Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-18

months in Jail aud a fine of 500, and
Samuel Strayer to thirty days in Jail
and a fine OF a 800 for assault with a
dangerous weapon. The men are both
prominent stockmen of Stanley county
and the case is the outgrowth of a
neighborhood row in which Joseph
Jupiter, a Russian, was shot.
One hundred and ten miles in ten
hours on horse pack through deep snow
and cold. IL was a message from his
mother who was very low with pneu-
monia that stirred young Albert Horn,
of Pierre TO see his mother once more
before it was forever to late. IL was
l6 below zero, the coolest day Of this
year. Mrs. Horn is getting better aud
the W horses are doing well.
o. L. Branson, of Mitchell, has with
drawn as a candidate for congress-,
stating that his banking and other
interests will not allow him to make
the sacrifice of tile time and means
necessary to conduct the canvass. His
withdrawal somewhat simplifies the
the situation and makes it easy to pick
the congressional winners, which will
likely be our present congressman, @.
II. Burke, of Pierre, and Judge Camp
bell, of Aberdeen. Mr.. Branson announ.
ces that he will heartily D the
nominees of the next republican state
convention.
A man and wife and five half clad
and half frozen children, came walking
into Woonsocket from Huron. The
man was hitched to a sulky in which he
acted as the horse and in it was some of
the family belongings while the wife
and children walked behind. AS they
passed up the main business street with
the children crying with cold they
created a most pitiful sight. They
were taken in and fed by citizens. They
are on their way from North Dakota,
and are going to Niobarra, Neb. They
walked from Huron, a distance Of
twenty-three miles, and the thermome-
ter was fourteen below zero.
While there are at present outstanding
against the state bonds to the amount
of 1927 900, there is in the bond,
interest and sinking fund to meet this
obligation 10000. While the bonds
draw but 4 and AZ per cent interest
the holders refuse the request of the
state to take them up before due, evil
IDENTIFY looking upon them as a good
investment, OF these bonds $S4, 500
are due in May of next year, and the
balance of the amount not until 1909.
The state has taken up ali outstanding
emergency warrents and the total debt
at present ont provided for is about
100000 of general fund warrants giving
the state a debt of 81 30 per capita on
the present population. This is a
record of which the state should be
proud, bur one which viii be beaten
before the close of the present year.
Nhh LAdy NC VIC Dist VI u
Of electric lines centering at Sioux
Falls, is announced TO begin construc-
ton early in the spring. The Sioux
Falls I%nterbubau Electric Railway com
pany, recently Incorporated with DR..
r. +. Brown as president and George
A. Pettigrew secretary, has announced
that money necessary TO construct the
road has been raised aud that work
will begin as o o as the snow is off the
ground. Most of the parties interested
in the line are residents of Sioux Falls.
The route to be taken has not been
definitely fixed, but it is likely that the
first line will so along one side of Wall
Lake and from there to either Bridge
water, Parker or Salem and beyond.
The city terminus, which will eventu-
ally be in the heart of the city, will at
first be established at the junction of
the Great Northern aud Rock Island
tracke.
Itpays TO gain publicity from one end
of the country to the other is the
opinion of former Congressman John j.
Lentz,o of Columbus, Ohio, who received
the papers in a South Dakota divorce
suit TO serve on the husband. Martin
L. Fox, who has been stopping at the
Neil house Columbus. Mr.. Lentz
secured service and returned the papers
TO the sender, a Vermillion, S. ID.
attorney. Mrs. Fox. the plaintiff, is the,
daughter of former Governor Lee, OF
South Dakotu, one Of the richest men
in the state. When she instituted tho
divorce suit in Vermillion, her husband
who is a travelling man with Indinia,
Illinois and Ohio territory. was in Ohio.
Her attorney, as he explained in q
letter to Mr.. Lentz, had frequently
heard of the Columbus ex-congressman