Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-12-06

charge of a gun in the hands of a COM
panion.
Burglars entered Dwight's general
store at Canistoria and removed about
$500 worth of clothing. A vigorous
effort is being made to capture the
thieves.
An athletic club has been organized
at Grafton. Arthur Kraft is president,
Paul Hoppy vice president, Leonard
Wagner secretary and Roy Wyllie
treasurer.
l.. S. Foster of Hot Springs collected
bounties for twenty-five gray wolves,
eighteen copotes and two black wolves.
The latter are especially rare. They
were all killed in the Red river basin,
twenty miles from Rapid City.
The seventeen-year-old son of Jack
Walsh, living five miles south of Brad
ley, accidentally shot himself while
passing through a barb wire fence. He
was found by his brother and brought
home, living only a few hours.
A test case will be brought by the
township boards of Sanborn county to
determine whether the counties or the
townships must pay the cost of regis
tering voters. All the counties in the
state will be Interested in the outcome.
AT a special election at Mellette the
voters decided by a vote of 70 to 1 to
issue bonds in the sum of 5000, to draw
not to exceed Z per cent interest, for
the purpose of sinking an artesian we'll
to furnish water for domestic and fire
protection purposes.
Two of the toughs who broke Jail at
Flandreau, Lee and Brown, have been
caught. Brown was found at a farm
house near Madison. Lee was caught
north of Madison, where he has friends
and relatives. These men are wanted
for robberies committed at Egan about
a month ago.
One of the most important matters to
come before the state legislature this
winter will be the question of setting
aside a sum for the collection of relics,
documents, etc, bearing on the early
history of the region now embraced
within the state. Doane Robinson Will
push this legislation.
Several farmers at Miller have lost
cattle by turning them into the corn
| stalks. The veterinary surgeon says
that the poison Is in the pith of the
| stalk. Several cattlemen are. feeding
| steers for the Eastern market. TWO
good artesian wells have been put down
by individuals farmers.
Every stamp in the mills of the
| Homestake Mining company Is now
dropping ore. something that has not
been lone for a long time. Every miner
and mill man is getting fun time ana
a number of extras have been put on.
Their are now about 800 miners ana
mill men at work Inc the company Is
paving out monthly about $2oO,ooo In
wages.
A Scotland capitalist named Parmen-
ter. who has been granted a francnlse
for putting in an electric light plant at
Sioux Falls, has received the plans ana
specifications for the new plant, Whlch
will be frst-class in ever y~particular.
1t is his purpose to have a dynamo OF
sufficient power to operate pruning
presses and other machinery. work on
the new plant will soon begin.
The great Homestake Mining COM
many has completed its new water often
which Is to furnish the stamp mills,
cyanide plants and the cities Of Lead
ana Iledu" III L
steam pumps started to work for the
erst time this week. pumping the water
over a hill 400 feet high. The company
now has an everlasting supply of water
which will mean the doubling OF the
o,,tn,,t of the mines within a very short
time.
The Black Hills, according to h. Nj.
Griffith, a field assistant In the loreSc
reserve division of the department. Vi
agriculture, has the best bodies Oh P'"o
! tir,ber to be found in any OF the re-
serves In the United States. There are
/ o11 ESQ acres in this reserve, ana our
tho tba mast summer 1900 acres were
arafuIlv examined and every standihs
.raa was measured in order TO give an
idea of the future supply OF timber,
Sunt Sherrard of the South Dakota
ob;ldren,s home in Sioux kalls' an
nn,,ncas that the society has on mana
.,,mciant money with which TO lnci"so
~ new building for the home now III
ra,,rsa of construction in that CITY, ou'
that n will be necessary TO raise 20
80, .so,,sand dollars more with Whicb
- oomnIete the interior OF the struct'
- work on the new home is pro-
araes;ng sioux Falls jasper VIII DC tha
material throughout, backed ~
brick. The basement has neeh cu' III
into four large rooms, two OF Wn'.n
he used as children's play rooms 80
~ winter season, while the other W.
viii he used for laundry purposes, me
vain norton of the building whl %
asxao feet on the ground, Wi,
ta,n the basement. two full stor'es
ahoya II besides an attic. Inc slte !.
az nav home gives a view OF the emu
ei,y and also a sweep for miles up anu
down the valley of the Blk SIOUX
The next tract of Indian iaha
onanad TO settlement in South pako
viii he a strip along the eastern emu =
the Rosebud reservation IN "l
.o,ntv An effort viii be mace uui
The coming session of congress
cure authority for the appoi't
a commission to treat with lns COR
| indians on the Rosebud resersa,
NE surrender of all lard now 1900
- them which extends INTO 20.
county. This, IL successful w. cot
sun in the opening to homes ssins 81
cement of about twenty toWna land
dee,ra ble agricultural ana GRAMS