Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-07-16
NEWsY STATE NOTES.


Goose Creek one of the dusky maidens
wore gown that had 500 elk teeth dis.
played upon it, each one o. which was
worth IS She was the belle of the
occasion
A $500 robbery Cook place at Utica
Sunday night. The store of John
Peterka was entered and merchandise,
knives. razors, etc, were taken. The
thieves made clean getaway and left
no clue.
Ga Friday evening a balloon passed
over Aberdeen headed southeast and
travelling high and at swift speed. Ii
is believed to be one of the balloons sent
up in ST. Paul few days ago. Whether
or not there was anybody in il, could
not be ascertained
Charles Baker, aged IL, oldest son of
Mrs. Marlhina Baker, widow residing
Sioux Falls, was the victim of the first
fatality resulting from the Fourth Of
July celebration in this city His death
resulted from lockjaw, the lad acct
IDENTIFY shooting himself in the palm of
his left hand with toy pistol.
A wreck of stock train on the Mil
waukee road between Alpena and Vir-
gil Tuesday morning caused consider
able damage and severely injured Frank
j Burns OF Minneapolis, the driver of
one of the engines. Ten cars of stock
were ditched and about one-fou rth of
the cattle injured The train was south
bound from Aberdeen
The l8 months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Hockel, who reside on a
farm in Charles Mix county, while
playing around watertank which
stands in the yard of the Hookel home
climbed to the edge of the receptac lie
lost it's balance aud fell in. 1t was
some little time before the child was
missed and search revealed the body
in the tark
Walter Brown and Erick Sender,
laboring men at Mobridge were arraign-
ed in Aberdeen Friday before United
States Commissioner William Wallace
on the charge of introducing liquor on
the Indian reservation opposite
Mobridge on the Fourth of July. Bro wn
was held to the next term of United
States court under bonds of $3.50 and
Sender was released
When Miss Hoe Gilbert, daughter of
g p. Gilber;, a prominent rancher near
Belle Fourche, could no longer pursue
coyote which she had chased on horse.
back for two hours, she broke the rop-
ing record and dragging him from
mud hole in which he had taken refuge,
with her larlat She first saw the
coyote while riding along Cattle creek,
and chasing him many miles, finally
running him down.
Sheriff Healey, of Brule county, has
returned from New York city having in
custody John Martin, who is wanted IN
Brute county on the charge of embez-
cling the sum of So 900 from Mitchell
d Thompson, commission firR of
Chicago. The money was sent to
Martin for the purchase of cattle, but
he is alleged to have converted it 20 his
own use. He was caught in New York
city while making preparations 70
depart for Europe.
In line with the many robberies that
have been recorded throughout the
Hills, the Holvey pharmacy of Lead
was entered by a sneak thief during
business hours and 500 was taken from
the safe. The store was crowded at
at the time the robbers entered, and by
crawling under counter the safe was
easily assessible. The robber was
apprehended as he was leaving the
front door, anr it is thought that the
police will be able to locate the guilty
party.
Something of sensation has been
created in Gregory and Trip counties
by confession made few days ago by
Pete" Thompson, a Sioux Indian
belonging on the Rosebud Indian
reservation, to the effect that certain
white men living in the vicinity of the
reservation have Systematically induced |
the Indians TO steal horses and cattle,
and that the white men concerned have |
made a business of purchasing the
stolen animals, knowing them to have
been stolen.
A severe hail storm struck in the |
northern part of Brown county Sunday |
evening, and did great deal of damage |
to the crops in that part of the county.
1t began about four miles west of West
port, being very narrow there, and |
extended north, gradually widening as
it went. A farmer who was at the
extreme south end of the storm reports
that where his grain was struck it is
a total loss, and his mel ghbors had |
severe losses. 1t is not known how far
north the storm went. Another report |
comes from northwest of Ordway to the
effect that there was hail storm in
that vicinity which destroyed great
deal of grain, and broke many windows.