Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-08
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Eureka is to have electric lights.

night.
Pierre police force have been
newly uniformed,
An electric clock service is to be
put in at Yankton.
George Duryea sold his quarter in
Turner county for $1,000.
The Brookings fire department will
play Aamold, the violinist.
The Pierre land Office received 50
sacks of mail one day last week.
The O'Conner Bros, of Miller, will
put a theatrical company on the
road.
The New Elgin mine has been
sold. The ore assays as high as $50
a ton.
Judge Fellows, who has been i'll
with acute pneumonia, is reported
better.
The big Harvey Peak Tin company
will begin running at full capacity
this week. q
The students at the Black Hills
college will take an excursion to the
Wind cave OIL Monday.
The Duluth, Pierre and Black Hills
surveyors are at work In Pierre try
ing TO find a river crossing.
Madison wants s $1,000 from the
artesian well contractors for failure
to complete their contract.
The Postal Telegraph company will
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the new Norfolk line.
Michael Semmler,s living seven
miles east of Armour, lost his barn
and 1000 bushels of oates by fire.
Thirty nine trains registered at the
Iroquois depot in the twenty-fonr
hours elapsing between Friday and
Saturday mornings.
+. j. Haynes, who has been taking
a series OF photographs through the
state for the Worlds Fair, has re-
turned TO st. Paul.
Samuel NJ. West wanted s25, 900
damages from the Black Hills and
Fit. Pierre railroad for the loss OF a
leg, but got nothing.
One day last week Highmore grain
buyers paid 81 cents, instead OF 81
cents, for 1000 bushels. 1t was a
mistake OF the wire.
About 1000 of the 5000 feet of
Rapid City's new water mains are
completed. The whole will be fin
ished within two weeks.
The drug stores at Arlington have
been refused licenses to sell liquor.
They had been unable to secure suffi-
Gent endorsement Of reputable
women.
The order in which the larger
cities Of South Dakota stand, as
indicated by their votes, is as follows:
Sioux Falls. Deadwood, Lead City,
Aberdeen, Yankton.
The agent at the Mellettc depot is
not on to the combination of the safe
and it has been shipped TO open by
experts. As a result tickets were
only on sale to contain local points.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Mitchell will
begin a series of lectures soon by
home talent, the proceeds to go
toward erecting a building. The
association has a fine lot upon which
to. build.
Russell s. Co., of Massilton, Ohio,
have given the Brookings Agricul-
tural college a traction engine Of
their own make. II will be used III
~instructing students who take the me-
chanical course how to handle a trac-
tion engine in a successful manner.
Fred w. Pettigrew, of Pierre, has
been appointed superintendent Of
the South Dakota exhibit of Indian
relics at the worlds fair. Mr.. Petit
grew is an enthusiast in the matter
of fossils Of all kinds and is widely
known as such. He therefore desires
to make as large and varied a display
as possible of Indian relics, both
ancient and modern, and therefore
requests that all parties having relics
procured in this state, or knowing |
where such relics may be found, to
loan them for the purpose indicated
or give him such information as will
enable him to procure them. 1t is
hoped particular interest will be
taken in this matter and thus further
the success ef the South Dakota
exhibit.
The state board of charities and
corrections has Just issued its
biennial report to the state legis-
lature. In treating of the insane
hospital at Yankton the board asks
for an appropriation OF S10,O00 for
the ensuing two years for general
expenses and an additional appropria-
tion of $1,000 for a laundry, which ir
actually necessary, and should have
been built years ago. The hospital
now contains PSI patients-about all
it a accommodate-and the
superintendent suggests the erection
of two cottages, one for conyalescents
and n for violent patients. The
board also recomends the establish
ment of a hospital for feeble-minded
children. The report shows that
during the past two years there has
been an average Of Ia male and Jl2
female patients at the hospital, 81 of
whom have entirely recovered their
reason.