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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Throat Cnt ON Train

The body Of a dead man, apparently
about 30 years Of age, was taken from
the top of mail train No. 8, w~estbound
on the Milwaukee road at Milbank
Friday night. The mans throat mad
been cut, a cash an inch deep running
from the center Of the right ear.
AS the train was pulling out of
Ortonyille, blood was notice. on a car
window and the agent also found blood
on mail sacks which the train threw off
there. Milbank was notified and the
body was found AID taken to the
morgue. In the pocket was a letter
addressed to 2. F. Kirchbaum, OF
Granite Falls Mian. A IS bill and a
few articles.
The authorities are inclined to the
opinion that il is a case oil. murder.
The nan was dressed 10 blue overllls,
He probably boarded the train a,
Montevideo and had been lead an hour
or so when found.
The murdered mans hat was founc
Saturday AZ Cornell. Mimi. neal
Appleton. Il Is learnsi tnat ne and a
companioo ooarari tn4 train at Granite
Falls u Il j. sUpiossc they climbed
TO the top o. a coari 10 steal a ride.
The { man i missing and is sus-
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Murdered Nan Identified

The mar whose body was found on
top Of a mail car of a westbound pass
enger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St Paul railroad at Milbank, who
had been murdered Saturday, was
identified as Martin Nelson, of Vona,
Colo. The Identification was made by
a man from Ellsworth, Kan, who says
be worked on a farm with Nelson this
summer. The dead mar was also
identified by TWO harvest hands as one
Of q trio who they claim neId them up
and robbed them. They say that a few
hours before the murder had evidently
taken place. Nelson and his two COM
panions entered a box car at Appleton
where three harvesters were sleeping
and held them up and robbed them. 1t
was said the three men were quarreling
among themselves. 1t is believed that
the murder was committed just before
the train reached Correl, a few miles
east of M,lbank. The companions of
Nelson are being sought by the police.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Went TO Sioux Falls

Sheriff Shaffer lett Aberdeen Friday
for Sioux Falls, where he took three
men sentenced to terms in the state
penitentiary. George Ingram, the
Bath operator, who stole $50 and some
money orders from the station, and
who pleaded guilty to the charge of
grand larceny, will serve two years in
the Sioux Falls ~penitentiary. Joe
Gibens, who stole $l5 from Henry
MeGrath. to serve two years in the
~penitentiary. Noah Dugan, who
pleaded guilty before Judge McNulty
to the charge of taking a grip belong
ing to John Cash from an emigrant
wagon neal Nahon. was sentenced to
serve eight months in the penitentiary.
Clyde Thompson who was arrested by
Sheriff Shaifer on the same charge that
Jugan was sentenced for, did not plead
guilty and his case will be heard in tn
LEI term of circuit conrt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
An Indian Fair

At a council of the Sioux Indians of
the Cheyenne and Standing Rock reser-
vations at Virgin Creek, the Indians
decided to hold the second Indian fair
at Dupree, beginning Sept. 9. and last
ing cne week.
The Indian fair is one of the most
novel events of the northwest, and is
different from eastern county fairs, as
it is only participated in by Indians
The sum of $4,000 has been raised for
premiums and among the attractions
will be horse racing, broncho busting
and other western sports.
1t is estimated that more than three
thousand Indians will be present. as
this is the big event of the season with
them. Their display of farm products
will be an interesting feature.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Suicides a~t-Brookinps

j. w. Hogan, a cigar maker employed
at the cigar factory of Hoff & Maryland
at Brookings. was found in a dying con.
dition near the railroad track two and 8
half miles from town Friday by two
men who were walking down the track.
He had a bullet wound in his head and
was unconscious. The authorities were
notified, and the man vas taken up town
on a had car. but died just before the
party reached the city. He had a 80
revolver in his hand when found. The
bullet had entered the head "a the
right temple. Hogan was between 40
and As years of age. He had been there
for about a month, aud wss a man of
considerable intelligence and of excel
lent habits, but it had been apparent to
those with whom he associated that he
was greatly troubled about something
or other. A wife and two children at
Clarion, Ia, were notified of his death.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Good Roads Procram

