he loved money better than
life, ID. II. Hugh, a millionaire Of Dead
wood, starved TO death in Albuquerque,
N. M. His daughter, Mary Moulton.
is the wife of the government assayer
in Deadwood, who is also wealthy.
Coffee and doughnuts were the only
food Hugh would buy, though he had
a monthly income of 81, 500 from rentals
and interest. He owned thousands of
dollars worth of property in the dust
ness district of Deadwood. fhe body
was shipped to Deadwood.
Deputy United States Marshal Lamb
has been earning his salary out in the
Black Hills country. He arrested
David George, a mail carrier, who is
charged with smuggling whiskey from
Valentine. Neb., 10 Indians on the
and was bound over in the sum of 500.
John Hollow Horn aud Justine Shoot
ing Cat, two Indians of the Rosebud
agency, were arrested on the charge of
larceny and were placed in the Dead
wood Jail for safe keeping until the
April term Of court.
Monday morning g. @ Goodrich, OF
Redfeld, had both feet badly burned
while starting a fire. lie used gasoline
igstead Of kerosene and an explosion
followed. His feet were so badly
burned that the skin came off and for
awhile he suffered terribly. The only
fortunate feature of the whole affair
was that there was just a little gasoline
in the can. Had the can been even
half full. Mr.. Goodrich would in all
probability been burned to death and
the Grain block where he rooms would
likely have burned. At present he is
recovering rapidly.
George Raynor and son, Of Oceyeden,
Iowa, have purchased the famous
Alderman-P rossser frnit farm near
Hurley, and will take possession March
LIST. The farm contains the largest
apple orchard in the state or northwest
il having produced more than 10000
bushels of apples during the past two
years. The purchasers have been
engaged in farming neal Oceyedan for
some time, and have been very success
full, 1t is their purpose 10 keep the
apple orchard at the front as the largest
of the kind in this part OF the country,
and will if possible still further
develop it.
The United States authorities have
been advised of the arrest of Carl
Petan, one of the big stockmen of the
region between the Missouri river and
the Black Hills, in Western Sonth
Dakota, who for some weeks has been
wanted on the charge of ENGAGING in
a conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of public lands. Petan vas
taken before United States Commits
.,a,n. N.(t~,l - p;1rra anI ,..fyaI
his preliminary hearing. He furnished
bonds in the sum of : 1000 for his
appearance before the federal garnd
jury which will convene in Sioux Falls
in April.
architects who have charge of the plans
for the new s~tatehouse, arrived in
Pierre last Tuesday with the complete
specifications for the new structure.
They are in conference with the state
officials, including Governor Elrod, who
are in charge of the work, and at
present in the city. Advertisements
for bids for the erection of the capitol
will be prepared aud soon presented,
aud the contracts will be let SO that
work may go OF early in the spring.
Land Commissioners Bach IS reporting
good success in selling the capitol
endowment lands, and the funds for
the erection of the new state house are
increasing in a very satisfactory man
ner.
lyon know that think the world of
you but that you are a firt as well as l
ami" were the words of Charles
Thompson, of Claremont, as he raised a
bottle of car5olic acid and corrosive
sublimate to his lips the other night
during a quarrel with his wife in the
room over the second hand store of @.
r. Hay OH First avenue east Iii Aber-
deem. The attempted suicide was the