Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-09
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
I~ntercstinx News Items fVo" u"
over the state.

Water has been struck in the new
six-inch government artesiah WEI a.
Yankton agency
The teachers annual institute was
held at Miller, the attendance pelns
2O2.
No Honor. even for medlcinal pur-
noses. can now be gotten at Miller, 'he
drug stores having failed to get per-
mitS.
OF the apportionment OF the lhteres.
on the permanent school fund FOR looo
Peadle county receives S2,569.3o ioi
her 2.49t school children.
A ~iye-year-old hoy playing win
matches caused the total destruction
of the barn and cattle shed on ranh
Arnold's farm. seven miles east OF
Huron. Loss. 500. with no insurance.
Anna Waitemann- aged thirry-two, a
nurse at the Canton hospital, commit
ted suicide by taking ~strychnine. De,
spondency in n love affair is supposeu
10 have been the cause.
A two weeks institute. attended by
nearly 200 Beadle county school teach-
ers. was held at Huron. Twenty-ohe
diplomas were awarded 10 those COM
pleting the common school course.
James Seager and Samuel Levy. VINO
are riding horseback from Milwaukee
to San Francisco on a wager, passeu
through Pierre recently. They ave
been delayed by rains and are sllghuy
behind schedule time.
An appcrtionment of the alance OF
1900 acres to the Springfield normal
school has been made. The lane Sc
lected is principally in Hyde county.
This completes yhe total apportionment
or 10000 acres for that school.
a company, consisting of Prof. j.. -.
Todd, state %geologist; l.. w. Ellis, f..
NJ. Vinson, Il. $. Payne, +. }. Wallace,
=. A. Jordan and NJ. Eckhart, students
,f the university, have gone on a geo
logical expedition TO the Black Hills.
The creamery at Langford is receiv-
ing on an average $500 pounds of milk
per day; at Britton. 800 pounds; at
Newark. 1000 pounds, making = 100
pounds of milk received daily. All the
creameries are paying well, and the
pessimists, even, say there is money in
butter.
A serious accident occurred TO Anton
Hackers little girl at Tyndall. She
was playing in the yard IA her faith
er. who was moving. In some uneX-
plainable way she got in front of the
sickle, which cut off her right leg near
the knee and terribly lacerated the
other.
Up to the present there has been re-
ceived at Pierre for this year about
10000 pounds of wool. The greatest
amount for any day was $4,000
pounds. The Shearing is all done and
estimates now place the increase over
the clip of last year at about % per
cent.
Arrangements are complete for the
proper are of all who attend the Pop
ulist state convention at Huron on July
IA. The Chicago 4 Northwestern rail
way gives a special rate of one fare
for the round trip to those attending
the convention. Chairman Null says
he expects 1,200 or 1900 people there
at that time.
,Che ~two-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Patrick Connolly, living three
miles east of Elk Point. got a kernel
of corn in its windpipe and choked to
death before medical aid could arrive.
The residence of James Frisbee at
Carthage was struck by lightning in an
electric storm and IA quite badly
wrecked.
The United States civil service COM
mission will hold an examination on
July % at Aberdeen, Huron, Mitchell.
Sioux Falls and Yankton. 1t is to fill
a vacancy in the position of farmer at
the Cheyenne river agency at a salary
of So per month, and to establish a
register of eligibles from which selec-
tons may be made for filling any other
vacancy in this position at any of the
Indian agencies in South Dakota.
1t will be a matter of interest to
know the names and present places OF
residence of living ex-governors of Da-
kota territory. They are: Newton
Yankton; Andrew j. Faux,
Yankton: John S. Burbank, Washing
ton, ID. c.; John l.. Pennington, Ok
ford, Ala; Nehemiah G. Ordway,
Washington. ID. c.; Gilbert A. Pierce,
Minneapolis. Mimi; Louis X. Church,
Wash.
The drowning season opened at Big
Stone lake with a most narrowing ac-
\. l.. Joles. a hardware
merchant of Butter. and Rev. w. J..
Williams, the NJ. T.. Church minister
at Bristol, Were drowned about five
or six rods from the shore and n mile
above the camp Grounds. They We're
out in n small boat with Geo. Sher-
wood. of pierpont. Messrs. Sherwood
and Jones were sitting in the back
end ana Rev. Mr.. Williams at The oars.
The boat dipped water on several oc-
cisions aud tinally sank. Williams
and Jones started TO swim TO the
shore. bit became exhausted. and
10 rise no more. Sherwood hung
to the boat and was rescued. Mr..
Jones leaves a wife and two children.
Rev. Mr.. Williams. who was attending
the camp meeting. was a young. nm.
man.
The Missouri at vermilion threat
ems TO raise havoc with bottom lands.
AT the present the main channel runs
near the Nebraska bluffs, about four
miles from the city. During the food
OF 1881 the river cut across the bot
toms on the southwest and formed n
dug out" several miles long. the near
est point being about three miles from
this place. Near this point Is a deem
rayine running into the Vermillion
river about half n mile vast ne Var