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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

A great ado is being made because
the son of a man worth IS, 100000 has
entered his fathers foundry as an ap.
prentice. In our simple, democratic
way money lends Importance to the
most ordinary event.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Menomonie. Wis. Oct. 4.--A special
freight on the Omaha, west-bound.
was wrecked I'VE miles YES OK this
city. Six freight cars were etched
and 500 feet OF track torn up. No n
was hurt.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

A surgeon, a the discovery
that the X-ray will make hair grow
where all other hair tonics fail. This
is all right for the hair, but OF what
nse is the scrambled brains?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Two women were searched at the
New York custom house and found
to have $1,000 worth of costly lace
wound around their bodies. They
learned that it was their duty to avoid
lacing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

No doubt Lou Dillon, when she es-
tablIshed her wonderful two-minute
record. felt pretty sure il would remain
undisturbed for some time, but Major
Delmar's mile in 2:00A must rather
tend to upset her equine-imity.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Let's hope that this time Comman-
der Pcary viii take a wireless teleg-
raphy outfit with him. so we can
know from day to day how he is get
ting on. He can IS the north pole
when he finds 1t, to hang his coherer
on.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Considering how often he expressed
his desire that the better boat should
win, Sir Thomas's dissatisfaction is
most inconsistent. 1t is generally con.
coded that the better boat won.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

William Waldorf Astor has contrib
uted s100,o 600 to the research fund to
find q cure for cancer It is a pleas
ure to be able to say something good
about Mr.. Astor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
o HURT IN WRECK.
Express Train Crashes Into a Freight
on Southern Pacific Road.

Beowawe. New, Oct. A.. - A disas-
trous head-end collision occurred on
tbs Salt Lake division Of the Southern
Pacific at this station. The first sec
ton Of train No. 6, the Atlantic ex
press from San Francisco, collided
with a freight train. One passenger
was killed and twenty injured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
SEIZE A TRAIN IN MONTANA.
9hirty-Fve Men Demand Free Trans.
~portation on the Great NcrtL.

'n'rty-Fve Men Demand Free Trans.
portation on the Great Northern.
haiispell. Mont, Oct. 6.-Thirty.fye
men took possession of a west-bound
Great Northern passenger train AZ
thispoint. They refused to pay fare
and demanded to be given -transps-.a-
tion over the road. At Marion station.
west OF Kalispell, they were put of
tne train and loaded into a box car Of
. freight train going east. The door
was locked and 1t vas planned to AR
rest them when the train pulled into
inc city. Upon its arrival 1t was found
mat the door had been broken open
and all had escaped.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Sam Child is back after q two
months sojourn abroad. He was
asked II he sprung any OF his jokes
In England, and blandly asked, What
was the user"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
ANOTHER JEWISH MASSACRE.

u~nconHrmed Report Says 800 Jews and
ice Christians We're Killed.
Vienna. Oct. A.. - The Czernowitch.
the newspaper which first announced
the Kishineff riots, reports that an.
other ptossacre occurred at the town
Of Mchilev Podolsky, near Kishineff,
Thursday. In which 800 jews and 100
Christians were killed. This report ii
not confirmed from any quarter Mob
ilov Podolsky Is a town on The Dneis.
Ter With a population Of 1922. com.
pricing rlany Jews.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Colombia has turned 1t down. But
she ought to remember that your
Uncle Sam has ordered 4. up and that
spades are trumps.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Has Commander Peary thought out
In the long arctic nights just what
he will 60 with the north pole in
case he gets IT.?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

The real brains of the country is
abost to be assembled in great intel
lectual pools. The freshmen are pre-
pairing to enter college.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

The sultan of Turkey admits that
he Is superstitious about paying bills.
Those who have had dealings with
him also insist that he is absent
minded.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Inasmuch as q man cannot have two
wives at the same time he ought to
be protected from a duplication OF
breach of promise suits.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Edward has congratulated the Duke
OF Roxeburghe. Who will congratu-
late the other party to the contract?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Some of the playwrights who pro-
posed to write ~travesties OF their own
plays have yet TO demonstrate wheth-
or or not the thing is possible.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Sir Thomas couldn't take away the
cup with his feet of Shamrocks, and
the whole British navy couldn do it.
either.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

