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

Ine FARMERS OF brlttOn.
has shipped about one hundred thou
sand bushels Of grain since August, and
during considerable of the time have
been closed not being able to get cars.
The business at the Aberdeen land
Office for the month of November was
the largest for any one month for many
years. Thirty-six homestead entries
were made comprising 5,124 acres;
thirty homestead proofs were filed,
representing 4,72l acres, and LAO
acres Of land were sold in Ninsolated
tracts.
James Collins, who was sentenced at
Yankton to one year in prison for
forgery, served a sentence of six months
in the Brown county Jail, just before
going to Yankton for a similar offense.
o. ID. Buchecker of Walworth county.
who was a fellow prisoner with Collins
claims that the latter beat him out Of
5000 while they were together in Jail.
AT a meeting of the directors of the
Grant County Telephone COM
pany it was decided to extend
the line from its present southern ter
minal. Stockholm, to South Shore,
Codington county, and from there
northwest tn Summit. This will mean
thirty-fve miles of new line. Construc
ton will begin when the weather per-
mits.
A Sioux warrior bearing the unique
name of Old Woman Bear, whose home
is on the Rosebud Indian reservation
was arrested by Deputy United States
Marshall Petrie on the charge of horse
stealing. AS the result Of his prelimi-
nary examination he was held for
appearance before the next federal
grand jury, which will convene at Sioux
Falls mex April. In default Of bonds
for his appearance at that time the
prisoner has been lodged in the Brule
county Jail.
A dangerous fire broke out during the
fierce gale Monday, starting from an
overheated stove in the second story of
Dahbole's poolroom building at Valley
| Springs, East Sioux Falls. For a time
it threatened the entire business por-
ticn of the town. The Sioux Falls fire
department twice loaded apparatus on a
special train, expecting to be summoned
to the scene, but the local department
finally extinguished the flames. Three
buildings were destroyed. The total
loss is "a, 900 partially insured.
The Business Mems union of Water
town held a meeting at their rooms in
that city last Saturday evening to talk
" railroad" Some time was taken up
discussing the stand taken by the stock
holders of the Watertown-Webs ter
company at their recent meeting, but it
was thought the farmers of that vicin-
ity would o see that the change of
route would make no material differ
ence and they would help to get the
right-of-wav. A committee Of seven
were appointed to confer with the
Minneapolis g. St. Louis officials and
tell them if they would construct and
have in operation a road fifty miles in
length in twelve months that the Bust
ness Mems nnion would get the right
of-way.
For the first time IN years the state
board of railroad commissioners has
just held a regular monthly meeting at
a place other than the official head
quarters of the board in Sioux Falls.
The meeting was at Bonesteel, and was
originally called for the purpose Of
taking testimony in the case Of Frank
Chesley. of Platt, who applied for an
elevator site on the right-of- way of the
Northwestern road. AS the hearing
was held about the time the regular
monthly meetings of the board was
called, it was decided to hold the regu-
lar session at hat town. The recently
organized Bonesteel Elevator company
made application for an elevator site
but this will be held in allegiance pend
ing action by the railroad commission
ers in the Chesley case.
Martin johnson, who fifteen years
ago was a struggling farmer in Brule
county, by close attention to business
has become one of the wealthiest men
in South Dakota and is entitled to bear
the name of being the sheep king in
western South Dakota. When 1000
600 acres of the Great Sioux reservation
were opened to white settlement FEB.
10, 1890, Johnson went.to the vicinity
of the Bad Lands between the Missouri
river and the Black Hills, where he
established a sheep ranch. He devoted
his personal attention to the business,
with the result that he is now one of
the big sheepmen Of the northwest. In
the last six months ne has sold
sheep and wool to the value of nearly