Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-11-15
NEWSY A NOTES.

HtdlS are tuG itdlutu ~ bllt Stdtc III
versity at Vermillion, that the military
department will be discontinued after
the first Of the year, but n strong effort
will he made to retain II. Under the
ruling of the war department, 100 must
take part in drills At present the
number falls short about forty. Those
interested have hopes that the required
number of cadets can be secured before
January /. In an institution the size Of
the state university it is hard to find 100
students who will drill. Under the
present system students who drill two
years are not forced to drill thereafter.
This means that every two years new
students to the number of 100 must be
found to receive instruction in military
tactics AT the present rate of increase
in the university, this is impossible,
and there are not volunteers among the
old students to make up the deficit.
Commsndant Abbot, for many years in
charge of military tactics at Shattuck.
is stationed there.
Bill Mckay, a Bell Fourche bartender,
lies at the point of death from an attack
alleged to have been made on him by a
negro named Ferguson, who was doing
his first days work as cook at a hotel.
Mckay and Ferguson had some words,
the former being drunk. Ferguson was
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when, it is alleged, the negro became
Infatuated and threw a meat cleaver
through the window screen, catching
Mckay directly in the side of the head.
He is not expected to live. Posses were
organized to seek McKay's assailant,
and after a short hunt found him at
Robinson & Cheney's camp at the
diverting dam. He surrendered with
out resistance and is now in Jail.
camp at Wakpola last week, had a
quarrel with a railroad contractor
named Scrivener; he waited till Scriv-
ener went into the cook tent TO get his
supper. He then threw a kettle of boil
ing water square in S~crivener's face.
Scrivener was frightfully scalded and
is totally blind. In his awful agony he
got a revolver and shot in all directions,
imagining the cook was around. Brasse
fed Immediately into the darkness. He
has not yet been app~rehended. Last
spring Scrivener had trouble with his
negro help and one of them fired six
shots at him without effect.
Sheriff Clark, of Fall River county
has returned from Allegan, Mich,
where he secured the arrest of r. w.
Leach and brought him back to Hot
Springs TO await trial on the charge of
horse stealing alleged to have been
committed in that county. Complaint
against Leach was made by Charles
Graves, a prominent Fall River county
rancher, who charges that Leach stole
a bunch of horses from him a year or
more ago, The prisoner will be tried at
the next term of state circuit court.
A crowd of negro laborers on a south
bound Milwaukee train Saturday near
Mitchell quarreled over a game of cards.
A catholic priest residing at Shelby,
Iowa, tried to quiet them when one of
the negroes drew a revolver and fired
three shots, one taking effect in the
priests side. He was taken to a hos
pital in Mitchell, but his wound is not
regarded as serious. Eight of the neg
roes were taken into custody at Wolsey.
That express companies doing bust
ness in the state are common carriers
subject to the orders of the South
Dakota railroad commission is the sub
stance of a decision last week by Judge
Garland of the United States court in
SiouxIFalls. The case was begun by
the United States Express company 10
test the jurisdiction of the board over
express companies.
Frank Youngbauer, of Redfeld, was
struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon
and instantly killed. He was standing
on a threshinS separator belonging to
John Wise who was threshing for Mr..
Brigemann on his farm near Zell. The
bolt stunned five other members of the
crew and John Irwin received a bad cut
in his shoulder and had to be taken
home.
The Burlington has finally succeeded
in raising the blockade in that section
of the state near E~dgewood. For two
weeks ninety freight cars nave been tied
up there owing to a lack Of locomotives
In one day twelve double header trains
pulled in there. The road has ordered
40 new locomotives.
The Northwestern railroad will sink
an artesian well at its new townsite, six
miles west of Dakota City. This pro-
ject will demonstrate whether artesian
wells can be secured in that section Of
the Black Hills.
Work has been called off on the Mil
waukee extension west of Glenham
because the company is unable to get
men sufficient to carry it on.
Clay county voted against issuing
bonds for a new court house by a major