Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-04-06
NEwsY STATE NOTES.

Z wells in four townships.
The June camp meeting of theAdven
lists takes place at Woonsocket.
There were 400 conversions at 9
recent religious revival at Huron.
Mr. and Mrs. William Mack, of Car.
thage celebrated their golden wedding
last week.
new Congregational church costing
1899 will be dedicated in Yankton
on May IA
II is now rumored that the Great
Northern will bridge the Missouri river
at Yankton..
Fort Pierre has disposed of its water
works bonds and work will start on the
system soon.
A knitting factory has been estab-
lished at Redfield which will employ
about score of hands
Senator Kittridge has been recalled
to Washington on matters connected
with the Santo Domingo treaty.
One day last month the DeSmet
creamery reached its highest price for
butter, receiving 33 cents per pound.
At the school land sale in BonHomme
county the cheapest brought $40 per
acre and the highest price paid was $57.
Arthur Keene, formerly publisher of
the Aberdeen American, is canvassing
the state for life insurance company.
1t is estimated that the irrigated
crops in Belle Fourche will increase the
price of land from the present value of
$40 to 800 per acre.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for a
street railway to be constructed at
Sioux Falls this year.
Rev. K. @. Solberg, of vermillion,
president of the state Luther league,
has issued call for meeting of that
organization at Howard May "a, 25, 26.
Memo has passed an ordinance for
bidding boys under 16 years in pool
rooms and boys between 16 and 81 must
have written permission from parents
or guardians.
Emma Palmer was sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year and Claude
Cambern for two years for conducting
bawdy houses, at a recent term of the
Beadle county circuit court.
Panl M. Young, the South Dakota
student attending Oxford university,
England, on Rhodes scholarship,
received the mark "satis' in Latin and
Greek. This is the highest mark given.
j. Tomlinson Jr., has announced
through the columns of his paper that
he has not been approached to sell nor
has he any intention of selling his
interest in the SiouxFalls ArgusLeader.
The work on the water tank and
tower at the new city we'll at Milbank
is rapidly approaching completion
Water has been elevated into the tank
the top of which is 1870 feet high, and
which holds $4,000 gallons.
Chas. A. Kelly, states attorney of
Beadle county, will have stand trial
on five indictments at the September
term of the circuit court. Thomas H.
Null has been appointed states attorney
pending the outcome of Kelly's trial
Two feet of snow in the Black Hills
proper Thursday and Friday. 1t was
the heaviest storm of the season. Trains
into the mining districts were block
AIDED and were Abandoned one day.
The storm was local and did not reach
below the foothills.
Governor Elrod has granted pardon
to William Walters, of Turner county,
who was sent to the penitentiary in
1892 for manslaughter. The presiding
judge and all but three men of the jury
that convicted Walters signed the
application for pardon.
Judge Jared Runyan, of Vermillion,
was run down by an automobile and
carried home in serious condit on
He was standing on crosswalk
unmindful of the approaching auto,
which could not be stopped i'll time to
prevent giving him hard jolt.
Dr. @. A. Leslie, of Deadwood, has
been appointed assistant veterinary
surgeon of South Dakota. DIR. j. P.
Foster of Huron,is the state veterinary.
DR.. Leslie will represent the western
part of the state. Both men are gradu-
ates from theOntario veteridary college.
George o Swasey, Sioux City
lawyer, was in Aberdeen last week,
completing the transfer of the j. W..
Fix & Co. ranch in Mcpherson county,
to j.. w. Hurst, of Aberdeen. The
ranch consists of 700 acres of fine land
besides several sections of leased lands.