No n can accuse the Atlanta man
who was welded in the blaze OF 5000
i~ncandescent lights of having anything
to conceal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
THE NEWS RESIN
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK !.
CONDENSED FORM.
From the cani,.,

.
President Roosevelt and fa,,r-
now IL Washington. after Al ~. y
of thirteen weeks. ~''el0
Public Printer Palmer at was.,..
ton has named a commission y
the charges Of executive nricas
government work. y
President Roosevelt will soon n.
the Adirondacks as the guesr - N.Y. N.Y.
lam H.. Seward OF New York, u y
poets some fine deer hunting.
Indian Commissioner Jones cav.
Indians in Minnesota and the D,s,,.
should be prohibited from leasing M,
lands except in cases of physical ~.
bility, and required to become ,s,s.
ers.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

That New York man who hastily
drank of a heavy dose Of carbolic acid
the instant he heard a street organ
strike up sHiawatha" was probably a
musician. !.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

Notwithstanding the efforts of Prof.
Langley and others, the leading flying
machine is still the American eagle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

If Prof. Langley succeeds In making
his flying machine carry him, he will
be a bird"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

1t appears from the records that the
British war Office was about the best
friend the Beers had.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

There are no reconcentrados in the
territory which has been paci6ed by
the Turk.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
Crimes and Criminals.

Another attempt was made nea
Elliston, Mont, to wreck a Norlnla
Pacific train by placing dynamite "a
the rails.
Charles West of Greenvale. u, :
prominent stockman. committed sur
eide because of grief and shame o'a
the arrest of his brother, VINO =
charged with a serious crime.
Mayor Francis Menke OF MatloOl'
ILL.,, was indicted by a grand jury ~ y
Twenty-Five counts charging him VIA
malfeasance and m~isfeasance In oncs
and was arrested and his bond n1e0 =
$4,000.
In the trial at Birmingham, Ala =
Aaron and Archie Dill for peonass
evidence showed horrible orutaity =
ward Charley Hudson, a negro lncl'.
ing beating until blood flowed ~ :
stream.
Detectives ended a chase OF uI~
blocks at Chicago by afresting Waas
Stoddard Chatfield, said to be Wans's
at Far Rockaway, L. l., for empeAI'..s
$4,000 from the American EAp''''
company.
At the conclusion of the ineuss +
Cleveland, Ohio, into The deA1l
Olive Rayi, whose body was lounq NJ. !.
the Lake Shore track recently, ~
uty Coroner Hauk said that deah w.
due to suicide.
The indictments against iol f..
congressman e. Fl. briggs OF orooA !,
and George F. Miller of New fols !.
participation in the postal FRAUDS ,.ta
been sustained In the United So
district court at New York.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
One good thing about a horse race.
khers Is no time limit
The biggest bargain counter Of the
world for women is the altar.

The military automobile. we assume.
viii be equipped with bullet-proof
tires.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
II Results From Quarrel over Sale Of
Grocery Store.

AEOSSfy StoFSs
New York, Oct. 4. - Fritz Shoeman
yesterday shot and killed Louis zett-
eel In a grocery store on West Thirty
seventh street, and then. going home.
committed suicide. Zettzel recently
bought the store from Shoeman and
the men q%uarreled about the sale.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
PROPERTY LOSS Is ESTIMATED
AT 100000 WITH LITTLE
INSURANCE.
FINDS VICTIMS IN OTHER PLACES
FARMERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSS
TO GRAIN AND FARM
BUILDINGS.

TIE Dead-John E5bcn, VIII Ebben,
Edward Murphy, George lesson, Will
lam Vert Of Dixon, H.: w. o, Critten-
don of Dover and Joan Holm, farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08
otherwise

OtnefWioSs -.
Chinn Kai Hin, q Chinamar,
taken out a license to marry s,a
e. Robbins, a white girl. Inc
met In a Boston Baptist church :.
Prof. Ludwig Hektoen OF tne !,
versity of Chicago declares ula s.ss,
drophobia. smallpox and yellow s,se
are not toxic diseases. but are ~
tious.
James Hagens rescued Henry j.,
mors and Nicholas Maybe, wnoS. 8
had been overturned in the ~,
river at Hoboken, N. j. A dos &
ing to Maize was so delighted {
masters rescue that he continue 4
fawn upon Hagens after all W"
shore. ~
James A. Bailey Of the Barnu ID
ley circus has signed agreemM I
the erection at Mount Vernon lam
Of a $780, 900 house and a s4vv' y
which are to go up this 9 H,
forty acres purchased recen''y
from the Glover estate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

