Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
NEWSY STATE NOTES.
Aberdeen has had several cases Of
J NAL dogs tn spring.

Gutz Is at the head.
There is mad dog scare at White
Rock and the council has ordered all
dogs musseled or tied up.
The prohibition state committee has
issued call for state convention to
be held at Redfield, June g.
The Northwest Stock Growers asso-
citation is helding large and interest,"
ing meeting at Bell Fourche this week.
j. N. Plat an old resident of Clark
county and president of the Security
bank, of Clark, died suddenly Monday.
A convention of the South Dakota
Association of the Advancement of the
Deaf will be held in Sioux Falls June
8 to IL inclusive.
Tfe-on Fisk organized a Farmers
union for Grant county at Milbank,
April II, with good membership, a
lobal union was also organized in Mil
bank.
H. A. Jones confessed to being pres
ent at the holdup and robbery of M. A
Stevens, of Minneapolis, and was given
five years by the judge of the Yankton
circuit court.
Geo. Weissenber, of Wentworth,
committed suicide after an unsuccessful
attempt to kill Mr.. and Mrs. Eckland.
Weissenburg was in love with Mrs.
Bowler, now Mrs Eckland.
The and 10 year old sons of John
Flanders living north of Arlington,
while their parents were away decided
to go hunting and during the prepare
ton the elder boy was shot and killed.
Alphonso Jones is now held in the
county Jail at Sioux Falls on a charge
Of shooting with the intent to kiln j. L
Taylor who is in the city hospital with
a gun shot wound in his side that may
prove fatal.
A holder of land under purchase con-
tract is not consisered free holder is the
decision handed down by Judge Whit
ing Of the ninth circuit. The case
arose out of a petition to vote on the
license question at Hetland.
The state marking board for the
teachers examination has completed its
work and passed on 927 sets of papers.
Certificates were granted to 574, Of
these 3 were life certificates, A for state
diplomas, 81 first and $40 second grade.
Daniel Lovejoy, an Indian, who
pleaded guilty Saturday before the
United States court at Sioux Falls, to
an indictment charging him with TAX
ing intoxicating liquors to the Sisseton
reservation, and was sentenced to three
months imprisonment and fine of$l00.
DIR. HI. E. McNutt, of Aberdeen, has
been reappointed by Governor Elrod a
member of the board of medical exam
liners for this state. Other members of
the board to be reappointed were DR..
S. Olney, of Sioux Falls, and DIR. H. M.
rlnnerud, or WATERFOWL.
AT the meeting of the Northern Edu.
cational association held Thursday and
Friday of last week at Ipswich the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Superintend-
ent of School Thompson, Webster !;
secretary, Miss Edith Pierson, Aber-
deem; treasurer. j. f. Johnson, Bowdle
Judge Garland, of the United States
court at Sioux Falls, sentenced Ed.
Snyder Saturday to two years at hard
labor in the state penitentiary at Sioux
Falls and imposed a fine of 800.
Snyder plead guilty to an indictment
charging him with breaking into post
Office at Mansfield, Brown county, and
carried off registered package con-
tanning S11.7S
August Froelich, young fireman on
the Milwaukee road died Friday noon
at st. Luke's hospital at Aberdeen, Of
hemorrhage of the stoma CHI His death
"oS ouA PiAsC 40 ho wan suppOscu W Uc
well on the road to recovery after the
operation for appendicitis which he
underwent short time ago. He has
been firing on the road over year.
The federal Jury which heard the
case of M. M. Jordan, OF Danbury, La. I,
against Miss Louise NJ. Mentele, heir
ess and surviving partner Of the late
Father William Kroeger, celebrated
priest healer of Epiphany, was unable
to reach verdict in the case last week
which was tried at Sioux Falls. Jordan
sought to recover $2,100 for services
alleged to have been render Father
Kroeger.
j. ID. Elliott, United States attorney
for South Dakota, on Wednesday
wired the department of justice at
Washington his resignation to take
effect at once. w. G. Porter, ssistapt
attorney, has been placed in charge OF
the Office by judge Garland until hia