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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-07
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-07

tendance, board, fuel, etc, amounting in
all to s95. Making the grand total Of bills
from AndoveS for IA days service to the
poor man who was the object Of their ex-
pensipe solicitude OF THREE HUN
nREbLN StXTy-FIyE DOLLARS
and the man died.
One ofthe chesges in this attempt at
Wholesale robbery is decidedly amusing.
Twelve dollars for bandages From this,
n would infer that it took THREE BoKTs
or MUSLIN to 5andage the poor sufferers
hands and feet for fou~rteerydfays.
The Ineadacious ard malignant charac-
ter of the Gazette's attack upon the
Board, for something Of which the facts
show-they we're profoundly ignorant, is
now clearly evident, and the reason why
Or. Harris bin WIS rot cut down equally
as plsin.
Just think ssor a minute. They got )
into the sick man FOR board, $50 for med
ieire, and $43 for care-aii within four
teen days. 1T behooyes tax payers over
there to keep q sharp look out and see
that no more men are permitted to ven
ture out from Andover in a storm. A few
such cases would, while being a bonanza
to Andoyer doctors and nurses, be red
hot for the tax payers, about whom the
w~all-eyed Gazette man is 50 terribly 30
l~icitous.
We have 10 objection to the Gazette
man laying bare his little shriveied soul
for the inspection Of the public, but we
do object to his measuring such gentle
men as compose our County Board in his
own half bushel. Selah
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-07

East, @~....5.5 80 4 II + ssest -.n
e. Sissetcn safly by sage, 6 q M. Arrives z :,
Natertawn stage. Mon.. We'd. and FRI 1 "a
arrives Tues, rhur. x SAT. 8 /, -
sSce hours rom "a M 20 : p m. sundays from
SIN oA N. E.R RuGGLEs. Postmaster,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-07
notice

Is hereby given that "a meeting Of the
farmers and other interested persons re-
siding in this county. will be held at
SJiife Lee,s 0.sttiitr, ON Saturday. Feb. Esd.
1854. for the purpose o. organixing a coun-
ty Agricultural Society. A delegation OF
ii or more from each school township
in Day county, Is earnestly desired.
MANY CITIzeEs.
Webster, Dskata, Feb. 4, 1884.
MAE
This is All importent move, and one in
which every citizen of the county is in
terested. Nothing is SO beneficial testhe
farming interests Of a county as an agri-
cultural society. properly managed. 1t
promotes a generous rivalry among far
mers in the production OF grain and stock,
brings them together for the interchange
Of experiences, and in "a thousand dihef-
ent ways advance and promote the high
est and bes. interests Of farmers. We
hope 70 see a general turn ont-a live
meeting and an organization that will set
things to moving in a way that willinsure
us q rousing fair next fall. Don't fail to
cofne and aid in tlse formation of this inn
portant auxillery ia our general prosperity
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
A Monkey Trap.

An old, hard cocoanut is taken, and
very small hole made in the shell.
Furnished with this and a pocketful Of
boiled rice, the sportsman salies into
the forest, and stops beneath tree
tenanted by monkeys. Within full sight
of these inquisitive spectators, he
first eats little rice, and puts 4 guam
tity into the cOcoanut, with all ostenta-
ton possible. The nut is then laid upon
the ground, and the hunter retires to
convenient ambush. The reader may
be sure that no sooner is the man out Of
their sight than the monkeys race he'll
ter-skelter for the cocoanut. The first
arrival peeps into it. and seeing the
plentiful store of rice inside, saueeses
his hand in through the tiny hole and
clutches handful. Now, SO paramount
is greed over every other feeling con-
nected with monkey nature. tina: moth
ing will induce the creature to relinquish
his hold. With his hand thus clasped,
he cannot possibly extract it; bnt the
thought that if he let's go, one of his
brethren will obtain the feast, is over
powering. The sportsman sooi, appears
upon the scene. The unencumbered
monkeys fly in all directions; but the
unfortunate brute who still Will not let
the rice 90, is thereby handicapped be-
yond hope with cocoanut as large as
hlmself-a state of affairs quite fatal to
rapid locomotion, either terrestrial or
arboreal.. The sequel is that he falls an
easy capture to the hunter, a victim to
his own greed. Even when caught, he
reads in the actions of his captor i; de-
sign to rob him of his rice; and he
clutches it all the harder, and the very
first thing he does when the nut is
cracked and the hand released is to
cram the contents into his mouth.
Thoughts of escape come alterward.-
[London Field.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Artificial Sea Air.
[Scientific Americana

