Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-11-07

A new creamery company has been
organized III Norway township, near
Canton, aud the creamer, will be
built at Moe. There are about forty
stockholders.
Mayor Lowering OF White Lake has
received on addition to his herd in
the shape of a carload of calves. H.
will so ceveiop into Il verItabIe
cattle king al This rate.
Members OF Judge Edcertcn's fam
lily have expressed the belief that x
may be necessary for his health
to resign from the bench. This hAs
started speculation concerning his
successor.
The DeSmet creamery paid of for
September a few days g at the rate
of 90 cents for 1 per CT. milk. About
eight thousand pounds OF butter was
made 10 September, and the yatrons
realized Uear!y thirteen hundred dol
lars Her.
Norton 0iell, OF Mcntrose, has fin
ished threshing and has as q result
one thousand eight hundred bushels
OF wheat, eight hundred bushels OF
oats, three hundred and sixty bushels
OF fax. T e number of acres he had
und.r cultivation wss one hundr.d
and thirty.
The Ochsner hardware company Of
Brule county has decided to embark
in irrigation, and preparations for
put ing down an artesian well are be-
ing made. The company owns three
quarter sections of land, and all of it
will be cultivated and irrigated. A
three-aare reservoir will be construct
I'd. Irrigation i to be tried west of
the Mis- ouri river.
There are now about 40 co-opera-
tive creaneries in operation in South
Dakota, and several Others under
way, and 1t is notable that while each
has been more or less successful, the
greatest successes have been in those
localities where wheat growing has
been uncertain, and woere many farm
ers were ready to give up after years
OF most ~discouraglng crop failure.
John Crawford's frozen corpse was
discovered q few mornings ego in the
river at Huron in the bottom of his
wagon, just north OF the bridge cross
ing the Jim. Both horses were frozen
to death and were standing in the
mud and water up to their SHOULDERS.
The water did not cover the bottom
of the wagon and the body OF the
dead man was found curled up in the
wagon frozen in death.
The settlers on that portion OF the
Yankton reservation, which was OPP
ened to settlement last spring, are
taking steps necessary to organize
that portion Of Charles Mix county
Included within the newly opened
land. By the treaty with the govern
ment the settlers and the Indians
were grs nted all the rights of citizen
ship, and ther petitions for organi.
zation will be treated fairly.
Geo. Kalensky. who recently shot
and killed his wife near Devils Lake.
n. D., is a resident OF Eureka, where
for the past two OF three J ears he had
kept a store. During this time he has
trouble with his wife and on several
occasions threatened to kill her.
Some time ago she left him. A couple
of weeks ago he shut up his store and
Il ,vont a ua and ho1 NOT haarI haarI
from until the news came OF the ter
tible tragedy.
the enterprises OF state wide con-
,erD have become established facts in
South Dakota this year, saysa cores
pondent in the Minneapolis Journal,
enterprises which must invariably
account for much in the future of this
commonwealth cooperative cream
cries and artesian irrigation. Each
had been previously tried in @ desul-
tory and experimental way, but this
year solid foundations have been
laid and substantial success reaped.
Major s. H. Jumper OF Aberdeen
has made an application before tho
United States land Office to purchase
,he tract known as 'Squatterville"
or and in behalf of the city, in ac-
tordance with the conclusion OF long
drawn out litigation. Tine 7th of
December was set az the day when
proof will be submitted by the city,
and opportunity given to persons
who desire to protest the allowance
pr said proof and payment to be
heard.
The success OF artesian irrigation
Ia South Dakota is now widely known,
says correspondent in the M~inneapo.
lis Daily Journal. On fully one
hundred farms complete demonstra.
ton of it's merits has been made, In
the progress OF time the entire Sec
tion from the middle coteau to the
Missouri will be irrigated not because
This country is barren or unproduc.
live without it, but because the in.