Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-17
South Dakota.

Mrs. Matilda Bauman Of Lead has
been adJudged insane by the board OF
insanity, and was sent to the Yankton
asylum.
Day County, with a total vote of q
B27 has 10,096 horses and 13,947 cattle,
showing that the farmers there do not
place their entire dependence upon
wheat and other grain.
Joseph Ward, for several years in the
train dispatcher's office Of the c.. NJ. &
st. p, In Aberdeen. has accepted a po-
sition as train dispatcher on the Great
Northern at Grand Forks.
Parties who circulated a petition in
Bradley to cur the necessary num-
Der of signatures permitting the start
Ing of a saloon there, did not succeed
In obtaining a single signature.
The first threshing report of the sea-
son is made by Il. NJ. Boyce, a Lincoln
County farmer, who says his barley
yielded an average of twenty bushels
per acre, and that the quality was ex-
tellent.
An increased attendance is expected
at the State University at Vermillion
this fall and next winter. The faculty
has been added to, and the buildings
are undergoing Improvements which
will add to the comfort Of the stud ants.
Isaac Lincoln has closed a deal with
Lee q Prentiss of Aberdeen, by which
he disposes Of 200 head of fine young
cattle, to be delivered in October. 9th
er buyers buyers are securing the
country trying to close deals, but find
it difficult to do so.
A small force of men is engaged in
making preparations for the renewal
by the government of work upon the
improvement Of the Missouri river at
| Fort Pierre. This will commence as
soon as the water has subsidized sufh-
GENTLY. 1t Is understood that conSid-
! cradle work will be done by the gov
| eminent on the head of Marion island.
near Fort Pierre.
Although the sentiment Of the citi-
Zens of Fairview is said to be practi-
| cally unanimously opposed to saloons,
a license for such an institution has
been granted there. The party who de-
| sired to start the saloon hired a lawyer,
| who addressed the town board, and
| convinced the members that the new
law permitted saloons there. The Ii
cense was fixed at $500 per annum.
While the town Of Niobrara is on the
| Nebraska side of the Missouri river,
| opposite Running Water, s. d., it con-
| tributed a number of soldiers to the
| First regiment, South Dakota volun-
| teers. A citizens meeting has been
| called at Niobra on Wednesday Of this
| week to make arrangements for a suit
| able greeting to their young soldiers
when the South Dakota regiment re-
turns from the Philippines.
Kirk G.. Phillips of Deadwood has
asked Gen. Beadle, president of the
Madison State normal scnool, to assist
| him in making the selection of a young
woman for the free scholarship which
has peer promised by the president OF
| the New York Original School of In
| dustrial Design for Women. Gen. Bea-
| die will do the recommending and Mr..
| Phillips will appoint the person.
| Many applications have come from the
| Eastern part Of the state.
The police of Lead are having q
| nard time to clear out the tramps. No
| fewer than twenty took possession Of
| the city. eight of whom were arrested.
! They were taken to the rock pile by
| the police force, but they refused TO
/ work. They were then told to go, and
| six Of them went, but two Of them said
| they we're not at all dissatisfied with
| the Lead treatment, as far as provis-
| ions went, and they would as soon
| stay awhile in charge of the police.
| The city officers are seeking some way
| to make the tramDs 90.