Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-05-27
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The Texas Legislature has passed the
Uniform ext book bill.
The court of appeals at st. Louis has
decided that bicycles are not baggage.
Twenty thousand people are gath
ering the strawberry crop at SarcoXie,
Nc.
Sharles Case has been appointed re-
ceiver of the Eastern Rubber company
at Trenton, n. j.
The discovery of placer gold on the
town site of Nelson, b. g., has caused
considerable excitement and brought
in a number of gravel miners.
The senate has confirmed the nom
ination of William w. Morrow of Cal
ifornia to be United States circuit
judge of the Ninth district.
August Belmont has ordered a $4,000
statue of his favorite nc rse, Henry of
Navarro. He is a generous patron of
the turf, and can afford it.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune,
a body of ore has been struck in the
Emerald mine which yields as much
as V inc or S125 in gold, not
to mention the argentiferous values.
The gunboat Alert win leave San
Francisco for Sitka In a few days to
tOw the old war vessel Pinta from the
North TO the rotten row at Mare Is
land.
The fine farm house. barn inc much
grain and hay OF John Gassney of JEFF
ftrson. Iowa, has burned; loss about
$1,000; Insurance. $500 A lantern
exploded.
II is reported that the death of j..
a. Rhomberg will result in the con
solidation of the two street railway
lines in Dubuque. Neither of the lines
Is making money.
n. ]. Jefferson. OF the attorney gen
erals office at Madison, Wis, has fore
closed on the light guard armory at
Eau Claire. The state holds a mort
gage OF $4,000.
In the Seven Devils distrist in Ida
no. to which several railroads are con-
templating the building Of branches
for the business of hauling the copper
ores, 1t Is claimed that there are In
sight $4,000 tons of ore in one mine.
Southern Oregon will have an i'm
mense fruit crop this season. The
country around Ashland alone will
produce 100 car loads of peaches and
in all there will be $500 carloads of
fruit to sell.
A Rawlins dispatch says the firm of
A. j. Knollin a. Co. of Omaha ana
Kansas City. is sending a representa-
tive to Oregoa to purchase 100000
sheep to be trailed from Oregon to
Kansas and Nebraska.
Cornelius Curran of Baltimore and
G. r. Dunn of Huntington. Ind, both
delegates to the conductors conven-
ton at Los Angeles, have mysterious
ly disappeared, leaving absolutely no
clue to their whereabouts.
ID. Il Martin, manager OF passenger
traffic of the Baltimore IL Ohio. con-
firmed the rumor that ID. s. Wilder. of
the Big -Four, would become division
passenger agent of the Baltimore Il
Ohio at Columbus, Ohio, on June /.
Contracts have been let for a second
system of electric railway In Miiwau-
kee comprising 100 miles of road. be-
ginning at Waukesha and going
through the city to the northern sub
nrbs- William s. Reed 4 Co. OF Chi
cago secured the contract.
The greatest strike ever made in the
camp al Ell Dora has been encountered
in the Enterprise. which gave a return
of about sos in a two-foot width, and
subsequent returns gave a running of
$500, in which the vein is growing
stronger and richer with development.
The new law OF Idaho as to placer
locations provides that the locator
must place q post or at
each corner. and within fifteen DAYS
after making the location make an ex-
cavation Of not less that 100 cubic feet
for the purpose Of prospecting.
A London syndicate has purchased,
for 100000. from A. f. Humphreys.
]. ID. Farrell and Capt. NJ. ID. Moore.
all of Spokane, and w. q. Yakeys or
Detroit, Mich. a group of mines COM
posed Of the Idaho. Alamo, Cumber-
land. Concentrator and Tramway. To-
Gated In the immediate vicinity OF
Three Forks, in the SLOGAN district