Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-09-24

vided with fuel for the coming winter.
In the past summer numerous Ignite
coal bodies have been opened. II is
said there is not a single homestead in
that section that has not coal within
five miles of it and that nearly all of
them have a vein on their own home
stead These coal bodies extend
throughout the northern part of the
state and up to the North Dakota line.
A few weeks ago an effort was made by
eastern spectators to secure the rights
to the coal mines, but an organized
effort by the homesteaders defeated the
plan
A young man by the name of John
Inbody, of Iowa, was assaulte" Satur-
day night shortly after IL o'clock on
Main street in Aberdeen by man with
whom he was walking. The attack
was made with a stout club Inbody
received bad cut over the left eye.
His assailant was arrested and lodged
in the city Jail. Inbody says that he
has been working on threshing crew
near Andover, quitting there the mid
die of last week. Since then he has
been at Nina. That evening he was
in saloon, where his assailant met
him and "boned" him for drink. He
refused and that he thinks is the reason
for the assault
Charles @ .onland, young farmer,
living near Hetland, met death in
terrible manner Saturday afternoon.
He was tending the separator of a
threshing machine and had climbed
onto the top Of the machine to remove
some bundles which had become clogged
and slipped, falling into the cylinder.
His leg was drawn into the machine Its
entire length, the cylinder teeth becom-
ing embedded in the vetebrae of his
of his back and stopping the machine.
1t was necessary to cut the mangled
leg from his body to release him, and
he lived only about ten minutes after
being taken away. His wife was stand
ing only a short distance from the
thresher when the accident occurred.
While the Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road agent at Java was at breakfast a
stranger signing the name James Sauls-
bury, guest at the same hotel, went
into the agents room and took from his
coat money and checks to the amount
of $500. Salisbury then walked TO
Hosmer, hired a rig and drove to
Eureka. City Marshal j. Fl. Coonen of
Eureka, arrested him as he was about
to drive away. The stranger tried to
bluff by saying he was an officer and
looking for the same man Then he
asked to be allowed to write letter
aud slipped in the envelope. addressed
to woman in North Dakota $205 i'll
bills. This and SO 80 on his person
was all that was recovered.
Judge Garland, of the TTuited Sta es
court in Sioux Falls has appointed l.
w Crofoot, of Aberdeen, special master
to take testimony in the case now pend
ing in the federal court and involving
the reduction of passenger fares OH al
standard guage railroads in Soutl
Dakota from 3 to az cents per mile
The appointment of Mr. Crofoot wal
made at the request of both sides to the
controversy. The special master, from
the to timony presented, is to find the
facts proven by the testimony anc
report the facts to Judge Garland will
all convenient speed. The specia
master is given authority to take tn,
testimony at any point chosen by him
self, whether within or without tn,
district of South Dakota Each party
to the suit is to pay the expense o.
taking and transcribing the testimony
offered by it upon direct and eros,
examination.
| While til, papers of Butte county are
wrangling over the question of division
of that county into three, some urgina
and others fighting any such action
the chances appear to be that the
division proposition will carry, as q
county 100 miles long and 80 miles wide
is rather too large for convenience
Lyman county is also scrapping ovei
the division matter, and while the wes
end is asking for division the east enc
and the center represented by Presht
interests oppose such move. as Preshs
wants to be the county seat Of the
whole county. One element which
will no doubt have q bearing on the
different county division schemes il
that legislative apportionment can only
be made at session following census
Amy county organized within the next
year will be included In the next legis
lative apportionment following the 1917
census. To delay until the election OF
1910 would give . county with al
unknown population, and 1t would
have to wait until after the census Of
1915 to get legislative representation
which would be at the 1917 session. aud
while they would be county for loca
purposes during that time they wouIC
have no legislative voice in the manage
ment of affairs.