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

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dead
The house committee on Indian
affairs at Washington last week decided
TO report favorably a bill authorizing
the sale of 5000 acres of the lower
Brule reservation in this state.
The referendum petition on the ques.
ton of granting the ten years rebate of
taxes for the erection of an opera house
in Pierre has been fled with the county
auditor, and the question will be sub.
mItted at the regular spring election
The state board of pardons has recon-
mended a Communication of Michael
Andres, sentenced from Codington
county on a charge of murder. The
petition of Andrew Nightpipe for a
pardon was denied The petition OF
Richard Hayes wa laid over for further
consideration.
How is this for stock raising? o. r
! Aney, of Sisseton, has a COW five years
old. Sne is now raising her fifth calf
her first calf is raising her second calf
and her first calf is raising her first calf,
making an increase of eight head in five
years. That COW is certainly a paying
piece of personal property.
While walking along the track a mile
east of B~ridgewater John Kelster was
struck by a train and so badly injured
that he died shortly after being found
The young man, who was employed by
3 farmer in the neighborhood. came
here from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the
body will be taken there for burial
A disagreement was the result of the
McElwin trial which occupied the cir
cult court at Yankton for over a day
The jury was ont nearly all day and
one night. Mrs. Nettie McElwain
tried to recover $1,000 damages from a
saloon for the death of her husband
who was killed by a train while he was
intoxicated.
A large number of the real estate
men from Brown andEdmunds counties
attended the meeting of the Real Estate
Mems Association of South Dakota at
Redfield. The association was largely
attended and more han $l2, 900 was
raised for the purpose of advertising
South Dakota's advantages in the
eastern states.
The supreme court granted a writ of
error and certificate of possible cause in
the case of Zach Flute, an Indian in
Roberts county, who was charged with
murder aud the penalty fixed by the
jury al life Imprisonment. Flute killed
two officers who were attempting to
levy on some property of his and claims
that the killing was done in self defense.
A bill of exceptions is being prepared
by council for G. G. Ware, of Dead
wood, recently convicted of conspiring
to defraud the government of land. aud
sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and
serve m year in Jail. A certified copy
of the record will be filed with the
clerk OF the court of appeals at st.
Louis GO days after the judgment of
February ~. The case will be pre-
sented at the September term of the
court of appeals at Denver. In the
meantime Mr. Ware is out on bail and
is down on his ranch near Mullen,
Nebraska.
A young Indian, James Runs-Close-
to-the- Village, has been bound over by
COMMISSIONS McDonough, of Dead
wood, to the United States district
a on the charge of assault with
intent to kill. 1t is charged hat he
drank too freely of bad whiskey and
beat his wife until she was to all
appearances dead. When she was
found the neighbors thought she was
dead and u. w. Canton, a schoolmaster
was called in to measure her for a
coffin. He was doing so when she
became conscious and charges were
brought against her husband with the
above results.
A bad fire occurred at Cotton at an
early hour Thursday morning. A bust
ness building owned by NJ. l.. Hickman
and occupied by a pool hall, barber
shop and the M~innehaha club, was
burned, together with its contents.
John Hovde, manager of the pool hall
who slept in the building, was caught
in the fire and burned to death, his
charred remains being found after the
fire subdued. Coroner Miller went to
Cotton Thursday afternoon and held an
inquest over the body OF Hovde. The
total loss to property by the fire is
at 8 600. The building was
partially covered by insurance. The
IRE is supposed to have started from
the furnace in the building.
Doane Robinson has been collecting
some diverse statistics. He recently
wrote to the proper officials in a large
number OF cities, asking them to give