Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-28
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.

I VIII. son Oh y. -. ftattfouti, - tdfHf- s
r. near Mitchell. was attacked BY q
vicious bull while doing chores His
iather started to his assistance, but
dropped dead of heart disease. The
hoy escaped from the bun and ranto
his father. The deceased came from
Iowa in 1880, was assessor several
wears and one OF the best known men
in this section.
More taxes by $4,000 have been
pail into the Harrison county treas
nry go lar this year than in any pre-
vious year of it's history.
Woonsocket at present is short on
preachers and has to depend on
neighboring towns for supplies of
spiritual food. The elergymen are
rusticating.
During q heavy thunderstorm at
Aberdeen, Clara, eldest daughter
of George Weed, while standing in
tbe open doorway, was struck bv
lightning and instantly killed.
A farmer living near Huron claims
to have 2-year-old heller which has
never had a calf and yet gives two
gallons of milk per day.
James Clark, a laborer, whose home
Is in Montreal, Canada, was drowned
while in swimming in the Red river
near Grand Forks. He had Just
made dollar bet that he could swim
across the stream and had about
succeeded when he suddenly sank
The people of Bismarck are disgust
ed with the law that precludes them
from participating in the coming
election for county superintendent.
Bismarck paws hall of the taxes and
has over half the children of school
age in the county.
An armistice has been arranged be-
tween the city marshal OF 1ankton
and the dogs, pending decision by
the city attorney relative to the con-
stitutionality of the ordinance de-
creeing the death of all untagged
dogs.
The prisoners in the jail at Water
town attempted an escape by cutting
the bars to window with saw
made from case knife. When dis
covered one bar was cut through and
another nearly through.
Among the features OF the eontem-
plated addition to the Aberdeen high
school will be an observatory which
will crown the structure at the
height of about so feet, in which will
be mounted a powerful telescope for
the use of the scholars and also
citizens in viewing the heavens or sur
rounding country, and it viii be so
arranged that on special occasions
observations may be made at night
as well as in the day.
A genuine caso.,f equine homesick-
ness is reported from Kimball Some
six weeks ago Louis Richards sold a
lot of his horses to j. o. York, and
among the number was black that
had been owned by him half a dozen
years. No sooner bad the horse
changed stables than he
began to grow sick. refused
Ill. utwhen allowed togofree scamp
cred back to his old stable apparent
" as well as ever. The horse is now
in the pasture and is gaining in flesh,
yet has not regailed all that helost.
Deputy Sheriff Mckinney of Minot
arrested one 0'Neill three miles west
of Churches Ferry. o'NeiIl had been
employed as collector by "a Minot firm
and disappeared with 800. Sheriff
German OF Towner county, while
hunting for a horse chief across fhs
line in Manitoba, found one stolen
team and the thief He induced the
thief to cross the line, and now has
him in custody at Canada
The following nominations OF
postmasters in Dakota were semitic
the senate: HI. Baldwin. Park River,
c. W. Morgan, Hillsboro;J. J Houtz,
Blunt. 1t is understood they were
recommended by Gov Church
A Sanborn county farmer is invent-
ing potato bug sprinkler, 70 berun
by horse power, and which viii dose
two rows of potatoes with Paris
green as fast as the horses can walk.
Aberdeen wheat buyers are now
offering to contract wheat OF the
growing crop at 60 cents per bushel.
The farmers of Mclean county
claim that they win show up this
fall with more wheat to the acre
than any county in the territory:
Another petition the county CON-
missioners, asking to have local OPP
ton submitted to a vote of the pep
pie, is being circulated in Nankton
county.
The Groton artesian well. up to
date, has cost the town about $12,-
600, and the Independent says it viii
now behave itself, as it promises to
do, it is worth all it has cost.
The citizens of Lead City have de-
clared war on the meek-eyed book
agents, especially on those who
solicit for one kind of book and then
send another fellow To deliyera dit
ferent book from the one ordered.
Appearances indicate that in the
future book agents will not find
their paths strewn with roses in that
city; on the contrary, the citizens
promise to disfigure the eountenance
OF the next book fiend who dares to
venture within their gates;
The business men and farmers OF
Milibank and vicinity held meeting
and decided to build an elevator to
buy and ship wheat of stockholders.
The price that has been paid for
wheat during two or three years past
has been lower than competing
points and this has compelled mer-
chants and farmers to take this ac-
ton Tor their own protection
The parties who have been selling
liquor in violation of law at Mitchell
were fined SO each, on a plea Of
guilty.
L. q. Johnson, general manager