The prohram for the state good road:
convention in Pierre on August p, vii
be as follows: $50 a m, call q order
by J. d. Deets. commissioner Of immi.
grafton; invocation, Rev. II. L. Russell,
welcome to the state, Judge y. Haney,
welcome to the city, Mayor L. L.
Stephens; d. NJ. Carr, Omaha;
tourists roads, E c. Issenhuth,
good roads movement" II, c. Sol
berg. Chicago. Chicago, Black Hills
to Coast Highway"
Afternoon session: Geo. v. Ayres,
highway construction in the Black
Hills" John P. Dods, Chicago, Needs
of the movement discussion State
Engineer S. H. Lea. trunk highway
]. l. White, financing road work, "
discussion; Doan Robinson.
The good roads propaganda Ben
NJ. Wocd, 1.-THE state organization"
Evening sessions: Music by band;
vocal solo, Bernard Vessey; ]. L.
Long, of Des Moinss, the other half
of the transportation problem
address by a representative Of the
government highway department on
road building"
Arrangements have been practically
for an aviation exhibition by
Paul Peck on the same.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
George c. Barney Dead

George c. Barney, a pioneer resident
of South Dakota and for ten years on
nected with the state land commission
er's office at Pierre, died of ~apoplexy at
his homei in Ipswich, aged 81 years. Mr..
Barney was a native of New York.
When a child his parents removed to
Medford, MIMI, where Mr.. Barney grew
to manhood, married, and his first wife
is buried there, as is a daughter born
to them who died after reaching young
womanhood. Later Mr.. Barney moved
to South Dakota. Four years ago he
removed to Ipswich to take charge Of
the business of the Empire Elevator
company at that place. The remains
were taken to Medford, Mimi, for inter
ment Awife and small son survive him,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Preparing Items for Ballot

The secretary of state is beginning to
mitted to the people at the coming cleo
ton, in anticipation of the official bal
lot. BY the way, the ballot is not longer
to be encountered with the text of the
amendments and bills submitted, but
only the titles will go on the ballots.
There is hut one constitutional amend
ment proposed and this is the perennial
revenue amendment to article ii and
changes the present article only in that
1T provides that franchises and licenses
to do business shall be taxable and that
in determining the value of such licenses
and franchises the gross earnings and
net income may be taken into the con-
sideration. In addition TO this constitu-
tional amendment the electors will vote
upon one law upon initiative and three
upon referendum. The initiated bill is
the famous Richards primary. This bill,
owing TO the persistent campaigning Of
the author, has grown in favor, but SIS
it proposes some radical and novel
changes it is doubtful If 1t becomes
law.
The referendumed bills are the cleo
trio headlight bill; the herd law and the
act pertaining to changing county seats.
The headlight bin was referendumed in
in 1910 and defeated. again enacted by
the last legislature and again referen-
dumed by the railroads. The herd law
at present in force in the range coun-
ties requires farmers to protect their
crops against rowing herds; that is, a
herd of cattle may 60 upon q farm and
destroy the entire crop and the owner
of the cattle would o be liable for the
damage done. The r~eferendumed act
repeals the present law and makes own
ers Of cattle responsible for damages
done BY them. The county seat Law
provides that, where several towns are
candidates for the county seat, after
being duly petitioned, the names of all
of the candidates shall be submitted at
the nex primary election and the two
towns having the highest number of
votes shall 60 upon the official ballot at
the following general election. At pres
ent il requires 60 per cent Of the vote
10 establish a county seat.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
States Increased Valuation

Between six and seven million dollars
is the estimated increase in assessed
valuation of the state owe last year,
since the assessment board has COM
pleted it work. The total for last year
was $S4S, So, 525, and the total is now
expected to go to 1856, coo, 900 this year.
This increase is principally on the real
estate with slight increase ON railway
property. The personal property figures,
especially on livestock, will show a fall
ing off. This is on account of the set
Element of the western part of the state
restricting the range and forcing the
closing out of the large herds. and tie
further fact of the drouth on the ranges
last year compelling the shipment of
many herds down to the point where
feed could be secured to carry them
through.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

Attorney Logan Berry, of Lennon,
is acquiring fame in the northern part
of the state for his ability as a land
scape gardner, as well as an attorney.
He has his entire front yard planted to
flowers, arranged in such a manner
that the colors harmonic perfectly.
The yard now contains over 1000 BIOS
SONS, over 400 of which are geraniums.
There are eighteen varieties of flowers
altogether, among them being pansies.
cam as. salvias, California peoples,
wild cucumbers. nasturtiums. peonies.
marigold. hyacinth, mignonettes and
sweet peas. The various beds are
arranged in geometric figures. and the
color Of the various beds, combining Ia
y harmonious whole. has attracted wide
attention.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
IIDeputy sheriff Overpowered

