Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-17

An indian bearing TWO names-lsaaC
Buffalo and Isaac Kebble--has presented
to the United States court in Sioux
Falls a petition In voluntary bank
ruptcy. So far as cen be remembered,
this is the first time that an Indian has
presented such a petition in South
Dakota court Buffalo, or Kebble, is a
member OF the Sisseton and Wahpeton
tribe of Sioux Indians and resides in
Day county. He says he is farmer by
occupation. He places his liabilities at
So, $50 80 and his assets at $85
One of the largest classes of applicants
that ever appeared before the South
Dakota board of pharmacy was under
examination in Watertown last week
Owing to the increasingly difficult exam.
nation elsewhere the board has caused
the standard required for compromising
drugs to be raised to parity with that
of any of the other northwestern states
Among other requirements is one per-
tanning to education, no applicant being
eligible to an examination unless he has
had at least high school education
Hon. z. w. Martin. who will again
be candidate for the republican NOM
ination for congress, has declared him.
self as in favor of Roosevelt for presi-
dent and in case Roosevelt is not cam
IiIata Taft for cannnA chain,
Mr. Martin will organize Roosevelt Taft
clubs throughout the western part of
the state. The same work will doubt.
less be taken up east of the river The
declaration of Mr. Martin will cause
another hurried conference of the insur-
gent leaders, who are quietly planning
TO give the state to La Toilette.
There is now fair chance of new
electric light and power plant being
established in Aberdeen within the next
few months The Wagner, Lake Andes
& Armour Tr ction company has sub
United proposition to the city council
and that body has read an ordinance for
the first time granting a franchise to
the company. If the franchise H.
granted the company has promised to
within the next thirty days The cost
of the new plant will be about $4,000
and will be capable of furnishing an all
night service to business houses and res
| licences.
Isaac l.. Gill, steward of the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, who few days ago
was stabbed three or four times by
Albert Ames, convict, during an
attempt of the latter to make his escape
and who was believed to have been
fatally injured, is now gaining ground
For time there were grave fears that
the injured steward could not survive
his terrible wounds. which were made
with case knife which had been sharp
ened to razor edge by Ames, but the
physicians in charge of the injured man
now state for the first time that he will
recover unless something unforeseen
| sets in.
A South Dakota man, in the person
of George Drips, a well known resident
of Wagner, Charles Mix county, it
develops is one of four heirs to an estate
valued at $9OO,0O The estate consists
of quarter section Of land near the
center of Kansas City. Mo-, that for
years has been used for race track and
for park purposes. The land was the
property of Drips' father, who died
some time ago. 1t appears that alleged
heirs are contesting the claims of the
four who are stated to be the true heirs,
and it is possible the estate may not be
divided until after hot legal battle.
Drips, however, is confident that he for
one can fully establish his right to a
share of the estate. Himself and wife
have departed for Kansas City for the
purpose of looking after their interests.
Judge Jones, of the state circuit court
in Sioux Falls, has decided an important
case which was instituted for the pur-
pose of testing the powers of city coun-
ellis in revoking saloon licenses where
the proprietors of saloons are proven to
have violated the provisions of the state
liquor license law. The case was insti-
tuted by Dillman g. Mccormick, until
recently engaged in the saloon business
in Sioux Falls. They we've charged
with having violated the state law, and
as the result of public hearing before
the mayor and city council they were
declared by the council to be guilty aud
their license was revoked. They carried
the case before Judge Jones, chiefly on
the ground that nobody except the reg.
slarly constituted courts could hold
such hearing as was held by the city
council and revoke the license granted a
saloon, 1t was argued in behalf of the
city authorities that the council had
jurisdiction under the laws of the state,
enacted by the last legislature, which
expressly gives city councils the right to
hear evidence and to decide as to the
revoking of saloon license. Judge
Jones sustained this view, holding that