Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-04-29
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NEWSr SIAbE NOIEo.
Prof. Thomas B. Boughton, librarian
at Huron college, died suddenly of
pneumonia at Huron Friday, aged So
The Watertown District Bankers
association, auxiliary to the state
organization, closed very interesting
session in that city Tuesday.
The Catholic church ct Washington
will be completed and ready for dedica-
ton early In April. 1t is one Of the
finest structures of its size owned by
this denomination in the state.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Wallace, ofPierre,
was scalped in runaway accident
Friday evening. The team starting
when one side of the pole broke loose
and the buggy run into an auto.
M. A. Skinner, who fell beneath a
moving train last Thursday at Hitch
cock, resulting in the loss of leg, died
on Monday. Mr.. Skinner was editor
of the Hitchcock News and was on his
way to the Office when the accident
occurred.
The appointment is announced in
Washington of Capt. e. r. Crisman,
Sixteenth infantry, to be detail officer
of the militia for South Dakota with
headquarters at Pierre. He is now
military instructor at the agricultural
college at Brookings.
Mrs. Anna I. ID. KYLE has received the
official announcement from Great
Britain that the patent on her electric
heater has been accepted by the British
crown, and the patent placed on record.
Mrs. Kyle now has patents in the United
States, Canada and the British Isles.
Prof N. E. Hanson, of Brookings
college, and State Surveyor Nelson, Of
Mitchell. Saturday made preliminary
survey of the state capitol grounds for
the purpose of making plat for park.
ing the tract, the present plan being to
do the work with the aid of state
employees.
The jury in the case of Arson Wager,
formerly United States commissioner
at Dallas, charged with embezzlement
of funds belonging to homesteaders
which had been placed in his hands
Saturday morning at Sioux Falls,
returned a verdict acquitting the
defendant.
A telegram from Los Angeles received
at Huron Friday announces the death
in that city of j. S. Oliver. He was
superintendent Of the Dakota division
of the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way for twenty years with headquarters
at Huron and was one of the best
known railroad men In the northwest
Watertown has voted an additional
$4,000 for the purpose of completing
the high school annex. The city also
voted to issue bonds in the sum OF
$50, 600 to take up an Indebtedness of an
equal sum incurred twenty years ago
TO construct the high school building,
no sinking fund having been provided.
Members of the executive and finan-
cial committees of the State Federation
of Commercial clubs held a meeting
with Gov. Wesley at Pierre Friday to
attempt to formulate plan for raising
funds to advertise the state, such action
being desired on account of the failure
of the legislature to provide for an
immigration department
The special calls for state taxes which
were sent out TO group OF counties
which did not make a satisfactory
showing on the March call will bring
about sc, 900 into the state treasury,
and this, with other receipts, will
allow another warrant call in the CON-
ing month and the outstanding general
fund warrants will be pretty well
cleared up.
Discovery of two new counterfeits, a
S. silver certificate and a $40 national
currency note on the National Bank of
Washington, s. d., was announced at
Washington Saturday. The former ia
an imitation of the series 1899, but
bears the date 1889 and in the portrait
Of the Indian chief the nose and mouth
are entirely different from the original.
The washington counterfeit ID a pen
and ink production from Chicago, q
dollar bill being bleached TO obtain the
desired paper.