Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-09-20
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

LIE usual pedCc anu Quitb VI tuc
thriving little town of Vienna has
been broken by several sensations grow
ing out of the recent mysterious disap-
pearance of Miss Pearl Henry, who
made her home with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter McLaren, who
reside near this place The latest sem
sation in connection with the case was
the stof Henry Crumb of Brookings,
on the charge of being responsible for
the disappearance of the girl The evil
dence against Crumb is wholly circum-
stantial, consisting chiefly of his
acquaintance with the girl and the fact
that he maintained correspondence
with her. The charge against Crumb is
abduction. In default of bonds in the
sum of 81, 500 he has been lodged in the
county Jail pending the converting of
grand jury to investigate the case. The
girl has disappeared as effectually as
though the ground had opened up and
swallowed her. Not the slightest trace
of her can be found, notwithstanding
that a vigorous search has been prose-
cuted. Now that Crumb has been
ARE sted for his alleged connection with
her disappearance, the efforts to find
her will be redou bled in the hope that
she may be secured as witness against
him when he is tried in the state circuit
court. In some quarters it feared she
may be the victim of foul play. There
is possibility that she may have been
overtaken at secluded point on the
highway by tramps and murdered, and
her body afterwards hidden, but the
authorities appear to believe that she is
being kept in hiding at Brookings or
some other town. Should this prove to
be the case it would indicate that others
besides Crumb are implicated in her dis
appearance Miss Henry left the home
of her grandparents in broad daylight,
between the hours of 10 o'clock and
by neighbor of her grandparents.
Crumb was employed by the grand
father of the girl, and it was in this way
that he and the girl became acquainted.
After leaving the McLaren place Crumb
secured employment at Brookins, where
he was found and arrested by the Clark
county authorities. Although he was
married last July he maintained a COR
respondence with Miss Henry. Some
of the letters written by him to the girl
have found their way into the hands OF
the county authorities, and will be used
against him at his trial.
The forest reserve service is sti II
pursuing relentless warefare against
the red squirrels, which are among the
greatest foes of the forests. In the last
few months, the various rangers have
issued about ten thousand cartridges in
exchange for squirrel tails at the rate
of a box of fifty cartridges for every
ten squirrel tails turned in to the
ranger. This means that the small
boys of the Hills have killed over two
thousand red squirrels. In regard to
the bug-infested timber, force of men
are at work cutting this timber near
Custer, and will make thorough test
of the new instrument invented by
Ranger Tinsley Of Custer by means of
which the bark can be stripped and cut
ha thn ~
cutting down the trees. The timber
sale this summer have been about the
usual amount the timber sold coming
from an area bounded by the Burling-
ton railroad on the west, by Pringle ON
the south and Rockford on the north
The various nurseries under the charge
Of the rangers will be fenced in this fall
and be made ready for blowing and
seeding in the spring
A woman about As years of age from
Alexandria Russia, arrived in Huron
few days ago in pursuit Of her truant
husband. Immediately on her arrival
she held a conference with an attorney
and later warrant was issued for A.
Aktoersky, who was taken into custody
by Sheriff Young. The warrant
charges Aktoersky with bigamy, and
the complaining witness says she is the
wife whom he left in Russia with two
children some years ago. Wife No. l
arrived in this country year or more
since, and has been in search of her
husband whom she found here operat-
ing a tailor shop and living with
another woman whom he married in
the southern part of the state year
ago. Aktoersky gave security for his
appearance and a hearing will be had
later. Wife No. l is q pleasant looking
woman, but unable to talk English.
She has with her marriage certificate
ami also photograph Of herself Akto.
resky and their two children, and other
evidence showing him to be- her hus-
band.
The state fair has closed and the
exhibitors have been busy removing