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

of Webster and we are glad TO know
that Mr. and Mrs Hanson will still be
very close neighbors of our city
The following items appeared in the
Aberdeen News of Wednesday: Henry
Turner. formerly of this city, is here
from Fargo on business for the Inter
national Harvester company of which
he is district manager in North Dakota.
County Auditor j. @. Daily has returned
from Pierre, where he attended the
annual meeting of the auditors of the
state. Auditors NJ. Nj. Brigstock, OF
Marshall county, and c. e Blegen, of
Day county, are here today en- route
home from from the meeting
S. l. Purdum was summoned to this
city last Thursday on warrant charg-
ing him with the grand larceny of a
watch. 1t seems, as near as we can
learn the facts in the case that some
one broke into Maynard's house last
summer and stole watch which was
found in Purdum's possession Mr..
Purdum waived examination and was
bound over to the circuit court, at
which time his friends assert he will
have no difficulty in proving how he
came into possession of stolen property.
The South Dakota senators were
taken care of in the present session of
the United States senate as follows:
Gamble, enrolled bills, chairman; audit
and control contingent expenses of
senate, District of Columbia, Indian
affairs, public expenditures, public
lands, privileges and elections, public
buildings and grounds. Crawford,
expenditures in interior department
chairman; claims, examine several
branches OF civil service, Iudian depre-
dations, industrial expositions, inter-
oceanic canals, public health and
national quarantine
Peter Holmquist, of Holmquist, was
IN this city Monday and in conversation
with him our reporter learned the fol-
lowing facts regarding the Hoimquist
bank robbery which occurred Saturday
night Along in the night the neigh
bors heard several loud reports but
thought that some one was shooting off
a gun and gave little or no attention to
them, Sunday morning the bank was
discovered to have been looted 1t was
evident that the robbers were not
novices at the business or they had
made fence out of hog wire to pro-
tect themselves from advance upon the
bank from three sides had they been
detected, also from footprints upon the
landing of an adjacent store it was
evident that one had stood upon it and
others worked. Several charges were
evidently necessary to get into the safe
The general belief is that the first shots
| loosened the outside doors of the safe
and then the robbers found it necessary
/ TO use the other four or five shots To
force an opening into the steel vault
which was guarded by time lock The
| fine steel at last was forced, but, judg-
ing from the conditions seen in the
bank in the morning it is believed that
the force of the explosion was so great
that the money was destroyed and that
the robbers got but little for their
nights work althoug the bank was the
I looser of about eight hundred dollars.
in currency. The only clue to the
robbers is that two men were seen
around Holmquist Saturday and had a
camp between the town and ID. g.
Kidder's farm along the track At
/ this camp on Sunday was found a
dynamite cap and some wearing
apparel. The officers have been fur
nished with description of these fell
lows and are looking for them. The
bank is insured against loss by robbery
and so the stockholders and depositors
will suffer no loss.