Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-25

| recently with the cattle loose IN the car
and one of the side doors wide open.
The wonder is that the cattle were not
strewn along the prairie. Upon making
the discovery that the door was open
the brakemen got a lively hustle on
themselves and closed it. They were
extremely fortunate in getting it closed
before some of the cattle got out.
Apparently gambling is a thing of the
past in the Black Hills. Within the
past few weeks quiet attempts have
been made to resume in several sections
but each effort has been promptly
nipped. Sheriff Billy Moses, Of Belle
Fourche, Saturday evening raided a
room over Chinese restaurant. The
sheriff seized a poker table, a roulette
wheel and some chips and later the
town enjoyed bonfire behind the court
house.
Sheriff 4. L. Sherman, of Union
county, went to Sioux City, Iowa, and
brought back with him Clint Williams,
thirteen-year-old boy, charged with
burglary. About three weeks ago
young Williams went into the store of
| @. O. Hopkins, IA merchant at McCook,
in Union county, and while Hopkins
went on an errand to the back room Of
the store young Williams, it is claimed,
opened the safe and took from it a
pocketbook containing s66 in money and
s. check.
When Mrs. Annie Miljas, the alleged
check forger, of Lead City, who mys-
teriously obtained possession of $l60
worth of used checks and succeeded in
repassing some of them before her
arrest was arraigded in justice court,
her story led to the arrest of her uncle,
Matt Zembala. The latter on the stand
swore that he had given the woman
money TO buy the checks from a
stranger, out of his bank account, but
his story was proved false. The banks
believe there was conspiracy TO
defraud them and the woman will have
to face the grand jury.
If you wrote TO friend in the vicin-
ity of keystone within the last two
weeks and did not receive reply write
again. For through nc fault of Uncle
Sam but owing to the turbulence of the
| aIap,aptc ,birty tbraa rail Saoko cnp
tanning mail to points near there, which
are distributed by hack from Keystone,
were lost in the waters of Black creek.
The hack driver attempted to ford the
swollen stream with a load of passen-
gers and mail, the hack being over
turned the sacks floating down stream
and the passengers having narrow
escapes. Mrs. Estes was carried down
the swift stream on passing log for
some distance before being rescued.
The Rec Indians, who inhabited the
country west of Pierre before they were
driven out by the more warlike Sioux,
had brought the art of pottery to the
point where their work was one of their
leading industries. Every one of the
old Rec towns shows many scraps OF
this pottery work and numerous broken
vessels have been dug up in the differ.
ent towns along the Missouri, bat to
find an unbroken piece or this pottery
is rare and such piece is looked upon
as one of great value by those who
make study of early Indian life in the
northwest. Last Sunday while digging
in an old Rec village about ten miles up
the river from Pierre, W. X. Ferguson
secured perfect bowl which will hold
about quart. He will present it TO
the State Historical society for its col
lection. The find is rare and would be
hard TO duplicate.
Three persons lost their lives as the
result of tornado which swept over
the vicinity of Woonsocket Saturday
night The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Il
NJ. Atkinson and their nine year old
| daughter. The sole survivor of the
family is boy seven years old The
family were occupying a new house on
their farm near Woonsocket When
the storm came mp they repaired 20 the
cellar and were huddled in one corner
when the house was struck and demol-
ished. Unfortunately the larger part
of the house plunged into that portion
of the cellar where the family had
taken refuge and az consequence their
death resulted. According to the tale
of the little boy who survived, he was
in different corner of the cellar, and
though he was found unconscious he
soon recovered and was not seriously
injured. Farmers who saw the collapse
of the house hurried to the rescue.
They found the farmer dead with big
timber on his head. He had been
instantly killed, as blood was flowing
from his nose and ears, showing that
his skull had been crushed. The life
had been crushed out of his wife by the
same timber, and she lay dead with the
timber across her body. In the same
corner. little distance from her father
and mother, was the girl, her head
crushed and her body cut and torn BY
the falling house,