Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-08-13
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
interesting News Items Fro" "'
over the State.

lad OF Beloit, Iowa, WAS hIleu
runaway mt Canton. A load OF grain
passed over his body.
BENJAMIN G. Ash Of South Dakota
has been appointed agent for the owe
Brule Indians, to ill an original va
eancy.
At yermillion George Warren, about
| seventeen years old, had his eft hand
| taken off by the gearing OF q thresn-
ing machine, near here this a1terhooh.
A child by the name of Peterson at
| Dell RAPIDS had its leg caught in the
| wheel OF q wagon. and so badly
| crushed thai amputation was neces
! sary. The child died from the effects
this morning.
j. O. Johnson and Ben Clare jumped
| from the third story window OF the
! Phillips House at Sioux Fans ana
broke both legs. He also sustained III
ternal injuries which are serious. Inc
distance was thirty feet.
Business ut the United States land
office at Aberdeen for July was as
follows: Nine homestead entries, enf
bracing 1860 acres; twenty final home
! stead proofs, embracing 3,l56 acres;
! twenty-four final timber culture proofs,
| embracing 3,S22 acres.
Rev. Baldwin of Scotland. recently
| performed a unique marriage cere-
| mony, about 200 miles separating the
contracting parties. The bride was AT
Scotland and the groom was ut Il point
In Indiana, the ceremony being per
formed by telegraph.
The army worm has made its ap-
% Scotland IN n tin1I nf corn
| The agricultural college has been no
| titled OF the fact SO that an investiga-
| ton ma be made. At this time the
field is being quarantined by plowinG
bitches around il.
A. G.. Auchampach, n farmer living
northeast of Ipswich, has invented Il
machine 10 be attached TO an ordinary
self-binder. whereby grain that has
been beaten down by wind or hail can
be gathered I'M to perfection. This
will be a boon TO farmers.
The state department G.. \. X. band
las finally received its commission,
md is making active preparations 10
20 10 the national encampment at 81.
ful. 1t will consist c; twenty-five
men. and among them some Of the
best players in the state.
The cuttin. of the Missouri rived to-
ward Nermillion has commenced again
in spite of all efforts 10 stop it. Ten
feet an hour are tumbling into the
, water, and prospects are unless some-
thing con be done to check the advance
of the stream that Vermillion will be
in the river before fall.
NJ. Z. Lewis of Plankinton has let
the contracts for three new artesian
wells in Aurora county. one on the
+. III. Clark farm, and two near White
Lake. There il nov a total of forty
five wells in Aurora county, and this
number will be materially increased
before the close of the present season.
4 new business enterprise has been
organized by the business men of Wes-
sington Springs. TO be known as the
Cooperative Grain company. The
company will deal in grain and coal.
The officers are: President. O. @. Eng
lung; secretary. r. S. Yessey; treas
urer, w. +. Bancroft.
A boy about four years old, from
Chicago, by the name of BurG.ck who,
with his parents, was visiting at Alex
andria. was kicked 10y a horse, and is
IN a critical condition. The little boys
skull is badly crushed. and he has
three ribs broken, and n pitchfork
wound in his left hip. The boy went
n back of some strange horses with
I pitclifork, and when kicked was
!riyen against the fork.
Many of the Sioux Indians nj Crow
yreck and Lower Brule agencies. adj
accent TO Chamberlain. are in a highly
s..ar,N.t.nr,. ..a,Jft;n, .,,;ll y
tdditicn TO fine carriages, furniture
md carpets. many of them have pur-
ihased organs, and il is no unusual
sight 10 see elegant and costly instru-
nents of this character occupying
places In log houses. whose exteriors
resent anything but a cheerful or
prosperous appearance.
Veterinary Surgeon Agersberg was
called TO Gayville recently to investi-
gate an epidemic among the horses
n that vicinity. He returned this af-
ternoon, and declared the disease farcy
or CHAMBERS. Two animals belonging
to Julius Berkeley have already died.
Ind the other afflicted horses are or
iered shot. The epidemic is at pres
ant confined TO w pastures. and ex-
RENE measures are being taken to pre-
rent its spread.
Concerning crops in South Dakota.
vhe last bulletin gives the following:
The temperature during the week av-
.raged somewhat below the normal.
the state considered. The DAYS were
warm. as a rule. aud the night cool.
although there We're cool days through
)ut. Fair TO copious rains occurred
quite generally, and on some DAYS the
ain was IN sprinkling showers. at in
ervals, with col weather. In some To-
.alit!es the rains were quite heavy.
md the heaviest, it appears, were at
ended by more or less hail. There
vas about the normal amount of sun
ihine. The general weather conditions
we're very favorable for the healthy
advancement of the latest wheat and
,ats. corn. flax. potatoes and milIet.
md the continuing of prairie grasses
n green condition. The harvesting
" wheat and oats in the southern
Counties is nearly completed. and in
some localities completed. In the cen
raj counties 1t is far advanced. and
generally in progress in the northern.
A crowd of tramps boarded n freight
II Bookings going to W%atertown. and
Il the junction the trainmen put them
III off NVhfla I;.