Many, indeed, are the luxuries that
the maglcian's wand of invention now
brings into the midst of our homes. As
an instance, to produce sea atmos-
phere for the sick room, foreign con-
temporary suggests the use of solution
Of peroxide of hydrogen (lO volumes
strength) containing per cent. of ozonics
ether, iodine to saturation, and 2-50 per
cent of sea salt. The solution placed III
Il steam or hand spray diffuser can be
distributed in the finest spray in the
sick room at the rate of 2 fluid ounces
in Il quarter of an hour. 1t commune
Gates pleasant sea oder, and is prob
ably the best purifier of the air of the
sick room ever used. 1t is a powerful
disinfectant, the same author writes,
as well as deodrizer, acting briskly on
ozonized test solutions and papers. 1t
might be well to test the subject in some'
ward of one Of our hospitals.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
New Feature in British Sales

[Breeder's Gazette
Mr.. G. F. Muntz, a Scotch stockgrow
er. introduced new feature at a recent
public sale, in the form of giving the
weight of the different animals offered
| This WAS not confined to store and fat
tening animals, of which quite num-
Der were sold, but was also extended to
thoroughbred breeding stock. Whether
| this is any improvement over the old
methods in the case Of breeding stock
remains to be seen. We are inclined to
think it is, especially in enabling the
public not in attendance at the sale to
estimate some of the elements entering
into the prices paid. Thus, when told
that the animals were in only moderate
condition, the further information as to
their weights would be some Indication
as to their quality-whether they were
good, growthy beasts, Or understood al d
unpromisins specimens. The English
press, commenting upon it, seems to
think it matter of great importance,
as likely to prove the entering wedge
toward affecting the sales of live aalmals
by weight. 1t seems amazing that in a
country of such eminently practical
ideas as the English this practice should
not have been introduced long ago; but
it seems that the old fashioned methods
still prevail. The quotations of the
great markets lack unlformity-tlato of
London, for instance, is so much per
eight pounds, instead of SO much per
single or hundred pounds; and then
these quotations are subj oct to the
"slnking of the offal," and we have no
knowledge OF just how this is arrived at.
And no matter by what rule ii is fixed,
it serves to render the quotations use
less, SO far as enabling the farmer to
estimate what he may expect for ami
mais when he sends them forward.
Sales are generally made on the farm at
SO much per head, and when an offer is
made the farmer has but slight means of
estimating whether he is receiving the
top of the market or the bottom. The
dealers and buyers, and middlemen
generally, who are better judges than
farmers of the weights of animals and
of the deductions of offals, oppose any
change by which the old sty lie of "guess-
ing' shall give way to the sale of fat
and store cattle at so much per pound
for animals of such and such average
weights. They understand that if this
change is made the farmer who reads
the paper will be as well informed as
they are of what their animals are
worth. Our English contemporaries
ca II secure the British farmer no greater
boon than the sale and quotation of live
animals by weight whether fat or in
store condition.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Anarchy in Africa.
Tfrom the Popular Scince.1

foOAAASS'J
We learn from African travellers of the
existence by custom, in some of the
West African States, of a general an
archy and tolerated hostility during the
interregnum between the death of king
and the entlronement of his successor.
When the King of Ashantee dies, his
women destroy his treasures, and gem
eral unrestricted license, robbery and
murd,r prevail in the country; and a
similar season of disorder ensues on the
death of the chief of Whydlh, Benil.
and other states. Waltz remarks in his
"Antropology of Savages,' concerning
the duration and extent of this license !:
Usage has limited the anarchy to a
definite and short time, and it is admit
ted by all that the disorder in no way
works a real dissolution Of all social
bonds, but is only to be regarded as a
sudden relaxation of them which, not
withstanding that all sorts of outrages
are let loose, it is always controlled by
custom, and-induce no material damage
to society,"" In Ashantee, the season
of unrestraint may last for Eve days; in
other states it may continue for con-
siderabIy longer time, as In Loango,
where it prevails for several months.
In Dahomey the death of the king is
not made known for eighteen months,
while the heir, assisted by the two
highest officers, reigns in his name dur
ing the whole period. The eighteen
months seem to mark the time during
which legal anarchy formerly pre-
vailed, though it may now have been
done away with.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Indian m ethod Of Hunting Ante
lOpe.

