Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-05
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

daughter in Deadwood
The Association of Retail Druggists
for the Aberdeen district. comprising
the counties of Brown, Tay, Marshall,
Edmunds, Campbell ana Mcpherson,
held its annual meeting in Aberdeen
and elected the following officers:
President, f. w. Halbkat, Webster;
secretary treasurer, j. HI. frey, Aber.
deem.
Farand Manson, who has been stenog-
rapher for Judge Corson, at Pierre,
tor some years has gone to Washington
where he will take position in the
navy depart ment, where he will have
an opportunity to earn fair salary and
at the same time attend law school,
he having decided to fit himself for that
profession.
There was an exciting time at the
home of Chas II Williams at Pierre
Thursday of last week. Mrs. Williams
bad been cutting bread for dinner and
laid the knife down for minute TO do
something else. Her year-old baby
girl picked it up and the older girl tried
to get it from her, and before one could
speak both were cut quite badly.
AT the time il appeared the ice would
go out of the river the latter part of
February, the Northwestern Railway
company took out the temporary bridge
across the Missouri at Pierre, but left
the piling stand most of the way across
the river with the expectation of getting
the bridge in again, with a short draw,
as soon as the ice went out. The piling
left in the river has stood the pressure
of the ice and within a few days the
work of again putting in the bridge
will be commenced, and it will be used
for crossing until the June rise, when
the transfer boats will be put into CON-
mission.
The statutory time for the assess.
ment of telegraph and telephone CON-
panies in this state is the fourth Mon
day in July each year, but it has been
the custom of the state board of assess.
ment to adjourn this meeting to the
same date as that set for the assessment
and equalization of other property on
the first Monday of August. The
immense increase III the amount of
telephone property in the state requires
so much of the time of the board that
they will take up telephone and tele-
graph companies at their regular date,
and pass upon them before they begin
upon the regular assessment work in
August.
1t is expected that within the course
Of few weeks the new municipal
waterworks system in Sioux Falls, for
the construction of which the sum of
$4,000 was voted by the taxpayers,
will be in operation. A large force Of
men is at work putting the finishing
touches on the plant. The work of
connecting the sixteen smaller wells
from which the big pumps will take
the water to supply the city, has been
completed, but some other work remains
to be done. The municipal system was
begun several years ago, but litigations
between the city and the private water
company, which for twenty years has
beeu supplying Sioux Falls with water.
The City of Milbank won its case in
circuit court this week against the
Western Surety company, of Sioux
Falls, the court directing verdict for
SlS7l 81 The suit grew out of the
failure of A. ID. Mcdonald, doing bust
ness as the Sioux Falls Construction
company, TO complete the contract in
constructing the sewer. The surety
company guaranteed the contract.
Mayor Bouck, City Attorney Rix and
Attorney Thad Fuller prosecuted the
suit upon behalf of the city, while S.
H. Wright, of Sioux Falls, defended
the surety company. That the city had
a good case is evidenced by the court
directing the jury to find for the city.
The company has given notice of appeal
bat whether it will do so remains to be
seen.
Elizabeth Hochhalter, wife of Fred
Hochhalter, a prominent Mcpherson
county farmer, met her death as a
result of peculiar accident. She was
a bride of only two months. Her dead
body was found lying in a pool of blood
in fionS Of her sewing machine in
room of her home. BY the side of the
machine lay shot gun which had been
discharged. The young woman was
alone in the house, while her husband
was engaged at work in the barn, which
stands some distance from the dwelling
From the position of the body and the
gnn it is practically certain that she
upon the machine for the pur-
pose Of pulling down the window shade
and while thus engaged knocked down
the gun which struck on the butt and
the full charge entering
tha hack of tho woman,s head