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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
The First South Dakota Homestead

Yankton Press and Dakotan: The
first homesteader il appears was a Do
kota man. A Chicago dispatch from the
worlds fair grounds OF the Sd, states
that the man who took out the first
homestead was a caller at the South
Dakota building Wednesday. He filed
his application the first day the law vas
effective, January 1, 1868, at the Yer
million United States land office, on a
tract of land in what is now Union coun-
ty, nearly opposite Akron, La. Since
leaving Dakota he has been proprietor OF
the Sioux City Journal, which paper he
founded. lie now resides in Orlando in
southern Florida, and has come to Chi
cago to see the fair. He viii remain I'M
til September. The man is probably
Mahlon Gore, who in 1862 was a resi-
dent OF Richland, now in Union county,
and was afterwards, for a few months a
soiourner in Yanktou. He will be re-
membered by the earliest settlers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

Among the apparent Inconsistencies
of human nature is the coupling in the
same person of abilities in music and
mathematics. Nearly all the great
composers were apt at figures, and now
and then one finds an arithmetician
who is a good musician as well. Such
a one is a professor in one of Il east
ern colleges. He seems almost TO live
for geometry and calculus, c~onfesses
that be takes little pleasure in romano
or in visual beauty, has no eye for
color but a keen one for line and form.
and, in fact, would seem TO be O man
who was incapable of the emotional
force required for the performance OF
music, yet, next 10 mathematics, mu-
sic is his greatest delight. and not only
does he play correctly, but be plays
with remarkable expression.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
Important Decision.

A special dispatch from Pierre saws the
supreme court has handed down an inn
portant decision. The Ease was one
brought mp on motion to decide il the
law passed by the last legislature with
the emergency clause requiring ATTORNEYS
who desire to be admitted to practice in
this state to pass an examination before
the supreme court became a law ninety
days after its passage and approval by
the governor OF ninety days after the
adjournment Of the legislature. The
court held that the law did not go into
effect until July |, or ninety days ate,
the Legislature adjourned.
In giving tais decision the court seem
ed to hold that all laws passed at tn,
last session, without the emergency
clause, will not take effect until July 1
The decision in this light at once become.
important and far-reaching in it's scope
There were 100 new laws passed at tn,
last session without the emergency claus,
"n Consequently VIII HOb take erect I'M
TIL July /. Already some OF these law
have been acted on as though thew wer,
in full force and effect. Here are some O
the most important laws affected by The
decision.
Void tax sales. attachment proceed
ings, delinquent tax sales, Uniform in
surance policies, requiring registers O
deeds to turn fees received for alb
stracts into the general fund. permitting
townships to organize insurance com
panies, the new school law, that two
thirds OF a jury may render a verdict il
certain eases, judgments OF suprem,
court, taxing peddlers, transfer OF stat,
lnnds, raising the age OF consent to 16
organisation OF state banks, Jurisdiction
oil city justices, relating to foreclosure
ana execution, appropriation for attor
Reys lees, divorce, discharge of mort
cages, and appointment OF state super
visor. '"Pei
The law creating the office of state snr
veyor passed without the smerpenc,
cause but provided that the poyerno,
should immediately appoint such officer
Nd Wallace OF Jerauld county was :,
appointed. 1t would seem according Il
the ruling OF the court that simmed;sta
~ must refer to the LIST OF July.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

The United States flag was devised
early in June, 1777, by a special com
mittee appointed by the congress of the
new republic. The committee was as
sisted by John Adams, who is credited
with most Of the work of choosing
and arranging the colors and symbolic
figures. 1t is not known who the mem
tiers of the committee We're. On June
il 177T, the committee reported TO
congress advising that the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes alternate red and white: that
the Union be thirteen stars, white in
IA blue field, representing a new con-
sfallasien.' The report was put into
the form OF a resolution, which was
unanimously passed. The Union was
made square and large enough to reach
down TO the eighth stripe. The stars
lwere arranged on the circumference
'cs a large circle. In 1918 the plan of
adding a new star for each new state
yves adopted. A little later the stan
Were arranged in parallel lines. There
lyare now fcrty-four stars in the Union.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
The School Exhibit.

