Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-02
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
South Dakotan Gets Degree.

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South Dakotan Gets Degree.
Among the successful candidates for
the bachelor of science degree this year
at the Massachusetts institute of tech
nology, in Boston, Mass, is Herman
Otto Blatt, of Lead.
The Annual Track Meet.
AT the annual track meet of the South
Dakota colleges held in Huron, the
South Dakota agricultural college of
Brookings won first place with a score
of 107 points; Mitchell, 46; Yankton,
10; Redfeld, 8; Huron, l.
To Make wrenches.
G. Thorson, of Letcher, has invented
a machine wrench, known as the light
ming rachel machine cylinder wrench,
and some of the citizens of Letcher
have organized a corporation known as
the Thorson Manufacturing company
to put the wrench on the market.
State Boundary Survey.
Captain Seth Bullock, forest super
visor of the Black Hills range, returned
from the state line between Wyoming
and South Dakota, and says the govern
ment has already commenced the pre-
liminary work for the survey of the
boundary for which $4,000 was appro-
priated.
Two Records Broken.
At the inter state collegiate athletics
meet two state records were broken.
Matthews, of Brookings, broke the
state record on pole vault at the height
of ten feet and ten inches. Brown, of
Mitchell, broke the state record in the
mile bicycle race, time 2:27. Brook
ings ladies won over Redfeld at basket
ball.
South Dakota's Exhibit Attractive.
The state building at the st. Louis
exposition has been completed. S. w.
Russell, the president of the South
Dakota worlds fair commission, has
recently returned to Dsadwood and
says the South Dakota mineral and
agricultural exhibits are the most attrac-
tive to be found anywhere upon the
exposition grounds.
A Prominent Dakotan Killed.
A. l.. Jackson, a well known Roscoe
citizen, was killed in Minneapolis last
week while riding in a street car. A
string of freight cars on the Northern
Pacific tracks was backed into the
street car at a grade crossing and Mr..
Jackson was killed, while three other
passengers were injured and five others
escaped without being hurt.
Drowned While Fishing.
John Boiler, Of Wentworth, one Of a
fishing party Of four gentlemen, was
drowned in the Sioux river neal Egan.
He had been wading in the river and
stepped into a hole about eight feet
deep, and it is thought he was seized
with cramps. His body was removed
from the river at once by his associates
and taken to Wentworth where an
inquest was Leld.
A Half Mile Runner.
Walter Morris, son of w. d. Morris,
president of the Citizens National bank
of Watertown, who is a student at the
Shattuck Military school at Faribault,
Minnesota, succeeded last week in
breaking the record of the State of Min
nesota for a half mile run, covering the
distance in 2:05 3-5. There is only one
other man in the United States who
has beaten this record this season.
A Handsome Prize.
There is on exhibition in one of the
stores at B~rookings a handsome twenty.
three inch bronze statute of Washing
ton which has been purchased by the
faculty Of the state agricultural college
and will be presented as a trophy to the
society winning the highest number of
points in a series of five literary con.
tests. Four of the series have been
held and the last takes place this week.
Value of Rosebud Lands.
f. Frank Peterson, the well known
map publisher of Vermillion, has the
following to say regarding the value Of
the lands in the Rosebud reservation:
"The value of the lands to be opened
can best be determined by the price at
which the adjoining lands in the settled
part of Gregory county, and in Boyd
county, Neb.. are being sold. In those
counties the best farm lands sell for $25
to $S5 per acre without improvements,
and less valuable lands for $I5 to $40
per acre. The toughest grazing land
sells for 80 to $l5 per acre. About the
same prices rule in Charles Mix county,
across the river.