Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-09-06
DAKOTA NEWS.


Salem offers 81 900 cash, Loon
BUSHES of wheat, and a site, ior q
grist mill.
Macarthur & Estes, of Clear Lake,
sold to Wilson & Co. 1000 steers,
for which they received $G5,O0O.
In the United States court atDcad-
wood, VIM. webber pleaded guilty 70
opening and stealing the contents %
u registered package and gov e"o
years in the penitentiary.
WIN Lawrence, who disregarded
one of Judge Carland's liquor inlunc-
tions. was sentenced at Sioux Fans
topay n fine of 5000. or thirty days
in the county jail. He went TO jan.
Fire at Groter destroyed Z. y.
Johnson,s stock farm, together with
a jack, two buggies and a qnanan,y
| of small grain. The loss is Slsoou'
with $500 insurance on the barn.
The pig-taIled heather OF sioux
| Falls, have gone into court. NJ
RING claims that he bought out Lee
Jos laundry, and he mas obtained
an order restraining 10 from deaiinS
in soilcd linen.
The present hot, dry weather -
fast destroying the wheat that was
slightly hurt by frost, and there VIII
he but very little wheat cut in Grlggs
county. The damage will be from
70 to 90 per cent.
Dog prisoners are getting N their
work at Lennox. The Independent,
of that place, says they should DC,
ranked with animals on account =,
their small, marrow and Immoral
condition.
The house of Charles Crosskeii, a
farmer living nine miles southwest oil
EcheIson, was burned. The fire vas
caused by children playing with
matches. One child was burned 10 d
crisp.
Division Supt, Hadley, OF the MIL
waukee road, speaking of the long
expected depot for Aberdeen, SAID; l
expect to receive working plans with
in ten days. Work upon the build.
ing, which will be "a fine one, VIII IN
ali probability, begin next month.
Parties from Gloversville, N. T.,
have purchased the corner opposite
the Bank of Groton, at Groton, and
will soon begin the erectionof a $l2,-
600 brick hotel, to be furnished IN
modern style and finished by Decenl-
Der i.
James L. Conley, editor of the Ca-
your Democrat, has accepted a po-
sition as editor of a republican paper
Mt Cannon Falls, Mimi. This move
will leave Cavour without a newspa-
per, and the merchants of that place
offer good inducements to some en-
terprising editor to occupy the held.
The latest industry started in Can
ton is the man buying old rubbers.
Wood sheds, back yards and some
times closets have been searched by
ambitious boys who are working for
revenue only. Many u fond and in
dulgent parent has missed a new pair
of rubbers and wrenched the story
from his heir with a trunk strap that
they went to the rubber a
The president of the street railway
at Huron, has asked n writ of injunc-
ton to prevent the Manitoba cross
ing his track. As the track is very
seldom used the move won't benefit
the street car company. The city
guaranteed thecompany the right of
way through the town, and il will
have to pay any damages that might
be adjudged.
Prof. H.M. <iip1nsnuperinhanaens
of the public school system OF Plank
inton, Is organizing a company for
the purpose of purchasing and fur.
nishing oxen to the settlers on the
reservation next spring. The plan is
to. secure options on all the oxen in
Aurora ard adjoiningcounties forsix
months, and then contract them to
the settlers rs they come on the e
ervation. The professor is quite en-
thusiastic over the outlook.
The Yankton county board of eom-
missioncrs spenta wholeday canvass
ing the petitionasking that theques-
ton of local option be submitted to
a vote ofthe people, and the petition,
having been found to contain the re-
quisite number of Thames, the prayer
of the petitioners wasgranted andan
election ordered held Nov. g, whichis
the date of the next general election.
The commissioners canvassel the
matter carefully and asked legal adj
vice from Judge Trip before deciding.
The fight on local option will be red
hot. A prohibition club will be or
ganizcd for work, while brewers and
liquor dealers r arranging to make
awarm contest.