Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-08-23
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS
CLEANED FROM LATEST ASSOCIATED
PRESS TELEGRAMS.
Edgemont Canal-G. A. r. General Orders
want Irrigation-Harvest Excursions-
The Crop South Dakota anu
Other States Contrasted.

Arthur Picker s t~hreshing machine and
three stacks OF grain were recently burn-
I'd neal Carthage.
J. G. Mitchell, a Madison blind plgger,
Iost sixty pounds in flesh while undergo
ing three months imprisonment.
At Hot Springs a few days ago the
: l2-year-old son of Daniel Webster was
thrown from a horse and dragged ana
kicked TO death.
Joseph Zeliffe OF Garretson. was recent
" bound over to the grand jury in the
sun OF $500 ior adultery with Mrs.
i lanes O. Clyne, also CT Garretson.
S, nator Kyle has offered a resolution
providing that no Intoxicating liquors
shall be sold in the senate wing OF the
capitol during the coming session OF con-
gress.
Patrick Goggins, a farmer at Winfred,
near Madison, accidently killed himself
| recently while loading a muzzle-loading
shotgun. He formerly lived in Mime
apOlis.
The Kimball Driving Association has
arranged for a two,days' racing meeting
August 30 and 81. The purses aggre-
gate , bout $500, and a good arraJ OF
horses is expected.
l.. w. johnson, who has recently
graduated from the theological depart
ment OF Yankton, has been ordained and
! installed pastor OF the Congregational
| Church OF Beresford, Union County. Sew
eral prominent clergymen attended the
services.
n. NJ. Parsons, living four miles south
OF Hot Springs, who has been prospect
ing for some time for coal, has struck u
100-foot vein. Hehas been running a
tunnel into the mountain on a fOur-inch
vein, and after getting the tunnel in 50
feet made the strike.
The Deadwood Terra stamp mill has
started up after a shutdown OF fifteen
months. This mill has 100 stamps and
will furnish employment to 200 men.
Other works of lesser magnitude are
starting up, but men are applying much
faster than the work opens.
O. +. Hills, Earnest Soper, James
Ferguson and Charles Sheldon have been
released from the penitentiary after
serving two years each for cattle rustl-
ing. They were all from the Black Hills,
to which place they all returned except
Sheldon, who will remain ut Sioux Falls.
A fellow named Ed. Nelson, thought to
hail from Sioux Falls, is running a beer
Joint on an island in the center OF the
Sioux River, about a mile from Canton.
He attempted TO run asaloon in Caution,
but it was promptly closed, and he is
now running on the island in apparent
security, as the South Dakota %authori-
ties are powcrless.
A number OF farmers living on the
Cheyenne bottom in Fall River county
have decided to put in a big irrigating
wheel to take water from the Cheyenne
river above the falls. They will put in
this fall five miles OF main ditch, to irri-
gate a thousand acres. 1.-THE experiment
proves a success largenumbers offarmers
will put in wheels next year.
In the Bardin divorce Ease at Sioux
Falls a few days ago, Mrs. Bardin, the
plaintiff, was on the stand oil day and
detailed at length Incidents OF her life
with Barden and plans and schemes re-
sorted to by him to get rid of her after
trouble arose between them over the
alleged existence OF her former husband,
Osborne. She stood a rigorous cross ex-
animation remarkably well.
d. J. Knapp OF Sioux Falls has receiv-
ed from the United States fish commits
sion notice that within sixty DAYS he
will receive a large consignment OF black
bass and pike perch with which to stock
Wall lake, a pretty little lake in the west
ern part Of Minaehaha county. He has
also been notified that next May the
commission will send him q carload OF
fish to be distributed among the lakes OF
that county. Mr.. Knapp was the first
to introduce German Carp in Dakota.
The legislative committee OF the South
Dakota Irrigation association has made
an assignment for the preparation of
bills for presentation to the next legisla-
ture: Hon. III. Mouser, OF Hitchcock. q
bill looking to the borrowing from the
school fund for irrigation pur poses:
Capt. III. A. Humphrey, OF Faulkton, a
bill providing for the storage OF surplus
waters; Hon. W. b. Sterling, OF Huron.
the creating Of irrigation districts for
bonding purposes; Hon. o. S. Basford,
OF Redtield, a bill to enable counties to
utilize their credit; Capt. C. S. Fassett. of
Hitchcock, will present changes needed
in the present irrigation laws of the
state.
Assigne Foster, of the deiunct Kent
Bank OF Cheyenne, Wyo., recently made
an application at Sioux Falls which was
granted for a receiver for the Warren
Live Stock company. This
have outstanding debts to the amount
OF 5000, 0OO, with assets OF $3.50, 600,
although a year ago their assets figured
up to $75O,000. They have immense
herds numbering about 1000 h""~~-. &"
800 GATH. 4"