Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-17
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

A cash register in restaurant a
Redfield was robbed of $40 Saturday.
Wool growers contribulary to Pierr,
marketed this year wool to the value OF
$1,000
The fourth-class postmasters ofKings
bury county have organized county
organization
A new German Methodist Episcopal
church five miles south of Bristol wal
dedicated last Thursday.
Governor Elrod has appointed Thomas
Freeman, of Flandreau, as game
warden OF Moody county.
Governor Elrod has appointed s. K.
Wilson, of Hot Springs, as water com.
missioner for the first district of the
state.
The first threshing machine returns
from the vicinity of Pierre shows that
from ten-acre tract of oats 730 bushels
were obtained.
The city council of Ashton has called
a special election September LIST for the
voting on the proposition of issuing
bonds for waterworks.
The Black Hills Traction company,
of Spearfish, has advertised for sealed
proposals for the construction of five
and half miles of canal
Through deadlock between Mayor
Ramsey and the members of the city
council of Woonsocket that place is
without city police officer.
Dyar H. Campbell, sheriff of Brook
ings county, has been announced as
a candidate forstate treasurer ne xt
year on the republican ticket.
Governor Elrod has appointed as
game warden for Brown county, p. II.
Linnett, of Aberdeen. K. A. Norton,
of Milbank, for Grant county.
Mrs Axtel Peterson, wife of aCharles
Mix county farmer, was run over and
fatally injured by a team and binder
Saturday while trying to save hei little
child.
w. J. Chiesmad, of Belle Fourche,
and r. G. Kelsey, of White Rock, have
been appointed by the governor as
delegates to the irrigation congress to
,naat NJ Portland
A severe wind passed over the south
eastern part of Clay county Sunday
and left behind a trail of devastation in
the corn fields. The loss is a large one
as corn is the principal product
Joseph Stackehvitch is in Jail at
Huron awaiting court for the theft of
a suit of clothes, $40 in cash and two
certificates of deposit from a farmer
near that city for whom he was work
ing.
DIR. W. G. Smith, of Sturgis, the
Black Hills member of the railroad
commission, has gone to Chicago where
he will meet number of delegates to
the National Association which will be
held at Deadwood this month.
The stale capital commission at a
session Thursday, provided for the pub
location of advertisements for bids for
the contract on the foundation of the
east wing of the new building, the same
TO be opened at noon on Aug. 20.
Although the bond issue carried at a
recent election at Fulton it has been
decided not to issue the bonds on
account of a technicality in the call.
The bond issue was for the purpose of
erecting a school building.
Miss Christine Summers, while visit
ing the cement works at Yankton went
too close to shaft and in an instant
her waist was wrapped around the
whirling bit of steel The engineer
saw the difficulty and shut down in
time to save her life.
For some time experts have been con-
fdent that natural gas. oil and coal and
an artesian basin underlay the ground
in the vicinity of Rapid City. A local
company with plenty of capital has
been organized to do prospecting and
the Commercial club, of that city, has
agreed to work in harmony with the
organization.
The South Dakota Pharmaceutal
association, which held its meeting at
Aberdeen last week, elected the follow
ing offices: M. #. Michels of Willow
Lakes, president; G. q. Sabin, of Red
field, first vice; DR.. Crosby, of Hitch
cock. second vice; 4. O. Bent, of Dell
Rapids, secretary; A. A. Woodwork,
of Aberdeen, treasurer. The 1906 meet
ing viii be held in Sioux Falls.
Contrary to the expectations of many,
the first years crop on the farms in the
former Rosebud Indian agency 10 likely
t. prove equal to the production Of land
many years under cultivation. This ID