Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-11-01
NEWSY A T

case which occurred last week Tuesday I:
That Arthur Mayo came TO his death
in a railroad accident caused by a col
lision IA the James r yer division that
said wreck was caused by the negli-
gCnce Of the superintendent or the chief
train dispatcher to provide proper
assistance to Engineer Davidson, TO do
switching and loading of stock requested
to be done by him; and farther by the
failure of the chief tram dispatcher to
give reasonable and proper notice or any
notice at all, to the fast stock extra
while he WIS loading stock, or any
notice at all TO Conductor Manning and
Engineers Johnson AMI Springer, the
men in charge of the fast stock extra,
to slow up or look out; hat the chief
train dispatcher wired Engineer David
son at l:O o'clock p. m on the day of
the accident, TO go to Ipswich and
double head Zimmerman to Aberdeen;
that in pursuance of that order, he was
loading stock and using the main track
and was justified in believing that the
zimmerman train was approaching
under instructions to stop at Ipswich;
that the fast extra which caused the
wreck was allowed by carelessness or
the negligence of the chief train dis
patcher to run ahead of the Zimmerman
train without notice and without warn
ing to Engineers johnson and David
son or Springer or Conductor Manning"
Physicians of Chamberlain, Oacoma,
Presho, Murdo and other towns in the
western portion of South Dakota report
that erythema is prevalent throughout
that section and that hundreds of cases
have come to them fer treatment. They
are somewhat preplexed, as the disease
is said not to be contagious, and they
are unable to account for its widespread
prevalence. Erythemo is a skin disease
characterized by a redness which first
appears upon the chest and back
between the shoulder blades. On the
third day after the appearance of the
rash there is a mild itching of the
infected parts, which by the fourth or
day has increased tenfold. Com
monty it is more severe on the back
than elsewhere and persons with short
or fat arms are obliged to rub up against
a wall or fence corner, or employ a
scratcher. 1t is said that
the Indians pay little or no attention to
the disease and refuse to agitate the
infection by scratching. The more
industrious the scratching the greater
the itching.
The land case against Ayres, Newell,
Binford and Mcclure, OF Pierre, in the
United States court at Sioux Falls came
to a sudden end last week by a verdict
IN favor of the defendants. Ii had been
expected that the submitting of evidence
both sides and the arguments would
lake up several days. Upon the govern
nent putting in its evidence and resting
. NocO, hS"NNOlN was iOhIu Nidt
here was really no case at all against
my of the defendants and the case COL
apsed in fact by the weak presentation
by the government. The attor-
leys for the defense promptly moved
that the judge instruct the jury 20
in a verdict of not guilty which
vas so ordered and the jury immedi-
.tely acted accordingly.
w. N. Munroe, a Northwestern
ngineer, was held up in Watertown
night and $52 taken from his
'erson. Munroe had just pulled his
rain into Waterfowl and after eating
late supper about midnight he started
or his home in the southwest part of
he city. When just south of the city
Iall he was confronted by a big revolt
yer and the remark. eff you move an
nch | will blow a hole through you"
While one held the gun on him another
anne up and searched Monroe, ~reliev-
ng him of his roll. 1t is said that the
urglars got the wrong man after all,
S it is thought they were waiting for I
oseph Sears, a saloonkeeper who had I
bout 500 on his person that night.
The farmers of Sully county, by pop I
lar subscription, have raised over $780, ]
% for the purpose of constructing and
.luipping an electric line from Gettys-
urg to Okoboji, a distance of twenty :
ne miles. The money has all been
aid in and is on deposit in the banks I
( Pierre and Oneida, the county seat of ]
ully county in which Okoboji is sit.
Construction will be begun in
ne spring. Sully and Buffalo are the !
counties east of the river that ale
OF traversed by one or more railroads. 1
is proposed to build the new line first ]
ON Pierre TO Okoboji, then west to ]
media and then north to Gettysburg, J
terminal Of the Watertown Redfield !
ne Of the North Western. I
The annual pay roll of the North
Western at Huron will be nearly $780, I
% this year. Why shouldn't Huron ]
e a good town-one of the best in the
No other South Dakota municip- !
lily has anything like this behind it. !