THE Sonth Dakota educational exhibit
consists OF samples OF work IRON the
Washington Springs seminary, the Madi-
son normal, the Lutheran normal and
the common schools OF the state. These,
with the exhibit Of the University OF
South Dakota at vermillion, ill five
alcoyes. There are 100 bound volumes
OF pupils work OH exhibition, and several
cases OF excellent botanical work. Every
thing is now in place save the display
rom the university, which is expected to
reach Chicago this week. In charge OF
the entire exhibit, and the one to be
commended Tor the good taste shown in
it's arrangement, is Mrs. l.. +. farr OF
Pierre.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

Residents OF Durango, Colo, have be-
come interested In the collection OF
cnr dwelling relics to such an extent
that a society called the Durango Ar
Genealogical and Historical society has
been organized. lit is the intention OF
the society TO not only collect from
the Aztec country such relics as denote
the existence of a forgotten race, but
TO gather such information on the sub
ieet rs win enable them TO publish what
is known or has been learned of this
ancient people.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

A New York fashion correspondsrl
of Southern paper gives out the N
lowing.
A lady writes: 81 have read YOU'D
letters for a long time, and have ofts3
envied you the opportunity you enjoyJ
seeing the beautiful things you describe,
| used to think when / read OF thoi
CHARGING dresses and parasols and haiI
ut Lord s. Taylor's, that theirs must y
one of those stores where q tlma|
woman like myself, having oaY
a few dollars to spare for a season
ocGft, would be OF SC little account tina.
she would receive little attention; bu'
when you said, in one of your letters !
few months ago, that goods OF the SANE
quality we're really cheaper there tha'
elsewhere, because they sold nOr'
goods in their two stores than any othei
firm in New York, and that becauS
they sold more they bought more, ans
consequently bought cheaper, dets,
mined, if ] ever went to New YORK,
would go to Lord &,Taylor's. !.
THAT long-waited-for time came y
the early autumn, and / found mysea
standing before that great entrance
with those wonderful windows at eitas,
side. l Summoned my courage am
entered, as / suppose tens OF Thousand
OF just such timid women as ! nav
done before. My fears were gone IN a
instant. The agreeable attention pu
me at my ease at once, and l ieit :
much at home as though l were 10 ~
little country store where my peop'
have traded for nearly a quarter Oh
century.
and now, as / wearthe pretty thlng
| purchased, or see them every DAY a.
find them all so satisfactory, think
my visit to this great store as y
brightest part of my trip to New S'f''
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
CRIMINAL.


A Santa Fe passenger train robbed In
Indian Territory.
A South Dakota boy of twelve muir.
ders his two-year-old sister because she
cried.
John Simpson, aged ID was arrested
at Steubenville, O., for stealing a horse
and trading 1t for a shotgun.
Winn Weaver of Bement. III. after
n~ssaulting a young woman. cut bis
throat and jumped into the river.
Edgar r, Sisson, a South Bend. Ind,
business man, is charged with forging
notes to the aggregate of 3d.
Alice Burton, who murdered her hus.
band, committed suicide in jail at Knox.
vile, Tenn, hanging herself with her
skirts.
Corporation Treasurer John G. Mint.
ing of Fort Jennings, Ohio, who re.
Gently absconded with $4,000, is in
Mojave, Cal, and insane.
Jessie f. Winters has been arrested
at New York for swindling. She was
engaged to a score of men at the same
time and borrowed money from each.
w. C. Pusey, one of the most promi-
nent, wealthy and popular residents OF
Hancock county, w. Va, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head
Daniel I,idgely, nineteen years old,
shot himself in the shoulder at Bridge
port, H., because his mother refused
to let him so swimming. lie will re-
cover.
William s. Evans. postmaster AT
Pigeon Run, o., has been arrested on
the charge Of placing Instructions on
the Cleveland, Canton g. Southern
track.
Mrs. James Kirkendall. wife of a
stock raiser at Paradise, Wash, pois.
oned her daughter and son. 4 and q
years old, respectively, and herself.
The boy is alive.
John Smith. Is years old. attempted
to shoot Emily Ebert, aged 10, at Phil.
adelphia, and end his own life, He
was disarmed after four shots Were
nred. Neither Of the young people
was injured.
A daring rcbber relieved a number
of the guests at the Hotel Colorado,
at Colorado Springs, Colo, of money
and jewelry to TIE amount of probably
$1,000. With a six-shooter prominently
displayed the fellow walked through
| the hotel. collected all he could lay his
hands on and managed to escape.
Three men will probably die as the re-
suit of a row in a camp of Italian rail
| road laborers near Savanna, Ill. An.
tonic Masso. the storekeeper, sold a
customer named CARGO stale bread.
CARGO demanded a fresh loaf, and on
being refused stabbed Masso in the
breast. Then he attacked and serious
~ wounded the storekeeper's son.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
FOREIGN.