The Mandan Pioneer relates curious
occurrence. 1t says that antelope are
more numerous this fall than ever be-
fore known along the Missouri division
of the Northern Pacific. Herds of from
80 to $50 are seen daily along the track
in the Curlew Valley and in the vicinity
of other points west from there. On
Monday Captain Wrenshall, Superin-
tendent Green and Roadmaster Ray, in
the special car Crow Wing. attached to
freight train No. Is, witnessed a novel
and successful mode of hunting ante
lope. AS the train pulled into South
Heart, four antelope, surrounded and
coralled by bears in small valley near
the track, were discovered. The en-
gineers slowed up the train a little and
Captain Wrenshall got out his Winches-
ter and took shot at the bears. The
motion of the train marred his aim and
the bullet missed it's mark. And luckily
SO, for that instant up rose the supposed
bear, and shaking off a blanket reveal
ed an Indian. The other bears showed
up In like manner. The Indians, by
getting upon all fours and fixing up
their brown blankets intoa a resemblance
of ears, nose, tail ana legs, made them
selves close counterfeit of cinnamon
bears, which struck panic into the
placed them in such position that they
were about to fall an easy prey to their
real assailants-the Indians. Having
discovered his mistake Captain Wren
shall began shooting at the antelope and
killed several.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
The Largest Dredger.

The largest dredging machine in the
world has been finished at Portreto
Point, and will be used on the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin swamp lands.
She has been named Thor, and model
ed after the best dredges now in use by
De Lesseps on the Isthmus Canal. cut
ting out channel and building levee
at the same time. The Thor is 100 feet
long and 81 feet wide, and has 81 iron
buckets, with a capacity of u cubic
yards each, which can be filed and
emptied fourteen times per minute. All
the machinery was manufactured in Sl n
Francisco, and the timber is Oregon
pine.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Grumb!fn" at the Queen.

English Cor New Orleans Times -Democrat.l
It has been taken in i'll part by every
body that the queen has made her
mourning for Prince Albert extend over
a period unexampled even in China, and
that by mingling little with the people,
or rarely showing herself, by discourging
fetes and festivities, and by living SO
much by herself and for herself and
family, she has endeavored to make all
the world mourn with her world with
out end" 1t is generally felt that this
endless mourning really means endless
parsimony, and that the liberal supply
voted to the crown was meant by tho
givcrs to tc spent in display, hospitality
and the encouragement OF industry. IL
was very dull season, this last, in Lon
don, and very little money was spent;
even The Court Journal or Morning Post
Il forget which-went so far as to do
clare in tie most pointed manner that
her majesty had it all in her power, BY
releasing little the hard-set lines Of
cant etiquette as regarded mourning, to
make business flourish and do incalculs-
BILE good. The hint was not taken, more's
the pity.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
A Stream of Silver.
Virginia Chronicle.

Silver mines never die. From the
days of Cortez, in 1921. down to the be-
ginning Of this century, and even t6 the
present time, except when interrupted
by revolution, the Mexican silver mines
have poured forth an unceasing stream
of silver, such as the world has never
seen. 1t is estimated that the value OF.
the silver coin and bullion of the coun-
try since the conquest is over S,OOO,0OO,-
600, and it is we'll known that some OF.
the mines have been profitably worked
almost without interruption from that:
time to this, and that one of them at
least is still running out silver at the
rate of S5.OOo,000 per year, California
has yielded about 100000, 900 of gold
and silver. Nevada has turned out
something like $500, 900, ,0oO-possibly
more.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Bill Nye on the Dugout,

