Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
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board between see'i-tiule as,sIesr,,<' /
BY filing inforinations agaiilst / 4
saloon men of Sioux Falls X
date they bavf, lodged cosanlr:
against three r,taiI dealers. AMI m
the papers ready to serve on mss..
others.
Capt. John 4. Dutch, y...
county member of the last -,
ture, died while visiting in Il!ino;.s'
In warmly contested election I,
three directors for the Canton ~
school districts, Judge Carter n 4
Hichborn and j W. Hewitt wers i,
successful candidates. This
rants a change in prineipaIshin !.
the public schools. The ladje, ~.
ed out en- masse and east their so..,
There will be no eneampmen.
the national guard of Dakota n;
wear. Funds available for thu e.
pose are wanting, and the terrific,
militia must waste its energy NM
local drills and Indian scares'
A colony of Iceianders has loea,.5
near Pembina. While they am 81
educated, they are said to have {.
push or energy, andto know nctb;r'
about farming. On the who'll ~
are better scholars than farmers
A man at Mitchell has on exbib
ton an invention which is bonsu,. !
for stock men. 1t is an automat;.
waterer and is so constructed tb..
the animal by the act OF drink;ss
causes the water to flow into tls 9
trough and WREN it ceases to dr;pt
the water is at once shut OF.
1t seems to be rather danyproa.
business to be a barber in Sioex! :
Fails. Three havedied tragicdeath.
Sam BrysOn committed suicide r.
taking Rough on Rats. George M
Gle died in a manner that leadstotk.
belief that he was murdered. AM
benjamin +. Smith died Of heart dis
ease. Queen city BARRIERS don't rapI
very high with life insurance agents
Some of the taxpayers ofDry Run
township, Hughes couEty, are kicking.
on the projected artesiaD well in thai
township on the grounds that tn
benefits arising .therefrom will in 10
wise balance the expense.
The auditor of Barnes County has
thus farin the season takenin S0.Ooe
gopher tails at 3 cents each-S2. Iesa
A bonanza for the kids.
A man named p. S. Rice, after ser.
eral unsuccessful attemptsto buyout
various enterprises in Yankten. d.
parted leaving the hotel man in the
hole for so in cash and a $40 board
bill. The hotel man has sent pressing
invitations all over the country Nv
telegraph to neutrality-suspicious. come
back.
4 heavy, quiet rainfall has eontin.
ued throughout the James and Ms
| souri, valleys in Central Dakota. The
amount of rainfall Is unprecedentad
in the memory of the oldest residents
Large crops are now thought to Be
assured throughout the region.
Cass is the largest wheat countyjn
Dakota and has most of the bonanza
farms, but Mr.. Fenton, one Of the
leading farmers, in the following ar
dicates that other productions ar
being taken up considerably. He
saws: the wheat acreage is about 1ss
per cent less than usual. Oats and
barley increased Is per cent. Cora
increased at least $50 per cent fl.
tatoes increased 400 per cent There
has been a large amount az miIlet
seeded for hay this spring. Hay has
been and is now very scarce; worth
so per ton. Oats are scarce. lam
selling oats at 40 cents per hushel at
my granary to my farmer neighbors
Grain of all kinds is looking fairly
well.
Quite an industry mas recently
sprung up from the demand OF Iowa
and Nebraska parties for Blak Hills
spruce trees. One man claimshe has
shipped nearly 5000 xithin the last
few months and has not yet filed al
orders.
The school officials of McCook
county viii refuse to pay for the
mathematical maps that they were
induced to order, claiming that tie
orders were secured through fraud.
In Jamestown a subscription has
been started to purchase for tine city
a double basin zinc fountain, to b
six feet high and surmounted by the
figure of child holding the nozzle
from which the spray is to bethrown.
The cost of the same viii be about
$40, and it will be presented to the
city as a gift.
Father Conaty, of st Miehael's
church, Grand Forks, was made the
recipient of a handsome gold watch,
gold headedca cane and a dictionary, BY
members of his congregation. The
presentation was made by I. W. Ne
vile and responded to by the reys.
end gentleman.
Deadwood is somewhat scandallzes
over the treatment of two or thrss
incurable insane women. The codA
ty has no facilities for caring sol
these women, and they were turned
over to a Mrs. Bernard to look after
One died recently. and the oeeurrene'
brought public attention to the man
ner in which these unfortunates ar
being treated. The county poor iarii
win soon be ready, it is said, and tn
incurable insane will then be nor
| properly hanuied.
The Dakota Baptist Sundayschcc
convention was held at jamestown
About thirty delegates attended
Election of officers for the elisuin'
| year resulted: President, Rev. 6eorg
Kline, Bismarck; first vice presiden'
f. A. Houston, Jamestown; seem
vice president, Rev. ]. H. Davies, u
bon; secretary and treasurer. Rev. v
III. Travis, Page.
Beef slough is turning out fully ten rniiha
feet of logs day, and the rafting Won
never worked better.
The fpur-year-old adopted son OF A
| Beach Of East Rochester, Mimi, died receau
| from tasting package ef stryehnine ~
had fallen from high shelf within his Tas
Burglars entered the store Of John Beda,