Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-04-29
I'M SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting Views Items From al
over the State.

SELF on having bfouSh1 nN
warrants up tp par.
Valley Springs horsemen are expect
ing some good race meets IN thal place
during the summer.
Aurora is considerably wrought up
oYer a scandal connected Win the
wife of a prominent h~oteikeeper OF
that place.
Gen. Maris Taylor, the newly ap-
pointed public examiner, has opened an
office nj Huron.
County Treasurer Fylpaa OF BroWa
county last week sent State Treasurer
Phillips $1,000 of state taxes collect
cd in that county.
The creamery nj De Smet O b
year 1896 paid on an average nearly
$1,000 monthly 20 patrons. This ~ Dur
one OF the eight c~re2Tner1es IN opera
ton in kingsbury county.
1t is understood .bat,t the ~postoffice at
Clay Point is ~ be discontinued and
its mails be delivered at Greenfield.
The w offices are only two niles
apart.
The supreme court has granted a
new trial 10 William c. Dawson, VINO
is in the p~enitentiary on a life SEN
tencc for the murder OF n ranchman
named Glen In Butte county.
The Black His conference of b M.
f. Church viii hold its annual minis
terial association at Edgmont this
wear. The exact date has Lot yet been
set, hut it win probably be about the
LIST Of May.
-. Al.ra. ,-I1 lsyn- noar Cham
berlain. while ia that place a short
time ago, said ne had lost over sixty
head of sheep with grubs in the head,
and that he had applied all the known
remedies without avail.
The Dell Rapids creamery received,
during January, 163,169 pounds OF
milk and paid patrons an average price
of -; cents per hundred pounds for
milk. or about II IL cents per pound
for butter.
The state convention Of the South
Dakota Sunday School association vii.
meet at Madison on May II. II and
Is. IL should be understood that every
Sunday school in the state is entitled
TO representation at the convention.
j. Keller, who has for years been
engaged in The dry goods business at
Sturgis. has assigned 10 the Meade
County bank. The liabilities are said
TO he about $4,000, while the assets
will only reach about $4,000.
The estimated loss on bridges in
Clay county is ;liout $4,000. There
are about thirty large and small out,
some of which will not be replaced. An
effort will he made by the commission
ers 10 rebuild those that are absolute
ly necessary as soon as possible.
The John Gund Brewing company Of
La Crosse, Wis, is erecting a large
warehouse at HUI IN with cold storage
apartment. 1t viii be completed in
time for use when the new liquor IL
n law goes into effect.
The private banking firm Of Albright,
Smith a Dye, which has conducted
business in Tyndall for the past four
teen years, has been dissolved by mu-
tual consent, j. A. Albright retiring.
Business will be conducted by Smith,
Dye & Co.
Sturgis has recently organized a
commercial club with a membership of
twenty-six. who have the best interests
VI nv NiAs ~ ANsSAA anu VITA hV lhNlA
best to promote the general welfare.
The first direction their energy will
take will be toward the subject of
good roads.
A freight train just out OF Alexandria
last week ran upon a spread in the
rails. The engine and forward cars
passed the break safely but seven ears
and the caboose left the rails. The
cars that had passed the break were
pulled into the next station by the en-
CINE and help sent to clear the track.
Last week while the Milwaukee ro-
taries were digging through the snow
on the Hastings x Dakota division one
of tie machines spent t~wenty-four
hours Of hard work in getting through
1.5U feet of drifted To- in a cut near
Bath.
Bookings county has offered for sale
$1,000 in q per cent county bonds, run
ming ten years with n five-year option
al clause, for the building Of a county
Jail. The argument that it wouldn't
pay was met by the friends of the inn
provement that the five prisoners kept
at Huron for the last term of court
cost the county $1,000.
Mrs. w. A. Burgess of White had a
narrow escape from coal gas suffoca-
ton a short time ago. During the night
the strong wind which was blowing
suddenly shifted and her room was
filed with gas. In he morning when
she tried TO get up she tainted and was
found unconscious by the neighbors.
Roy RosencrGnz, son of a Lyman
county farmer, was blown to pieces by
the explosion OF a piece Of dynamite
which had in some way become mixed
with wood used for cooking purposes.
Rosencranz and two sons were at work
some distance away, and Roy was pre-
pairing supper when the explosion oc-
CURED. The house was completely
wrecked.
Andrew j.. Nelson, a young farmer
living near Hurley, was out on a pleas
ure excursion, and. becoming fright
ened at the wind and the loss of an
oar. tipped over the boat, and threw
y. A. Jensen and wife and himself into
Lake Wolf. Jensen was a swimmer.
and saved his wife, but he could not
saw Nelson. The coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict of accidental drown
ing.
Col. III. Ray Myers, late mayor and
assistant city attorney and treasurer
OF Huron, has instituted PROCEEDINGS