Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-07-09

/ LnOuSduuS Oh uOiiaIS.
The petition for a passenger train
service on the Sisseton branch haS
been unfavorably received by the rail-
road officials. The present service 10
very unsatisfactory to the travelling
| public.
The capital stock of the Dell Rapids
| Telephone company has been In
creased from $4,000 to $4,000, and the
company has been reorganized. The
purpose Is to enable the company 70
construct several rural lines.
A surveying party under O. I'll. South
mayd Of Deadwood is engaged upon
government work in the vicinity OK
Nahant and will b busy for six weeks.
Mr.. Southmayd has the contract for
the subdividing OF three townships.
The mutilated body of a negro was
found at Ludden station recently. It
Is thought he was stealing a ride on
night passenger train and was accf-
dentally killed by falling under the
wheels. There is no clue to his iden-
tity.
The ladies of Armour gave Mrs. w.
e. Upton a farewell reception at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Chesley.
Mr.. Upton will remove to Mitchell TO
live. He was among the pioneers or
Armour, and at present is member OF
the state board of charities and COR
rectionS.
Bids were opened By the secretary
OF state for public printing for the en-
suing year. The bidders were 9. J.
Mcleod or Aberdeen, State Publishing
company of Pierre John Longstaff OF
Huron and Brown & Saenger Of Sioux
Falls, the lowest bid being that Of @.
j. Mcleod.
The annual convention and camp
meeting of the Modern Brotherhood
of America, of South Dakota and adj
jacent territory in Minnesota and Iowa,
was held at Sioux Falls. A feature
was the exhibition drill by the Yer
million drill team.
The case OF Herman Gross, his wife
ard boys, OF Miller, charged with in
tent to kill, was postponed thirty days
because their house was demolished In
the recent storm. Mrs. Gross had
leg broken and one OF the boys had
several ribs broken.
M. ". Olson's hardware store at VI
borg was robbed Of $500 worth OF
goods, consisting of razors, shotguns
and pocketknives. The thieves also
broke into Viborg saloon and car
ried away the cash register. 1t is be-
lieved they were provided with q
horse and wagon to carry away their
plumber.
At a meeting of the county commits
sioners at Yanl1ton the bids on the
new court house were opened. The
successful bidders on the building
were Rowles & Bailey, Omaha, s54,-
1872. The other bid awarded was ON
the steam heating, which went to
Symms. Powers company of Sioux
Falls for 1885. The other bidders
were August Goetz, Yankton; W. r..
Hodgin, Onawa. Iowa; Detweiler &
Co. Des Moines, and the Yankton
Heating and Plumbing company.
The last OF the cattle purchased In
the South this year by Northern cat
tlemen are being received at Belle
Fourche. Many of them were Sshind
the heavy foods in Kansas and Mis-
souri, and were held up several weeks
In transit The heaviest buyer this
year has been the Harris-E Franklin
company. This company bought about
10, 1000 head in Texas, New Mexico and
Mexico, and was one of the first ship
pers, getting all its cattle through be-
fore the floods and unloading the last
OF them here a month ago. The condi-
ton OF the range has never been so
favorable. Recent rains gave the
grass a remarkable impetus. All the
water holes and courses Of the coun-
try are well filed and there is no dam
ger of their being depleted for several
months at least.
Thomas Stratton of Hand county
has been experimenting with Hand
county soil and irrigation, and finds
that he is making thorough success
of the work AS an experiment he
tried seedfng subsoil which came from
depth of sixteen feet, and found that
with irrigation the vegetables he tried
on this soil did even better than they
did on the surface SOIL On this he
builds future wealth for that county
by shipments of Hand county subsoil
to worn-out Eastern farms as a fer
tilizer. The subsoil Of South Dakota
carries large amount of magnesia
and lime, and this itself will help many
Eastern localities il applied to them.
A bottle Of beer Is sometimes pref
ty expensive luxury, and two young
men of vermillion have found this TO
be a iact Clyde Kephart and Bert
Hovey took a bottle from a case Of
beer while hauling 1t from the station
to st. Joseph's academy. Complaint
was made to Agent Barnett, who had
the draymen arrested. They admitted