Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-05-06
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
I~uterestIn: NeTs Items From sH
aver the STATE

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mence operations thfs week.
Ella Point FIXES saloon licenses at the
highest amount allowed 10y Law.
one os the delayed mails brought
over 10N0c letters to Yankton post
offer.
III. A. Williams. an old settler of
Deli Rapids led suddenly. He vas
& veteran auG = prominent ODD Fellow.
More cattle have been drowned IN
White river this spring than AVE died
from other causes.
A large force 81 men have been en-
gagged 10 reIrIir.nS the railroad track
between ycrEillian and Yankton.
An OIiyet man shot 4 pelican last
week which WAS eight feet and eight
inches frCu tip 10 tip Of It's wings.
The specimen was mounted.
The commissioners Of Turner county
estimate that II win cost $500 TO re-
place the bridges washed out during
the late high water.
Articles Of Incorporation have Deen
filed for the Scotland Creamery com
pany, with a capital Of $1,000. For
the James River hank Of Frankfort,
capital 5000
The Beresferd nill and electric light
plant wa sold { L. y. Grin and ". a.
Field ofIiichlaGd and Louis Wagner
OF LenEnnX. who viii proceed az once
TO put the plant In active operation.
Alexandria prides herself on there
not being a vacant dwelling house in
town Thar is a record that II would
be well If many more OF 0 cities
could claim.
A Missouri bottom la3d farmer Of
this state says that he has known corn
10 be planted On The bottom lands as
late as June Is and then make a fair
crop.
Scotland merchants have been com
PEELED 10 have their goods shipped 70
Memo and from there are making
trips by team via 0liyet, n much extra
expense.
The court house at Rapid City was
almost totally destroyed by fire, which
started IN the sheriTS Office. The build
ing WAS three stories high and cost
$4,000. Insurance, $1,000. The rec
ords were not damaged.
John Spong was arrested AZ Huron
On a warrant sworn out by Airs. Hilda
Remish, charging Aim with keeping Il
gambling house and selling hVU7r
without a license. Judge Kent held
him 60 BAH In the sum Of 5000.
Evan GeraiIscn and Christ Souder.
living hear Memo, were both severely
hurt by being kicked by vicious horses
z few days ago. The former was I'M
conscious for nearly an hour. They
are both recovering.
The petition for a new iron bridge
across the Jim river at Oliyet is being
quite generally signed. The old wood
en- structure, although yet in position.
Is so much racket that il would cost
more than il is worth to repair il.
Potter county is considering the es-
tabiishment of 6 3oo- farm or home.
They consider that the establishment
would be q saving to the county IL il
were properly cared for and the poor
Of the comfy viii be much better off.
The case brought by Mrs. Wander
bule against the Salvation Army al
Yankton, charging them with being a
public nuisance, was dismissed by
States Attorney Faux without preiu
dice, with the consent OF the plaintiff.
Roadmaster Frank Green Of the
Great Northern division between Pine
stone and Yankton, has been promoted
TO a division on the same road. run.
ming from Wiimar TO Breckenridge,
MINI. His headquarters viii be ut
Wilmar.
Two Brookings men. one the mana
ger of the creamery, are manufacture
ing a preparation which will take the
taste and odor of wild onions, etc.,
from the cream, without irnparting any
other taste or injuring the grain of the
butter. The wild onion has been the
source Of much vexation 10 creamery
men In the west.
An explosion occurred in the Home
mine at Lead which resulted i'm
one fatality. Sam Matson and Isaac
Terio, two miners, were tamping a hole
by pounding powder into II with a
hammer. The powder exploded and
the two men were fe%arfully mangled.
MattsOn died from his injuries and
no hope is entertained for Terio.
Young peoples speaking contests
viii occur at Alexandria next month.
The contest viii be between McCook
and Hanson counties. The speakers
all hold first prizes for their respective
counties, and this contest will decide
the supremacy between the two coun-
ties.
The citizens Of Madison and Lake
county loaded a ear holding 1000 bush
els or corn, contributed for the relief
OF the starving people in India. ON
Saturday, May 1, this corn, with much
will be loaded on a vessel in New
York and shipped direct TO the suffer
ers.
o. f. Heath. the missing treasurer OF
Hecla. has been heard from. He has
arranged for money to settle his short
age, and the cash win be paid through
his attorney as soon as the exact sum
can be determined upon by the audit
ing committee.
The attention OF the people of Red
field is now centered on the big arte-
sian well north of town. The low
struck late Friday night has steadily
increased until it now measures 3!so
gallons per minute and rises in a solid
column fourteen feet above the ION
or the eight-inch pipe. This wen
means much to Redfield, as it's energy
estimated az seventy horse power. win
be used IN running the dynamos of tho
a. l.A-t III t1Ihy fIn