Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-03
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General State News
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Prof. Stacy Cochran, instit,..
duetor for the state a~gricul,ns.t y
lege, has arranged for a farmers W
tute to be held in Aberdeen Jan X
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A chicken was purchased ~
market in Lead by ]. B. scobla NJ
its gizzard was opened d gold m9,.
worth s3.I5 was found. The hntss
has commenced an investigation a
certain where the chicken was raigss1
The contract for sixty car load,
cut ton for the new stone bsrr.
At Fort Meade has been let by the ~
tractors. Mullen e. Mum of Deaawog
TO j. L. Burke of Hot Springs. A sav1
ing plant is to be installed at ~
quarry.
The Milwaukee bridge building rrr
made quick work OF replacing II
bridge across Cave creek near Woo,
ley that vas destroyed by FIRE. M
bridge vas 2o6 feet long, but was :
placed with a new structure thar ua,J
united OF the passage OF trains
twelve hours. Traffic was not serious,
delayed. The origin of the fire is M
known.
The last piece of machinery has A.
rived at Lead for the Ellison hcistin,
plant. which has been in course Of COZ.
struction by the Homest2k Ike commas,
for the past three years. The ensips]
for the crushing machinety has arrived
and is now being installed. II is oul
of the largest engines ever brought ID
the Black Hills and has a fly whes
thirty feet in diameter.
1t will be impossible for the Souis
| Dakota congressman to get any mon
! appropriation for the new builiinz|
to be erected at Fort Meade. There
an appropriation Of $4,000. which va
be used to erect a stone barracks an
| officers quarters, but ii was hoped thaa
a slice of the blanket" appropriate
could be secured for other building
/ Congressman Gamble has written that
there can be no further approprlauQs
at this session.
Some of Gov. R~oosevelt's North Da.
kota friends are going TO Washingtoa
TO see him inaugurated. There are nh
friends OF the cattle trail, of cary
days. who bunked and rode VIII
Roosevelt when he was a cowhand "a
the ranges, and who learned to admir-
the man there. The governors frienh
of the cattle ranges have had several
letters from him since his election, with
invitations to be present at Washing.
ton on the eventful March 4.
The apportionment Of the permanea.
schoo. fund for December has just beea
made by the state land department ana
Is As cents per capita or the schodI
population, which is the basis Of sua
apportionment. In securing the bass
il is found that the school populatlA
IS 100. g07, an increase Of 1854 for tsN
past year. Notwithstanding this III
crease the per capita amount appCrI
toned has increased from 80 TO =
cents.
The first buckwheat raised in any
considerable quantity in the vicinity u
Aberdeen was brought to that city N
John Dickerson of Putney, who halJ
vested 100 bushels OF the grain iron
seven scres. Up 10 this time pracucalI
all the buckwheat -four consumer u
that part of the state has been shlppa|
In, but ii is probable that quite a nun
Der of farmers viii follow Dir. Dlckh'I
sons example next year and raise tsI
grain for market in quantities suiiciel|
tto supply the home market at least
c. L. Jensen, who was the Republcaa|
candidate for sheriff of Fall Rys|
county, was defeated by 50 majoTiV|
upon the face of the returns, entered 7
contest in the district court, asking
that two or three precincts be throw
out because of Irregularities in the rel
istration and election, has Won n
point. A change of n was taxa
from this district 10 the Eighth, vi
the case came before Judge Moore II
Sturgis. The defendant, Edmund PEW
failed TO put in an answer n maze u
appearance. SO that the court s"1
Jensen a default judgment, when III
clares him the legally elected shelMl
ard authorizes him to qualify al ls
regular time on the LIST of Januar an
10 hold Office for Tbs full term OF IVY
years.
Robert Corey of Madison n Of ~
heirs of the alleged Corey estate y
England has executed and returned ~,
necessary ape giving his attorhe,
power to act for him in collecting an-
transporting the great fortune. ~,
ter from Elisha Corey ct Omaha say,
that owing to the great amount OF y
tape I'm matters Of such import II ~,
be three months or more beiote
claims can be settled and disoutse
ments made. Both men are coh n
that before June next the mohe. y,
have been transferred TO the pam !,
Omaha. There are thirty-two ia" !,
heirs. residents principally OF ~
United States. Robert Is .,in,ou
wears of age and was born at ia "a
iowa. He has resided at onaha 4
a. Fairmont and Pipestone. Minn. n
twin sister and one brother resN
Omaha. N
The announcement. has been nsnr
hat the Fremont, Elkhorn q MN 80
valley Railway company wlh en-
commence hourly trains ~
tral City and Deadwood. Iner -
m he a service of this KIND "a \
wears ago. when Central Guy rorl
bic pay roll with the HomestaA srx|
many. Central City was about s,s,ory|
camp in the Hills In n cary. begst|