Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-26

tnan those VINO remain away from n
land until the drawing is made. But
to avoid any trouble the government
will see to it hat this class of people
are kept off the lands until the proper
time comes for filing and then they will
take their chances with the rest of
those who want reservation lands.
Adjutant General Conklin celebrated
his seventy-fifth birthday by attending
the Sioux Falls convention and says he
was the youngest old man anywhere
ON the ground. Having been a promi-
nent factor in the early politics of the
territory and state, he feels very much
put out if for any reason he is unable
to attend the state conventions.
June will be a convention month in
Canton. On the first three days will
be races. On the 10th the Advent state
campmeeting. On the 21st to the 23rd
the state firemen's tournament and on
the 2Sth to the Both the Grand Army
encampment. The Epworth assembly
begins the evening of the 30th to hold
its fourth annual chautauqua meeting.
Senator Kittredge and Congressman
Burke will join a congressional commit
tee on a tour of inspection of the Pan
anna canal during the summer. The
prominence of Senator Kittredge in
cnn,aotinn xuith Tho lariclafiOn xuhioh
was bequeathed to him by the late Sem
ator Hanna gives him an especial inter-
est in the outcome of that mammoth
undertaking.
The county auditor of Hand county
has called the commissioners in special
session to take measures to stamp out
the cattle itch which has become quite
general there. The United States gov
eminent offers to furnish the dip and a
man to superintend the work if the
county would put in the tanks. Three
dipping stations are said to be needed
in the county.
The United States war department
has decided to grant the request of the
state board of regents of education for
the retention of Captain Macarthur and
he will again be detailed as instructor
in military science at the South Dakota
agricultural college at Bookings. This
bit of news will be received with great
satisfaction by the captains many
friends throughout the state.
The state Sunday school convention
at Huron May 81 and June / and 2
promises to be one Of the largest and
best ever held in South Dakota. Mrs.
Bryner, one of the international field
workers, returns this week from the
worlds convention at Jerusalem, and
South Dakota is the first convention
she attends upon her return home.
Mrs. Bryner is considered one of the
best primary experts in the country.
Ludwig Nelson, residing near Vale,
was taken to Sturgis May 81, seriously
cut by a harrow. He was fixing the
lines on the horses when the animals
became frightened and ran away, drag
cling the harrow. One tooth of the har-
row entered the calf of Nelson's leg and
tore it open; another tore one foot open
and the third struck his watch and
smashed it. The time piece prevented
the teeth of the harrow from penetrat-
ing Nelson's body and probably saved
his life.
A Sioux Falls attorney has been
engaged to assist a Beresford attorney
in contesting a recent election at Beres-
ford at which the saloon license ques-
ton was voted upon. Beresford is sit
uated partly in Lincoln and partly in
Union counties, and the contest, which
was instituted by Anthony Cooper, a
citizen of Beresford, is based upon the
novel ground that the voters in the
Third ward, who live in Lincoln county
could not vote upon the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors at the precinct polling
place, which was on the Union county
side of the line. The First and Second
wards voted in favor Of license, and if