Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-21

this state in that particular Office. ii
has performed his duties with zeal an
exact fairness and has turned into th
state treasury for fees collected, afte
deducting salary and expenses, nor,
money than the other inspectors com
bined. He is the kind of an officer VIII
should be retained as long as he caret
to hold.
Walter Miller, of Deadwood, wa
compelled to slaughter twenty chicken
In order to recover two valuable dia
monds which he had lost in his CHECKER
the yard without finding the stones L
occurred 10 him that one of the chickens
might have swallowed them. Accord
ingly he began Strengthening the fowls
in a search. He finally discovered in the
crop Of the twentieth chicken he killed
which was an old hen, both or the
jewels.
A way freight, west bound, on the
Chicago, Northwestern, in charge OF
Conductor Rafferty,, went through a
bridge neal Canning, Monday. Engineer
Frank Booth, of Huron, was killed and
Fireman McNabb seriously injured
Booths body was found in the engine
cab in fifteen feet of water. A train o!
twenty-five cars, loaded with material
for the Northwestern extension, were
ditched Sunday not far from where
Monday nights accident occurred.
Fred Helwig, the Rock county, Min
nesota farmer, who was arrested
recently for stealing a quantity of clover
seed, which he took to Sioux Falls aud
sold, was convicted of the offense in the
circuit court, Of Rock county, and sen.
fenced to a fine of $500 and costs, which
was paid. Thus, for small amoun of
clover seed Helwig had to pay upwards
of $500, besides having the stigma of
thief attached to his name.
The Missouri River and Northwestern
Railway company in the Black Hills,
has been placed in the hands of a
receiver, V. E. Crouch having been so
appointed by Judge Magee on the appli.
cation of @ ID. Crouch, president and
manager of the road. 1t is stated that
this action is the result of difficulties
among the stockholders and the effort
on the part of Hayes 81 Son, brokers of
Cleveland, Ohio, to obtain control of
the stock.
As the result of playing with a cellu-
loid comb and holding it over a lighted
lamp, the 3, year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Frank, Of Hosmer,
Mcpherson county, met with a horrible
death. When placed in the flames OF
the lighted lamp the comb caught fire,
and while trying to extinguish the
flames the little girls dress caught fire.
Before assistance arrived the child had
burned to death.
On the last day of December five men
were ~carousing In a room at Hudson.
The light was out, and four swore they
were asleep when a shot was fired which
killed ]. NJ. Burns. Michael Caffrey, OF
Sioux county, Iowa, was arrested and
bound over for murder. The case was
tried at Canton last week and the jury
after being oat twenty-five hours,
acquitted Gallery of the charge Friday
afternoon.
Charles Gustafferson, a farmer living
in the northwest part of Brookings
county, committed suicide by hanging.
He was a bachelor and lived alone in a
little shanty. He had not been seen by
his neighoors for three oil four days, and
upon investigation his body was found
hanging from a rafter. No motive is
known for the deed.
A. j. Plowman, N of the Black Hills
men who obtained a judgeship under
the populists' regime, l. A. Keith, who
represented the populists of Kingsbury
county in the state senate, and Mr.. r,
o. Richards, have been honored by
appointments by Governor Crawford.
Thus have the republicans come to
their own.
A great ice gorge above the city OF
Yankton caused much uneasiness there,
The ice is RAINING and sunk a steam.
boat and ferryboat for Captain Joe
Leech. whose loss is $l5. ZOO. The ice
has destroyed 100 feet Of the govern.
ment dixie, also eighteen pontoon boats,
valued at 81 800. owned by Captain Joe
Geisler.
Jack Kindle, who has been operating
a gambling joint at Lake Andes, was
taken TO Platte and bound over to the
state circuit court. Kindle contended
that he had been paying the town board
Of Lake Andes monthly fines ranging
from $25 to $40, and should be immune
from legal contention.
Charles Modine, of Deadwood, a
driver for q brewing company. was Sat-
urday run over by a wagon and
resolved injuries which may prove
fatal. His lower jaw was fractured
and the upper portion Of his chest
crushed.
Last Friday as q bunch Of Lyman
Bros. cattle, near Lebanon. were being
driven down the railroad track, a special