August Moses, a deputy sheriff. was
overpowered in the Yankton county Jai
Thursday morning at 400 o'clock, tied
up securely with bands made of blankets
and three prisoners escaped in the most
sensational jail delivery in the his ,ory
of the county. The escaped men are
Frank Calvert, a burglar; w. H. Clancy,
a rapist, and Albert Bailey, imprisoned
on a minor charge. Five other prison
ers were aroused and rushed to the aid
of Moses, who was helpless in a locked
cell. A big man hunt is on, but there
is no trace of the escaped lei
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Auto Accident in Miner County

Four Sanborn county men-Frank
Bunce, Henry Edens, Oscar Thread old
and j. II. J~ohnson-met with a serious
accident while returning in an automo-
bile from a trip to Miner county. The
automobile struck an obstruction, with
sufficient force to break a wheel and
cause it to turn over twice. j. H.
Johnson had a leg broken and sustained
other injuries, while his companions
were badly cut and bruised.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15
Kicked nv a Horse

Harold Bennett, aged 4, who, since
his mother was burned to death sew
eral years ago has made his home with
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Erickson on a
form in Potter county, was kicked by
a horse and fatally injured. The
animals hoof struck the boy on top of
the head, crushing the skull and
exposing part of the brain.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

farm. 10 90
Gunder Home, witness fees 49,. 3 90
Gunder Home, witness fees...... 3 90
Educator School Supply Co. sup
plies for sup't... 81 IS
Chas W Siglinger, postage and
envelopes $500. ...........l0 6S
W M WEIGH Mfg Co, mdse fer
8 90
S NJ Duggaan, fees in INSANITY
cases. 6O
Webste. township, app for road $50 90
On motion the following school book
depository bonds were approved,
A T FL Bosland, Wauhay
R L Irwin, Webster
DR. NJ ] Fiksdal, ply for poor, reiec-
ted
On motion VIM Burns was gran ted
an abatement of taxes in the sum of
$4 6S on account of error in valuation.
The following refunds W re granted;
Ole J Lensegrav, interest on school
loan, refund of $40 90
Pierpont Village. interest on bond,
refund of $f0 4s
Loan extension granted;
Fred ] A Krause, loan 4443-$7OO 90
3 yeals
On motion the following bills were
allowed;
F S Lewno, commissi oners services
--
G E Wheeler, commissioners SER
vices and mileage. .......... A 0S
ii q Raffelson, commissioners
services and mileage 10 80
o l. Bistodeau, commissioners ser
vices and mileage. ..........1 90
5 Hallstrom, commissioner sell
vices and mileage. 90
On motion the Board.adjourned to
meet Tuesday, September 3rd, 1912 at
8 o'clock, A. NJ
Chris Grue,
County Auditor,
Day county, South Dakota
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

pected of the murder. Memoranda in
the dead mans pocket showed that he
had cooked at Joplin and ST. Louis,
Mo-, and also for a farmer near Rem
vile, MINI.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-08-15

d~isinfecting .....,..... 90 30
R B Ebling, mdse for court
house ............ ...... "a 7C
B II K%retchmer. assistant jan
itor during court. ........ s 90
Andrew Hustad, horse services.
poor farm $l4 90, rejected
The Board then adjourned to 1880,
and at 1880 met, all members present.
The following bills we're on motion
allow ed:
DIR. A. e. Brown, witness fees. J. P.
49,. ............. ......... l III
r B Ebling, mdse and labor $50. B 70
Bert E Johnson, clerk of court
Tees. ............ .........29 ~
Dakota Central Telephone Co.,
messages. l gu
III Fiksdal Go mdse for poor
farm ~
Farmers & NIGHTS Natl Bank,
court orders. 81 30
First National Bank. court or
uerS. 30
Webster Telephone Co.. rent, JUly15 90
Mrs H Loseth, scrubbing Offices. z 90
Will ms Lumter Co, lumber for
IooT farm :. 3 25
Williams Lu nber Go, lumber for
court house,. ........... 1 SO
Court house expense, postage,
freight, express. July 49,. IA SO
Webster Mill Co, feed for poor
-. 8 50
VIM Cass, hog services poor farm 3 90
Harder q Nygaard, auto livery
for Commissioners ......... 8 90
Webster Farmers Grain & Fuel
Co, coal for poor farm $500. A IS
d s Chamberlain, publishing and
printing .46 So
8 E Bronson q Co, publishing
and printing. "a 90
Chas f Black, publishing and
Ira Long, sup't poor farm. July 80 90
Maggie Tri. domestic at poor
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

