Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-17
NEWSY A NOTES.

III. NJ. Eddins, for twenty years agent
of the Milwaukee road Mt Groton.
departed Thursday for parts unknown.
II has developed since his going that he
is short in his accounts nearly % COO
His wife processes to be ignorant OF his
whereabouts. She is being watched
however, in the hopes that she will
betray his whereabouts. He has always
been looked upon as II of the most
trustworthy employees of the company
in the state.
The South Dakota Central Railway
Thursday filed with the secretary Of
state a resolution of extensions, which
are to cover a large part of the state.
The extension is from the present ter
minal of that road in Rutland,
Lake county, to the City of Watertown;
one from Rutland to Brookings; a line
from WATERFOWL to Aber deem, and
three lines to the Missouri river at
points from Grow Creek north through
the state.
The telephone saved the lives of three
persons southwest of Miller, Friday.
Along in the night Elijah Molyneax
fell ont of bed in a dazed condition, but
realized that he was smothering from
soft coal Gas. He saw that his mother
aud hrnthor Tnhn N, ~ ntlr
dead. He rang the telephone and
neighbors came, and after a long effort
restored the mother, who was about
dead. John not being so bad off.
The supreme court has granted a writ
of error and certificate of possible cause
in abe case Of Carl Jackson, who, on a
second trial, was again found guilty of
wrecking the Bank of Clark and was
given a sentence of one year. The GER
t~ificate of probable cause acts as a stay
of sentence until the case IS heard in
the supreme court at the April term.
A marriage license was issued in
Philadelphia Friday by the clerk of the
orphans court to Paul Sanford Pearsall
of New York, who is to wed Martha
Hlchborn Blaine. The latter, who was
recently divorced from James G..
Blaine. Jr., gave her address as Sioux
Falls, S. ID. The marriage took place
Tuesday,
Fire in the baker shop of Ward Bros
Candy factory at Aberdeen late Satur-
day night did damage TO the extent of
81, 900 Oh over The department did
good work, which was recognized by
A. L. Ward, who, to show his appreci-
alton. gave a spread for the firemen in
the Ward Grill roam after the fire was
out.
Norman Davis, of Yankton county,
was found by Frank Moley Friday on a
steep hill in that county ,inse nsible from
injuries received in a runaway.
Davis had lain for two hours where he
fell and was badly frozen i'm addition 70
his other injuries. He is in serious con.
dition.
There is a banker at Murdo who is q
years old and his wife is II. The other
day she presented him with twins and
the doctor who vas present upon the
occasion, upon taking his departure,
said that he hoped all four children
ucplI uaf olnpu ua1l
The case of Montgomery Ward & Co.
VS. Retail Merchants association held the
attention of Judge Carlaud's United
States court in Sioux Falls for two days
last week and vas then postponed until
January %.
John Mick newly elected states
attorney, of Meade county, has ordered
the house of prostitution closed in
Sturgis and served notice on saloons to
obey the law to the letter.
George Davis, a coiored man, is in
the Dawson county Jail on a charge OF
stabbing another negro. He attempted
to make his escape and took a boy in
the Jail into his confidence who revealed
the plans to Sheriff Cook.
The Hand county Jail is as empty ..
though it were in Zion. There hat
been no arrests for a long time, and the
inclination Of the people is so good that
the prospects are bad for any criminal
business this winter.
Thomas Carney, a bartender at Pee
YER, a small village south of Sisseton,
was stabbed Friday night during al
alto ratinon with Charles Lundstrom, a
farmer, who is under arrest. Carney
may die.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
has beer filed in the United States court
by George j. Johnson, a merchant OF
Wentworth, who schedules his liabili,
ties at So, 974.S6 and his assets at $16,
$50. 92.
Peter Schmitz, an old man and q
farm hand, was found dead in the road
half a mile north of Howard Sunday
He got lost in the snow storm and was
from to death.
In the circuit court Of M~innehahs
county last week, Sib Peterson, con
victed of keeping his saloon open after
hours, was arranged and fined $5(