Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-10
.NEWSY A NOTES.

Failing 10 furnish bonds in the sum
Of $300fo his appearance at the next
term of state circuit court in Turner
county, A, Hedging, a Nebraska man,
has been lodged in the county Jail pend
ing the converting of court and action
upon his case. Hodgins claims TO b. a
representative of an Omaha grocery
house aud at the time he got into
trouble was c%anvassing through the
county securing orders for goods. The
charge against him is obtaining property
by false pretenses. The complaining
witnesses are AIR. aud Mrs Earnest
Handwerk, who reside Oh a Turner
county farm. They allege that Hodgins
came TO their home, and after selling
them a bill of goods. took in pay
ment therefore a note for the sam of
$31. 80. This was taken TO a bank at
Marion and sold, Handwerk's note
being good. 1t is further alleged that a
few days later Hodgins again visited
the HaDdwerk home, taking a bottle of
whisky with him. Handwerk was, ID
is alleged, induced to drink and when
he became sufficiently mellow" IL 10
alleged that Hodgins informed him that
he had lost the note and asked him 10
sign another. Handwerk complied
with the request. IL is further alleged
that Hodgins inserted a ~" in place of
the ~" which had appeared in the first
note, making the second "a call for
the sum of $37 80. This note Hodgins
is also charged with having sold at a
bank. When Handwerk was notified
of his Indebtedness at the bank, it
dswned upon him that he had been
duped and without delay he swore out
a warrant for the arrest of Hodgins. A
companion of Hodgins named Shaife,
who also was c~anvassiDg for orders in
Turner county, was also arrested, but
as the result of the preliminary examin.
alton Of the two men the case against
Shaife vas dismissed and Hodgins was
held for appearance in the circuit court
rs stated. Handwerk will have to pay
both notes, which aggregate the sun of
$6S.7s.
State Superintandent-e ELECT Ustrud is
either being misquoted by the Sioux
Falls Press or showing lack ..of infor
nation as to the affairs of the state
school fund. He was first made to say
that the idle fund in the treasury
should be divided among the schools,
instead of being allowed to lie in the
hands of the treasurer. This statement
was taken mp by the papers of the state
as an attempt to destroy the efficiency
of the permanent fund by dissipating it
in case any we're on hand and further
shown that at the time of the last
annual report there wal but seven cents
OF such fund on hand. The Press then
attempts to explain by saying that it
was the idle income funi which was
being allowed to remain in the treasury.
There has never been any of this fund
allowed to accumulate since the days of
Thomas K. Ruth as commissioner of
the fund. Ever since that, while the
law only requires one distribution of
this fund each year, OIL the 18th day of
June. 1t has been the policy OF the
to make two distributions,
one on the date required, and the other
the 18th day of December.
Not the slightest trace has yet been
found of T. II. Williams and William p.
Patterson, who recently escaped from
the county Jail in Fairfax while await
ing trial on the charge of holding up
and robbing W railroad men at Bone
steel. The two men made their escape
an unusual manner Marshal Piper
took them to supper and upon return
ing to the Jail left the prisoners in the
corridor while he went up town for a
few minutes. To the officers astonish-
ment the men were gone when he