Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-25
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are 1900, coo bushels of wheat stored
on the grain warehouses of the state.
Adjourned Thursday one OF the largest
business meetings of the season. The
morning session was devoted to a talk
by NJ L. Corey, secretary of the natio-
nal association, on the catalogue house
business Messrs. NOAH Keller. f ID.
Hawkins, of Vermillion, were selected
as delegates TO the national convention
which will meet in Chicago in June.
Aberdeen was selected as the place for
holding the convention in 1907.
The local North Western train while
passing over the trestle just ont of
Lead City struck and killed a man
believed to be G. La Belle, a French
man. The body was discovered later
by some young men of Deadwood. 1t
was laying beside the track and was
mangled almost beyond recognition.
From the position of the body il is
thought the mau must have been laying
on the tracks when the cowcatcher
struck him. He was about 30 years of
age and plainly dressed. His name
was learned by means of papers in his
pockets.
DR. Drake, a dentist at Ashley, was
murdered in cold blood in his office
Friday evening about 7:30 o'clock by
Henry Fulkinson, a plasterer, as the
result of a quarrel over the settlement
of a As cent bill, which the plasterer
alleged the dentist owed him The
murder was committed wife a revolver
the doctor being shot at twice, one
bullet lodging in the stomach and the
otder in the right breast. The dentist
died ten minutes after the bullets Were
fired. Fulkinson walked out of the
Office as soon as he had committed the
crime and has not been seen since.
A report isin circulation in Aberdeen
that the business men of Watertown
have offered a bonus of 100000 to the
NJ. & st. l.. if it will build its extension
from Watertown to the northwest,
provided it does not enter Aberdeen.
The argument being hat WATERFOWL
desires to secure the new trading
territory for it's wholesale houses, but
wants to keep Aberdeen from figuring
as a rival in that territory Water
town papers deny the report, saying
they would prefer to give a bonus for
direct rail connection wild Aberdeen,
rather than to prevent such connection
Through w. M. Sewers, IF Yankton,
it is LEANED that the state board of
charities and corrections, OF which he is
a member, is well pleased with the
state shirt factory started at the Sioux
Falls ~penitentiary. This industry,
which cost the state 5000 to start, Is
paying a good profit and Of more bene-
fit than setting the prisoners to cutting
stone for which there is ne demand.
The factory now gives steady employ
ment to 40 prisontrs, while under the
old arrangement, few could be given
employment. The expenses Of the
factory are only a few hundred dollars
each month and the revenue is 81 200.
The latest evidence that the farmer
s~upplanted the ranchmen in the western
portion of the state lying between the
Missouri river and the Black Hills, in
western South Dakota, il the projected
erection Of two grain elevators at
Presho, Lyman county. Lyman county
has an area equal to that of many
eastern states, and until recently WAS
occupied solely by stockmen, whose
immense herds of cattle and horses
''dotted a thousand hills" Sites for
grain elevators have been granted and
the work of constructing them will be
pushed as rapidly as possible. These
will be the first grain elevators to be
erected within the limits of Lyman
county, through which the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 St. Paul railroad com
pany is extending its line from Cham
berlain to the Black Hills. and ulti-
mately to the Pacific coast.
John G. J.. Charter, of Trent, has
been bound over to the circuit court, of
Moody county on the charge of selling
liquor TO minors. Charter has been a
familiar character in police circles in
Moody county for several years and has
been engaged in running a small drug
store at Trent. 1t is a mystery to the
people of that county why a drug store
can survive at Trent when there is no
doctor there. Trent has no saloons but
the good people of that town have come
to the conclusion that a well regulated
saloon would be much better than the
way things are running at present and
an application 10 now being circulated
a