and migratory ducks, of which fifty
may be killed in one day.
A penalty was added to section Z.
All hunting licenses expire on the
goth day of February. Last year
they expired on February 29th.
In the absence of County Warden
Hill from the city license can be OBJ
tanned at the store of the Dawson
Hardware Co.
Penalty for Neglect of Duty.
Mr.. Hill calls attention to section
q of the game law, referring to the
penalty upon wardens for neglect of
duty:
ANY warden, deputy warden or
ex-officio warden who shall fail to
perform his duty placed upon him
by this act shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction shall
be punished as prescribed in section
IL of this act"
Attention is also directed to the
following providing compensation TO"
arresting officers upon the conviction
of violators of the game law:
ANY person arreSting or causing
to be arrested offenders under this
act and furnishing the evidence nee
essary to convict such offenders shall
receive one-half of fines imposed and
collected from such offender"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

For the best buggy and harness on
easy terms at the lowest fgures see
E. B. Durham & Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
.AMERICUS HAS A LYNCHING
PRISONER is TAKEN FROM FLEE
ING SHERIFF AND STRUNG UP.
Black Attempted to Assault Little
Twelve Year-OId Girl, Whose
Screams Brought Help.

AMERICUS.-As a result of an at
tempted assault made Saturday at
ternoOn upon a little girl, the ~
year-old daughter of a well known
citizen of Americas, Babe" Var
brough, a negro railroad hand, was
taken that night from Deputy Sheriff
Fuller by a party of enraged citizens
and lynched to a bridge at a point
in Macon county near Oglethorpe.
To prevent the assured storming
of the Americas Jail Sheriff Fuller
placed Yarbrough in an automobile
and attempted TO spirit him to Ogle-
thorpe or Macon for protection, but
the race for life was lost before fiji
teen miles had been covered by the
deputy sheriff.
Outraged citizens detected the
sheriff when he slipped Yarbrough
through the rear of the Jail yard and
leaped into a waiting automobile.
Instantly the alarm was given, and
within ten minutes a dozen automo-
biles filled with determined citizens
were in pursuit,
Sheriff Fuller in his light car, was
overtaken, and short work made of
Yarbrough, who was hanged to a
bridge and shot to death.
The intended victim of the brute,
a pretty child, was in her fathers
yard Saturday afternoon when Var
brough made the attempted assault.
At sight of Yarbrough she screamed,
and members of the family came to
her assistance
Yarbrough fed, but was captured
quickly under the Seaboard freight
depot, where he lay concealed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
BROWN FOR j. S. SENATE?
GEORGIA POLITICIANS ARE SPEC
ULATING; HE SAYS NOTHING.
Many Ingenius Attempts to Flush
Him Without Avail. Widespread
Interest in the Report.


Interest in the Report.
ATLANTA. practical every pol
itician in Georgia is talking or spec
ulating on the possibility of Govern
or Jos. NJ. Brown being in the race
for the United States senate tive
years from now against Senator
Hoke Smith
That is, everybody except the gov
ernor himself If he has or does
discuss that eventually with any hu-
man being no one has heard of it.
Astute political reporters have tried
to flush his excellency on this score,
but without tangible results. He
has been preached bluntly, diplomat
ically and from almost every angle
employed by newspatherers to get a
statement, but Governor Brown
knows about as we'll how not to talk
when he so desires as any man
But there is no mistaking the
widespread interest in that matter
Just now 1t is almost impossible to
get in any group, large or small, of
men interested in state affairs and
not hear discussion of the subject.
1t is known, too, that many men
of prominence in all sections of the
state have written or talked with
Governor Brown along this line. He
listens to them or writes to them
courteous letters of thanks, but in no
way commits himself.
If he followed the bent of his own
inclination Governor Brown would
undoubtedly stay out of politics, for
he loevs the quiet walks of life, his
home, his family and the pursuits of
the natural student. Nothing de-
lights him more than his family cir
Gle and delving into books of all
kinds. There are few ripper scholars
or more profound students in Geor-
gia than this quiet, reserved eXecu-
tive, as his state papers prove be-
yond question His English is a
model of its kind--clear, free of I'M
usual words and with an almost eerie
valuation and use of them.
If Governor Brown enters the race
it will be by force of circumstances
and pressure from his large and al
ways growing following, rather than
by his own volition. o. course few
men would deliberately decline an
opportunity to step into a United
States senatorship, and there are
very peculiar reasons why, perhaps,
it would please Governor Brown,
since he would be following in the
footsteps of his distinguished father.
No man can predict with any accu-
racy what may take place two years
from now, but there is no mistaking
this fact, that a very large number
of Georgians are discussing Governor
Brown as a senatorial possibility,
most of whom would like to see him
in that high office.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
PAINT AND NOT.