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corn Is |
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1 the heavi
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Eye thrived
BE- Chicago
bates the Y
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1903.
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brn, 1902.
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-08

,orn Is ]

| This is an
he crop Sc
lest ever Z
crops :
the heayi'
Western sta
Eye thrived
be Chicago
-. thn "
Eoducts of
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

again looked mt the rrogs and was
pained TO discover that hei had not
more than dozen of the little ones
left. He had not used more than half
a dozen OF them. He could find no
hole or crack in the trap which would
permit them to escape. He was myS-
titled aud grieved.
Then, even as he looked, his problem
was solved. With a satisfied croak,
which said as plainly as English could
say Il: "This is a good thing" one Of
the big frogs hoped forward three
inches, opened its mouth, seized little
frog and swallowed 1t.
Hodell stood staring. Another big
frog swallowed another little frog.
Looking closely then. Hodell saw the
legs of two or three little frogs sticking
out of the mouths of two or three big
frogs.
He called for help and he and the
guide rescued the few little frogs that
were left and put them in a separate
compartment. The big frogs seemed
to be very fat and sleepy.-New York
Gun
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

known I'm California as the "Holt" sys-
tenn, because the first mutual water
company was conceived and organized
by L. NJ. Holt, now identified with the
great imperial canal system In the
Colorado desert.
The first purely mutual water COM
pany to be incorporated in the United
States was the Pomona Water Com
pany, which was formed in 1878, under
plans prepared by Holt. The second
company was the Redlands Company.
also one of Holts. organized in 1881.
The Imperial lands are under seven
different mutual companies which fur
nish water only to stockholders OF the
company and to them at actual cost.
There are still individual systems and
corporations which furnish water Tor
profit only. but the boards or super
visors Of the various counties now fix
a water rate above which the water
companies are not allowed to charge.
The methods of irrigation are sever
al. Damming of small streams In
mountain canyons and forming reser-
voirs from which the water Is drawn
for irrigating purposes. is another
method. and drilling Of artesian wells
and common method. Diverting the
waters of wells where the water Is
lifted by windmills or other power is
still another. In some sections reser-
voirs have been constructed for catch
ing and holding the surplus waters
from the winter rains to be distributed
in the dry season.
The Bear Valley dam and the Sweet
water dam in Southern California are
two notable examples of the first
named methods. These dams are built
across canyons in the mountains and
catch and hold the waters of snow
fed mountain streams. From these
reservoirs large sections of country are
amply supplied with water during the
dry summer months.
The waters are conveyed from the
reservoirs to the fields in cement-ined
bitches or through expensive wooden
fumes. Some of the largest lemon
and orange orchards in the world are
watered from these reservoirs.
The Coachella district, in the north
western portion of the Colorado desert,
Is the most. notable example Of the
artesian well system. This section Is
located seventy-six feet below sea-
worthless two years ago. Water has
made the land very valuable and has
built a town which boasts a news
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
Wigs Cause Trouble.

Time-honored tradition in London
has it that only princes and peers may.
have bewigged footmen. on their car
riages. The fact was learned by Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt last summer just
after she had decided on having her
servants rugged out in the fashion in
dicated. She wisely refrained, but a
tempest in a teapot has developed over
the fact that certain persons of the
new rich" have been appearing in
Hyde Park with bewigged footmen
and, oblivious to the customs they are
trampling under foot. ride haughtiIy
by with their footmen grandly pow
dered. Worst of all is the wife of a
certain South African millionaire, who
has the wigs of her footmen orna-
mented with five white curls on either
side. In the days of the Georges only
the royal family used five curls, and
the conservative element shuddered
when this example of lese majeste
was shown. In London 1t is said that
the court will soon post list Of regu-
latfons that will inform persons how
many curls should be worn on foot
mems wigs and also what persons are
entitled to this mark of rank.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
FLOODING DESERT LANDS.

