Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-02-20

II. y. lssenhuth, OF Redfield, the board
of education refused to grant a half
holiday 70 the city schools, asserting it
did not want politics to enter into
school matters The action of the
board has caused much comment
Recently Night Waterman Schom.
berg, of Redfield, had Robert Baker
fined for allowing his boy on the street
after nine o'clock. About three o'clock
Wednesday morning Baker aroused
Sheriff Hopkins and asked HIM to go
with him down town. On arriving at
the back door of one of our restaurants
they found Schomberg and the cook
engaged in game of poker. The play
ers were arrested, plead guilty and paid
their fines Mr.. Schomberg is still
night Waterman.
A census of the artesian wells flow
ing in Faulk county shows 3l4 1t has
not been more than dozen years since
the artesian well work was begun in
that county, and in that time Faulk
has been taken ont of the so-called dry
belt and placed in the sure-crop coun-
ties, with land selling around $50 an
acre instead Of the old price Of from 81
to % an acre. With the millions Of
gallons of water which the wells supply
every year, that county can never
become as dry as in the past, regardless
of the weather.
The Methodist Church society of
Groton has decided to erect new
church edifice, which IL is intended
shall be one Of the finest buildings Of its
kind in the Northern part Of the state.
The new church building will cost more
than $l2, 900 and will be constructed OF
BRICK. A committee has been appointed
to have charge of the erection of the
new building. The committee now il
considering the plans and hopes to have
the contract awarded and everything in
readiness so the work Of construction
can commence early in the spring.
Some time during the night of Febru.
airy 13 and evidently while endeavoring
to get help, Ben Ballou, one of the old
est mining men and prospectors in the
vicinity of Deadwood, was stricken with
heart trouble and soon died. His body
was found lying on the floor beside hi
bed with his hands stretched toward tn,
door. Ballou was eighty-three years
old and was a pioneer of 1876, coming
here from New York state. He owned
large tracts of valuable mining ground
in this section and was at one time 9
prosperous restaurant keeper in Lead.
Through letter that he wrote to hi,
sweetheart at Belle Fourche, John
Thomas, former resident of thai
place, il now under arrest in Seattle an
will be brought back to stand trial
Thomas disappeared several weeks age
and for time all trace of HIM was lost
Finally Sheriff Moses heard that he had
written TO Belle Fourche girl to whom
he was supposed to have been engaged
and he secured the address of Thomas.
Thomas is wanted on a charge of for.
gerry and Sheriff Moses is now on his
way west TO bring the fugitive back, he
having been arrested in Seattle under
another name.
The United States authorities in Sioux
Falls have been advised of the arrest OF
Joseph Schultz, of Enemy Swim lake,
Day county OH the charge of having
sold liquor without having first pro-
cured government license. The
defendant, as the result of his prelim-
mary hearing before a United States
commissioner, was held for appearance
before the next federal grand jury,
which will convene in Sioux Falls in
April. Bonds for his appearance at
that time were fixed at $500. Thus far
the defendant has been unable to fur
nish bond and is occupying cell in
the Brown county Jail
The republican county central COM
mittee of Dawson held a meeting at
Mitchell Saturday to arrange for the
primary election March 10. The sup
position has been heretofore that Davi.
son county was for Crawford for sena-
tor, but it developed otherwise during
the meeting. A resolution was intro
duced indorsing the candidacy of Score
tary Taft and also indorsing the course
Senator Kittredge and declaring for his
reelection. The resolution was carried
without any opposition being shown by
the insurgents. Two years ago the
the insurgents passed resolution in
the county convention demanding that
Senator Kittredgt resign from the
United States senate.
Through the wedding of J. f. Keough
and Elizabeth Lundger, q remarkable
marriage deal has come to light. The
bride has posed in Hanna, a small
suburb of Lead, as the wife Of K. l..
Smith. A few months ago. Keough
as boarder at the Smith
home. Shortly after, the boarder and
the woman discovered q mutual affeo-
lion, and, calling Smith, held q con-
Terence. Smith agreed to give up the
woman, to whom he had not been