Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-01

last week Young Hartgering was
missed a short time before. The body
when found was rigid and the young
man evidently had been dead many
hours. He had been a sufferer foI
some time with heart trouble, and it is
supposed that il was the immediate
cause of his death. He was twenty
wears of age, and had been "A student
at the school of mines at Rapid City.
The state treasury has called in out.
standing warrents TO the amount OF
S2o0,000, the call being from the pro-
ceeds of a recent issue of revenue wal
rants which We're sold at A. per cent
interest, to secure the funds to reduce
the Z per cent warrants. The present
call will take up all outstanding war
rants to the middle of September, and
it is estimated that the receipts from
the March call of taxes will clear up
all warrants TO about the first of March,
leaving only a comparatively small
VI oN''
Two daughters of congressman
Freeman Knowles, a prominent social
list of this state. were married in Dead
wood last week. Miss Nellie, who was
her fathers private secretary during
his stay in Washington, was married to
Earl CulbeSson, a well known mining
man in the Black Hills. Miss Mary
Knowles has gone to Chicago where
she was married on the Goth to Richard
Clark, formerly a mining man in the
Black Hille and now engaged in the
hardware business at Hendersonville,
North Caro'tna.
The January report of the vital
statistics bareau is out, and in it
superintendent Robinson expresses his
qualification # the workings of the law,
comparing 1T 70 the advantage of the
county othca!s of this state, with
those of adjacent states. The record
shows 500 bin ms, the largest number
reported FOR sny one month since the
bnreau orga lied. The deaths num-
bered 3l3, pneumonia causing 20, tuber-
culosis and btart failure each 81, can
Ger 10 and dirl iberia 5
An llustralps Of The ups and downs
of human hfs anne to light last week
in Washingtc "a a bill introduced by
Senator Kittl lge to pension Henry r..
Pease, of Wi.tertown, South Dakota,
at $50 a monlh, Pease served in q
Connecticut regiment in the civil var
and during reconstruction days was
United States senator from Mississippi.
Later he wflt 10 Dakota and was
receiver of Csc land Office at Water
town. Now according TO the testi-
mony of his ssician, he is physically
aud mentall incapacitated and in
need of assistance.
Secretary Robinson, of the historical
society, has received from +. T.. Girls
void, of MiuI earolis, a large package
of papers " 0iished IN the territory
about 1851, INCLUDING sample OF publ
cations which were continued through
the blockade OF the winter of 1901,
when the publishers made use of any
thing in the shape of paper which they
could secure. Some of them are on
wrapping paper of different shades and
quality, and Others ON wall paper. In
fact anything which could be used for
paper was called into requisition to fill
the needs of the occasion.
James Meehan, Abraham Catlin,
John ID. Hildengorf, p. r. Stiles and
Henry Grotp Of Triumph, Martin
county, were arraigned before United
States Court Commissioner Eberhart,
of Mankato, Minnesota, last week on a
charge of having, on June 10, 1904,
made false affdavits TO the final proofs
in homestead entries maid by them in
the Chamberlain Is. d. land district.
They were indited by the federal grand
jury at Sioux Falls, S. ID. Dupty Mar
shals Rich and Mallory made the
arrests at Triumph, Each defendant
gave a bond for $1,000 for his appear
ance at the term of the federal court
which convene April 3 at Sioux Falls.
The Northwestern railway is getting
ready for a brake up in the ice on the
Missouri at Pierre aud has pushed sew
eral heavy engines 10 the west shore,
where they will be kept from this time
on, to do the work on the extension.
Practically all the material required
has been piled mp in the storage yards,
and the road is ready to have commune
cations cut by the taking out of the
temporary bridge at any time. The ice
is very shaky, and water is running
over il a foot deep in many places. A
few days ago the derrick used in drill
ing at the pier sites for the permanent
bridge went through the ice on which
il was located, and that machinery has
been taken off the ice entirely. 1t is
the intention Of the company to pull
the piling on seveal hundred feet Of the