Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-17
SOUTH DAKOTA.

grants coming into South Dakota on
every train. w
l)r. Is. A. Wade is the new pbysician
OF the soldiers home in Hot Springs
succeeding DR.. Whitfield.
The Cleopatra Mining will
open a new wagon road up Souaw
creek from Maurice to the Black Hills.
Inc license fol- indoor au%ctioneering
mas been declared invalid in Canton
by the city attorney.
Ardoch has instituted a lodge of
Catnoil Foresters, with q chatter menu
bership of thirty two.
A pardon has been granted TO s. r.
Einery, sent to the ~penitentiary q year
ago for grand larceny.
Sheep are coming through the win
Yer lolling fat, and have required but
little care thus far.
Inc new bank at Bathgate is incor-
porated under the name Farmers Ex-
change State Bank of Bathgate.
Two new implement firms have just
started in business in Vermilion, max
Ing four in all.
Three Yankton county prisoners es-
capped from Jail by prying apart the
iron bars. They are supposed to have
crossed the river into Nebraska.
The Bank of Dresden, located at n
or the new towns in Cavalier county,
is incorporated, with a capital Of So
600.
1T is possible that brick for the new
buildings AT the hospital for the insane
may be manufactured at the peniten-
tiary.
The preliminary report of the insur-
ance department, showing all business
done In the state during 1897, is about
ready for publication.
II. A. Townsend, county commits
sioner and a prominent farmer. died
suddenly nea DE Smet. lie went eut
TO milk the cows and fell dead from
heart disease.
The Scotland Creamery company is
reported as being in a hor rishing con-
dition, having lately secured 800 cows
for h separator, which will begin
! operations this spring.
Immense quantities of potatoes are
being shipped out from Huron. There
were buyers here Tuesday from Des
AoAAN II SHtN ahu ~ "
The price paid Is 30 cents er bushel.
Hot Springs people are confident of
securing the location of the national
! sanitarium fof old soldiers, h South
Dakota senators having written that
the bin is in good condition.
A. Peterson, q farmer living near
| Ashton, was found dead recently, and
Ii is thought that he was murdered.
! He had been selling cattle, and 1t Is
supposed he was killed for his money.
Nels Albertson, e well known busi-
ness man Of Chamberlain, died sudden
i ly of consumption. He was formerly
| in business at Mitchell, where his sis
ter resides.
Chief of Police c. II. Huntley OF
Huron has resigned his position, n
is preparing to start for the gold fields
| of Alaska in company with others
from that city.
In the Coulter drug store case at
Steede, Judge Winchester gave b de-
fendant possession of the store on pay
ment of costs TO Jan. II, and the fur
nishing of a bond of $500, the case to
be tried at the June term.
The Burleigh county commissioners
have refused TO cancel taxes levied
against the property of the Bismarck
Water Supply company, and refused
| to compromise the taxes for 1897. The
| COMPROMISE does not always go.
Fifty-two candidates were taken INTO
! full membership in the A. o.. Y. w.
| lodge at Arlington recently. a bounte
| GUS banquet was served at the Mat
| thews and Arlington houses, about 10
participating.
The ice in the Missouri river ut
| Chamberlain is broken up, and boats
will be running in a few days. The
present breakup is the earliest for
| more than ten years. Last season II
| occurred March 20.
Meetings of farmers and others are
bejrr held at Violin to consider q prop
( osition for the erection of g beet sugar
mandatory. 1t is represented that II
the farmers will agree TO put IN o.ooV
/ acres of beets a factory will be bullt.
over 800 has been donated 10 the
citizens of Vermillion TO be given az
prizes at the Trans-Mississippl eXposl
, ton for some class OF farm
! CLAY county will place q hne eNhipi'
: in the South Dakota building.
The new Delaware shaft being put
down by the Deadwood u Delaware
COMPANY. in the s%outhcrly part oil
Ruby basin. has reached a depth OF
oe0 feet. The material is still hard
! porphry, with no indications OF a
/ change.
Henry Miller, son OF a well-to-do
farmer and charcoal manufacturer OF
| Cedar county, Nebraska, while at
,mptjng to cross the Missouri river AT
Yankton. went through the rotten ice
and was drowned. His body mas not
| been recovered.
TIE Gam Valley Cooperative Cream
cry company was organized recently
and elected rs directors George >. Mel
SON M. w. Marshall, I. w. Lane, w.
! w wells and J.. b. Ingerson. Ihey
Will lot the contract for the plant Dol
and M to have a first-class cream
cry in operation this summer.
Farmers are busiiy engaged prepar-
/ ing for the spring work at brookings.
os ,he warm weather of the past rev
davs has pu, the ground in excellent
condition for seeding. Quite an acre,
| ass has already been dragged over anu
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