Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-30
Thursday. December 30, 1909.
nEwsY STATE NOTES.

Mter, AUuOvef WINCH mas Decu IN
charge OF Rev. Father Sass, Ct Bristol,
will have a resident priest
The state has received draft for $40
bS7.3i, as its share OF the five per cent
If receipts from sale OF government
lands In the state. This has been
credited to the permanent school fund
NJ the state, aud Is che largest draft the
ptate has ever received from that fund.
T. 4. Strike, . Northwestern freight
conductor running between Sioux Falls
and Mitchell. has disappeared at the
anne time as a Mrs Jones OF Mitchell,
and IL is believed that the twain have
eloped Strike, before his departure,
Induced his wife TO sign mortgage on
their home by which he secured ~ 600
Mrs Strike is angry and seeks to have
she couple arrested and prosecuted
lie Bean city came near being the
scene Of another tragedy Saturday
when two men, Roy Holton aud VIM
Gilbert, were found in bed in an uneou.
scions condition ia room filed with
coal gas that had escaped from leak
In the stovepipe The room was so
filed with the POISONOUS gas that u was
only with the greatest difficulty that
the men could be reached When they
were finally carried out IL was thought
they were dead A physician worked
for two hours before either man showed
signs OF returning consciousness.
The way freight from Sioux City
crashed into double header stock train
from Sioux Falls, bound south. Ia the
Milwaukee yards at Harrisburg friday.
Engineer Palmer of the way freight,
whose home is at Hazenville, Iowa, had
. narrow escape from death. and his
foot was badly crushed. Ralph Bro
phia, Of Sioux City. fireman of the
freight. was bruised, but none of the
other members OF the train crew was
injured. Three engines are piled In u
mass In the Harrisburg yards aud are
reported to b. only fit for the scrnphenp
The state educational department has
completed the markings on the teachers
papers sent In from the different coun.
ties IN the November examinations AID
has granted authority TO teach 10 80
of the applicants. The numoer who
tried for ertificates was 9Sl, aud OF
these 4l6 failed 20 come up 10 the
required educational standard autI had
their papers rejected The new list OF
teachers will help out IN the counties
where they yet have a shortage of the
required number so fill their schools
but will make the opening OF In.
schools somewhat late.
Sheriff John Anderson, of Brown
county, has received word from Rock
Rapids. Iowa. that the authorities there
have arrested ] y Trenholm, married
man OF Warner, who eloped several
months age with pretty Is year old
Florence Monlton, daughter Of farmer
near Warner. The couple were traced
through letters written TO her parants
BY the girl Az first the letters were
sent through go-between. bat finally
the girl wrote . letter direct to he par
s6ts. and through this the whereabouts
Of the man aud girl were discovered.
Trenholm will be brought back 70
answer for bite crime
While hunting rabbits near AtEol,
Sanford Ayers rode bis horse into an
abandoned well, which was hidden by
snow and would have persisted but for
his companion Sidney Clark and N. l.,
Jacobson, q neiehboripg farmer The
well was twenty-four feet dep and
eurbed mp NJ the sides half way In
che descent Ayers kept his seat In the
saddle and the horse caught in the
curbina. BY using the bride Of the
horse Ayers was drawn up aud was not
In she least injured. A derrick was
then secured aud the horse was raised,
but fell back whea near the top, it's
back being broken.
Several OF those who had been found
guilty By juries during the last term OF
The United States court at Sioux Fails
last week. or had entered pleas OF guilty
appeared before Judge Garland aud had
sentences pronounood in their cases.
John At~na. Sioux Indian. charged
wish introducing liquor into the Yank-
eon reservation. was sentenced 20 q term
u one year and fined 600. James Riley.
also Sioux Indian, convicted OF horse
stoaline on che Grow Greek reservation.
va given term Of two years ia the
federal penitensiary At Leavenworth.
Jsmes =. Six, charged with selling
hQuos 70 Indiana, was given term OF
enc ysAr aud * moaths aud fined sl0c.
Rev. Mr.. Mason. who lives on .
hcmeo>sad near Midland and attends 70
~ spiritual needs % dock IN that
rloos each Sunday. evidentally lost the
Sc>k ~ uotohes FOR she right day o. the
woee, o. foreot 70 oroos ons she right
nomtor u days o. hls oaIsndat, as BE
ol,oooht Sunday morning looked like ;