Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-08-26
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items froni -"
over the state.

! Private David O'Reilly, Troop ~,
Eighth cavalry. Fort Meade, ). d., mas
been ordered ~dishonorably discharged.
The Old Settlers association OF Al.
rora county will hold their first annuai
reunion in Plankinton, Sept. 20.
Mr.. Fred Rogers. late of Vermillion,
J and a successful teacher in the pushc
schools. is dead at Ann Arbor, MICH.
The eight-year-old-son-o s. j. Mace
| M Watertown, while at play recently,
drank a ~teacupful of gasoline, anu
death resulted in a few hours.
The Great Northern depot Mt Aper,
deem was broken into recently anu
thoroughly ransacked. A small sum Oh
money was taken.
The Lutheran church which Was
burned down at Memo a few weeks
ago. is being rebuilt on the same
ground and about the same value.
Stacking is all done in the vicinity OF
| Beresford, and threshing has com
menced. The yield is not heavy put
the quality is good.
The weather for the last few weeks
has been very favorable for harvest
ing around Memo, and the work Is
about completed. Some are making
preparations for threshing.
Jewett Bros wholesale grocery store
at Aberdeen was broken into recently
J and considerable property stolen, most.
" cigars. The police have arrested
several suspects.
John Babcock of Webster took a
dose of %strychnine and died in a rev
minutes. The young man was a son
OF the late Jess Babcock, a respected
! pioneer of this state.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Deadwood Building ana
Loan association, with a capital or
100000. Directors, j. +. Edmunds.
Sol Starr, A. w. Coe, j. +. Hymer,
John Baker, Ben Baer, John Baggaly.
The Democratic committees met at
Mitchell to select a date for holuIng a
convention for the Fourth judicial cir
cult. The convention is TO be held In
Mitchell, Sept. 10th, the date of the
Populous convention.
Thomas Coniff died at Lead, as the
result of injuries received two days be-
fore. He was a brakeman on an ore
| train in the mine. He caught his foot
in a frog and was pinched between
| two cars, causing internal injuries. He
was young and single.
Fire started in Yoerger & Purtitts'
meat market at Beresford, and got
| well under way before the fire compa-
ny arrived. BY heroic efforts the FIRE
was extinguished, although the entire
building is charred. No insurance on
the building.
Seventeen candidates were confirmed
in the Catholic faith at the Benedic-
tine convent in Yermillion recently.
Right Rev. Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux
Falls was present in charge OF the SER
vices. Representatives from most OF
the South Dakota missions were pres
ent, ~seventy-fve sisters in all.
The Bon Homme county normal in
J stitute convened at Tyndall with a
/ large attendance of teachers. Prof. w.
III. Dempster Of Madison, is conductor,
with Professors j.. A. McLouth, of
Springfield; Il. j. Tshantz of Scotland,
, and w. A. Shurtleff of Mitchell, as as
sistants.
The fall cattle shipments have begun
in earnest from the different shipping
centers. Six train loads left Belle
Fourche in Il day recently, and a like
number from Brennan and Oelrichs, a
majority of its consignments being
made to Omaha. A greater proportion
of the shipments will be two weeks
later than usual this fall.
The government artesian well struck
at the Lower Brule Indian agency
takes its place as one of the famous
artesian wells of South Dakota. 1t is
six inches in diameter, and the force is
sufficient to throw d solid six-inch
stream to a height of twenty feet
above the top Of the casing. 1t is the
first artesian well west of the Nilsson
ri river struck in this section.
The sheriff arrested a cowboy named
Courthouse at Redfield, charged with
running off horses belonging to anoth-
er party. Courthouse came from the
Black Hills with a large herd, and has
been selling in the vicinity OF Redfield.
Israel Calkins made complaint, and the
First National Bank of Custer is the
interested party. About seventy head
of horses are alleged 60 have been run
off.
An extended trip through the coun-
ties adjacent to Hughes, in which Is
located the capital of the state, show
that recent rains have made a failure
of crops impossible. Wheat lis the best
known in years, and is already being
harvested. Nothing but verv early
frosts can prevent a corr yield that is
unsurpassed, ever by the Jim River
valley, heretofore known as the corn
belt Of the state. The grass yield Is
immense. Thousands of tons are
ricked up all over these counties, and
thousands more will be after harvest is
over.
The government crop report for the
week says: In the most southern coun-
ties the oat and spring wheat harvest
Is about completed; stacking is general
and some little threshing has been
done. AS indicated in former bullet
ms, the wheat crop is very uneven:
some very good, some fair and some
poor, and some of the late-sown Will
not be cut because Of thin stand and
encroachment of weeds during the re.
cent wet spell. There Is a general re-
port, however, except in a few locali-
ties, that the berry is plump and of
good quality.