Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-28
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The National Irrigation congress
meets at Missoula, Mont, Sept. %.
The national Colored Baptist conven-
ton has selected Richmond, Va, as the
next meeting place.
II. J.. Reams has been elected nation
al agent of the Chicasaw Nation at
Ardmore, Ind. Il.
G. G. Ryan of New Goshen, Ind,
has found copper ore on his farm and
is investigating further.
Leading Odd Fellows are assembling
in Detroit, Mich, for the seyenty-tifth
anniversary jubilee of the order.
Mayor Jones of Toledo, in his annual
message to the city council, advocates
municipal ownership and free baths.
The Dewey home fund has reached
the $4,000 mark, and is expected to
pass the $4,000 mark in a few days.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ended Sept. IA were $545,-
600, same period last year, S511,000.
The viii of the late Cornelius Wand
erbilt will not be probated until the re-
turn of Alfred Vanderbilt from Europe.
Work on the extension Of the In
diana Southern railway into the union
station at Terre Haute will begin at
once.
The Steger & Singer Piano company
of Chicago has taken its $50 employees
into partnership on the cooperative
plan.
Gen. John b. Gordon has declined to
allow New Orleans confederate veter-
onc ~ vnh,,;II his hn,nn ,annn+1r 40
stroyed by fire.
The International Brotherhood of
Stationary engineers, in convention at
st. Louis, has decided to meet at Pc
oria, ILL.,, next year.
Rock Island, Ill, officials offer re.
wards of $50 for the arrest of horse
thieves, S25 for cattle thieves, and SIS
Ter poultry thieves.
Lake Manawa, the Omaha resort,
has been acquired by a st. Louis SYM
dictate, which will conduct it next year
on an extensive scale.
The Association Of Iron and Steel
Sheet manufacturers has advanced the
price of sheet from $40 to 1925 a
ton, to take effect at once.
Gen, III. v. Boynton is in Chatta-
nooga as representative Of the govern
ment to accept the Indiana monument
to be dedicated at Chickamauga.
Sixteen copper mines in Houghton
county, Mich, have been assessed for
taxation at $149,300,0O0 while the
county is assessed at only $42.O00,O 900.
The appraisal of the personal prop
erty of the late Roswell p. Flower
puts its value at So. 7S1, 969 on the
basis of what stocks were worth May
u last.
The British steamer Angalo cleared
from New Orleans with 16S.172
bushels Of corn and 100000 bushels OF
oats. This is the largest cargo of grain
ever taken from that port.
The United Railways company has
filed with the secretary of state Of
Missouri a certificate Of increase Of
its capital from 100000 to A 10000
600. The fee paid VAS $4,000.
An order temporarily restraining the
enforcement of the department store
law, enacted at the recent session of
the Missouri state legislature, was
issued by Judge Zachritz at st. Louis.
The National Steel Company OF
Youngstown, Ohio, has let contracts
for four furnaces to be erected at once,
at Youngstown, one at Newcastle,
Pa, and two at Mlngo Junction, Ohio.
The proprietors of the new Madison
hotel ut Toledo, Ohio, which is to be
one of the largest in the West. an
nounc that the plan includes free au-
tomobile service, the first hotel EN-.
Lloying the machines.
Prof Swingle, Of the agricultural
department has gone to California for
the purpose Of giving the fg growers
of that state who are attempting to
propagate the Smyrna variety OF figs,
the benefit of his information on this
subject.
The Standard Oil company has filed
its answer to the petition of the attor-
ney general of the State OF Nebraska
In the case brought under the antitrust
law TO restrain the company from do,
Ing business In thu state. The company
In its answer deiies that 1t IL In any
sense o trust.