Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-10-17


7 and bad weather the attendance was
light and h, lair vas nearly q finan-
cial failure. The assoc alton is not
| discouraged, however, and will make
q greater effort next year.
Samples of ore from the recent
strike in Plutus, in the Black Hills,
assay $50 to the ton. One of the
| Milwaukee syndicate stockholders
has been at Spearfsh directing
arrangements looking to the erection
OF a ten starnp mill OF the Crow Creek
property, recently purchased by the
syndicate.
Terrible prairie fires. started by
burning fire guards, ragged north of
Ipswich for three days recently, doing
an immense amount OF damage. Re-
ports coming from the burned dis.
trict are 10 the effect that scores OF
families have been left entirely home
less, and entire stock ranches have
been burned. The most conservative
estimate place the damage at not
less than 100000.
The circumference convention OF
the NJ. f. church has been holding a
two days session at Hot Springs.
Bishop John P. Newman presided.
Ministers from Neb' aska, Wyoming
and the Black Hills were presen .
This convention idea Was first put
into effect two years ago, and is held
to enable the ministers OF the no tn
west to become acquainted with each
other and to discuss topics ofimport-
ance and interest to their work.
J. G. Smith, assistant acrostologist
to this department Of agriculture at
Washington. has been at the Brook
ings college for several days. Mr..
Smith is out on a tour OF investiga-
ton, making a special study OF the
forage plant prob EN- in the prairie
| time in Iowa, and be goes from here
to Nebraska and Kansas. He was
very much pleased with the ", rk done
on forage plants by the South Dakota
station.
About a month ago Ludwig Hoff, a
Russian farmer living zeal Eureka,
was arrested and taken to Sioux
Falls and in the United States court
pleaded guilty to sending an indecent
letter through the mails and filmed
$50. The letter was written to one
Heb, whom Mr.. Hoff had caused to
be arrested for adultery with Mrs.
| Hoff. The fine was paid and Mr..
Hoff with a ticket for Eureka got On
| the train for home, but for some
reason got off at Baltic. From that
place MIR. Hoff was seen going north
| along the railroad track. Since then
he has not been heard from.
In his report for the fcal year 1895
Land Commissioner Lamoreaux says
that twenty lists of selection by the
tate OF South Dakota on account of
grants in aid ofeducational ami chart
table institutions, embracing Z6S,41O
acres were patented, to the state dur
Ing the year in the same state, there
We're 10l, 757 acres OF land. embraced
/ III l" bilo liSIC'tdliCoii pdbElIS,
issued. The area covered oy survey
ors in the state which were accepted
ny the office during the year was
l,4S'.4 A, 6 acres. For this work
So, $50 was allotted out of the pro
preparation for surveys OF public
lands.
About a year ago the Geo tsch fami-
ly left Dlkota to locate in Arkansas,
as did hundreds OF others, hoping
that there they would find the new
| Eldorado. The family came back to
Dakota q few da g ago. They say
| that times re now eve harder there
than here, and it is their belief that
there is hardly anyone who ief here
for hat state but wonld be glaL to
return. They claim it takes all one
can earn there to buy fertilizers to
produce n crop. The family is the
first OF tn ARKANSAS trave lers" to
return andthe balance of the wan
derers will be looked for shortly
The third annual exhibit OF the
Inter. State Grain Palace Associa ion
at Aberd- ell, closed a most successful
weeks show on Saturday last. The
crowds were larger tn IN on any pre-.
vious year; the decorations and ex.
hibits superb in every particular and
the music by the Marine Band of
| Chicago, the finest ever heard in the
! akotas. All premiums were paid in
| full and q small surplus remains for
another year. Aberdeen has the
credit Of being the only city in the
United States that can boast of a
surplus after the third year. Next
years show will be more extensive
than ever.