Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-12-07

ANAOACc q WOAA hOWh
assayer of Deadwood, has been found
by the sheriff of the county in a
demented condition at an old deserted
csbin near Nahant. He was wrapped
in gunny sacks and had been sleeping in
the coolest weather in q cabin with the
roof torn off. He imagines he is a
leader in the Salvation army.
The date selected for the dedication
4 the new Mechanic Arts building at
the Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen is Dec. 10th. The
exercises will be held in the gymnasium
of the new building and will begin in
the evening by an address by Governor
8. H. Elrod. Short talks will also be
made by former Governor Herreid, and
M. M. Kramer.
The states attorney of Lawrence
county has decided that IL will be ille-
gal for the county commissioners to
receive eight-ninths Of the tax on town
lots in order to meet the raise Of 12H
per cent recently made 10y the state
board Of equalization. This will make
il necessary for Lawrence county tax.
payers to pay the full amount Of assessed
taxes. An attempt has been made to
reduce the amount.
1t is stated that preparations are
being made for the lying of a railroad
from Spearfish to Belle Fourche irti-
eating district early in the spring by
the Burlington. This will be the first
road to enter this coverted district, and
it will 90 through some of the best
farming and grazing land in the Hills.
Butte county is one of the largest
counties in South Dakota, but has the
fewest miles of railroad. Work is to
begin Immediately ON the lying of a
track in Deadwoed to the proposed
slime plant under construction by the
Homestake company.
Professor M. M. Ramer, state super
intendent of public instruction and
president of the state educational asso-
cation, has returned from the capital
TO Milbank and is enthusiastic owe his
plan for moral instruction in the state
schools. The plan will be taken up at
the meeting of the educational associ-
alton at Brookings on Dec. 7th. Bishop
6Gorman, of Sioux Falls, will discuss
the matter from his standpoint, and
Governor Elrod will speak for the state.
DIR. Chambers will represent the state
educational institutions.
Rev. George @. Ware, rector of the
Episcopal church of Lead, was at
Omaha indicted by the federal grand
jury charged with completely in
~defrauding the government ont of 1885,
600 acres of land in Hooker and Thomas
counties .Neb. Frank Lambe TT and
Harry WEIGH are made joint defend
ants with Ware. Each of the men is
held to the federal court in $4,000 bonds.
Rev. Ware has qualified for that
amount and has secured his release.
Cases are also pending against Mr..
Ware for alleged illegal fencing. BE is
one of the wealthiest men in Lead and
is general manager of the /. B. u. ranch
which has several thousand head of
cattle on the range in western Nebraska.
Several hundred Of the landseekers,
both men and women, who were for
tuna tie enough to draw homesteads in
the coded portion Of the. Rosebud Indian
reservation in Gregory county, and
who have resided on their land during
he summer and fall, have received a
severe jolt from the commissioner OF
the general land Office in connection
with their applications for leave of
absence from their homesteads during
the winter months. Hundreds of such
applications were forwarded TO the
general land Office in Washington, but
four-ffths of them have now been
returned, having been rejected by the
commissioner. Some of the applicants,
tRiuhluB bhcii uppAiOhbAOho "yNAd w
out doubt be granted, had departed for
their old homes in other states, but
they will now be compelled to return
and maintain a residence on their
claims.
NJ. p. Martin, of Pierre, recalls that
on the oath day of November, 1880, he
he did the last work on the Northwest
ern railway e~xtention 10 the river at
Pierre. When the work was done it was
believed by all the residents of the
state that the road would be pushed on
to the Black Hills the following year.
But the time Of the Black Hills extern
sion was delayed from year to year,
each new year bringing hope of the
extension, but ending in hope deferred.
This year. just twenty-five years after
the work was done on this side of the
river, and on the 24th Of November,
Mr.. Martin did the first work for the
road on the west side of the river on