Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

sNDih out huu J'BdustL was dliesttu
/ The witness 10 the marriage certificate.
who sw0re tdat LeOua Papin was Is
years OF age was John Lundrigan, but
/ he has Disappeared Johansen has been
released on 800 bonds.
/ Aberdeen Is making the claim that
/ the Milwaukee railroad Will have in
/ that city one Of the largest storage de-
| pots for construction materials aud sup
plies west OF me twin clsios Notice
/ has been served upon the Northern
Granite company and the Baker Ma
chine and Manufacturing company that
they will have to vacate the ground they
now occupy on Third avenue southwest,
along the Milwaukee tracks. The build
ing of the machine company must be
moved aud the marble yard will have TO
find other quarters for this area is TO be
part of the larger acreage which is 70
be transformed into great storage
| yard.
The state poultry show at Mitchell
closed ebruary 4, and the the attend
ance was large, anc the number OF birds
On exhibition was the largest for several
years. The annual election OF officers
resulted as follows: President, William
| Drabbs, Yankton; vice president, II P.
! Sutton, Clak; secretary, Arthur Miller,
Mitchell: treasurer, l. 5 VIckers, Mitch
ell; executive committee, William Seal
lin, J. Ii. Grow, George Law, Mitchell;
A. J, Keith, Sioux Falls, q II. Wash
| burn, WATERFOWL; L. NJ. Foote, 1nwoo
Iowa Mitchell and Sioux Falls were
candidates for the next show, which,
however, was awarded to Mitchell
again.
A fire, supposed to he of inceudiary
origin destroyed the Bampbell House,
at Lead on February 3 II also destroy
ed an Italian saloon, Shane's dry goods
store aud Paul Shiek's b rbsr shop, all
located in the same building The loss
will be from $4,000 TO Sl2 600, about
half covered by insurance The fire
was discovered IN the washroom of the
hotel by a night policeman. The. build
ing housed 100 non union men, and all
were asleep, but were gotten ont in
safety Night Clerk Boland claims to
have found fires in six portions of the
building No trace of the inceudiary
has been discovered. The authorities
are investigating.
Marcus Martin, OF Oacoma, made a
heroic rescue and saved j. b. Benson,
also Of Oacoma, from death by drown.
ing in the icy waters of the Missouri
river. The two men were engaged in
cutting ice on the river when Benson
fell into the water, which was flowing
with the swiftnoss characteristic of the
"Big Muddy" Benson, by desperate
effort. managed to grasp hold of the
edge of the Ice and prevent his being
carried under 1t TO certain death. Mar
tens rushed to his rescue, and it requir-
ed the exercise of the utmost care and
patience on his part before he was abe
TO drag the half frozen man TO safety on
the ice.
To be stricken with death while horse
back riding was the fate of John lie.
Baron, aRed about 20. who for some
time had made his home with his grand.
son, Benjamin Davis, who resided on a
homestead in Trinp county. The old
man was enjoying horseback ride
when he was the victim of an attack of
heart failure. He fell from the horse
to the ground. dying in few moments.
Several persons happened to be In the
vicinity and saw him fall, but when
they rushed to his assistance they found
he was dead
Information was recently received at
Scotland, S d, giving details of the
tragic death of Walter Weber foru or
Scotland man, in North Dakota. He
left Harvey in the evening to drive
home. distance of eight miles. The
next morning his team was found stand
ing beside haystack about two miles
from home. aud Weber's body was dis.
covered in the bottom of the sleigh, he
having frozen to death.
Carl Gunderson of vermillion has
been appointed supervisor OF Indian al
lotmenis for ten state, and this will re-
quire his removal to some western city.
Mr.. Gunderson has made fine record
as allotting agent ia South Dakota, none
of his allotments costing the government
more than t7.60. whereas many agents
have run the cost mp as high as $50 He
may decide to lncate with his family In
Salt Lake City.
There was no appearance by George
p. Hebron personally in the disbar
merit proceedings brought against him
HIS attorneys flied an answer, which is
general denial to all the charges made
in the complaint. aud the court will at
a later date announce the name of a
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