Spain will reorganize the Cuban GOV
ernment.
The strike OF miners in Bohemia Is
spreading. Troops have been called
out.
Prince Bismarck will 20 to Kissingcn
with his family In July 20 take the
waters.
Striking miners in Fuenkirchen start
ed a riot and soldiers fired n volley
which the strikers answered. Sey-
eral men on each eide We're wounded.
The Chinese government will retaH-
ate on the United States for the Geary
act by prohibiting the importation OF
kerosene. Other prohibitions will fol-
low.
Great excitement mas been caused In
Nicaragua by the landing OF marines
from the United States warship At
lanta. The troops We're landed 10 pro
tcct the Nicaraguan canal.
striking miners and their families are
being evicted from their cottages In
Furnikirchen belonging TO coiliery own
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
GENERAL

uTI-N LItaL.
The body of Herman Schafsner. fhe
Chicago banker, was found In Lake
Michigan.
Hobbs & Tucker, private bankers at
Albany, Ca, have assigned. Deposits
aggregate $4,000.
The supreme lodge of the knights of
Honor has created the Office of supreme
medical examiner.
The name of the Right Worthy Grand
Lodge of Good Templars is changed 10
international Supreme Lodge.
Two trunks from Toronto were seized
Mt Buffalo and were found to contain
200 pounds OF struggled opium.
Six colored workmen We're attacked
at Lamont, Ill, by 600 strikers. The
men were finally rescued by officers.
Railroad Jack" the dog whose tray
els by rail throughout the United States
have made him famous, died at Albany,
n. Y.
Five thousand of the iron workers
and coal and iron miners at Klando,
fifteen miles from Prague, are out on
strike.
Cardinal Gibbons says that the posi-.
ton of the Catholic churches Is that the
worlds fair should be open Sunday
afternoons.
Chancellor Creighton, of the Nebras-
ka Wesleyan university, announced at
chapel his intention of handing In his
resignation.
The bill providing for a board of ar,
bitration to settle disputes between
employees and employers was passed by
the Illinois house.
German Pythians from all parts of
the country met at indianapolis ( o pro-
test against the law requiring the use
Of English rituals.
The Burnham cafe at Indiana ,solis,
Ind, recently fitted up at an expense
Of $4,000 on interior decorations and
fixtures, went into the hands OF a re-
ceiyer.
York, importers of diamonds and prec-
ious stones. have made an assignment.
The climates of liabilities range from
$150.O00 to $250,00O.
The property of the Verde Antique
Marble Company at Ishpeming, Mich,
has been seized and will be sold TO
satisfy executions. The company open
ed n quarry three years ago.
Another severe affiiction has fallen
upon the imperial house Of Austria.
Duke Macmillan Emanuel, brother of
Empress Elizabeth, Wilde returning to
Munich from a ride. ruptured a cardiac
artery and died almost Immediately.
The duke was born in Munich in 1912,
and married In 1875 Princess Amelie
OF Saxe-Coburg and Gothic.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

