Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-07


Bailey, the Faulkton Splinter, is
talking Of going to England in the
fall. Putnam, a South Dakota type
setter, is now in England winning
fame and good money.
An emigrant has arrived at the
barge Office in New York, standing
seven feet two inches in his shoes.
He is nineteen years of age and is on
his way to the Black Hills.
Ex-Judge Garland of Sioux Falls
is the national democratic committee
mar from South Dakota. VIM. Van
Fps wanted it but failed to ''become
identified with the nominee"
BrOokings wants to enlarge its
machine shops and manufacture
plows, bicycles, tow mill machinery,
etc. A business men meeting was
held for that purpose last week.
The Sioux Falls druggists have
organized an association and will
entertain the members of pbarma-
ceutical association which meets in
that city 10th and 18th Of July.
The sixth annual reunion of the
Soldiers and Sailors Association of
the Black Hills closed at Hot Springs
last week. The feasibility of uniting
the posts of northern Nebraska, east
ern Wyoming and the Black Hills
was discussed.
Among the attractions at Iroquois
on the Fourth was Prof. Greenleaf
who went Up in balloon. He ~dispenses
with the customary parachute in
descending-simply greases himself
and slides down.
The following are the officers of
the state dairymen's association
recently elected: President, A. p.
Written; Vice Pres, A. B. Smedley,
Jr.; Secy., w. j. Campbell; Treas,
Chas. n. Keith.
paign paper to be issued at Parker.
1t will he on the side of prohibition
and claims that it will support the
best men for Office without regard to
party or politics.
A secondhand store at Pierre has
among its ATTRACTIONS" a second
hand coffin picked up in the river
during the recent flood. A local
paper says any one in need of a coffin
can purchase this one cheap.
A Watertown paper says that the
convention of South Dakota third
party prohibitionists, which met in
that city, was composed of less than
a dozen delegates. This body pre-
sumed tospeak for the prohibitionists
of South Dakota.
A Sphinx county paper says that in
riding through the country a person
can notice the difference in the con
dition of the crop on land that was
| plowed and land that was stumbled"
in. The plowed land is fifty per cent
better. stumbling in" may do for
one crop but it makes a poor show
ing after that.
The Rapid City Journal states that
two young men left there in a boat to
make the trip by water to Omaha.
They go down Rapid Creek to the
Cheyenne, and from there to the
Missouri. This novel trip is said to
be possible on account of the high
water in the two streams leading
into the old muddy.
Commodore Fielder, of Pierre, had
a thrilling experience at that place
Saturday. AS he was crossing the
river in a sail boat a paddle-wheel of
a steamboat caught the sail boat and
its occupant and swept them under
the entire length of the boat.
Fielder was rescued with difficulty by
three men who had observed the
accident.
The equalization board at Pierre is
at work. The total assessed valua-
ton as returned by the assessor is ST.
437 900. Last year the valuation as
returned was $500, 76S which was
increased by the board to over $4,000,
600. The year before the total assess
ment was SO, l24, 900, so that the pres
ent valuation is lower than the two
previous years.
Leslie Wise who is confined i'm Jail
at Mitchell for attempting to release
Frank Trudell, who was recently sent
to the ~penitentiary for rape, tried to
hang himself in his cell Wednesday
night with a shawl strap which had
been furnished him by his mother.
1t required several hours to restore
him to consciousness after he was
taken down.
Down at Brookings the other even
ing the fool manager of an Uncle
Toms Cabin company came near
creating a panic by going in trent of
the curtain and announcing that a
cyclone was coming and the perform
ance would close. 1t frightened every
body and the only wonder is that
some one was not injured in the rush
for the door. The cyclone didn't
come.
Letcher is the proud possessor of
one of the finest artificial lakes in the
state, which consists of a body of
water about eighty acres in area from
one to eight or nine feet deep, the
water being supplied by overflow from
a strong pressure ~artesian well. The
lake is well supplied with fish, such