Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-01-31
NEWSY A T

says. OHe OF the most 0lSguStlnglN
brutal contests ever held on thu Amerl-
can border took place Monday after
noon in The Jurcz hull ring. The con-
testants were b~uffaloes from South
Dakota sold here recently by Scotty
Phillips, of Fort Pierre, and wild-eyed
bulls from the Torrasas ranches in
Chihuahua. The event. widely adver-
tiSed drew thousands Of spectators;
Americans as well as Mexlcans were
present at the gorv contest. The poor
animals did not want to fight each
other when driven into the ring, but
they were tainted by the bull fighters
with spears until, streaming with
/ blood. buffalo and bull would make for
each other and It was a battle 20 the
death, Neither seemed to have the
advantage, except that the bull could
not do much harm to the bufTalo's
shaggy neck, while the buffalo could
gore the bull at almost any point. Sew
eral times a bull wa, ripped completely
open 10y n lungc from the buffalo and
again a bnll would tear the entrails
from the buffalo with one stroke of his
long, sharp horns. 1t was a bloody
sight, and even men who went to see it.
knowing that it would be CORY and hor-
riblo, sickened at the sighto of the awful
fight
Miss Bertha Klinke, y years of age,
committed suicide Wednesday morn
irg at the home of Charles Foss, three
miles northwest of MiIbank, by taking
carbolic acid. Miss Klinke had been
talking with her brother. in. law, Mr..
Foss, about leaving in a short time for
Marshall, Mimi, to be married. After
a little time she remarked that she
would take her life and end the matter
that way. Nh. Foss talked with her a
long time, giving her advice and tried
to cheer her up. But she still insisted
that the best thing for her was to end
her life then. So saying the bid them
all good bye and kissed the members of
the family and went up stairs. In the
meantime she had procured a bottle of
carbolic acid and taker it to her room.
Mr.. Foss who was ill was still in bed
and could hear her walking up stairs
and thought nothing particular of her
threat. Suddenly the walking ceased
and this alarmed him. He got up from
his bed and dressing ran up TO her
room finding her in bed covered with
the bed clothes. She had taken the con-
tents of the bottle and died at about a
quarter of twelve, three quarters of an
h our after she went up stairs
a very pretty compliment has been
paid by the secretary Of the treasury
TO a South Dakota man. Secretary
Shaw recently issued an order creating
a committee on business method
within the department.. Ii is to be the
duty of this committee to learn thor
oughIy the business methods prevail
ing in the department, and to person
any ohSENSt w AllN EtCACldl1 OllAIEto VI
notifications in these methods. Robert
s. Pearson, auditor for the intreior
department is made a member of this
committee. The other members Of are
the assistent secretary and James A..
Wetmore of the office of the supervis-
ing architect. Mr.. Person was for
merry in the newspaper business in
Howard, but of late years has been con-
nected with the treasury department
where he has brilliantly made good.
Mr.. Parsons hosts of friends in South
Dakota will congratulate him on the
snug honor which has come his way.
1t will be a source of qualification to
all patrons of fire insurance companies
to learn that the courts of Hamburger
have decided that the North German
Fire Insurance company must pay It's
losses incurred in the San Francisco
disaster of last April. According to
the rulings of the court the earthquake
clause in the policy did not justify the
company in trying to evade its obi
cation to the policy holders. The court
at the same time ordered the Transat-
lantic Fire Insurance company, another
German company to settle its liabilities.
1t is to be hoped that all the companies
which have attempted to evade their
obligations will be brought to time and
compelled to settle with their policy
holders for 100 cents on the dollar, or
as near that amount as possible.
Linus Harris, about 81 years old and
employed as a carpenter on the Great
Western elevator at Blentford, fell
fifty feet in the elevator, but was
able to write his mother, Mrs. Eliza
Harris of Frankfort, 8. D., the next
morning, describing in detail how the
accident happened. Young Harms
amazing escape is the talk of the town.
A. r. Donaldson, another carpenter
employed by the elevator company, was
working on the scaffold when Harris
fell. Donaldson grasped the cribbing
when the structure broke and chung
until released from his perilous position
by fellow workmen.