Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-07-09
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

The ten-vear old sou of Charles Mel.
cher of Huron, shot himself in the
hand with blank cartridge which may
result IN the loss OF the ham
E. + Kneedy, editor of the Wat r
town Times, on the comp aint OF Chss
II Schulz, WAS arrested tor criminal
libel. The case Will be tried this week.
William Mack, while swimming in
the river at Yankton, was accidently
shot in the left elbow by some person
who was shooting in the willows on the
shore
By vote of $50 TO III, Watertown
voters decided TO issue not TO exceed
$50, 600 worth of school bonds for the
purpose of erecting two new school
buildings.
Nineteen saloons in Lead and eigh-
teen in Deadwood was the number
fixed upon by the councils of these two
cities and which is slightly lower
number than heretofore issued
Two boy inmates of the reform school
at Plankinton who recently made
their escape after stealing gold watch
and two revolvers, were captured on
the Crow Creek reservation this week.
Numerous attacks on the children of
her neighbors led the authorities TO
bring Mrs. Selma Sorenen, Finlander
of Terraville, before the insanity board
at Deadwood whose she was declared
insane and later tasen to Yankton.
Maj Mclaughlin, special agent Of
the interior department., was in Sisseton
last week and made arrangements for
the big payment which the Indians of
the Sisseton and Wahpetcn tribes are to
receive. This payment amounts 70
$500, 900 which is being paid this week
and will continue until the indians are
paid off The payment is being made
at the government schools.
While making night ride over the
mountain road 20 his mine near Dead
wood, f. c. Englehardt was thrown
from his rig and badly injured His
horse look fright and ran down an
incline throwing the driver from the
rig. Where he recovered consciousness
he crawled 70 nearby ranch house and
was put to bed. He suffered a broken
collarbone, three broken ribs and inter.
nal injuries. -
Just before he was to have received
possession of snug fortune which he
had inherited, Alonzo. Gleason, aged 20
suc,umbed to consumption at Rapid
City. Gleason lacked only two months
of being of age when he would have
come into the money which his friends
declare might have save his life. He
had just returned from trip west
where he went in hopes of relief but
returned to his South Dakota home to
die.
A homesteader named Olson, wha
lives in the White Owl country, owed
his life to the heroism of SiouxIndian.
In attempting to ford the Cheyenne
river, which was very high from recent
rains, Olson's horses got beyond their
depth with the result that the wagon
tipped over and one of the horses was
drowned. Olson was thrown into the.
swiftly flowing current and would have
lost his life had not the Indian, who
CHANGED to be at hand, rushed to his
rescue.
The police at Sioux Falls on Monday
night arrested on statutory charge,
Norman Rigmeyer and Mrs. Herbert
Bishop, of Marshalltown, Iowa, who
had been in Sioux Falls for several DAYS.
The woman's husband followed the
couple there and caused their arrest
He is endeavoring to have the charge
against her Withdrawn, but she says she
will not return to Marshalltown with
him and will if necessary, go to the
penitentiary with Rigmeyer. She
abandoned two children.
Special agents of the government are
at Rapid City industriously attending
to the numerous small details of the
trip to be made this month by the Ute
Indians when they are taken back to
their home In Utah. Some of the
Indians are camped near Rapid City,
but the large body will have to be
transported from Cherry Greek, where
they are living on the Cheyenne reser.
walton. 1t will require one and possibly
two troops of cavalry to guard them.
Six heavy wagons have been fitted up
for their use.
While engaged in catching pigeons in
one of the elevators az Sisseton, Earl
Garfield, aged nine years, was the vic.
tim of an accident which might easily
have resulted in his death. Himself
and companion had climbed to the
upper part of the elevator and while
approaching the roosting place of the
pigeons, the lad made misstep and fell
a distance of thirty-five feet down a
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