Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-18

Considerable anxiety is felt by the
friends and wife or Chas. +. Ware, OF
Aberdeen, at his long absence, about
five weeks, from his home, At the
time he left home, he was travelling for
a nursery goods firm and when last
heard of, June 24th, was at Bismarck,
n. D., claiming to be suffering from an
injured arm.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Koch took United States prisoner, X.
B. Height, wealthy farmer of Mar
shall county, to Aberdeen Monday
night, who was arrested Monday by
him on the charge of perjury in con-
nection with the proof on piece of
land in Marshall county. The proof
was made on June IA, 1907.
At Aberdeen about o'clock Sunday
morning the body of Martin Erickson,
a laborer working for Contractor l. d.
Davies was found at the foot of the
stairs at the home of W. A. gill, 2i7
South Third street, where he was
rooming. The base Of his skull was
crushed by the fall down stairs and it is
probable that he died without recover
ing consciousness.
The third wreck within week
occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee IL
st. Paul railroad Saturday two miles
east of Parkston, when broken car
wheel or broken rail precipitated nine
cars of merchandise into the ditch. The
track was not cleared until Sunday, and
the bridge east of Mitchell on the Iowa
and Dakota division was wrecked few
days ago trains were laid up both south
or east Both the morning passenger
trains were held at Mitchell until one
or the other route was opened mp for
traffic.
John Bunker, farmer of RcndeIl
township, committed suicide Sunday
afternoon by wading ont into the Jim
river, and then cutting his throat with
razor from ear TO ear. bunker was a
bachelor 81 years of age, and had been
mentally unbalanced for many years.
Ii is claimed that the deceased's mind
had been unbalanced for many years
over an early love affair For some
his farm, but his brother persuaded
him a few years ago to sell bis property
and live with him. The diseased
leaves three brothers, all of whom are
prosperous farmers in Rohdell town
ship
One good way TO boost for South
Dakota is to patronize South Dakota
institutions. Buy your goods OF South
Dakota dealers, patronize South Dakota
factories, send your children to South
Dakota colleges, smoke South Dakota
cigars, make bread from South Dakota
flour, and see to it that when other
things are equal, South Dakota gets
your money. Then the state will grow
and mean more taxable property, and
this will mean lower taxes for those
who have to pay. More people mean
better accommodations, and pleas
anter life. Stand by South Dakota at
every turn of the wheel, and you will
be the gamer by i'll
In his political speeches which Gov
ernor Crawford is delivering before the
chautauquas of the state, the governor
pats himself on the back for having
recognized the civil service in his poll
teal appointments. He says that merit
is the only thing he considers, and that
factlonal service does not connt. This
has valient sound Still the governor
summarily removed Col Fitch from
the soldiers home board, without reason
In order to give the place TO a personal
adherent, and when called on for an
explanation refused TO give il. He also
removed Can't, L G. De Jean, of Plank
inton, who was later made department
commander He also removed DR.
medical examiners, refusing 70 give
any reason therefore, and summarily
quitting the discussion when il became
uncomfortable. But these things the
shifty governor does not men ion in
any OF his chautauqua addresses
Not long ago the question was asked
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by an editor OF the state as to what
Paul M. Young, the South Dakota
Oxford representative was doing in
England. The question was prompted
by an announcement that Young had
won honors on the athletic field, and
the editor no doubt believed that the
student was devoting greater part OF
his time to athletics. But unimpeach-
able evidence is at hand that Young
has made his mark at old Oxford. He
has notified his parents, Dean and Mrs.
O. M. Young, of Vermillion, that he
had been awarded the A. b. Honor
degree, not only as an athlete but for
his record 40 student. M. Young will
return to mis- home in Vermillion about
July Is. and will remain there until the
opening of another school year, when
he goes to Huron college to become
professor Of Latin and director OF ath-
letics. He has taken his b. A. degree
in law at Oxford and expects TO prac-
tice law as profession.