Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-12

The supreme court has handed down
a decision in the case Of the State of
South Dakota VS.. Dora Lepine, appealed
on writ OF error in circuit cou, of Lake
county which was reversed aud a new
trial ordered. Mrs. Lepine was con.
victed of manslaughter.
The town of Miller is in the dark, the
electric light boiler having refused to
warm any longer. After some three
weeks of graphing with lamps and LAM
terms TO light the residences big
threshing machine engine has been
installed TO do duty until new boiler
is installed, which will be month or
six weeks more. The business houses
and churches will still be lighted by
other than electricity until the new
machinery is installed.
The South Dakota Central railway
grade has been completed into Water
town, aud the camps that have been
strung out from there TO Arlington for
| the last three months are abandoned.
The rail-lnying gang is still twelve
miles from that place, but is advancing
steadily, and will reach Watertown in
"a couple of weeks They can Keep at
work regardless of the weather. so that
the first train from Sioux Falls over the
new line doubtless will whistle into
Watertown on New Years day.
A desperately narrow escape from
drowning of Miss Mulligan, teacher
in the Milbank high school, and Britt
Pollard, young man, occurred near
Milbank last Thursday. The two were
skating on the creek on the old w. E.
Vandervort place west of Town and
went through the ice. They were in
the water half an hour before being res
boucher or Bulgher. They were nearly
persisted and were taken TO the farm
house where they are being attended
by two doctors
AS the result of the recent payment
! by the government of about $25 600 to
the Sioux Indians belonging at Yank-
ton agency, situated in Charles Mix
county, the authorities in Charles Mix
county have succeeded In collecting
from the Indians taxes to the amount
of about 81 200, which it was for time
thought could never be collected. These
Indians are among the comparatively
few Indians in South Dakota who are
taxpayers, they having years ago taken
their allotments of land, thereby becom-
ing citizens of the United States.
Peter Raner, a noted trapper of north
western South Dakota, has succeeded in
trapping black wolf, the first animal
of the kind of this color ever seen in
western South Dakota. The black wolf
resembles a stag hound to some extent,
and is thought to be cross between a
gray wolf and stag or gray hound.
The animal which Raber was fortunate
enough to catch alive is believed to be
only spring whelp, but now is as large
as the ordinary gray hound. When 1t
gets its full growth it without doubt
will be the largest specimen of the wolf
family ever seen or captured in western
South Dakota.
For long time Henry Groth, far.
mer living near Hudson, has been miss
ing his turkeys and young pigs, which
have disappeared as if by magic. He
solved the mystery recently in the mos,
unexpected manner. He heard com.
J motion in pasture short di stance
from his home, and he discovered that
several of his little pigs were defending
themselves against the attack of a
monster wolf. Groth hurried TO the
house to secure his shotgun, but when
he returned the wolf had skulked away
to nearby hills Thus far the wolf has
carried away about fifty of his young
pigs and many turkeys.
An investigation now under way BY
the officials of the Missouri River and
Northwestern railroad, known as the
Crou III line, is expected to show start
ling results. Within the past two
months the road has had two bad
wrecks, in each of which a life was lost
and as the cause appeared mystifyinl
some quiet detective work was done
Events during the past few days
strengthened the theory that the disas
ter were not by the merest chance, and
it is now intimated that one or more
arrests may be made within the imme
date future. The result of the investi
CATION has, it is declared, shown posi-
lively that both wrecks were deliberate
attempts to injure the railroad, regard
less of the injury or death that NIGH
be caused to the passengers. Accord
ing to the statement of the officials Of
the road, someone whom they have ye
! to discover is seeking to hurt the rail
road on every possible occasion Tn,
latest incident mentioned is the burn
ing of locomotive that had broker