Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-22

vrecking the building. The ruins
c ught fire and burned to the ground
Fourteen men were in the saloon at the
time of the explosion G Vanwohr-
man. the editor of the Harvey Peak
News, was seriously injured.
Pursuant to an order of Adjutant
General Englesby, of Watertown, troop
Cof WATERFOWL has been mustered out.
Lack of interest in the men and the
further reason that the officers were
unable to give much time to the troop
are the reasons for the action. This
leaves but one company of calvary in
Sisseton troop has also been mustered
out.
A determined effort is to be made to
make Milbank a dry town The pro-
hibition forces are lining up for a fight
against license. Last a the city
gave a small majority for license This
the prohibitionists claim they can over
come Public meetings are to be held
and church influence is to be used from
now until the April election. The
saloons have been well regulated aud
claim they ar strictly obeying the law
The vote will be close.
Shock Hall and A. Reder, of Sturgis,
have received a pair of full-blooded
Iriey blood hounds, which they will
take out to their ranch to deal with the
wolf nuisance. AS wolf hunters these
hounds are said to have no equal, and
IN combat an America wolf stands no
show at all. Hall and Reder already
have two stag hounds, and with the
aid of the new dogs the days of the wolf
will soon be numbered in that part of
the country.
While Andrew Knodle, living OH a
farm neal Yankton, was shooting at
dogs which annoyed him he accidently
shot his brother, August, in the ankle,
which may necessitate amputation of
the foot. They had taken shot guns and
gone after the dogs that had annoyed
them by barking during the night.
They found the dogs and a shot was
fired. An animal was wounded and
started for August. He brother, fear
ing that he wcald be bitten, fire again
but in the excitement hit August in the
ankle
Thn apfiaz 80 1r,, sIa, hnaII-r,e laua
so annoyed the Baltic authorities that it
has been decided to build a Jail in
which to lodge violators of the law in
future. The township board, acting on
a petition from the citizens of Baltic,
decided to have the Jail constructed so
drunken and lawleSs characters can be
suitably punished. 1t is believed the
construction of the Jail and the arrest
of all law breakers will speedily make
Baltic one of the most orderly com
munities in the state.
Harry Graham, a Stanley county
pioneer in Jail in Pierre on a six months
sentence on account of a shooting scrape
in that county, received word of the
death of his father in Missouri, and
applied to Governor Elrod for a reprieve
from his sentence for the purpose of
attending the funeral. An irvestiga-
ton showed that there was no legal
remedy in his case, no law allowing
any such action OF the part Of the gov
ernor, and Graham will be deprived of
the privilege of attending the funeral.
Mrs. Paul Jourdian, of Sisseton, was
over come by the deadly gas fumes
coming from a heating stove in her
home Sunday and had it not been for
the timely arrival of her son she might
have succumbed to the poison. She
awoke, as she remembers, with a stifed
feeling and managed to get out of bed
and open the door but was so overcome
that she fell to the floor where she lay
when her son came home. A doctor
was called and she was soon brought to
consciousness.
w. G.. Porter. of Sioux Falls, presi-
dent of the republican state leagues of
South Dakota, has received a letter
from Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, acknowledging receipt of an
invitation extended to him by Presi-
dent Potter on behalf of the state
league to address the biennial conven-
ton of the league at Sioux Falls on
June 4, next. Secretary Shaw virtually
accepts the invitation, and therefore
will be held the principal speaker at the
biennial convention of the state league.
The convention will be held on the eve-
ming before the day Of the republican
state convention for the nomination Of
a state ticket.
Sheriff Peterman ,ofKingbury county,
has returned TO the state with w. J..
Hatch, after a chase of several hundred
miles. Hatch, during the winter was a
teacher in the schools at Bancroft,
Kingsbury county. He was arrested on
= serious charge. Before the warrant for