There's no use talking, roughing it in
pleasant weather with good company,
and as little civilization as possible is
pleasant and healthful. Shooting or
fishing all day in the mountains, with
plenty of blankets, a bonfire and a briar
pipe at night, after Il sage chicken, or
trout, or elk supper. is not really rough
ing it after all, but a dugout is GER
tainly the abomination of desoIation.
| can stand grown persons dose Of
poverty, | believe, and never sQueal;
out l will never sleep in dugout until
this mortal shall have put on immortal
ity. I've slept in a log cabin with no
roof over it whatever. in logging camps
where l could count the principal stars
in the armament while the thermom
eter was below forty degrees, and have
rolled myself up in a pair of govern
ment blankets and the zodiac at height
OF nine thousand feet above the high
water mark, with the Uriah Heep coy
ote Sinking in the distance, and singing
anon that weird style of solo that makes
your heart sink, but never slept in Il
dugout. That is 10y that | never have
experienced. The dobe is not very
bad house, whether it be the original
Mexican dobe of sun-dried brick, or the
corruption thereof, which is found fur
ther north, and which is sod. These
houses are built Of the tough, square
block cut from CLASSY fiat, and
some of them are good looking and COM
Portable, but the dugout is hole in the
ground with dirt roof over it in which
you live like prairie dog and get good
fresh air on ground hog day if the Indi-
ans will let YOU.
The rustic dugout am glad to see is
not holding its place in our modern
architecture. and looks as though it
might some day disappear entirely. 1t
had its good points and it had it's disad
vantages. In the days when valley tan
roamed up and down the land seeking
whom it might devour the dugout was a
boon to many, for the householder
could come home at any hour Of the
night and fall into his house. But here
the way was opened for serious draw
back. The architecture of the house
allowed the vagrant mule and the high
spirited Texas steer to fall into the house
also, and no one knew, when he sat
down to dine, whether it would be a
stray pack jack or an absent-minded
grizzly that would fall through the roof
into the pork gravy or gil the slumgul-
lion with hair and gravel. Others may
like excitement at meals, but do not.
1t certainly does not aid digestion, and
the man WHO has once picked a grizzly
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Where are the Four-Year- -OldsP

Perhaps the most common complaint
! to be heard among cattle men is this
IL can't account for the shortage in my
four-ycar old steers. l branded 1000
calves on my range that should be four
year olds, and all that can find is :
100" Similar remarks are to be heard
on every hand. and if We were to take
these expressions as our guide, we
would conclude that the mortality in
the herds of the country was very great.
But when we note the calf brand from
year to year in a given herd, we dis
cover that the increase is normal. and
the deatl, rate necessarily light. Then
why do we fail to find the big four-year
old steers? Simply because they are
not there They are not dead-they
are in the herd, but they are three year
olds instead of fours. You 90 out on
your calf roundup AID brand as you
find them; up, say, until August. Then
in September and in October you make
your "fall branding" All these 90 on
the list as spring calves, and are counted
on your tally sheet to January lst. In
April following they are counted year
lings, but they are not yearllngs-they
are big calves. So it goes from year to
year, until they are supposed to he four
year olds-about half of them are count
ed into the class a year too soon. You
get them the next year, of course, but
as there is similar shortage for that
year, you are always behind in your es-
innate Of the number. of ripe steers to
be found on the range.
The same process of reasoning holds
good in reference to the calf crop. The
heifers are about one half of them
counted as tlreeyear olds when they
are really but twos. Hence you calcu-
late on too large per cent. of them
having calves.
When you regulate the time Of allow
ing the bulls 10 run on the range, and
the consequent time of calf dropping,
then you can begin to estimate with
some degree of certainty the number OF
calves to come and the number of beef
steers to be shipped each season. Mean
time bear in mind the fact that some Of
your fours are only threes, and you will
not be disappointed in the shipping
season.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
The Way He Worked A Mine.

