Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-05-30
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Reports from all sections give fair &C
counts of the crop outlook.
An earthquake shock was felt re-
Gently in a number of towns in Ohio
and West Virginia, but nc damage was
done.
The American Smelling and refining
company has filed certificates with the
Colorado secretary of state increasing
its capital stock from $65, 000, 900 to $780,
900. 900.
Vice Chancellor Pitney in Jersey City
signed the order dissolving the i~njunc-
tion restraining the Amalgamated Cop
per company from absorbing the Bos-
ton g. Montana and Butte & Boston
companies.
The suit against Sam Strong, a
wealthy Cripple Creek mine owner, for
500, 900 damages, which has been on
trial in the district court in Denver for
over three weeks, ended in a verdict for
the defendant.
Stanford university's faculty has lost
another member because of the resig-
nation of Prof. Ross under pressure.
Prof. II. D. Lathrop rendered his res
ignatioa and stated he had accepted a
chair in the University of Wisconsin.
After a conference by correspondence
between the officers and executive COM
mittee of the irrigation congress it has
been decided to postpone h annual
meeting, which was to have been held
In Colorado Springs in July, for one
year.
Though he made his fortune of $50, 00o
"a che calnnp h,cinacs Charles A Strono
of New Brunswick, n. j., willed the
bulk Of his estate to the Y. NJ. C. A..
Rutgers college. the Children's Indus
pital.
The state supreme court of Colorado
has decided that the city Of Leadville
owns the mineral rights under land
transferred to the city for streets and
alleys. The decision, it is expected, Will
give the city possession of some yalua-
BILE mines.
The big damaged thirteen-inch gun
was removed from the lower section of
the double turret of the battleship
Kearsarge and the new gun installed.
1t took five weeks work and an expend-
iture Of $4,000 to get the disabled gun
from its position.
Victor, Goldfeld, Altman and Ana
conda, four towns in the Cripple Greek
district of Colorado, are threatened
with a water famine by the bursting of
the dam at the Victor reservoir at
Pixies Peake. The dam contained Co.
900, 900 gallons of water.
The national convention of the Delta
Gamma council concluded at Lincoln,
Neb., with a banquet. Delegates We're
present from colleges as far west as
Leland Stanford and east to h ATTAIN
tic. 1t was decided to hold the next an
nual council at Madison, Wis.
Nine hundred emigrants embarked on
the steamer Californian at Guanica,
Porto Rico, for Hawaii recently. leav-
ing 400 more ready to sail. Joyous man
i~festations accompanied the departure
Of the emigraIts. Fourteen weddings
and forty-eight baptisms took place the
day before.
The board of directors Of the Benja-
min Harrison Monument association
met In Indianapolis recently. Senator
Charles w. Fairbanks presided. Evans
woollen was chosen secretary to nil
the place made vacant by h ~resigna-
ton of f. f. Tibbott. The association
confidently awaits a hearty and gener-
Gus response from the people of the
United States.
The general quadrennial conference
OF the United Brethren Church In
Christ has changed the word hell In
the APOSTLES creed to blades"