Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-10-09
DlKoTA NEWS NOTES.

Wheat UOU busHeiS, oabS. ~VN'"0
bushels; fax, 800, 900 bushelsi corn,
$4,000 bushels.
II has been supposed that tho wood
cock never came SO far north as north
Dakota, but one vas shot neer La
Moure recently.
A vein OF coal ten inches in thickness
I has been found at Park river, near Dew
IFS Lake, at a depth of twenty feet.
The report from New York that Sit
ting Bull took a bath in that city is moi
credited in Dakota 1t is thought there
Is an impostor in the case.
While threshing for N. l.. Squire in
the northern part of Sargent county, a
spark from the engine ignited the straw.
The separator was destroyed with 200
bushels OF wheat and new wagon.
Brown county claims lightweight
school houses, forty-eight of them built
the past year. which speaks well foI
that fine county.
G. X. Howard Of Sioux Falls killed
a cinnamon bear over twelve feet long,
aud weighing seven or eight hundred
pounds.
Wesley McLoud, at n time a police
man at Sioux Falls, shot himself dead al
Alpena.
The general store of p. J. Landin,
Flandreau, was closed by the sheriff.
Landin was rated as worth about
: $4,000.
An Indian visited Scranton, in whose
blanket half a bushel or 70 Of fine
anthracite coal was found. He came
from the MORGAN valley, and reported
that members of the government geo.
logical party had taken it ont there.
T. NJ. Smith, of yermillion is build.
ing a monster barn, s2x110 feet and 8;
feet high.
j. M. Mcleod shot a gray eagle with
in the city limits Of Carrolton.
w Pettigrew, q plasterer vas arrest
ed and lodged in Jail at Bismsrk fol
committing or attempting to commit, {
rape upon an eight-year-old colorec
girl, purportIng to be the child o
Christ Garyey, colored.
Several artesian wells have recent,
been bored neal the Red river and pure
soft water found in abundance at from
200 10 300 feet. Some of them have
moderate flow rising several feet aboy,
the surface.
The Grandin, one of the bonanzas OF
The Red river, has threshed 100, O0t
bushels Of wheat, with an average o
about nineteen bushels. IL is not prob
able that any of the big farms viii av
erage higher.
Devils Lake city will issue s., 00(
bonds. with which to establish a FIRE de
partment.
Mortality among children OF Madison
Lake county, Is unusually great.
Hanson county farmers state that th
cause of the difference in the growth
OF wheat tins year-some fields g1v1nI
an abundant yield while adjoining one
will not give IN average yields ow
ing to the different depth Of plowine
We useP plo"nB bringing iortn
n q Pb;I;ns' hay bad : nrel;naar
haar;no ana ,,as hall - ~ nrand =
~ - bonJa ~ sIoo -
The seventh Legislative district Re
publican convention nominated A. B
Smedley of Grant county, and d. Y
Kennedy Of Brown county, for men
bers of the council, and N. 7. De Woor
y OF Ipswich, Z. Huntington, Fran
q Eidriage OF nlg osohe, ana u. Y
.ssamhIy
Deadwood times: Five monste
bricks. the result of two weeks run b
the Homestake. Gold Star. HIGHLAND
Daadwood.T arra ana Da Smo3 lii
salaed ~ TIE aggregate ss Ss',VJV, wer
prougns Town ana win mucn oths
The valuation OF Beadle county Is 81.
645, 476, with a tax Of $75,Sf0.
~ r;,,h Ma ,.; -.
Vii III INhhNIA tGFIafltlEA mis-
.rict convention me, AZ Egan and nom
mated the f-ollowing ticket, Memba,
of.the council, W. b. Cameron of LAX
county and H. II. Natwick Of Brookine
rpuhty msmDers q y mousse, Jon
no' anu oco nice, u M0oa
no, =, pou'nWich ano " '
parnes' oi hinsspury county
As Mayor Gale Of Canton was abor
entering his house. some unknown No,
son stepped behind him with an iro
rod aud felled him to the sid ewall
Three blows on his head and q cash o
his chin were received. That the mur
ueroaS asssu's was mo. LOT .he purpos
money and personal eaects wara ~
disturbed.
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Napoieon uashe was tried IN a dis
trlct e0arlat Fargo and found guilty {
forcibiy entering the ~sleepinc anar,
mants ~ Mrs PaLor a. caaaeI +.