Paint was never before so high as
last year and this; about $2.25 a
gallon Devoe and half-dollar less
for trash.
What is trash?
1t looks like paint and pretends to
be paint, but it isn't worth painting.
1t costs a painters day 's-work to put
on a gallon of paint, good or bad,
and a painters day 's-work is So or
81
Add that to the price of a gallon.
That is the cost of a gallon. Devoe
is IS or Sc a gallon; and trash half
dollar less.
But Devoe is all paint and more,
too; you add oil to it; gallon is 3
or quarts of perfect paint for the
painters pot. But trash is three
quarters. two-thirds or half paint;
you pay a half-dollar less for nobody
knows what-it-is.
10 gallons Devoe is enough for the
average job; it takes 1 ) to 20 gal
Ions of trash. And the wear same
way. Unfortunately they look alike
when first put on. DEVOE.
Shields Geise Lumber Co. sell it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
FEELING is GROWING BITTER
The Goo-GOOs Without Candidate
i'm the Fight for the MayOralty
of the CITY of Atlanta.

ATLANTA. Feeling in the may
or's race is growing more intensely
bitter every day The city is split
in many directions. The ministers
and the Men and Religion leaders
are at outs over the practical advis-
ability of the latter's efforts to force
Chambers into a declaration of how
he stands on backing up Chief Beav-
ers in the vice crusade. Chambers,
while soliciting the support of the
church people, has written q scathing
card attacking John ]. Eagan and
Marion Jackson of the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement as a coup
lie of ill-advised busy-bodies, and de-
claring that if he goes into office at
all he will go untrammeled by any
pledge except his oath of office.
Apparently the Men and Religion
Movement faces the possibility of
finding itself opposed to both candi-
dates, without any candidate in the
field whom it can support.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08

Why suffer the tortures of Indiges-
ton, Sour Stomach, Gas, Belching
or other stomach up-sets? There is
a certain quick relief and permanent
remedy for these disorders s
Digestit tablets will gre you relief
almost instantly. One dose makes
your stomach feel fine. 1t stops fer
mentation, prevents distress, digeSts
all the food and restores your tired,
WORKOUT stomach to a healthful con-
dition. Digestit is perfectly harm
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
A Certain Quick Relief for
Indigestion or Upset StOmaChS

less-even a child can take it with
out fear of bad after effects. Don't
wait until you have another attack
of indigestion, but get a package to-
day. Try it after eating, and just
see for yourself how it helps your
stomach. We are so confident that
Digestit is a perfect remedy for stom-
ach up-sets that we guarantee it to
please you in every way-get a pack
age and if you don't Ike it we will
give your money back.
DAWSON DRUG CO.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
Public Sale of Land

Will be sold before the court house
door, on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der, to the highest bidder, 100 acres
of land part of lot No. SD in the
Eleventh district and known as the
home place of the late L. l. Arnold;
also a pair of mules and a two-horse
wagon. Sold as the property of the
late L. I. Arnold by consent of the
heirs, and for the purpose of distri-
button. Terms cash. This October
5th, 1912. MRS. L. I. ARNOLD.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-08
For Sale.

A 6-horse farm, one mile from Sas-
ser, all under wire fence, for sale or
rent. Also my home in Sasser-6-
room house furnished with water,
8 u acres land, cooks house, all I'M
der wire, for sale or rent. See me
or write to me quick and get a bar
gain. W. J. BOWEN, Sasser, Ga.