Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-15
SOUTH DAKOTA
-..,rr News Items from All
lstefe ever the state.

Knlte Fails. fractured his arm.
hog aomme county. Much apprehen-
SOU FRANK Guider, the young wife
Mrs. :, cuider OF Madison, died OF
p ,aes consumption.
la.a voung boys, son Of r. G. Parm-
lWJuS Mayor Sites OF sioux rams,
ley an ,uvanted an 'air ship which Is
have t;ng considerable attention be-
= Eldridge Of Benton township,
J Ihaba county, had a large barn
Nth hay totally destroyed by
fleu THO fire caught from the sparks
u threshing engine.
,wo DAYS, recently, 5000 head OF
~ were shipped from Belle Four
css'' stock on the ranges Is In fine
cue. ,,,,on and 1t Is expected that ship
couu Mi; continue until Christmas
wa,,oce Mattice Of Brookings has
n.a.ad q position as operator in the
is.a of o. p. Taylor, chief train dis
o o".cber at Huron, for the Chicago Il
yyorthwestern line.
Two neweelevators were thrown
=" at Tyndall. This makes eight
u S,n BUYERS at that point, and over
sssno Is being paid out daily for grain
al this market
CHARLES ]. Smith was killed in his
harhar b at Plankinton by having
va ron of his head blown off with "a
snn Whether II was a case or suicide
- an accident II not known.
The general store Of Zimmerman
Harms. Of Wentworth, Lake county,
~as broker into Tuesday evening and
Aha large safe was blown open The
burglars secured $40 In silver. No
GOODS were taken, and no clue to the
robbers.
The Mitchell Dry Goods company's
,,oro M Mitchell was broken into and
ahout $500 worth Of silks we're taken.
The thieves got in by cutting a panel
rt of the rear door and unlocking it
tye men have been arrested on suspi
ion.
Al Huron Judge Campbell has sen,
pne,d John Burns, the man whe
obbed ]. C.. Affords jewelry store, a
few nights ago. 10 one year and eight
months in the penitentiary. Burns
saws Minneapolis Is his home, and that
this Is the nineteenth time he has been
sentenced to serve time in prison.
The largest corn crop in the history
Of Bon Homme county will be gath
cred this yea 1t will be impossible
for the corn-growers TO gather any o
Siderable proportion Of their crop, and
Al present il is impossible to secure
any help, although good wages r
offered.
A paper printed at Terry, one of the
prominent Black Hills mining towns,
says that negotiations are in progress
between prominent mining men and a
party of English capitalists to invest
100000 In a smelter and the develop
ment of their property, or to buy other
producing mines TO keep the plant in
operation with their own ore.
Ii has just been discovered that the
dreaded Russian thistle is a thing OF
the past in the Black Hills. Three
years ago the weed overran the terri
tory along the Elkhorn railroad and in
the valleys. After the first frost the
weeds would break loose from the
gOund and roll across the country
with the prevailing winds, scattering
seeds everywhere. These would burst
foith the following season into great
lunches of the weed. which became a
menace to traffic and agricultural pur-
ssIts. Some efforts were made to de-
stroy II. but the task appeared futile
and discouraging. From some I'M
Known cause, the weeds seem to have
entirely disappeared. and the farmers
are naturally gratified.
information reaches Chamberlain
mat gray wolves have done a vast
amount of damage on the lower Red
Riser range during rho past summer.
Iflor 70 this season the ranchmen have
aaa only the comparatively harmless
nutle coyote TO contend with; but now
tue large buffalo wolf has come down
upon them In large numbers, and is
making havoc with the Bad River
nerds. While all kinds Of stock are
niied and eaten by them, they show a
uecided preference for young colts as
al article of diet. In securing their
quarry they display wonderful sagac-
ny and almost human intelligence.
'Maenever a pack Of wolves discover a
oanu or horses feeding among the
I'VE and u~nderbrush along the river,
.ey Stalk them as skillfully as u hunt
81 would stalk a deer, keeping we'll to
sue ,eeward, SO that no tell-tale scent
suah De carried by the wind to the
ssule nostrils of the horses. Suddenly
Won Will spring from behind a
LUMP Oh bushes, and, with one quick
map, namstring an unsuspectlng colt.
s neu the whole pack will rush in
- s~ong the horses, which gallop away
~ .ue Hills, leaving the helpless colt
~ oe torn to pieces and devoured by
~ me hungry brutes. The stockmen are
y ~ arms against them, and a good
soad nave G shot, trapped and las
Ia out; nevertheless. they appear to
~ eadiiy increasing in numbers.
base united States court, Judge Car
ss.e presiding, adjourned at Pierre,
The remaining In session three days.
hasa only case Of importance coming
%lore toe court was that of Frank NJ.
srr ma VS.. The Chicago & Northwest
foru hallway Company. Thomas was
roaSriy yardmaster at Pierre for the
knoa ana several years ago he was
iao,;aeeu from a moving train by a pro-
su,. warehouse platform. AS a re-
ansoi the accident his eyesight was
ONLY While the loss of sight was
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