Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
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In the erection OF L. ~ 80
building at Sioux Fal oauer coun'
ties in that portion Of TIN S"'e are as
siSting in the work.
Bert Hart. assistant cashier vi tne
Bank of Chamberlain, has been -. '.e
riously missing from his home for tM '
weeks. Mr.. Hart was a quiet young
man. and had the confidence of all who
knew him, and ali are at a loss to ac-
count for his sudden disappearance.
During the next few weeks the Indi-
ans on the Pine Ridge reservation will
be made thousands of dollars richer by
the distribution among them by the
government of 81 each. The money is
due them for the sale of hides and for
interest.
Another cattle company has been or
ganiZed at Pierre, known as the Bad
River Cattle company, with Eeadquar.
tiers at Leon, Stanley county. 1t has a
capital Of $4,000, and is Incorporated
by the MathlesOn family, George ID.
Mathleson being it's head.
A farmers institute association has
been organized in Roberts county. Its
Officers are, William Cook, president;
III. Z. Schus ;ler, secretary. Vice pres
uents have been selected from each
township. 1t is also proposed to hold
the old settlers meeting next June.
The spring term Of the circuit court
commenced in Salem, with Judge Jones
presiding. There are about fifteen
cases. five of which viii be tried by
the court without a jury. Five cases
against the Omaha railroad were con.
tlnued. There are also a few land
cases.
Lloyd Maxwell, q well known young
man, arrested at Sioux Falls on a war.
rant from Des Moines. charging him
with embezZlement from the United
typewriter company, decided to return
TO Iowa without eXtradition papers.
de expresses confidence in being able
to procure bail.
Word has been received at Sper.fish
that the government has appropriated
$4,000 for a fish hatchery located at
that place. This amount will be sufh
cient TO complete all the buildings orig
inally designed. The fish hatchery will
this spring have about 100000 young
fish to plant in the Black Hills
streams.
Woonsocket promises TO be the lead
ing racing center of South Dakota.
Thirty-one trotting and running horses,
most of them thOroughbreds. have gone
into training there. The race track, al
ready n good one. viii be put i'm splen-
hid condition. There are a number of
thoroughbred trotting stations here,
and the increased demand for standard
pred roadsters has put new life into the
horse industry.
The farmers around Pierre will put
in double the acreage of corn this year
That was planted last year, and the
wheat acreage win suffer accordingly.
Corn is proving the sTlrer and more
profitable crop. and in harvesting it, |,
is cut and run through a thresher,
which cleans the grain and leaves the
stalks for forage in such shape that
they are all eaten by cattle. which will
leave hay for the stalks.
Articles of incorporation have beeG
filed for the Electric Loom company,
at BrOokingS. with a capital of $780,
0C0: incorporatOrs, Albert Berry. Geo.
A. Beatty. Louis \. Fuller, J. +. Cheev.
ar and Walter NJ. Cheever. For the
Consolidated Automatic Machine com.
ranv, at Bookings, with Il capital OF
81. 100000; incorporators, ]. A. Chess
man, George q. s.. Merry. Louis N.
Fuller. ]. z. Cheever and Walter NJ,
Cheever.
A number of gentlemen in Pierre re-
Gently, In a general talk. estimated the
tpring shipments to that city. and the
lowest figure was put at 1900 head.
while other estimates went to $4,000
head. with the statement that this
might be exceeded. Several individual
rhipDers will bring in from 1000 to
1000 head alone. and the smaller ship
bers will bring this up to the estimated
lumber.
An error i'm issuing the call for the
Republican state convention is likely TO
result in contrasting delegations, as the
central committee allowed two
delegates-at-lar for each Of the coun-
ties OF Presho Il Pratt, besides the
regular delegatl based on the regular
vote in those counties. The coded por-
items Of the two counties were consol-
dated as integral parts Of Lyman
county DN the clecllDH Oh 1000. lHtIt
still exist a Presho and a Pratt county
on the south side OF the White river.
and there are a few white people there
as agency employees. Those people
could. of curse hold a convention and
send delegates for Prcsho and Pratt
counties. and would undoubtedly be
by the convention. The central
Of Lyman county has is
sued a call for a county convention OF
the entire county. which, Of course. in
cludes all of the settled portions of the
original Presho and Pratt counties. 1t
is the Intention of this convention to
choose delegates from each of the
counties. as per call. Some OF
the voters of the former counties have
to issue separate calls for
each Of those counties (which in fact do
not EXIST The result will be plenty OF
work for the committee on credentials
the coming state convention, and
result in bad feeling among the
parts of the county. The
whole matter Is the direct result Of the
failure OF the state central committee
to recognize the present dimensions OF
the trans-M Missouri counties.
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