Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-09-17
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

Tuesday afternoon in the yard at Mil.
bank just east of the west Y on the main
track. The tender Of one engine, one
fiat car and one box car were badly
smashed. No one was hurt
The cornerstone of the new $50, 600
Methodist Episcopal church at Aber-
deem was laid last Thursday afternoon
with elaborate ceremony The service
was very largely attended. the entire
floor of the structure being jammed
with people.
Frank Smischney, of Iona, was oiling
his threshing engine while it was run
ming at top speed, when the tiywheel
caught piece OF cloth hanging from a
torn sleeve. His arm was drawn into
the rapidly revolving wheel and broken
and crushed.
number of Indian families are in
Pierre bringing in their children for
the beginning of the school year at the
government school at Pierre. About
100 have arrived already, and by the
first of next week it is expected that
fully 200 will be present.
His humane act to the team he was
driving resulted fatally to Ole Swim, a
teamster ON the Lewis farm near Hunter
He took the bits out of the horses
mouths SO that they could drink more
comfortably. They ran away and his
head was crushed as he fell under the
team.
There is little danger of the corn crop
in Dawson county being injured by the
frost after the two weeks hot weather
which has prevailed. Every day but
two in the last ten days the themom-
eter has registered more than 30
degrees aud one day it went to l02
| degrees.
1t is with much protest on the part Of
Sturgis people that the news of station
ing colored troops at Fort Meade is
received. 1t is stated in official circles
that four colored troops are TO be
stationed at the fort near Sturgis upon
their return from the philippine
islauds
A badger engaged in hard flight to
save Its life, was the cause of the death
of Jalmar Paulson, 15-year-old son OF
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Paulson neal
Hlghmore. He and MS older brother
George, were driving TO a field when
their dog started u badger. The ANNA
ran unuer the team OF horses and they
began to run. Jalmer was thrown out,
has head striking some rocks, and h,
died In few hours.
Chamberlain people, having beer
informed by the commissioner o
Indian affairs that the government
Indian school is likely TO be clos
have begun campaign TO change i
from school tor abongines to a uni
versity allied with the Seventh Da,
Adventists This denomination Is seek
ing a location for university, 10
combined with the academy now a
Elk Point and to serve the Oak tas
Minnesota and Iowa.
A stranger, evidently harve st hand
complained to the Rutland authorities
Saturday that he had been knocked
down and robbed of $4s by men who
had fed northward. Town Marsh a
Woldt, with posse, arrested the
alleged highwaymen, who denied ths
robbery charge, although the did admit
having knocked the man down, because
they said, they called them names.
The two men were put in Jail bu
escaped before morning
Last Sunday morning near WORTH .;
a shooting ARRAY took place that nearly
proved fatal. A young fellow named
Gilbert Eccarius was walking along the
rem in buggy going TO Worthing te
church The fellow without any
apparent cause fired two or three shots
with his rifle. One shot struck the
horse and another struck Miss Gertrude
Richter in the back infiic ting q serioas
wound. Sheriff Opsal apprehended the
young man as he was attempting 70
leave the state and he was bound over
by Justice Solem under $3.50 bonds in
default of which he is occupying q cell
in the county Jail
Bat for the waschfulness of JailO Z
J. III. Slater at Aberdeen there would
have been another wholesale delivery
&C the Brown county Jail Friday night.
Mr.. Slater about o'clock heard pecu.
liar noise, a grating sound at the north
west corner of the Jail. He stepped
outside aud at once detected what was
up. He reported his discovery TO
Sheriff Anderson aud the two entered
the Jail and drove the prisoners back
into their cells Upon examination it
was found that the men had removed
the bricks from the northwest corner
OF the Jail wall and that but one layer
of brick remained TO be taken out
before they would have been at liberty