The greatest statue in the world Is
he. .Bartholdi statue" on Bedloe's ISL
and. New York Bay, presented to
America by the people of France. Its
height is 305 feet. 1t weighs 300 tons.
Some estimate of the size Of this col
ossal figure may be formed from the
dimensions OF the forefinger, which is
S feet in length and 4 feet nine inshes
around at the second joint. The head
IS IA II feet high and the nose 3 feet
z inches long.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
is SERENE
stories Told About the Divine M
Disturb His Equanim,,x

Disturb His Equanim,,,
Probably no man in what NAV
called public life preserves bis ool
unity so perfectly when stories an
him, withs absolutely no ~foupdatI
whatever, appear in the public urp|
as does DR.. Talmage.
Two weeks ago a dispatch fnI
Massachusetts, announced that the n
erend gentleman had purchased
5looded pup, of most approved DOL
ing qualities. and although the yo1
was entirely erroneous. no one langhl
more heartily at the idea Uf a clergl
mans investing in n canine prizeighlI
than the pastor of the tabernacle.
Apropos OF this story the doctor iol
Of another experience Of his. which N
IDENTIFY amused him greatly. thOuJ
some men would have been ANNOYED
1t.
Il remember" he said. "some yes,
ago when | left home for the sumn4
one Of the Brooklyn newspapers cam
out with a long story about how ss
the neighbors We're to get me out 4
the way for Il few weeks. Accordin
to the story, l had purchased a corne
and life had been rendered almost u
endurable upon my block by the doh
full sounds which 1 expelled from th
instrument, often until late at nigh
/ don't remember" added the dOetO
laughing heartily, that / wi bad
cornet in my hand. Certainly it new
occurred TO Inc to buy one, or to try
play one"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
WASHINGTON

The United States Is swindled out OF
the duty on secondhand burlap bags.
The assistant secretary Of the interior
decides the Yellowstone Park trans
p~ortation problem.
Holmes Conrad, Of Virginia, has been
appointed to succeed John b.. Cotton as
assistant encouragement.
Commissioner Lochren issues an or.
der as TO adjudicating and fixing pen.
sion rates under the act of June ~,
1890.
T. b. McCracken. a clerk in the dead
letter Office ut Washington, is under
arrest charged with stealing from dead
letters.
The president refuses TO accept the
resignation OF Appraiser Cooper. OF
New York, until the result OF the in
gestigation into his methods of con
structing Is made known.
Acting Secretary OF the Navy Mead
do, upon the order of the Chamber of
Commerce and citizens of Portland,
Ore, has ordered the coast defense
ship Monterey to proceed from San
francisco to Portland to participate
in the celebration on July 4 of the
opening of the Great Northern road.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

III a toad does not carry a Jewei IN
his head he Is quite as luz as III
he did. for he does work no gardener
can do in clearing a garden OF its In
sect pests. Many a gardener build
this little home small dwellings OF bits
of stone In the hooks Of his flower
beds. and cherishes him as q valuable
assistant. destroying larvae, worms and
flies as he does with neatness u dis
patch.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
a Beavers rRpr.
How Nature Make.
Always Keep. ssa'sel

Always keeps sssasel
As in every "gnawers
skull Is armed with two 81
Ike teeth in each Jaw, saws
st. Nicholas. These teeth 7aa
ingly powerful, and are ! =
what an ak is to a woods
such tooth taken from the ~
of a medium-sized skull nbauAe f
moved without difficulty, u csn
most or ours) Is bent into aiSe
semi-circle and measures neaf|
along Its outer curve. On,n'e N
of this length projects from one
The corresponding one FROM me Y
jaw Is bent into more tban As ID
plete half circle and maaS q 1
its outer face four inches ~ mSe \
than an inch protrudes from 'aca
casing. In width each tooth
eighths Of an inch. Examinoaas9
of them reveals the secra, ~
q beaver can perform snch y
chopping down a birch treo 1eso|
inches in diameter, not 70 Ail
softer woods like the bosspea s
much greater size. The tooth
posed Of two materials. \
outer face or front Of the ,no.s
thin plate Of exceedingly hard
on the inner, forming the bod a !.
tooth, Is a substance called ~,
being softer, wears away win
the thin enamel remains comnara..
unworn. so that the tooth asSn,a"
shape of a keen chisel that paya. =
duh. The tooth is hollow AZ ~ |
for half its length and is filed =.
nourishing substance which ko",.
constantly growing. Thus. pot III
the natural wearing away NV.
against, but q certain amount ~ :
becomes an actual necessity, With :
instruments the beaver is adm,r,
fitted for obtaining it's natural !.
the bark OF shrubs and trees.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

