Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-17
NEWSY STATE NEWS.

Chatheld, Minnesota.
Mrs. @. H. Sheldon, widow of Gov.
ernor Sheldon, has accepted position
as teacher of the eighth grade in the
city schools of Groton.
The supreme court sustains the capitol
commission on every contention. 1t dis
missed the proceedings and gives judy
ment for the taxable costs
Gov. Elrod has appointed w. 8. Hill,
Alexandria, member of the boord Of
agriculture to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mr.. Fletcher.
Chas. Bozell, living four miles south
west of Warner, lost his new barn and
granery, six horses, buggy and mach
isery, by fire Friday afternoon. No one
seems to know how the fire started
Three more banks have been added to
the list by the filing letters of incorpor.
alton for the Wolsey State bank, Of
Wolsey; the FIRST State bank, of Har-
rold, and the State bank, of Florence,
Miner county.
Jess Smith, a teamster employed by
Sheriff Wright, of Yankton county,
took carbolic acid Thursday night in q
dance hall, at Yankton, and died in the
presence of the company. He was jeal-
Gus of the attention paid his wife.
M. L. Bronson well known cattle.
man, was brought in to Belle Fourche,
from his ranch at Hardin suffering
from broken leg. He was moving
timbers and was in some was caught
under them.
In circuit court, in Hughes county,
Saturday, Sherman De Witt and Chas.
Hobbs, each was given sentence Of
one year in the penitentiary, the former
on charge of embezzlement and the
latter for horse "rustling." Pleas of
guilty were entered in each case.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albin Anderson living,
northwest of Beresford, had the mis-
fortune to lose their oldest daughter
last week. She was playing around the
house and opened the cistern and fell
in. Medical aid was summoned, but all
vain. She could not be revived.
The state brand commission is clear
ing mp the accumulated work for
the spring and has about 160 brands to
work out, with whatever may come in
before the close of the meeting in addi-
ton. The work at the present time is
to get everything cleared up for stock
men before springs work begins.
Wollert Haldahl, of Sioux Falls,
received word Tuesday that he had
been appointedvice counsel for Nor
way at Sioux Falls. In the past the
business OF the consulate has been done
through the st. Paul consulate and it
was only recently that the Norwegian
government decided to established a
consulate in the city of Sioux Falls.
The secretary of war is inquiring of
the governor as to the strength of the
guard in this state, for basis of appoint
ment of members to take a trip for drill
purposes at Fort A. d Russell, Wyom-
ing, which is the point of rendezvous
for this section of the northwes The
state is entitled to about 81 900 for this
purpose if the troops are taken to the
fort for their practice drill.
The last work on the foundation of
the east wing of the capitol was COM
pleted Saturday. Contractor Lepper
has cleared up about the structure aud
has gone to look after other work The
foundation called for some heavy walls
and while the work was delayed both
last fall and this spring on account of
the weather the contract finally has
been completed In a manner entirely
The city of Aberdeen seems as far
from solution of the sewer problem as
ever. Sewer bonds were voted in March
and were offered for sale to the bond
bids were received and the
best bid accepted by the city council.
The bond company that accepted the
bid now contends that the bonds are
illegal and unauthorized, for the reason
that the act of the legislature Of South
approved March 5, 1905,
being chapter 155 of the laws of 1905, is
unconstitutional.
An Iowa would-be settler who intend
ed to locate in the vicinity of Phillip,
west of the Missouri river, camped for
the first night on his claim and some
time in the night was aroused by some
strange animal growing and nosing
around the outside of his tent. The
next morning he turned his team
toward the rising sun with the
intention Of going back to
good old Iowa." where he did not
have to bury his head in the bed cloths
to keep ont the growls Of wild animals.
His "sand" would never have carried
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