Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-29

III there Will De mucn lett TOT settle
! nent. Indians from the Cheyenne res.
! ervation do not think highly of their
new neighbors, the Utes. They say
they are a lazy, shiftless lot much given
20 dancing and gambling The Sioux
call them the BLACK men" on account
of their dark color
Mrs George Bishop was terribly
burned at her HON" at Hetland Sunday
afternoon She had been lying down
in her bed room, her father sitting in
the adjoining room, when she suddenly
came rushing from the room, her cloth.
ing a mass of flames from the waist mp
She ran 70 the door. whore she was met
BY her hush nj, who caught her and
extinguished the flames by rolling about
on the ground. The upper part OF her
body was deeply injured, the flesh in
places being charred IL is believed
that she cannot live II is thought that
she tipped over lamp on her clothing,
possibly while effecung toilet prepare
/ tions.
/ Its reported that Senator Gamble
and J d Elliott dispatched a special
messenger TO Deadwood TO try TO induce
I ex.Cougressmau Martin 10 make the
race for the senate against Mr.. Kilt
redge in place OF Mr. Crawford. Ii is
reported by grapevine telegraph that
the mission was a failure. Mr. Martin
will probably make the race for con-
I gress, and after the expiration OF two
the senate 20 succeed Mr. Gamble The
effort however TO get another into the
! tight instead OF Mr.. Crawford shows
either that the insurgents are alarmed,
or that there Is an ugly division in the
ranks of the retormers.
1t Is customary for the Sioux Falls
police 10 take valuables and everything
else for that matter from DRINKS when
lodged in the city Jail. One John
Walters farmer wa one too many for
the police when arrested on Friday.
/ Officer Hills went through him and
took several articles including Sll 40 in
money. When he was sober enough
for an interview with the police judge
he was arranged and fined $40. AS
soon as Walters was given his liberty
he gleefuliy remarked. They got $40
of my money all right but they failed to
get the roll" With this he inserted
his hand inside his shirt and brought
forth roll of greenbacks that would
have choked an elephant
Armed with revolvers, razors and
knives, fighting with insane fury, sew
eral foreign laborers employed on rail-
road grading work at Washington, Fri
day, seriously wounded two of their
number, one OF whom it is feared will
not recover. The men were quartered
in an old freight car and shots attracted
the marshal to the place. A bloody
scene met his gaze. Two men were
lying on the floor of the car seriously
wounded, two others held smoking
revolvers in their hands. while the rest
were brandishing razors and. knives.
Upon the appearance of the officer hos.
tilities ceased and the marshal arrested
eight of the men, who were taken to
the county Jail at Huron.
Some of the surety companies have
failed to comply with the law which
requires the deposit with the state treas
urer of securities to the amount of
$4,000 before doing business in the
state. In a recent trip east Insurance
! Commissioner Basford found that most
of them We're willing to cease writing
business in the state without further
action. Others would make no prom
Uses whatever, and the probabilities are
that suit will be brought TO rest the
standing of such companies. Other
companies beside the surety companies
are writing underground" insurance
without securing the license required by
the state laws, and the commissioners
estimates that the state Is losing from
5000 to $40, 900 each year in taxes on
account of such companies.
Attorney General Clark has had a
long conference at Washington with
the bureau Of forestry relative 10 con.
troversies between the state and national
government over forest reserve lands
In the national forest reserve in the
Black Hills there are many isolated
tracts claimed by the state. The prop
osition was advanced that the state bs
given solid block of forest land in
exchange for these isolated tracts, and
it is probable that settlement will be
made on that basis. The conference
!. resulted in decision of the officials Of
the bureau to call for meeting of al
the states interested in forest reserve
lands for the purpose of arranging an
equitable settlement of the questions
: This meeting will be held at some cen
trail city in the middle west.
Maddened by drink and Jealous
because the girl with whom he wished
to dance had spurned him for rival
Mike Henry, 22-year-old bad man
"shot up the ranch house of M. J
Carney, on White Owl creek, sixt,
miles north of Sturgis, during cowbo,
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