Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-04-04
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% divorces and 100 naturalizatious.
Hon. j. Q. Perkins, ex commissioner
of insurance of South Dakota. has
accepted the special state agency of the
Queen City Fire Insurance company at
Sioux Falls and will begin his duties at
once.
New game wardens appointed by
Governor Crawford are: Roberts
county, James P. Merry, Peever; Beadle
county, August Anderson, Wolsey /;
Grant county, Geo. F. Friday, Albee;
Charles Mix county, N. o. Branch, Lake
Andes.
A farmer named Ellis, with his wife
and child, narrowly escaped drowning
in Artichoke creek in Sully county.
The team was swept off its feet. Ellis
chung to the lines, with one arm around
his family, until the horses struck bot.
tom.
Standing quietly gazing at the swiftly
revolving fiywheel in tire engine room
Of the state asylum for the insane at
Yankton, Friday, William Williams
suddenly plunged head foremost in
among the spokes. He was instantly
killed and his body terribly mangled
by the terrific force of the machinery.
DIR. j. +. Turner had a close call to
being seriously injured by one of the
patients at the Indian Asylum at Can
ton. One of the Redmen struck him
with a rock which he had concealed in
his pocket inficting a scalp wound, but
nothing serious will result. Had the
blow been a little lower it might have
proved fatal.
A breach of promise suit, which for
some time has been a subject of gossip
among citizens of Hamlin county, has
been settled by a jury in the state cir
cult court court at Castlewood award
ing the plaintiff a judgment of $1,000.
The plaintiff was Miss Florence Beare,
while the defendant was James Dahl, a
wealthy Hamlin county farmer. The
plaintiff sued for $4,000.
The supreme court has been presented
with an oil painting of Philemon q.
Bliss, first chief justice of the territory
of Dakota. The portrait is the gift of
his son who sent it TO be hung in the
court chambers. Philemon Bliss was
appointed to his position as chief justice
by Abrahem Lincoln, and served from
1861 until 1867. The portrait is the
work of a true artist and adorns the
walls of Judge II. G. Fuller's Office.
Bliss was the author of "Bliss ON Code
Pleading" which is a standard work.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Colt
lieb Schenk, who live in Hutchinson
county, last week, met death in an
unusual amer. While attempting to
climb a fence for the purpose of goi-g
to a hen house to gather eggs, the little
fellow missed his footing and fell from
the fence to the ground, striking in such
a manner as to fracture his neck, caus-
ing instant death. The parents were
transacting business in the town of
Memo at the time of the accident, and
were informed Of the death of their
child by means of a rural telephone.
The fire fighters at the homestake
mine accomplished results. There is
less gas now, aud the men are working
below in fifteen minute shifts. They
are building partitions in the center of
the drifts and will force the air down
one side, driving the gas and smoke
out the other. An army of men will
follow the fresh air. So far they have
not reached the fire by 100 feet, but it
is not spreading much. The north
workings are cut off from the fire by
barricades. About half the men are
getting out ore in the north end today.
The mills are all running.
United States Indian Agent Taylor,
Of Yankton agency, has issued an order
which has created something of a sensa-
ton among the Indians belonging at the
agency. The order prohibits the sale of
pop or other soft drinks to the Indians
at the agency. The Indian agent states
that the order was issued with the
object of preventing some of his Indians
from spending the amount of their
monthly checks almost entirely on soft
drinks, instead of purchasing necessities
as they should. 1t appears that it has
been the practice of some of the Indians
to spend practically all of their money
for soft drinks, such as pop.
Mrs. Snee, wife of a farmer residing
in Duell county, has instituted in the
state circuit court for Duell county a
suit by which she seeks to ecove dam
ages in the sum of 81, 025 from the Clear
Lake Telephone company. Last Decem-
Der, after a sleet storm had broken the
wires between Clear Lake and Alta
mont, Mrs. Snee's team became entan-
gled in the broken wires and she was
thrown from her buggy and alleges that
she sustained considerable damage,
from which she has not yet fully recov-
cred. The damage suit will be tried