paper, church, schoolhouse and sew
eraI stores, besides dwellings and
other institutions.
The artesian belt is limited Fifty
or sixty miles southeast of Coachella
a well was drilled and flowing water
was obtained, but it proved to be salt
and unfit for irrigating purposes.
Other tests have resulted in failure to
find water at all.
The notable river diversion systems
are those which have drawn from the
Rio Grande nearly all its waters, the
systems in vogue on the Gila River,
the Kern River system, the San Joa-
quin and Sacramento River systems,
the Imperial Canal, which diverts q
portion of the waters of the Colorado
River. All the systems now operative
are under. control of mutual compa-
MES, private companies or corpora
hons
The United States has now under
taken the great work of reclaiming
her arid districts and in the irrigation
fund is already more than $500, 900.
A location for a dam has been selected
ON the Colorado River north of Yuma
and large section of land is soon to
be reclaimed and made valuable. Sim
liar systems will be established in
Utah, Nevada, Colorado. and other
States and Territories.
The government work is provided
for by the sale of public lands Once
a territory is reclaimed the revenues
from the water system go to the irri-
cation fund and the money goes to
reclaim other sections.
Under the various systems now in
operation and under way, both pri-
vate and national, millions of acres of
land will be reclaimed within the next
ten years and billions Of dollars of
wealth will be added to the assets of
the nation.-Arthur ]. Burdick, in
Grit
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

the real question not whether the amount of unnecessary
vulgar expenditure be large but whether such
pendture taste idleness and
ages vice. The only fair Is that there large
proportion idle and vicious the the well
to-do among the rich. Most American have
pations of them have engrossng occupations
But there is probably larger proportion of American
who suffer from ideness than there
ago. chief social danger wealth
the danger Yet there up from the hum
social levels the ranks of weltodo life
robust and well balanced young women Of every genera
ton that those who spoiled by fortune in
parison, inconsiderable.
democracy reinforces itself with safe and vgor-
womanhood more surely than with energetic
manhood. all United States between
S and 40 could be appraised by the best stand
ard of womanhood, they would show such advance
preceding generation Of since civilization
began They much of not to excessive wealth. but
the welldifused prosperity that they have enjoyed
excessive wealth all its evils are after ALL only
unfortunate incidents of this dused prosperty-The
Worlds Work.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

about good deal by their paymaes children of the
poorer families grow up pretty well broken having
proper selrespec but unbearaby conceed or selfish
vain
Rich parents prone indulge their children What
with fine Clothes ponies every
he cries for the little of the millionaire very likely
grow up In the notion that the world made for his
special and pleasure and that the business
people to stand about awaiting and obeyng orders
him. There of course, plenty wealthy families
which the children not spoiled, but the conditions
make the parental duty really difficult perous
an environment Of wealth than in poor surroundings
San Francisco Bulletin
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
FROGS DEvoUR THEIR KIND.

Nearly All Batrachians Are Cannibal-
istic in Their Natural Tendencies.
A recent experience OF G. w. Hodell
Of Baltimore may serve as a warning
to other anglers who write to sporting
order frogs in tens Of dozens.
Hodeu was In the Georgian bay coun-
try, where the red-eyed bass were Bit
ing hard at frogs, but not taking any
thing else. He telegraphed in for ten
dozen frogs of all sizes in perfect con-
dition, not a dead one in the bunch.
He was especially pleased by some
three or four dozen of the little fellows
not larger than the first joint of a
mans thumb, the ideal size Of frog for
the sma1l-mouthed bass. He knew
that he could take these infants, hang
them on a Bing hook which carries a
number 2 spoon, and with them yank
enough and more than enough. He
went to bed filed with happy dreams
of the things that were to happen on
the morrow.
The next morning he took a supply
Of frogs and started out. 1t struck
him that there were not so many frogs
as ON the night before, but he did not
believe that anybody around the hotel
would steal them and thought that
possibly he might be mistaken. He
caught some bass and returned late in
the afternoon.
Examining his frog trap he found that
his supply had dwindled perceptibly.
He could not explain it and was
worried.
Rising early the next morning, he