Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-15

that National Commander.
in Chief General James A. Tanner will
deliver the principal Grafton during the
state encampment of the G. a r., to
be held at Yankton in June, General
Wolgemuth has been making arrange-
ments to accommodate the large crowd
which will gather in Yankton. The
encampment will embrace delegates
from the Ct. A R w. r., @, Y. V. u
and w. V. r. u. throughout the state
The Yankton city council has taken
another whirl at gambling in acting on
some petitions which ask for rights
equal to those alleged to he given to the
gambling syndicate" The petition
ers, who were asked to show there was
any gambling going on, brought in
enough proof to satisfy the council,
although at the previous meeting Mayor
Frank Franslow, Chief of Police Will
lam Hickey and three aldermen all
declared that they knew of M gamb-
ling. The petitioners proofs were con-
sidered conclusive, and gambling cases
now may come up in the regu lar legal
way, the city attorney having promised
to take action whenever a sufficient
case was presented to him.
j. w. Linsay, of Geddes, has received
information from Senator Kittredge
stating that the department of the
interior has decided to eliminate the
intoxicating liquor clause from the
deeds conveying inherited Indian lands.
Last November the department inserted
a clause in all such deeds to the effect
that in case intoxicating liquors were
either kept or sold on any such lands
so conveyed that the title could revert
10 the Indian g~rantors. The practi
cally shut off the sale of Indian inner
tied lands on the several Indian reser.
vations in this state. The clause was
an injury to the Indians as well as to
those who dealt with them, and Sen
ator Kittredge's success in getting this
clause eliminated is most gratifyin
In the case of William Peano VS..
John r. Brennan, which has been
decided in the supreme court, sustain
ing tine lower court Of Fall River
county. Peano, an Indian, sues Bren.
nan, Indian agent, for damages. Peanc
fenced a tract on the Pine Ridge reltT,
walton and put in several acres of crop.
The fence shut off a trail on the reser-
walton, aud Agent Brennan ordered the
Indian police to remove the fence,
which they did, allowing cattle 10 dis
troy the crop pat in by Peano. Suit
for $l,675 damages was brought in
by Peano in Fall River comfy, but
was thrown GU on demurred charging
lack of jurisdiction, as the alleged
offense was committed on a govern.
ment Indian reservation. This finding
is sustained by the supreme court.
William Powers is in Jail at HUI o
awaiting the sitting of the March term
of circuit TO answer a charge OF assault
with intent to kill. Powers, who il
six feet two inches tall aud powerfully
built, is addicted TO excessive use OF
liquor, and is a sort of a wanderer ovel
the earth, drifting into Hitchcock tw
/, or three weeks ago and doing odd jobs
of work. While in an intoxicated con
dition he gained entrance iuto the
sleeping apartment of Il young mar
named Herman Rath, in a Logging house
in Hitchcock. He Immediately began
slashing the bed cloths that covered
Rath, and frequently plunged the huge
knife into Rath's gown declaring he
would kill him. Rath struggled with
him until quite exhausted, wher
assistance arrived and Powers wa
arrested, not however, until he hac
frightened Rath almost out of hi'
senses by standing over him with q
huge knife declaring that if he NOV ed
he would plunge il into his heart.
Members of the state capitol com.
mission early in next mouth will visi,
the different points in the Black Hills
which desire TO supply stone for the
construction of the capitol, and fine
ont what they have to offer in thai
line. While the fund for construction
work has not yet accumulated in &
large enough amount to carry the
whole project, capitol lands will bt
offered in March in practically all the
counties of the river where such land,
are located the offerings being made al
the same time with those of the public
school lands in the same counties. II
. is believed that this sale will bring q
sufficient fund with what is already on
! hand to push the work right along
While there We're no bi's at the time
these lands were offered in Edmund.
! county last fall, since that time the