Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-13
DAKOTA NEWS.

/. +. Baede, a farmer living nine
miles south of 0riska, died in his
wagon ofaPoplexy on his way from
the field to the house.
Christ church at Yankton is now
free OF debt, has one of the hahdsom-
est edifices in the west and Is on the
hunt for d rector.
The first load of new wheat was
received at Chruch's Ferry. 1t
graded No. / Northern. The price
paid for it was "A cents as against
80 cents this time last year:
Al small son of w. p. Stubbs fell
from d load of wheat near Gary, and
the wheels passed over his body. Two
ribs We're broken, and it is feared he
is injured internally.
The Yermillion Republican has the
report that one of Elk Points fair
damsels ate twenty-one ears of sweet
corn for supper recently and went to
c~amp-meeting in the evening.
The Press says it is estimated that
125 new buildings have been put up
In Sioux Falls this season, and that
the number will be increased to 800
byfreezing-up time.
Plain Talk says, speaking of the
university, that 1.-THE first thing YER
million knows there will be no room
for the accommodation of students
here and applicants will leave for
want of room."
Judge Mcconnell issued injunctions
against the saloon men of Pembina,
commanding them to appear before
! the court ut Grand Fords Oct. 2 and
show cause why the Injunction should
not be made permanent.
The demand for Sioux Falls jasper
is so great that the quarrymen are
away behind with their orders. Next
year, the Press says. 5000 men can
be worked instead of 1000 to 1900
as now
A farmer named Erick Swensen
had his team and buggy stolen.
Swensen lives seven miles north of
Glencoe, and came to attend the
Methodist Church. During services
they We're taken.
People living in the Hills and north
west of Andoyer have been fighting
fire. 1t was started by sparks from
passing locomotives .igniting the
wheat stubble. People had their
faces and hands burned quite severe
ly.
The first new wheat was received
in the Bismarck market Friday and
next day it came in freely. 1t grades
No. / hard and starts at &c cents.
This price and the average yield will
put the farmers on the Missouri
slope on theirfeet.
the Rapid City Republican pro-
pounds this query to a visiting Iowa
preacher: "Is it "A successful method
of converting sinners to tell them
that they are the scum of his own
state and that he is thankful he does
not have to live among them?"
The county commissioners of Ward
county voted to call an election for
the purpose of voting on the ques-
ton of removal of. the county seat
from Burlington to Minot. This
practically settles the question, as
Minot casts over half of the vote of
the entire country.
The Scotland Citizen says that two
years ago it would have been impos-
sible to find a car of fat hogs in Bon
Homme county, but the farmers
have begun to realize the fact that
what money there is to be made in
farming is by raisingeattle and hogs,
and within two years these industries
have multiplied several times.
Alexandria Herald, Farmers
are beginning to thrash, and wheat
is running about 20 bushels to the
acre. Flax promises a very large
yield. Some fields of corn are out
of the way of frost now, but the
majority will require good weather
until September 10. The crop right
through the country is the best and
largest ever raised. The rain did
very little damage.
Here is the sort of calaboose Sioux
Falls has, as the Press e e it: THE
sanitary condition of the city Gala
boose is simply awful. There is no
known way to remedy it except to
burn the building down. The place
isn't fit TO put the filthiest drunk in,
let alone locking up an occasional
man who has some sembIance of re-
spectability. 1t is a good place for
a man to contract a disease that will
stay with him all the days ofhis life"
The oldest citizen of Grand Forks,
Fargo, Bismarck, Aberdeen and 9th
! er cities in Dakota cannot remember
of a time when he sawratsin Dakota.
That delusion was forcibly dispelIed
by an army OF rodents making their
| appearance in the freight depot of
The Northern Pacific railway. How
! they got there, unless from the hold
Of some river steamer which OCCASION
ally unloads in that vicinity, is a
mystery. The agent and employees
Of the freight depot were too many
for the rats and they are now mum
bered with the slain.
Among the effects of awealthy New
Englander, now deceased, the Yank-
ton Press and Dakotaian reports,
was a telescope valued at SIS, 900.
The heirs to theestate arranged with
DIR. Ward, president of Yankton col
lege, that when the college was able
and willing to pay 81, 500 for the in
strument it would be sent to Yank-
ton. The faculty has succeeded in
raising 81, 200. The arrangement is
chat the other $500 may be paid at
the pleasure of the college, and the
telescope, which is in the possession
ofC. NJ. Brown, jamestown, n. Y, will
be shipped to this city.
A prairie fire originating from locomotive
sparks started northwe L oil Nina, Edmunds
county ON Wednesday evening, and, driven