Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-22

| ioot pore 10 loosen the OLD wires, when,
without the slightest warning, the pole
fell The wires, being loose from long
service, allowed the pole to strike the
ground with great force Fellow.work
ers thought Kuber dead at first, bur he
was found 70 be suffering from nothing
worse than the shock aud severe bruises
The Nortf western road, which is
planning to project its line to the coast,
will enter Montana through the Yellow.
stone valley, and will pass through Bill
lings. According to one Of the engineers
who was in that city Billings will be
made division point and shops will be
located there. The road will be built
northward from Belle Fourche, S. d.,
for 100 miles, and will then extend due
west, up the Yellowstone valley to Bill
lings, theuce to Livingstone and Helena,
and across Idaho and Washington bv
the most direct route possible to Seattle.
| Eugene Moye, of Deadwood, has been
told to quit cunning for his wife
Recently the young woman left Moye
because she declared he abused her, and
she began divorce proceedings. She
went to the houses of various friends TO
live and at each place Moye 1T is alleged,
kept trail hot with messengers who
requested for him an interview with the
woman Finally the girl went to the
ranch of John Peterson, on Box Elder,
where Moye found her. He is charged
with having fiourished revolver and
when that had no effect, with threaten
ing TO blow up the ranch house unless
his wife returned. He was arrested by
a deputy sheriff and placed under bonds
to keep the peace.
Because OF a quarrel with an older |
brother, Lloyd Pullins, the l5.yeai old |
son of Kingbsury county farmer, shot
and killed himself, The boy and an |
Older brother had words over their work |
in hay field. In a fit of anger Lloyd |
went to his home and secured shotgun.
When his mother questioned him he
replied that he was going to q cearby |
lake too shoot. That was the last seen
of him alive The report of gun was
heard in the evening. His body was
found in grove not far from the Pull.
Inns home. The lad had tied Shoe
string to the trigger of the gun and to a
bush and then pulled the muzzle of the
gun towsrd him, exploding the weapon.
The charge entered his breast and tore
a large hole
Is the $85, 900 appropriated last year
by congress for a federal building at
Lead to lie idle in the United States
treasury while property owners squad.
BILE over the site that shall be selected?
This is the question that the Lead Com
mercial club would like answered.
Although the appropriation was made
nearly year ago, there has not vet
been even a selection of site Federel
inspectors favored two sets of lots, but
the city council has not yet placed
price on the property and the citizens
seem to have lost all interest in the
question. The Commercial Club has
called special meeting to take up the
matter and to endeavor to bring the dis
putting parties together and commence
work OH the building.
That the state convention of Baptists
which will be held in Deadwood CON-
mencing October 2 will be notable
occasion, is evidenced by the number of
prominent people who are expected to
be present. Governor Hughes, of New
York, recently announced his intention
OF addressing the assemblage, as he is
an earnest Baptist in his home town.
Now acceptances have been received
from Governor Joe Folk, of Missouri,
and Governor Coe l. Crawford, of South
Dakota. Both will speak. DIR. Will
liams, of New York state, one of the
most prominent Baptists in the east, is
, to take his vacation during the period
OF the conventian and will be on the
program. The elaborate series of enter
tainments planned includes a trip
through the scenic points in the Hills.
Mrs. U. Adams, we'll known woman
OF Aberdeen, Friday afternoon looked
up from her efforts at improving a
flower bed and beheld driving past in a
rig her brother ard his wife, neither of
whom she had seen in eleven years, and
whose whereabouts until that moment
she did not know. She last saw her
brother aud his wife in Iowa, and dur
ing the course OF years all communion
ton ceased. They seemed to have
dropped from sight. She was doing a
little gardening Friday, when, attracted
by the noise of a passing vehicle, she
glanced up. She saw in the rig u
woman who looked like her sister-in-
law. Intuition assured her that she was
not deceived, and she called out. The
rig stopped. aud Mrs. Adams went out
to il to find that her brother and his
wife occupied it, They were driving
through from North Dakota and
intended stopping over in Aberdeen for
a day or two They now are Mrs.
Adams guests and may locate there
IT Announcement was made M the
, interior department last week Of proc