Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-10-01
NEWSY STATE NOTES.


Jlsh r.chtas Selby last Wedncs-
dsy thursday for exat mat
" y & ~ Was m inject evid
ca b. cti 80 &c f. a with AZ
csin G. q, Giro usta ual eyi g
was ]. sufficient 10 hold nu al
the 'o,.ds WIS placed atS50J frre app ar-
ance at the January term Of court.
The state board OF pardons was in
session this week ard recommended =
pardon for John II Lurkin, sentenced
from Butte county for forgery charge
The applications OF John Nevins of
Lawrence county, aud Ell Lynch OF
Hutchinson county, both under sem
tence on robbery changes, We're taken
under consideration The application
of Charles Wilmer, of Turner county,
on statutory charge was deuied.
Pleading guilty to Cwo different Of
fensas, Roy Lgonarville of the north.l n
part of Butte county, AMI Wiiism
Ellis OF Belle Fourche, were sentenced
by Judge Rice TO serve respectIyely JSo
years and six m r'iths Ia the Sioux Eat S
penitentiary. LNalaryliis vas mem
Der of the notorious Offedsou. Nuuroe
gang of hotsethlevcs, that disposed Of
many head of animals last year, and
Ellis stole horse off the street of Belle
Fourche.
AS result ai the vests alton made
by States ATTIC upy JAG 3 Ga 3opble
tragedy in the southain part Glars
county or Thurs ay, it has b Il fouu q
that the dead -an vas Gearge Suiriz.
as previously T. RI ti. Che dead
woman was the wifi # Quirtz's nephew,
instead of being his wife, as at first re-
ported. From the evidence gathered
it seems that Quirtz became enraged at
the woman's resistance to his criminal
advances, and in fit of anger shot and
killed her, aud then ended his own life.
Cotton, small town on the South
Dakota Central railroad northwest OF
Sioux Falls was the scene of a bank
robbery early Saturday morning, the
institntion rohhed being tina Cotton
Savings bank Officers have departed
for Cotton to take up the trail of the
robbers, who made their escape in al
automobile The craftsmen dynamltec
the safe, but secured less than 81 600
several citizens heard the explosion, but
before they could reach the scene th'
veggmen had coDpiefea thcir "orN
Thus tar there D.. r"U the SlAh"st clue
,ar,o named Arthpr pnorn W..
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do, pio5t ., t,. gge.e ,u4r af h,
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.,ba ,.,r c.sin,s rh ~ na as ora.rea ;,
,,,cya orn bv 4cTato.h s,acia
pollcema1 and as ha oid 'ot ooa} "tti
suMci5n5saihcrlty the said pailce nsl
proceeded 70 take Il shot at hlm, Wif
the result as above stated The negr
was conscious and though the wont
was very painful IL Is not Thought 10
especially dangerous.
D,,i ~ ~, - .tri, st RIM Fr;ds :
aIovst NJ Q M S;ss h ,.os s+rnc
nv l;oft ic,,d y, - ,r.rtr badl
shattered Nj, Battarhpry buyer. an,
LITTLE so,, were in the elevator ar th
,ime The how was stunned so that h
fell RI the floor. but soon repained cor
so;onspess owipo m the heavy fall :
rain immediately fo,,owinp no fir
ansnad Idgbtnirg also strpck m
| court bonse on FRIDAY morning an
again on Sanday morning On frida
morning me Dol strack the cupola' hh
SUNDAY morning run IN on tie eieetr'
light wire anu sha5terea the cnhhdeiie
Ia the states attorneys ONCE
Stats sacretarv u d VIM has r,
f7saa 70 fl. TN, asmoaratic netition f.
state Off ,srs. bnt has submitted Il,
oatition 70 Atr,rpev General Cjatl
and eli abide hy his aecisiou Bein
refos4a pern,ission 70 file the names {
nominees made by the state conyeptio
becansa they were not on the primar
ballot. ,be democrats drew up a joir