Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-03-25

uuu -hit' "eutLy Oh hdICn ~, OUT the
little one died shortly after birth. Mr..
Wentzy is the editor and owner of the
Gate City Guide and is the owner of
the Press Reporter at Pukwana, this
state. He was formerly democratic
state chairman.
A bad man from the country west of
the river has just been placed i'll the
penitentiary 10 serve eighteen months.
The sentence was imposed on Suffer-
field, the bad man, two years or more
ago, but by fighting every turn of the
law he kept ont of the penitentiary
until the present time. Sutterfield's
offense was resisting ana shooting at an
officer.
Seth Bullock, United States marshal
for South Dakota departed from Sioux
Falls Monday with Albert j. Moore,
alias j. L. Ferguson, alias Henry a.
Everett, . noted swindler, whom he is
taking to the United States penitentiary
at Leavenworth, Kan, where the
prisoner will serve term of one and
one.half years under senten,e Imposed
by Judge Garland.
1t now is reported on apparently good
authority that o F. Swenson. of Sioux
Falls, who served as warden of the
appointment of Mr.. Parmiey, will again
be appointed to his old place. The
appointment is expected to be made by
Governor vessey prior to May 10, so
the new warden can assume the new
duties Of the position at the expiration
of the term of Warden Parmiey.
Florence, the 8-year.old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Ostland, living five
miles west of Wolsey was playing about
q horsepower corn shelter on her
fathers place, when her clothes were
caught in the tumbling rod, winding
around it, and before the horses could
be stopped she was whirled several
times around the rod. Why she was
not killed by the pounding of her head
on the ground is hey ond understanding,
yet she is slowly recovering.
Senator Robert j. Gamble, OF South
Dakota, was the principal speaker at
the 172nd annual banquet of the chart
table Irish society Of Boston. He
spoke on 1.-THE Day We Celebrate"
and told of the many famous Irish men
and women IN the history of the world.
Being of Scotch Irish descent himself
Senator Gamble was rendered great
ovation. Special interest also was
tai en- in his address owing to the fact
that President Andrew jackson, a
second cousin of his mother, also was
the speaker at similar banquet years
ago.
The departure from the state of Rev.
Charles M. Daley ana wife is much
regretted. Mr.. Daley was missionary
for the Congregational Sunday School
and Publishing Society in Dakota terri
tory and South Dakota for more than
twenty years He was chaplain OF the
First South Dakota regiment during
the Spanish a merican war and Philip.
pine instruction. He and his wife will
reside at Douglas, Wyoming, he having
accepted the position of assistant super
intendent of both the Congregational
Home Missionary society and the Con-
gregational Sunday School society for |
that state.
Information has reached Sioux Falls |
Friday OF the arrest at New Orleans of |
John Ii. Larkln, who recently dis
appeared from Sioux Falls about the
time it was discovered that he had |
forged the name of U. S G. Cherry, a
local attorney, by whom he was /
employed as stenographer, to several
checks. Deputy Sheriff Eugene Riley
of Sioux Falls who had been on the
trail of the fugitive for number Of
days, and who traced him to New |
Orleans and caused his arrest there. now
is back to Sioux Falls with his prisoner
Larkin last fall completed term in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary for forgery |
committed at Belle Fourche.
Representatives Martin and Burke
each have introduced bills appropriate
ing $50, 900 for government building
at Rapid City and 500, 900 for build
ing at Brookings. They plan to make
a special effort to have congress pass
these bills next winter Martin was a
member of the public buildings COM
mittee for six years, and the indications
are that he will be reappointed. Both
Rapid City and Bookings already have
sites for. government buildings Martin
also has introduced bill appropriating
$25. 900 for fish culture station at Dell
Rapids. A similar measure by Senator
Kittredge passed the senate last session.
The bill for the governments to establish
mining experiment stations has been
reintroduced by Mr. Martin, as has his
bill giving the secretary Of the interior
power TO limit the annual payment for
irrigation improvements to ~ an acre
where the project costs less than 20 An
acre.