Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-08-11

death. Her bonnet caught III q barDed
wire fence and the strings strangled
her.
For New Court House.
The county commissioners of Faux
county have decided to submit to the
people the proposition of issuing bonds
in the sum of $50. 600 for the construc-
ton of a new court house.
South Dakota Leads.
A COW belonging to Willis Hartsough
neal Bristol recently gave birth to
three healthy calves. The triplets are
all fourishing. Who says that cattle
raising in South Dakota is not a success
full business.
More Fish.
d. G. Booth, superintendent of the
fish hatchery at Spearfish, has returned
from Yellowstone park with many
thousand young trout TO stock the
streams in the Black Hills, and with
a large quantity of spawn for the
Spearfish hatchery.
Insane Over Poor Trade.
j. ID. Barns, a well-known rancher
neal Bell f'ourche, has been taken TO
Yankton insane asylum, He was a
breeder of fancy cattle, and the recent
decline in the market for stock is sup
posed to have caused the trouble. He
is the owner of one of the best ranches
in that part of the country.
Gain of 1OO,O
A government expert places the per-
manent gain to South Dakota's popula-
ton on account of the Rosebud opening
at 100, 0C0. A good share of that num-
Der will be west of the river, and the
northern part of the state will get its
share, while every county in the state
will gain more or less.
Levy Made for South Dakota Taxes,
The state board of assessment last
week made its levy for state taxes,
fixing the rate at two mills general leXy
and one mill bond interest and sinking
fund. That levy will practically clear
all outstanding state bonds. The levy
on corportion property was 20 mills Oh
the dollar for all taxes.
Not to Go on county.
The board of county commissioners
of Fell piyar oopptv hoe aAoptad q col
of resolutions directing the states attor-
ney to take action to prevent member
from the state soldiers home from
becoming charges upon the county
believing that the law intends that they
should be cared for in the home.
Borrows From Sheriff.
A tramp, jailed in Aberdeen to sober
up from a protracted drunk, dug out OF
the city bastile through the floor and
escaped. He had his nerve, however
and before leaving town called on the
county sheriff for whom he had worked
in his o prosperous days a borrowed
a dollar with which to buy his supper
Gone to BonesteeI.
Gov. Herried has gone to Bonesteel
where he will look over the situation
personally before he takes any action
in regard to furnishing troops for that
place during the time in which filings
will be male. If the situation warrants
action the people of Bonesteel will be
protected, but no move has been decided
upon as yet.
Forger Wilson in Jail.
When taken before a local justice fol
his preliminary hearing, j FL. Wilson
the expert forger and all around crook
who has been causing the authorities
at Sioux Fslls and in half a dozen
other cities annoyance, waived the
hearing. Bonds for his appearance
were fixed at g, 900 and in default he
has been lodged in Jail.
school Population Grows.
The returns from the school census,
which has just been sent to the office OF
the state land department on which to
make appointments for the next year,
show an increase 1888 in school popu.
lation in the state for the past year.
The total number of school children on
which the appointments will be made
for tine coming year will be 135, 5S3.
Good Crops Around Pierre.
j. w. Oswald of Sully county took
into Pierre samples of macaroni wheat,
which he raised 100 acres of this year.
The stalks were four sect long and well
headed out, with bright, plump grain.
He has the whole crop in stack and
feels that it is safe. His estimate on
the whole field is twenty bushels or
more per acre. A large acreage of this
wheat was planted in Sully county this
year, and it is all turning out finely
and principally cut, without any sign
of damage from rust or any other cause.
He reports the corr fields in that sec
ton to be in fine shape, but needing one
more good rain to fill the ears out
perfectly. The crop is just beginning