Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-18

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A creamery is being built at Naples.
Efforts are also being made to have n
of the telephone systems extended to
that town.
Matt Howe, who created a sensation
by throwing rocks through large and
expensive mirrors in a sioux Falls ga
loon, has been adjudged Insane.
The Woodmen are arranging for the
erection of a $1,000 building at wakon-
da, which will be used as q public hall,
opera house and for lodge purposes.
Considerable agitation has resulted in
the discovery that the amended liquor
license Law exempts entirely breweries
and distilleries from paying any license
IN the state.
The new dairy commissioner is pro-
ceeding with his duties. and one Of the
features about his work is the require
ment that the secretary of state must
approve his vouchers for expenses.
or the 210 acts and resolutions of the
last legislature. just about half of them
were delivered to the approving officer
On h last day. This breaks the rec
ord of this state by nearly 100 per cent.
BY a decision of the supreme court
the past week. all the revenue laws OF
this state are in reality validated, and
foreign holders of tax titles and tax
sale certificates can rest much easier.
The Milwaukee Railway company has
renewed an option on sixty acres OF
land at Miller. 1t is believed this in
dicates the extension OF the line south
from Orient to Chamberlain. via Mill
ar.
The number OF corporations granted
charters in this state since Jan. IL to
April 1, was 26l. The fees of the Office
Of secretary OF state for March Were
II, ALTO. the largest of any month in
the history OF the office.
City and st. Paul are having a hard
time TO introduce their cattle to the
stockmen at Miller this spring, on ac-
count of so many being hit by that
class of cattle last yea The farmers
are now raising their w calves.
Commission have been issued for the
aewly-organized militia company at
Bismarck. This is the first batch OF
commissions TO the state guard since
the Spanish war. The new regiment
will be entirely equipped within a fe/
Says.
There II an epidemic OF cattle and
horse stealing going IN around Woon-
socket. James Lonlog, a one-armed
nan of Huron, and George Moody, both
lateiy out of the penitentiary. are sus-
pected OF the theft of six head of cat
lie from Charles LOBBY.
Edith Campbell, a school teacher at
Miller has just cleared up $3.50 on a
land sale. She was undecided some
time ago whether to invest her savings
In a quarter of Ian or In a piano. She
bought the and and sold it for a $3.50
advance. She has since entered Huron
college, where she will finish her edu-
cation.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin. OF the South Da-
kota National Guard, upon the recon-
nendation OF Lieut.. + Il. Hawkins and
e. ID. Aldrich, who are organizing the
two companies of the guard at Sioux
Falls, has appointed Capt. A. b. Ses-
'ions of Sioux Falls, assistant a%dJutant
general, for the special purpose of mus
.ering in the two companies.
Gov. Herried has not yet appointed
the commission to revise the laws, but
expects to do so this month. He will
.all the parties together whom he con-
templates appointing, for the purpose
II, considering with them the manner or
expanding the per diem allowed. so
that a commission will be secured that
will agree to complete the work for the
sum allowed by the legislature.
Gov. Herried has appointed as fish
and game wardens: For Edmunds
.-... $500. So
Moody county, Melvin A. Davis. F1an-
ireau; Roberts county, Renter H.. Arm
~, Browns Valley; Turner county.
John Appleby, Parker; Faux county,
Vernon Marvin, Faulkton: Gregory
county, Joseph w. Gibson, Fairfax:
Charles Mix county, Thomas T. Hig-
gins. Wheeler: Mcpherson county.
B. J. Koch. Eureka.
Nathan E. Franklin and Frank r.
Greene. the principal promoters OF the
new electric railway in Deadwood.
have asked the county commissioners
TO grant them the right to construct
and operate an electric railway con-
Meeting the cities of Deadwood, Lead.
Central City, Spearfish, Terry and Ter
raville. Thes franchise Is asked for the
period Of ninety-nine years.
A peculiar. and, at the same time,
amusing incident occurred at the last
meeting OF the Sioux Falls City coun-
Gil. when the application for a refund
Of taxes on a block of ground on one or
the principal residence streets was
called to the attention Of the council.
The owner OF the block is a woman.
and from the records 1t was shown
that for ten years past h has been
paying taxes on the land, and also on
a house supposed to be located there
on. Investigation proved that there
had never been a sign of a building OF
the property. In fact. there had never
been two boards nailed together on the
property until within the past two
months, when a sidewalk was placed in
front of the land. The owner now Pc
titions for a refund OF the amount OF
taxes which she ha paid for ten years
on improvements which never existed.
During that time there have been six
or seven different assessors, none of
whom discovered the fact that they
were assessing something which did not
exist.
The memhers Of the South DakOta