Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-09-03
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

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the South Dakota regiment TO take part
in the military maneuvers for about
ten days.
George Williams, while sleeping off a
jag on the railway track near Wasta,
one hundred miles west OF Pierre, was
cut TO pieces by train Williams was
a member of the Gary grading crew at
work near the Cheyenne river.
Leonard Underwood, who has been
assistant secretary 10 Seuatcr Gamble
for several years, has been selected as
private secretary by the senator and
next season will accompany Mr.. Gam.
BILE to Washington iii his new capacity
Mrs Christin Stark, who shot and
killed her divorced husband at Ulsen,
Clay county, last week, at her prelim-
mary hearing last week was held on
charge of murder, without bail She
viii! be tried at the October term Of
court.
The cornerstone of the new LutheraL
church being erected in Vermillion was
laid Thursday, large audience being
present at the services. The principal
address was given by Rev. b. A. Nowem
of Sioux City The church, when COM
pleted, will cost about $4,000.
A deserter from the battleship Mont
gomery named Thomas j. McMullen,
was arrested at Yankton and left for
Philadelphia Friday in charge of Sheriff
William Hickey. He deserted last June
and stands good chance Of getting
three years imprisonment for the act
Judge H. @. Fuller OF the supreme
court, returned 70 Pierre from a vaca.
ton trip to the Lake Superior country,
and In the northern part of the state.
He returned suffering severely from
rheumatism and went on to Hot Springs
to attempt to secure relief in the warm
baths at that place.
A bold attempt was made Friday to
rob the Savings Bank store at Aberdeen.
Two men broke the window in the
stores basement, but the policeman
who was on the beat heard the crash
and rushed to the scene. He scared the
men away, as he saw the two run across
the vacant lot i'll the rear of the store.
A. R. Mcdonald, young man who
was formerly baggage agent at the
North Western station, bat who has
been held in the comfy Jail at Rapid
City pending trial for stealing suit
cases from the baggage room, has been
released on a cash bond furnished By
his father, r, w. Mcdonald of Creston,
Iowa.
At meeting of the creditors of w.
r. Day, bankrupt, at Rapid City, John
Hall was chosen trustee and an inven.
tory will at once be made. The prop
erty consists of saw mill, store, aud
teaming outfits at Elkhorn, and timber
holdings in that vicinity. The assets
are given as about $l9, 600 and the liza.
bilties as about $4,000
Judge Garland, of Sioux Falls has
appointed j. l.. Jolley OF Vermillion al
referee in the proceedings instituted by
Vermillion city to Dust the Northwest
ern Telephone comcany. Testimony
will be taken for the city's side of the
case. Another referee will likely be
appointed in Minneapolis to hear the
telephone company and then all the evi-
dence will be submitted TO Judge Car
land.
The Milwaukee company is building
80 per cent larger turntabte at the
roundhouse in Mitchell for the accom-
mediation of the larger engines which
are to be installed in the service in and
out of this city. While the turntable is
being constructed, the sixteen engines
have to be kept out OF doors, and it was
necessary to construct ~" mile
west of town on which TO turn the
engines
President f. b. Fault of the state uni
versity, has been designated the chair
man of the committee of selection for
state of South Dakota tor the Rhodes
The next examina ton will
not be held until October, 1903, the sell
ection is TO be made in January, 1910,
and the appointee will begin his resi-.
dence at Oxford in October. 1871. One
will be open in 1910 and
another In 1911, but none in 1919.
J. B. Taylor, one of the best knO wn
mining men in the Black Hill, and his
helper, Chris Miller, were INSTANTLY
killed Saturday &C the Burlington mine,
near Redeem. small mining camp IS
miles south of Deadwood on the Bur-
lington. The men had stepped into the
cage to be raised out of danger of
blast, but break caused the cage 70
stick, and the explosions canght them
helpless Taylor mas been in the Hills
since 1879. his family living in Dead
wood. He was PRECEDENT of the COM
pany in whose mine he met his death.