Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-12-15
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

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More than 200 cars of stock are said
I to have been shipped from Blunt.
Lake Preston wants a company
formed to build an opera house.
An Inspector OF weights, freights
and billing has been placed at Sioux
Falls.
1t is said that the pension pay
ments TO Minnehaha soldiers amount
to 81, 500 a year.
Bishop Marty has approved the
location and site of the new Catholic
church in Chamberlain.
Trule Madsen, of Pierre, sold some
of ais cattle ON his last shipment for
81 80. a good price.
1,wenty-eight acres of wheat on an
irrigated farm near Huron yielded
thirty-two bushels to the acre.
l.. ID. Wait and II. Il. Dana have
purchased the Howard Democrat and
will hereafter conduct the same.
The Spearhsh Bulletin is just now
engaged in a very commendalde effort
to induce citizens TO take great
precautions against fire.
The Black Hills stock growers met
Monday at Rapid City, ahd employed
detectives to ferret out some crooked
work alleged to be going on.
The state fair board viii meet at
Huron January 10 to locate the fair
for 1893. SO far there is no pronounce
ed candidate for the location.
Miss Sybil, daughter of j. r.
Hanson, of Mount Vernon, will
represent the Friends Society, on
Douglas Island, Alaska, for three
years.
At the late meeting of the State
EQUAL Suffrage association Mrs.
Adams of Webster and Mrs. Cranmer
of Aberdeen were selected delegates
to the woman's congress in Chicago
next May.
Black Hills papers are making "a
vigorous and apparently justifiaole
protest against the express rates
charged owe the ElkhOTn road. The
price per pound from Lincoln, Neb.,
to Hot Springs is 10 centS.
The school children of Minnehaha
county recently engaged in a orc
contest the point OF which was TO
construct as many words as possible
ont of ssSioux Falls" Blanche Bing-
ham, of Valley Springs won with %
words. The. next contest will be on
''South Dakota"
Herbert Hale author OF the comedy,
''The Idea" which was presenter IN
Chicago for the first time a month ago,
| has applied at Yankton for a divorce
from his wife Daisy Il. Winslow on
the grounus of desertion. She denies
the charges and will fight the case.
The Sioux Falls &c If mute school
has secured the services OF Il nurse
She began her work this week. Here,
after the little boys VIII be locked
after by the nurse and the supervisor
will be relieved of much work IN TINS
direction and can give more attention
to outside work.
The commissioners who for some
time have been at work securing
| signatures of Indians TO petition foi
opening the Yankton reservation,
report they have secured the requiS'
lite number Of m by this means
600. 600 acres of the most fertile land
in the state will be thrown open to
IOIltSUcdutiS. |
Mai. 10 Barnes formerly OF Aber-
deem, who is now deputy c~ollectoro OF
customs where the national boundary
crosses the Kootenai river in ldaho,
has been making a record for himself
by detecting and capturing a gang OF
opium smuggiers, one OF whom was q
woman who had fifty pounds or the
Illicit stuff hid between u natures
SEES OF her-bunk in the steamer. But
L1ruund il and captured both the
goods and the woman.
A Japanese Tea" is Il late novelty
introduced in Sioux Falls. The ladies
were robed in garments of japanese
styles and eelors. After a short time
spent socially, the guests were asked
to be seated upon the floor, where
they were served with refreshments.
There were three courses. The first
being rice: this dish vas given to
each guest along with a pair OF deco
rated chop-sticks, with which the
rice was conveyed from the plate to
the mouth, affording a large amount
of trouble for some and amusement
for others. The other courses were
cakes and candies respectively. After
lunch games of various kinds were
INDUCED in, furnishing employment
for all.
John Colombo, an interesting char
acter of Chamberlain, is dead. He
was the advance guard of the pioneer
who preceded that great body of set
tiers who have since transformed the
wild, u~ninhabited prairies Of Iowa
and Dakota into populous and pros
porous farming communities. Fifty
seven years ago, when a lad of nine
teen years, nc s1shed his way up the
Missouri river, far beyund th5r
skirts of civilization, and settled or
the island in the Missouri, which has
since been his home. He was success
siyely hunter aud trapper for the
Hudson Bay Company, Indian trader,
government interpreter, scout lor the
army, farrier fora calvary regiment,
steamboat-man and later engaged IN
raising horses.
The committee having in charge
the securing and preparing OF the
| educational exhibit for the worlds
| fair in connection with South Dako-
ta's exhibit, have met at Huron y
| compared notes. Those present were
Prof. O. RI. Taylor of Pierre, Prof. J.
X. Freeland of Washington Springs,
Prof. b. f. Hood of Huron, Prof.. a.
NJ. Rowe of Sioux Falls, Prof. W. ii.
c. Mewington of WATERFOWL. Miss
Belle Anderson of Huron and Mrs.
Loyeioy of Aberdeen The time for
closing up the general work in the
CITY schools was liked as January 10,
and fo2 special work March j. Prof.
Rowe and President Mauck were
named to protest, on behalf OF the
committee, against the reduction OF
space for the educational exhibit In
the state building in Chicago.
The botanist of the experiment
station has received noticed OF a serious
disease at Bookings, among horses
in Bon Homme county. 1t is Thought
to be due to a plant commonly called
rattle box (Crotalaria S~aglttaiiSl,
which the horses eat. The plant
contains a poison which affects the
animals IN such "a way that they
become unable to digest their food.
lose appetite, soon become gaunt and
detected and finally get the blind
stiggers and die. The disease is evil
IDENTIFY the same one that DIR. Stalker,
of Iowa, called attention to in 1854 as
affecting horses in the region between
Sioux City and Council Bluffs. lie
gave it the name of Crotalism. Sew
eral farmers in Bon Homme county
have lost horses from this disease,
one losing as many as twenty head
Dearth of Garden Truca.
v~cgctarians have a hard winter