Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19

DR.. G.. p. Stannard. one Of the best
known physicians of the Black Hills,
aied at/shpld City Of stomach trouble.
He was BON in Ieitsssonc county, Wis.
tiirty-three years ago 3
Business has been Increasing in Rap
id CITY in the past twelve months. The
postal receipts Of the Rapid City post
office for the fiscal year ending March
81. 1899. was S4,;334. and one year later,
March 81. 1900, the amount was 5000,
an increase Of IL per cent for the year.
Three boys, sons Of e. S. Isgrig. Dan
Powell and j. n. Douglas, while play
ing in a skiif around the ferry boat
Jim Leighton, at Pierre, were caJ,ht
with h wheel and drawn under the
boat for some time, and all were IN
conscious when taken ont. One of the
lsgrig boys was badly bruised, and
while all are in q precarious condition
I, is thought they will recover.
TN, ' total tax collections by the state
far tho sauarter ending March /, were
sago q of which $1S2,5OO goes into
the genera, fund. The law providing
for O. taxes in two equal in
staUments emf she amount about 20
per cent below wat II would have
been on single ~payhn,nts. With full
payments the quarterly sNaturns would
have been the largest fof 'sshe quarter
since statehood. OF the same GeFy.
The Western South Dakota Stock
Growers association was In session at
Rapid City. G.. *. Howard was re~A
elected president and +. NJ. Stuart sec
rotary and treasurer. President How
ard opened the session with an adj
ddreSs. which was responded to by
Mayor Chauncey l.. Wood. A reSOiu-
ton was passed asking the census bu-
reau 10 make a classified census of all
the stock owned by the association.
About 100 cattlenen were in attend
ance.
X. III. Woods, a resident of Putney, is
said to have one more wife than the
law allows. A middle-aged re-
Gently arrived from the East and, 1t is
alleged. made it quite plain TO Mr..
Woods that she was married to him
about thirty-one years ago in Michi-
gan, and that he left her two years lat
er. She has been looking for her tru-
ant husband ever since, and at last To-
Gated him at Tutney, living with a sec
ond Mrs. Woods. who had borne him
three children. A conference was held,
and Wife No. / has taken steps to Sc
cure a divorce in order that Wife No.
. can be legally married. Mr.. Woods
has made Il fair division of the proper
ty. and all appears harmonious.
At the meeting Of the Missouri River
StCckmen's association at Fort Pierre
last week. a committee was appointed
Il confer with the management of the
Chicago, Milwaukee * st. Paul road in
regard TO that company building dams
TO onnect with the system already es-
tabliShed along White river. The ulti-
mate object OF the move is TO arrange
for Il trail with water, from the north
ern part of the range 10 Chamberlain.
and secure a competing point for ship
ments. The cause of this is the claim
Of the stockmen that the Northwestern
road will not grant privileges which the
st. Paul road will give TO them, and q
desire TO ship over the road which will
do the most to eater to the cattle ship
pers. In their resolution for the ap-
Dointmeut of n committee, the associa-
ton took the grounds that local and di-
vision officers Of the Northwestern
have always done the best they could
for shippers, but that the head office
has refused to grant any privileges
whatever. and the complaint is only of
the general management of the road.