Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-03

are hlihOht lel TOT SScOuu pace, oJi anu
3S9 miles respectively.
The department of vital statistics in
its summary in November shows in the
srate births to the number of $50, of
which 421 were males, aud 1913 females.
The marriages numbered 346, divorces
46, uaturalizations 127.
A meeting called at the court house
in Highmore, on the evening of Dec.
q for the purpose of organizing a
comfy fair association, resulted in
selecting p Z. Gillipan as chairman of
the association ard authorizing him
10 appoint a committee of three to take
steps to organize a permanent orgauiza-
tion and call another meeting 20 com
plete arrangements THIS is a step in
the right direction.
Editor Ross, Of the 500 Critic, was
arrested in Sioux Falls the first of last
week on a charge of criminal libel Dro-
fcrred by Joe Kirby. The arrest is the
outcome of an article the editor pub
lished in his paper about Mr.. Kirby as
one Of he prosecuting attorneys ir the
K%auffmann case. Editor Ross was
hurried off to Jail and spent an hour
behind the bars before the papers were
fixed up aud signed by his bondsmen.
Sheriff G H. Austin, OF Salem, is
under arrest on the cherge of selling
Intoxicating liquors without having a
license of any sort. The hearing is set
for the 4th of January. Mr., Austin
was elected sheriff of the county two
years ago, and was a candidate for
denomination, but was defeated in the
convention. He has been running a
pool aud billiard hall in connection with
the sheriff's office for several months,
and his place has a pretty bad reputa-
ton. States Attorney Biernatski is
prosecuting the case. If the case is
proved the government will also have a
case against him.
The farmers in the vicinity of the
Bijou Hills, near Armour are making a
determined effort to secure a railroad
in the near future. Meetings are being
held and funds subscribed for the pur-
pose of interesting some railroad cor
poration in the enterprise. The farm
ers believe $4,000 can be Iaised to
further the scheme, and with that
amount hope to have the Platt line of
the Milwaukee extended into that ter
ritory. Single individuals are sub
scribing $1,000 apiece to help along the
project, so anxious are they for a rail-
road and a nearer market.
Whether the disappearance of Peter
M. Peterson, trusted foreman oil the
ranch of Henry Frawley, a prominent
lawyer of Deadwood, is due to foul play,
mental alteration or the theft of $500
of Mrs. Frawley's money then in his
possession. has not yet been ascertained.
However, a warrant for his arrest for
grand larceny is out. That a man in
his position would sacrifice his good
name for 80 small an amount as $500 is
hardly thought possible, but it is more
likely that he has met with foul play.
Probably no town in the country is
as well equipped to bid defiance to fuel
and light trusts as is the little town Of
Nowlin, sixty miles west of Pierre. A
contractor has just drilled an artesian
well for the town and at a depth of
1912 feet has struck a vein Of water
with a pressure of seventy-two pounds
to the square inch. The feature of the
well is that the water is hot, having a
temperature of l21 degrees Fahrenheit
Arrangements have been made to pipe
the water to all the residences and bust
ness houses in the little place, where it
is to be used for heating purposes. In
addition to the water, the well pro-
duces a superior quality of natural gas,
aud this is being utilized for light and
cooking purposes