Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-14
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

camp equipment from Fort MEADE 10
Gettysbueg passed through Pierre Sat.
urday. The supplies are for the SOL
diers looking after the Utes at Thunder
Butte.
Announcement is made that the Ben
edictine Sisters of Charity. of Rapid
CITY, have rented a twenty. one room
building in that city and shortly will
establish hospital there. Owing to
there being no such institution there
now, the many cases for treatment
from that town and the large section Of
country adjoining have been generally
taken 10 Deadwood TO the Sisters hos
pital
The eighteen-month-o daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T.. Hanson. OF Sioux
Falls, is dead as the result OF drinking a
quantity of lye. The mother of the
child and domestic were engaged in
cleaning pantry, when the domestic
placed cup containing solution OF
the I've on a table. The child was tod.
ding about the room, and in some man
ner reached the cup and drank portion
of the contents before the attention OF
the mother and domestic was attracted
Death resulted.
Fred Edabert, a farmer living about
ten miles north of Pierre, reports that
he killed COW which was in the last
stages of hydrophobia. The animal was
bitten by stray dog several weeks ago
but nothing was thought of the Incl
dent until the COW began to act queeriy
about week ago and finally became so
violent she was confined in box stall
until the symptoms became so well
developed that there was no longer any
doubt as to the cause of the trouble
when the animal was killed to put her
out of her suffering.
The question of lighting Mitchell's
streets and homes, wi ich has been
under solution for several years past,
has just been solved by the organization
of the Mitchell Illuminating and Power
company, which includes several OF the
leading capitalists of that city. The
company is organized with a capital
stock of 100000. 1t is the intention to
put in water and gas plant to supplant
the acetyline plant The electric light
plant will be overhauled The Mitchell
company agrees to furnish incandescent
lights at 10 cents per thousand watts.
Aroused from their slumbers in the
night and saved from horrible death
in prairie fire which was rushing upon
them, was the adventure of four Greg
DRY county men, Messrs. Hnrlbert, Will
son and White, and their cook, Billy"
while on duck hunting trip to Dog Ear
lake, in the extreme south central por.
ton Of the state. The shouts came
from men on the opposite side of the
lake, who realized the grave danger Of
the men. Hastily dressing, the four
men were able to set back fires aud burn
off space sufficient to save their camp
horses and themselves from the fierce
fire, which swept by at almost race.
horse speed.
In the death of Frank Graves, one of
the two brothers fatally shot at Rapid
City last week by Ed Wallace, the
Black Hills probably will witness its
first p,urdar trial IN go,,,a raa.a 11n...aa
lived but three days after the shooting,
which, il is alleged, was the result of an
attempt on the part of the dead man
and his brother, John, TO prevent Wal
lace from beating Cora Devoe,a woman
with whom he was living. John
Graves is not yet ont of danger and
also may die from his wounds. Infor.
nation charging murder in the first
degree was filed against Wallace by the
states attorney and his case will be
called at the coming term Of court.
A report received at the headquarters
OF the department Of the Missouri from
Major Sibley, commanding the troops
at the Cheyenne agency ia this state,
states that preparations will be made at
once for the troops that have been sent
to the reservation to establish winter
quarters. The army officials take
this to mean that Major Sibley considers
the trouble with the renegade Utes Of
suflcient importance to require the
presence on the reservation of troops for
some time to come. He states that Red
Gap. the the chief who led the recent
revolt, has agreed with other leaders to
send his children to the agency school
The question OF sending the children
eighty miles TO the agency school. thus
separating them from their parents, was
the immediate cause OF the present
trouble, and the decision to accede to
che demands Of Indian Agent Downs in
this matter 10 expected to settle matters
for The present.
John Nilks, = fireman, was killed in
freight train collision at volga. It
appears that . freight train from the
.leef had pullsd into the yards and was
held awaiting the arrival OF special
vhich had orders 70 pass il. When the
uecond train arrived il had orders to
80 tho sids track 70 allow special
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