Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-01
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
The foundations are now being laid
for a s100,0 600 hotel at Deadwood.

Oiaillo thc Cdhc loI plullpJhcoS.
A Roman Catholic church and con-
vent will soon be built at Ellington,
the new town on the Sisseton reser-
walton.
Rev. ID. P. Scott, of Clinton, Mass.
was unanimously chosen pastor of the
Congregational church of Sioux Falls
at a business meeting last week, at a
salary of 81, 500 per annum and NOV
ing expenses for the first year.
Sioux Fails prohibitionists feel
sighted because the state fair man
agement did not allow them one of
the political days during the fair,
and they have decided to have a
monster prohibition meeting during
the fair. John p. St. John will be
invited to speak.
Yankton was selected as the place
for the next meeting of the state
Pharmaceutical association. DIR.
Cotton of Tyndall, was chosen presi
dent for the ensuing year, i. A. Keith
of Lake Preston, secretary, o. III.
Tarbell of Watertown, W. a. Wood
ward of Clark, and j.. H.. Fiery OF
Aberdeen were recommended to the
governor TO fill the vacancy On the
state board of pharmacy. The meet
ings of the state board as fixed are:
At Brookings, October 5; at Pierre
January IA; at Sioux Falls, July s:
and at Deadwood, April II. The reg
istratiOn fee was raised from 81 to So.
A threshing machine at work near
Villas is run by a gasoline engine.
There is now but one woman con-
Wet in the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
Fire destroyed the Sherman hotel
stables at Aberdeen on the 23d inst.
Loss, $500.
Miss Nellie Shields, of Huron is
probably the only lady notary public
in South Dakota.
A Sioux Falls man has completed a
new system of shorthand which he
will sOon introduce.
1t is estimated that rs, 900 head of
cattle, worth IS, 0O0, 600, will be shipped
to market from South Dakota this
year.
Ten years ago South Dakota was
one of the smallest wheat producing
states in the Union. Now she takes
the first place.
Gov. Mellette's proclamation
recommending October 81, 1892, as
a public holiday in honor or the 400th
anniversary of Columbus discovery
of America is issued. The schools
are especially recommended to
observe it.
The committee of the Sioux Falls
city council made a report on the
Lyon city saloon idea. 1t is one of
the most unique on record. 1t shows
that the prOhibitOry law is a failure
in Sioux Falls, there being now
there thirty-six hOles-in-the-wall, and
calls for five city saloons, upon which
the committee expects an annual
profit of 500, 600. The report was
signed by two members of the
council. The other member presented
a minority report which rOundly
denounces the whole plan.
There is a prospect that the Sisse-
ton agency may be discontinued.
Inasmuch as it is thought that the
Indians will be self supporting in a
couple Of years, a special agent has
been sent out from Washington to
make a report on the feasibility OF
closing the agency. If it is found
best to continue government support
and control for n or two years more
and then close the agency, a military
officer will be detailed to manage il
for that time.
Thus far South Dakota crops seem
to have suffered less frGm stress OF
weather thin the crops of Minnesota
or North Dakota. Minnesota is the
greatest sufferer; one would judge,
in reading the reports from various
parts Of the state, that not " half q
crop would be harvested. North Dakota
now bids fair to harvest a crop about
three quarters as large as that Of last
year, which was a phenomenal one
South Dakota is claiming that its
crop will be 20 per cent. larger than
that of last year.
Word has been received at Pierre
to the effect that a fellow had been
lynched some fifty miles west of there
for setting fire to the prairie. 1t
seems that a large number of labOrers
during the past month have been
walking across the country from Tire
Black Hills to eastern South Dakota,
to work in the harvest fields. At
night these fellows camp upon the
! prairies and are very careless with
their camp fires. The stockmen and
cowboys have kept close watch upon
their camps and prevented any fire
from getting started. The fellow
that was strung up was Notified by
the cowboys TO be careful with his
fire but after the warning he was
| caught in the act of deliberately
setting fire to the prairie. The cow
boys went and notified some more of
their crowd and some twelve or if-
teen got after the fellow. They
threw a laSsO around his neck and
then strung him up to a tree. The
full particulars of the hanging have
not been learned.
J. G. Nephen, postmaster at Eliza
beth, has resigned.
A 81, 800 Presbyterian church has
just been dedicated at Bancroft.
VermilliOn reports a great deal of
building, both in the city and ada,
cent country.
Pierre ladies gave a four days enter
tainment that netted 800 for the
worlds fair fund.
A Letcher real estate agent has
sold twenty-five quarters of land since
the first Of March.
The ladies of Madison gave a
colonial supper that netted 500
for the worlds fair fund.
Julius G.. Burrows of Kalamazoo
Mich, will Oficiate as orator at the
state fair on republican day.
Recruiting stations to pick up sol
diers for the army have been estab,
lished at Sioux Falls and another al
Madison.
J.. +. WilletS Of Kansas, natiOna
alliance lecturer, will crate for the
Independents at the state fair a
Sioux Falls.
An oil war is on at Sioux Falls, thu
trust being determined to freeze on
the Coates Tank Line. Oil now SELL
there for fifteen cents per gallon.
The ten per cent. of the money du,
the SissetOn Indians, which was with,
held on the claim of Gen. SanbOrn o
st. Paul, will be paid them Aug. Both
1t amounts to $4,000.
Miss Kittie wilkins, a successful
Montana horse raiser and seller, wa.
in the southern part of the state las.
week d~ispOsing of a a of horses
She is probably the only woman horse
dealer ia the world.
James ThrOckmOrtOn, engineer 0
the Black HillsMilling and Smelling
works, at Rapid City, was caught il
the fly wheel of a $50 h~orsc-powe
engine and instantly killed, his bod,