Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-18
DAKOTA NEWS.
FROM LATEST ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.


PRESS DISPATCHES.
wealth In tho Black Hills-The indian
Ouestion-Sorth Dakota's Weaith-Liosi
Suits at Sioux Falls-Tempted by Jewels
Russian Thistles.
Judge Plowman holds that the cleo
ZION locating the Lawrence county seat
1t Deadwood was legal.
w. A. Ellis, said to be a forger and
horse thief from Winona, Mimi, excaped
rom Jail at Eureka a few days ago.
Aired Naultens, who shot and killed
1em Squirting on Oct. 2, 1892, has been
acquitted upon the theory OF sell defense.
In some localities near Miller wolves
are getting very bold, one farmer having
ost twenty sheep IN one night. iney
also attack colts and other young stock.
The complainant failed to furnish any
evidence in the proceedings to disbar j.
N. Donavan and J. L. Glover for irrrgu-
arities in divorce proceeding at Sioux
Falls and the referees have dismissed the
case.
The annual convention OF the South
Dakota Christian Union will be held at
Watartown Oct. % to 20 inclusive. The
union in i'm good condition financially
and there will be a large and interesting
convention.
David Brown of Nance township re-
! sently sold three hogs that weighed l.
D20 pounds, for which he received $51
spot cash. The hogs were fatted on
wheat and Mr.. Brown realized $3.50 per
oushel for every bushel fed.
Judge Plowman at Deadwood has
sentenced Jay Hicks 10 be hanged at
Sturgis on the 18th of November for the
murder of John Meyers last November.
Hicks was very violent i'm his abuse OF
The Judge and the sheriff of Mead county.
The supreme court some time ago
handed down an opinion that beer"
was not an intoxicant. 1t caused a
great deal of comment at the time, a few
iays ago the court handed down an
opinion in which it holds that lager
beer" is an intozicant.
The Mellette roller mill has secured a
contract to furnish -four for a large bak-
cry at Emira, N. Y. The bakery puts
out 10000 loaves OF bread per day, be-
sides a large amount OF pastries, aud the
mill will be taxed to it's utmost capacity
to tll the contract.
Rainey, a printer, has begun a libel
suit against the Sioux Falls Forum for
$1,000 damages. A lew days ago the
Forum said that Rainy had skipped the
town with Mrs. Gonlgser, a disreputable
woman. Rainey took her to Harrisburg.
driving across the country In q buggy.
He lett her there and returned to Sioux
Falls, and claims that he was merely
hired as driver.
Numerous farmers near Ipswich are
feeding wheat to hogs and cattle, there
by getting the best Of results. G. J..
Potter, a farmer living north OF that
place, raised about 200 bushels of wheat
this season, with the intention OF selling
1t, but his corn crop being a failure, he
substituted wheat and it's feeding quail
ties have far exceeded expectations.
uAii ouS olhCE IutS46 arc 0Ollk bu6
same thing.
Recent rains over the state put the
ground in spledid conditionior fall plow-
Ing and rs a result thousands OF acres
have been turned over in the past few
days. There isevery indication that next
seasons crop acreage will be as large as
that OF last season. Farmers generally
predict large returns for next seasons
labors, the conditions, they claim, being
more favorable at this time than before
Tor several years.
The Producers and Shippers associa-
ton OF Sioux Falls has issued another
address to the people OF South Dakota
relative to railroad abuses. The asso-
cialiou makes q more detailed explana-
ton OF the abuses and exhorts every
voter TO east his ballot only for the man
who pledges himself to secure If possible
legislation to relieve the producers and
shippers and the entire population OF
the state of the extc~tionate freight
rates charded by the u dads.
The report Of the Homestake Mining
Company tor the fiscal year ending June
! has just been made. The report shows
that the net proceeds from gold bullion
were $l,372,6 $50, and from other sources
$l17,U00, IA total of $l,4S9, 6,9. In
dividends there have been paid $lSl, 900.
The stock pays 10 per cent every three
months. There is sufficient rock i'm sig hit
TO keep the mill at work for eight years
at it's present capacity. This report
touches only the Homestake mine and
mills, and does not include the Highland,
Caledonia, Deadwood, Terra, and other
properties generally included under the
name OF the Homestake mine. The
United States has now pending a snit for
100000 against the Homestake for
trespass on timber lands.