Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-18

last week in which they refused to pay
States Attorney Kelley and have
decided TO foot the bills of his prosecu-
ton until the law is satisfied of his
guilt or innocence. They look better
now.
The supreme court has denied n
motion for a rehearing in the Wal
worth county seat contest. AT the
hearing the court held that the county
records must be returned from Selby to
Bangor, whence they were taken, and
the dicision now closes any further
action along the line Of general con
test.
Jay ii. Speers, twenty two years old
and a soldier in H troop, Sixth cavalry,
Fort Meade. died Friday night while on
the way out Of the city with other boys
of his troop. Death was due to heart
disease. The authorities at the post
were notified and came with an ambul-
ance after the remains. Speers is said
to have relatives in Detroit, Mich.
The location of the permanent bridge
over the Missouri river at Evarts has
not been decided as yet, but the drill
ers are not finding any satisfactory
bottom at the fivemile point north of the
town having gone forty-feet through
sand with no indication of striking
shale. AT the north end of, Fox island
a mile north of town, there appears to
be good shale bottom of sufficient
depth. 1t is generally considered that
this is where the temporary and per-
manent bridges will be built.
John ID. Hale, of Tilford, left Satur-
day with his wife and daughter for
Cuba. He was down there last year
and concluded that some of his fine
bred horses would find a ready sale
there. This time he takes with him
two car loads of Black Hills horses
which he proposes to sell in the island
in the sea. He is one of the best horse
men in the Black Hills and owns some
of the best stock on the Black Hills.
He has a ranch in Wyoming Of $4,000
acres stocked with blooded horses.
Indian Agent Warner, Of Cheyenne
agency, left Evarts Friday for Wash
lngton with Chief Hump and Iron
Lightning, of Cherry Creek, Cheyenne
agency. 1t is supposed the chiefs have
been called to Washington for con
sultation regarding the price per head
to be charged for stock passing over the
public trail on this agency. The price
has been % cents per head, but at a
general council this winter the Indians
demanded 80 cents At % cents, the
trail has paid the Indians over 500, 900
a year.
Two women, a mother and her
daughter, are in Yankton county Jail
charged with larceny of a quantity of
silks, skirts, jewellery and shawls from
the stores of III. r. Brisbine and Fantel
Brothers, of Yankton. The ome it is
alleged were detected 1t Brisbine's
store, and were arrested as they were
about to leave town On a freight train.
From an autograph album IN "A tele-
scope was found the name Bessie Trim
mers, of Glen Valley. The girl tainted
-, rNllfoa ugurt and hnr .,atEar na1lo1
her Bessie, yet they deny that their
name is Trimmers.
James Spratt, a hired farm hand at
the Yankton county poor farm, literally
has jumped from the poor house TO the
landed proprietorship of an old
estate at Dunnikil, Galway, Ireland.
Mr.. Spratt came to this country eigh-
teen months ago and being without
funds except what he was able to earn,
he hired u and eventually came to
this county where he accepted a job at
the county poor farm, where he did
farm work and ate with the superlnten
dent and his pauper inmates, two or
three in number. Now a letter has
arrived from the estate attorney telling
him t. come home to claim the estate,
which comprises 2 900 acres of valuable
property. MI. Spratt, while reluctant
to leave this country, is gong after the
legacy and will leave for Ireland.
Interest in the complicated political
situation in South Dakota will be
aroused by the ouncem soon to
be made by H. A. Ustrud,o of M~innehaha
county, of his candidacy for nomination
to the Office of state superintendent OF
public instruction by the republican
state convention to be held in Sioux
Falls in June. At present Mr.. Ustrud
is filling the position of superintendent
of schools of Minnehaha county, he
twice having been elected to the Office,
With the exception of three years spent
in educational work in Wisconsin he ha:
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