Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-14
NEWSY A NOTES.

Sloan and Norrinne saloon, at White
wood, was broken into Sunday night b,
some thieves with a fine sense of humor
Their first act was TO take all the none.
out of the cash drawer and then fill tn
different compartments in the dra we
with bar checks. They helped them
selves TO q free lunch of beer and cheese
and after partially emptying the bottl'
of beer, forced open the safe ant
removed the contents, and then put thu
partially full bottle of beer into the safe
locked it up and set the combination
The robbery was discovered by the bar
tender, and although certain partiel
familiar with the premises are sus
pected, no arrests have been made. The
money taken amounts to SO or 800.
Max LYMAN, a mixed blood Indian
belonging at Yankton agency who
about ten days ago, was arrested by the
United States authorities in Sioux Falls
on the charge of ~unlawfully taking liq'
nor to the reservation, and who In
default of bonds was lodged in the
Yankton county Jail, has succeeded in
furnishing bonds in the sum Of $500 and
has been released from custody pending
action upon his case by a United States
grand jury which will v in Sioux
Falls in April. Two of the wealthiest
business men Of Wagner signed the
bond. Lyman is a son of Major Lyman,
n of the most prominent pioneers of
Dakota territory.
A petition is being circulated for the
pardon OF John Nevens, OF Lead, who is
serving sentence in the state peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls. Last year the
young man with a companion held mp a
drunken man In an alley in the rear Of
the Campbell house. The crime was
soon traced to them, and although their
receipts from the deal were very small,
yet they were both sentenced to three
years in the state ~peuitentiary for high
way robbery. The parents Of the young
man are instrumental in getting up the
document asking for the release. The
petition ID. based upon Nelson's youth
and his previous good reputation.
Arguments were made before Judge
Whiting at Huron Monday on an appli-
cation for a reduction of the bond of HI.
A. Jones, late In the employ Of the
John Gund Brewing company, now in
Jail to answer the charge Of embezzle-
ment When his accounts were
checked up after his arrest Jones was
found to be short $1,000. Justice Ged-
dis fixed his bond at $1,000, for his
appearance at the next term Of the CIR
cult court, although IL is understood
that the deficiency has been made up
Judge whiting reduced the bond to
$500. which amount Jones' friends
will endeavor to raise.
An item in the Indian appropriation
bill now before congress, gives to Mrs.
Il Waldron $3.50 in payment of q
claim. This lady 10 the wife of Charles
Waldron, son of one of Dakota's
pioneers (now dead) who settled in
Sioux Falls In 1859, when Cherries was
quite young, in 1862, they we're driven
ont by hostile Indians and then made
q settlement at Yankton, where the
family resided for many years. Mrs.
Waldron has an Indian ancestry suf-
ficient to give her a legal standing
with annuity Sioux, but in appearance
and department. would readily pass for
a pale face.
Guided by q mitten and a sack that
swayed in the wind where they had
been hung on the fence before she lay
down to die in the snow and cold,
searchers found the body Of Mrs. Emily
Wahl. Of Sturgis, who was caught in
the blizzard Of last Friday aud perished
ten miles from Stonevill. The corps
was covered with six inches Of snow.
except for the part Of one foot, and it
would have been passed by the search
ing party had Il not been for the cloth
ing, which the woman evidently placed
with the idea that II might bring help.
BY being run into by q dog while
walking over slinpery sidewalk, Mrs. 8.
Herbert, . well-known pioneer resident
Of Sioux Falls, received serious injuries.
The dog an into her with sufficient
force to cause her to lose her footing.
She fell heavily to the 10y walk. frac-
turing the bones OF her left hip. To
add to the misfortunes Of the family
Mr.. Herbert has been confined to his
bad for some time with rheumatism
and - both are quite aged the ACCIDENT
70 Mrs- Herbert Ia = sore sffiiotion.
a Surveying party Of twelvelmen and
two teams. with the surveyors. e. H.
Van Antwerp and r. I. Bruce, left
Yanktou Saturday going south uDn the
Yankt0n southern railway. Fremont
HIN. che promoter o. this road writes
from Wiohita, Kan, through which
town the Linz passes. that he meets with
great encouragement At thessouth end
Of she line. Is begins to look like bust.
ness with surveyors and right way
men in the feld.
J. A. MoIntosh. n memberIof the firm
which has the contract for building the
Milwaukee roads coast extension, ha,