Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
NEWSY STATE NOTES.


park.
State house employees are wondering
if they will have to seek new jobs after
January LIST
A Deadwood Chinaman made the
| first contribution IN that town 70 the
San Francisco relief fund.
Hon. M. F. Greeley, after eight years
of service on the board Of regents, has
sent in his resignation to Governor
Elrod.
Mrs. Freeman Madole was bitten on
the hand by rattle snake, thirty five
miles from Presho, and died from the
injury.
Geo. A, Ludlow, of Sioux Falls has
been appointed member eff the Sol
diers Home board to succeed Charles A.
Marshall, deceased.
Friends of ex.Mayor Ewart, of Pierre,
presented him with gold watch and
chain made of Black Hills gold, as a
token of their esteem.
John Rolling, Of McCook county, has
sold his farm of 800 acres for $65 an
acre, or $40, 800, the highest price yet
paid for land in that county.
Miss Lily B. Springer. a trained
nurse at the Indian school at Rapid
City, was married last week to Chaun-
cey Yellow Robe, full blooded Sioux.
Premiums for the state fair at Huron
have been increased about ten per cent
over last years list. The grounds will
be greatly improved and several of the
buildings and barns will be fixed upand
improved.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for the erection of fine Catholic
church building at Montrose. The new
structure when completed, will be one
of the finest buildings of the kind in
that part of the state 1t is estimated
that it will cost about SIS 900.
The post office at Revillo was robbed
last week, the burglars securing about
800 in cash and $500 in stamps.
Entrance was gained through the rear
door of the drug store in which the
postoffice is located. The safe was
dynamited.
Mike Ryan, eaf and dumb farmer
was drowned near Clear Lake. He was
crossing creek to a field he intended
to cultivate when he was swept down
stream with the four horses he was
driving. The outfit caught in a wire
fence and Ryan was drowned.
The twelfth annual intercollegiate
oratorical contest was held at Huron
last week. Miss Lou E. Miles, of Red
field college, won highest honors,
Shearer, of Mitchell, Butler, of Yank-
ton, and Miller, of Huron, ranking
second, third and fourth respectively.
The following officers were elected by
the State Bankers association at Aber-
deem last week, for the ensuing year
President, K. @. Issenhuth, Redfield
secretary, j. E. Platt, Clark; chairman
executive committee, H. L. Sheldon,
WATERFOWL. The next convention will
be held at Huron.
Two infants, twin children of Mr..
and Mrs. Boedeker of Evarts, were
rescued from certain death by the hero
ism OF two workmen Messrs. Mayfield
and Jeffries, who disregarding the
danger of flames and smoke, rushed
into the Boedecker home and carried
the children from an upstairs room tc
safety.
The Milwaukee railroad has promised
Vermillion fine new station sur.
rounded by park if the city will give
more land for the project or find a new
site There is talk of putting the new
station at the foot of Ravine hill, neal
the site of the log school house which
was one of the first to be built il
Dakota.
Ernest Rector, brakeman on thu
Great Northern, was taken to the pes
house in Aberdeen Thursday morning
suffering from smallpox. Rector com
planned of being sick while on his rur
from Breckenridge and on arriving il
Aberdeen called DR.. Rock, who pro
nounced it case of smallpox and a
oace placed him in quarantine.
II
Captain l.. p. Beardsley, of Sioul
City, superintendent of Sioux Falls
l division of the Milwaukee road is a
Samaritan hospital in Sioux City pain
fully bruised abont the face, shoulder
and head. Superintendent Beardsley
was experimenting the clearing of {
wreck eight miles from SiouxCity wher
large wire cable snapped one end o
\ which struck Mr.. Beardsley stunnin,
j blow knocking him to the ground ant
rendering him unconscious. He wa
taken on special car and taken to thu
: Sioux City hospital where he win b