"HOw do we work mlne" exclaimed
the Red Mountaineer, "well you unso-
phisticatcd, undeveloped outcropping
from the land of the rising sun, TIL pro-
ceed to enlighten your be-clouded col
ege-bred understanding"
The college-bred young oman from the
land of the rising sun, sat down on q
| three-hundred-dollar ton chunk
of ore and turned his undivided atten-
ton to listening to learned discourse
on mineralogy.
"We first prospect around until we fin !
tunnel on the jugular vein, and big
pile of ore on the dump; then if the
other fellows isn't lookin', We jump the
claim. We proceed to sink our shaft
on the float, gather all the gangue and
sack 1t, being careful to preserve techni-
cal phrases in meteorological science in
so doing. Then we prospect the stock
holders with an assessment, and if they
don't come down, put in blast At this
point we call the roll, grab a No. 4, war
ranted not to rip, tear. rayel cut or run
down at the heel, ragical, tragical. IRA
sive smelter, and run up our stack. II
the other fellow holds the best hand the
stack will diminish, and we consequent
" then drift for a pay-streak. If We
don't get through drifting by fall it's the
first thing We go at in the spring. We
now concentrate all our efforts, and If
the silver panneu out don't have the
eagle stamped OH it, we sample the out
groupings in every saloon within 4 radi-
us of ten miles, and tlke fresh chew Of
tobacco. Then we go to work in earnest,
salt the dump, a Ia pampadour, and 90
East and sell all the stock we can. We
then renew our gruo stake, pack it into
the cabin and wait for spring to open
and the snow to 60 off. During this pc
riod we amuse ourselves playing seven
up for the drinks. We then import
mining and civil engineer, run a few
levels, cross-cut for another assessment,
get it, cave in the tunnel and abandon
the property. linen, anu IHe hcO
Mountaineer paused a moment to catch
his breath, but the movement was fatal
to his learned discourse, for the college,
bred-youngman, from the land of tho
rising sun, staggered slowly to his feet,
looked wildly towards the summit ofRed
Mountain and disappeare behind the
giant out-croppings OF the Macawber
lead.-[ Ten Mile, in Montana Mining
and Stock Journal.
The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-11-08
Wolves VS.. Hard Winters.
[Cor. Sun River SUM-

Cor. Sun River Sum-.
Stockmen of this region are frequently
| heard to exclaim against the severeness
of the storms in winter, which they can
IN no way prevent; bu. you seldom, il
ever, hear them say any Thing about the
infamous wolf, which require about
thirty-fve beeves each for their yearly
subsistence. and which they can in a
great measure prevent. Wolves
throughout this nothern country are
thicker now than they have been for the
past ten years, ami yet there is no at
tempt made by stock owners for their
determination. The amount of calves
killed every year by these barbarous
varmints is from 6 to 10 per cent. and
perhaps more in some places, yet there
is but little said about it. Stockmcn in
talking among themselves sometimes
mention the fact of the destructiveness
of the wolves, but let it slip past as Il
general topic OF the day and almost en-
tirely unnoticed. They don't seem to
realize the fact that it would be Of as
much interest to them as it would be to
any one to have something done TO pre-
vent having their peaceful herds invad-
ed necessarily, when it could be pre-
vented to great extent with but very
little trouble.
How easy it would be for the stock
associations to appoint wolf commission
ers from each section of the county,
authorizing them to pay small bounty
say twenty-five or fifty cents over and
above the territorial bounty-and furn-
ish all the poison that is naeded. 1t
would induce men who are not working
during the winter to earn few dollars
in this way, and ut the same time it
would be beneftting the stock owners
ten times more every year than the ac
tual cost would amount to. Some might
find objections to this by saying that all
the northern pelts would be shipped in
here for the bounty; but that could be
easily detected and prevented by the
noIpayment of all that they knew to be
north ern hides. People might think
this difficult task, but it is not so much
so as it appears to be. Even though
they did paw for one hide occasionally
that was killed outside the territory,
the parties that perpetrated the fraud
would have to make it generally known
that tLey killed the greater portion of
them inside the terri tory in order to in
sure payment on any. Every one that
is killed in a heavily stocked country is
at least $lG0 to the stockmen in general.
The humble interceder has seen bands
of wolves between Sun River and the
Maria numbering from twenty to for
ty, and quite frequently bands of five
and ten. Suffice it to say that each wolf
could tell where many missing COW
was, that long ago had been laid to the
hard winters.
Now, in conclusion, we will venture
to say that if the stockmen would exer-
else little more skill in killing wolves
and coyotes, the loss which is now sup
posed to be caused by hard winters will
be much less and the profits in the stock
business much greater.