Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-08-19

John H. HlgDee, the chicago man VINO
mysteriously disappeared in Deadwood
last week reappeared just as prepara-
tons were being made to send his wife
to her parents in Michigan. Higbee
claims that his memory is a blank from
the time he accepted the hospitality of
two strange men to have glass of
wine until he came to himself on a
Northwestern train bound back TO
Deadwood. He had been gone nearly
week and his wife believed herself
deserted.
The following officers were elected
by the bar association at Its Deadwood
meeting: President, E. K. Wagner,
Alexandria; first vice president, Cham
bers Kellar, Lead; second vice presi-
dent, Wesley B. Stuart, Sturgis; secre-
tary, j. H. Voorhees,, Sioux Falls;
treasurer, l. NJ Simons, Belle Fourche;
directors. ]. e. Payne, Vermillion; Tore
Leigen, Sioux Falls; @. p. Sherwood,
CLARK; James Brown, Chamberlain;
Frank Anderson, Webster; N. j.
Hughes, Fort Pierre; A. I. Feay, Gus
ter; n. T. Mason, Deadwood; w. +.
Breul. Redfield; Frank Turner, Faulk-
ton.
jealousy caused Frank Lewis,
young negro, to hack his young wife to
pieces in their cabin in Deadwood last
Wednesday and then deliberately saw
his own head nearly off. Both bodies
were discovered by neighbors. The
tragedy was one of the bloodiest that
ever occurred there. There were
no witnesses to the murder and suicide,
but apparently Lewis became enraged
during q quarrel and used meat AK on
his wife's head, battering her features
out of all possible recognition in his
Jealous frenzy. Then taking a fluted
meat saw he ripped open his own throat
in horrible fashion.
The State College of Agriculture has
recently procured the services of Henry
B. Porter, of Indiana, as corn expert in
the department of ogronomy and field
crops. Mr.. Potter is graduate of the
University School of Agriculture, of
Indiana, having had training under G.
1. Christie, one of the country's greatest
corn experts. He is devoting his time
this year to the selection of desirable
types of corn from the different varieties
under test on the station plots, and
expects another year to commence
breeding operations, using as his found.
alton some of the more desirable types
and varieties now grown in this state.
An important duty devoIves upon
Prof. J. f. Armstrong, of Faulkton,
who recently was appointed to a posi-
ton of more than ordinary Importance
in the service of the department of the
interior. The first duty assigned to
him is to proceed to Helena, Montana,
where he will take charge of Chief
Rocky Boys band of 12O Chippewa
Indians, and at once make arrangements
for the transportation of the tribe and
all their belongings to territory soma
400 miles distant from Helena. Arriv.
ing at their new home, his duty will be
to allot members of the band unoccupied
lands according to instructions which
he has received from the interior depart.
ment.
The state board of review has declined
to reconsider any of its assessments
regardless of the strong protests of the
American and Wells-Fargo EXPIRES,
companies, which had representatives
on the ground asking for reductions
The Postal Telegraph company asked
for change, but did not get it; the
Dakota Central and the Highmore tele
phone companies thought they were
assessed too high, but received no con
ISOLATION. The Illinois central was the
only railroad to protest, but obtained
no relief. All the representatives were
given hearings, but after a considera
ton of their claims no change was made
in the figures as originally fixed by the
board
81 shot Leah, and she is dead. >
These words, spoken by Emma Fair
child, aged 8, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
S. S. Fairchild, who reside on a home
stead near Topbar, Stanley county. wat
the first inkling the parents had of the
tragic death of another little daughter
Leah, aged 6. While the father an6
mother were in the field stacking grair
the two children got down shotgun
and rife and commenced playing
Indian" Evidently without realizing
the danger, Emma loaded the shotgun
pointed it at her little sister and pulled
the trigger. The charge of buckshot
struck the little girl in the stomach
causing instant death.
There has been considerable inquiry
lately as to what has become of the
s., 900 silver service donated the cruiser
South Dakota by the state, as 1t appear,