In the printed newspapers OF the
world ffty-nine languages are now rep
resented. A single magazine, the Aeta
Corporations Literarium Universe
rum. has contributions in many tongues
in every issue, sometimes as many as
thirty. 1t is printed in Austria.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
WILL BACK JOHN L.

New York. S~pecial-In a letter TO
Arthur 4. Lumley, of the illustrated
News. r. III. Hall, a leading physician OF
Pione.. Tex, states that there are half
a doze,. well-to-do business men In the
city who stand ready TO back John L.
Sullivan 10 the amour of $4,000
against James j.. Corbett, providing that
Sullivan would undergo a thorough train
ing OF at least six months. The writer
instrrets Mr.. Lumley 10 notify the big
fellow At once Of this ofser.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
A Sigh, misunderstanding.

He had just received a letter live
his son at college and was readinS I
aloud TO his family, when he eane :"
this passage: ,a
Il am taking lessons in fencing a -
as the fee must be paid III au''
will need another remittance. IA
"Wa'al, now, that do beat al, sDr.
the old man. what on airth does ,iss
body need to take lessons IN cam.
for. I'd like 10 know: I've peen "a
ing for forty years and never ha'
go to college 10 learn how. ssr-
But times have changed, lam .n ..
said his wife; fences amt maus 4
they used 10 was when we elm inc"
Root Hollow" 81
That's so.'' said the old man. .si
don't say eff it's a wire fence OF ass
one, but i reckon he'll larn 0 u W." ~,
But i yum. l expecteu sa,,ee
Of mine would hev to 20 10 ..osr
to learn fencing. 1t do seem A. an,
Then he wrote out another cht n.oye
forwarded ii by the next maii'
News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

The hitherto obscure village OF Chad
ron is obtaining q large amount of free
advertising just now and there Is .
growing suspicion that thec cowboy race
Is only a part of an incipient real es.
tate boom. Omaha and Lincoln are
exhibiting signs Of nervousness.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22
PERSONAL.

Cardinal Gibbons favors the Sunday
opening of the Worlds Fair.
The Duke of yeragua is no longer a
guest OF the nation. He will travel in
eognito.
A dispatch from Auburn. Ala. an
nounces the death of DIR. y. i. Lupton,
professor Of chemistry in the A. and NJ.
college of Alabama.
DR.. James McCann. one Of Pitts
burg's prominent physicians, died from
5lood-poisoning, contracted while per-
forming an operation.
Bishop Wigger, OF Newark, n. J.,
win sail for Europe Thursday. July
z, and remain away for three months.
He will proceed direct to Rome and
have an audience with the Pope, and
after leaving the Vatican, viii make a
tour to Germany.
President Patton. having recently re-
turned from the Bahamas, where he
nas been for a short time in search OF
health, has so far recovered his
strength as to be able TO deliver the
~bacclaureate sermon 10 the class of
93 at Princeton yesterday morning.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

The Philadelphia Times nswer q
correspondent thus: If you find thar
the combination Of rosewater and alec
hol doesn't have the desired scent IN
crease the amount Of rosewater." II
there Is still something lacking try
whisky and onions.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

Fargo has Chicago for an example
Of the value of rising from her ashes as
quickly as possible. Chicago's scorcn
OF 1871 made some people believe the
city was ruined forever, but h activ
ity with which the work of rebuilding
was pushed turned the fire into a big
advertisement.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-22

There are, we are told, In the uniteo
States LES county jails and only "A
Juvenile reformatories. Great Britain
on the other hand. supports over 400
rcformatories and industrial schools,
and i'm consequence has been aDie 10
close 5e out of 113 prisons and jaiis
within ten years.