Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-01-28
NEWSY STATE NOTES.


/ Funds are being raised tor the con-
strnction OF $40, 600 Y. NJ. @. A. build
/ ing at Madison.
! tYaEkton is building very large tab
ernacle for religious reviyals which are
\ 10 commence this week.
Miss Elba Roberts was shot aud killed
at Sturgis last Wednesday by Oscar
Jacobs, rejected lover.
Will Robinson. an actor, took hold of
live electric light wire at Mitchell last
Friday and was instantly killed.
A state Y NJ. q. A. convention will
be held in Mitchell, r, bruary ~ aud IA
A good program has been arranged.
Fred Petrek "a Russian from Mobridge,
was arrested Thursday on his arrival at
Aberdeen, on a warrant charging deser.
ton.
Mitchell is to have band composed
OF twenty-five young ladies Instru.
ments have been secured and practice
commenced.
/ The state board of, pharmacy fur
nished questions to about seventy appli-
cants for diplomas at the examination at
/ Pierre last week.
/ John Neumann, who deserted his wife
and two children at Mitchell, was
brought back from Seneca, Kansas, last
week to answer TO the charge in circuit
court
William Lamear, of Lead, was found
dead in his cabin last Thursday. His
son, by an Indian woman, worthless
fellow, has been arrested charged with
murder.
A tub of hot water was accidently
overturned in the home of Mr. and Mrs
| VIII Schnackenburg in WATERFOWL last
Friday, scalding little baby so severely
that it died Saturday.
State Engineer Lea has received an
invitation to deliver an address before
the Trans Mississippi Dry Farming con-
gress which convenes in CHEYENNE,
Wyoming, February %.
Will, Stella and Henry Jackson, of
Mitchell were arrested by the govern
ment authorities last week for selling
liquor without license and bound over
to the United states court,
There are 426 students enrolled at the
state university at Vermillion. Fifty.
nine of these come from other states.
All but six counties in this state are
represented in the student roll.
The Dakota Wesleyan university of
Mitchell is trying to raise $50, 900 to pay
off its indebtedness. James j. Hill
agrees to give $4,000 when the remain.
der Of the amount has been raised.
John Mclaughlin, son of Major Nc
Laughlin, the United States Indian
inspector, was thrown from his horse at
Wakpala, s. ID. Thursday, his neck was
broken, death occurring Immediately.
III S. Fletcher, manager of the Water.
town Gas company, was overcome by
gas Thursday while working on the
main and had it not been for prompt
assistance would have been asphysiated.
The initiative petition containing
over eight thousand names was filed
with the secretary of state January %,
for the resubmission of the county
option law to the voters of the state at
the next general election
The South Dako ta stock men are TAX
ing an active interest in the retention of
James Wilson in President Taft's cabi-
net and il is probable will ask the legis-
latnre to pass resolution endorsing
HIM for his present position.
Leila, the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs r j Hewitt, OF Wakonda, was
shot by her brother with gun which
he did not know was loaded Friday of
last week. She fingered until Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Teschbein, of
Aberdeen, were among the passengers
upon the White Star line steamer
Republic which was sunk of Nantucket
Saturday. They and all other passen-
gers and the crue were rescued.
After an interesting meeting in Dead.
wood last week the state Horticultural
society elected the following officers:
President, H. J. H. Wilkinson Belle,
Fourche; secretary, John Robertson,
Hot SPRING.; treasurer, John Murray,
Spearfish.
The United States authorities have
commenced an action TO take Lyman
county homestead away from John r.
Ryan, Of Sioux City, Iowa, claiming
that he never was upon the land but
four times and that his family never
resided upon il at all.
For the first time in the history Of the
Black Hills the lid was put on the
saloons in the various mining campo
last week and some SALOONS which had
not been closed in over twenty years
were locked 1t eleven o'clock and Sun.
day bust ness was cut out.
i The state bar association held a very
inseresting meeting in Pierre last weeA
at which IN excellent program wal
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