Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-08-18

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a bet yesterday by two men who claim
to keep posted on conditions of the
market, one bet the other five dollars
that before the first of December the
market would reach $3.50 per bushel.
OF course such a price would be disas-
trous for some but would do no harm
to South Dakota farmers.
A great many of our people have
down their fences and are spending a
great deal of time and money upon
their lawns adding materially to the
beauty of the city. There is probably
nothing that makes these people SO
angry as 10 look out ON their expensive
lawns and see their neighbours COW
quietly grazing there. We don't blame
them. The animals should be put in
the pound and their owners should be
pounded for letting them run at large.
Last Saturday evening Game Warden
Chapman accompanied by Rev. Hark-
ness took a drive out north and east of
this city. When a short distance from
town they met w. L. Mack aud Floyd
Taylor coming in with a rig followed
by their dogs. The game warden
thought that the thing looked a little
suspicious and followed the gentlemen,
he did not have any search warrant but
when ne passed through the city sent
for one. Mr.. Chapman followed the
men as far as Holmquist and back
before he got a chance to inspect the
buggy and when he did there was moth
ing in it TO justify an arrest. Messrs.
Taylor aud Mack claim they had not
violated the game law and only made
the long drive for a joke on the game
warden. A great many of our local
sports however think that the gentle
men continued their drive until dark
and then under the cloak of darkness
got the evidence out of their buggy and
lost to the authorities. We have 10
comment to offer on the affair save to
applaud the game warden for his efforts
to secure the evidence against any and
all offenders against the game law.
General Z. Huntington returned this
week from an extended trip over the
state. Gene is quite an observing
gentleman and we asked him about the
crops and were informed hat in the
larger portion of the state the wheat
crop was quite seriously damaged by
black rust, but that in most sections
there would be better than half a crop.
He said he was out at Pierre and that
the citizens had erected a small build
ing nea the depot where they had ON
exhibition specimens of grain, corn,
grasses and vegetables grown near
there. He said he was in the building
when several of the farmers were
bringing in their specimens and leaving
them and that the grain was as good as
any grown in the state, the corn was
far ahead of any he had seen at other
places. The thing that most impressed
the general was the exhibitions of
vegetables grown ON the farms near the
capital city. He said there was every
vegetable one could desire and they
were just as good as he had ever seen
in Iowa and Illinois. The general said
that the talk about the soil out there
not being productive was all bosh. The
soil and climatic conditions are just as
good if not a little better around Pierre
than in most sections of South Dakota.
Fred Althoff was in the city from his
farm near Waubay Tuesday and made
a very pleasant call at this Office. Mr..
Althoff informed the reporter that his
brother, W. III. Althoff, and Frank
Lewno had Just returned from q visit at
several points in the state. The gentle
men visited at Mitchell upon invitation
from the Mitchell people and found a
very nice little city. On the way home
via. Aberdeen they decided before they
reached Wolsey that they would like to
visit Pierre and compare the capital
city with its competitor, Mitchell. The
Mitchell people tried to talk them out
of this notion but TO no avail. At
Pierre they were very much surprised
to find a very prosperous and thriving
city and instead of tumbledown shacks,
handsome brick buildings. They took
a drive in the country and saw some
excellent grain prospects and the best
prospects for a corn crop they had seen
any where on their trip. They were
very much surprised and pleased with
what they found at Pierre. They left
home with the determination to vote
for Mitchell and came home Pierre
converts, because Pierre is the best
located of the two cities, has the most
natural advantages and is situated in a
country that is just as good for farm
ing il not a little better than Davidson
county. The experience of these two
gentlemen is the experience of all who
visit the two cities with a view of