Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-11-23
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

three Ieet, sustaining serious injuries.
Mrs. H. e. Hamlin, wife Of a rancher
living near Wheeler, in the Missou ri
river section Of South Dakota, proved
herself a heroine by attacking and kill
ing a wild cat.
Col. Alfred s. Frost. colonel of the
First South Dakota in the Philippines,
has been elected commander in chief of
the veterans of the Spanish American
war.
The twenty sixth annual session of
the South Dakota educational associa.
ton will be held at Brookings Deem
Der 9th 18th and 10Th. Write for pro-
gram or information to j. f. Olander,
Brookings.
The new Catholic church has just
been finished at Highmore, but will
not be dedicated till next summer.
Father Fox. the new pastor there has
charge at Highmore as well as at Har-
old.
The Big Stone Canning company are
storing about 260, 900 caus of sweet corn
in an underground storehouse made for
that purpose. The corn is of the finest
quality and will be held for better
prices than prevail at present.
The Big Stone Canning company
sent five cases of their famous product
to the Children's Home at Sioux Falls
this week, with their compliments. The
Milwaukee road takes all freight to the
Children's Home free of charge.
There is much activity in and about
the Sisseton agency offices. Large
amounts of money are being exchanged
as rentals of Indian lands leased and
nay rolls are being prepared upon
which an interest payment Oslo will be
made early in December.
The Obstructive prairie fires have
swept portions of Brown, Edmunds and
Mcpherson counties bare of grass, hay
and unthreshed grain last week. A
number of farmers have lost buildings,
cattle and all. Others report heavy
losses of hay and grass only.
Three prairie fires started along the
railroad track near Sturgis Thursday in
a high wind and have done considerable
damage. One farmers residence was
scorched and another farmer lost gev.
eral big stacks OF alfalfa and straw. 1t
is believed that sparks from locomo-
tives started the fires.
Fire discovered Saturday night in the
William Krotter company's elevator.
The structure with 10000 bushels of
grain and the entire stock of lumber
we've destroyed. A train of freight cars
neal the depot were barely saved. The
loss is about $4,000, partly insured.
The fire is believed to be of incendiary
origion.
Willie Spors, the 17-year-old son of
August Spors, of Rosen, disappeared
from home last June and his parents
spent a good deal of time and money
trying to find him. and finally gave up
the search in the belief that he had
died in some mysterious way in some
obscure place. The boy returned home
last week having been at work for a
farmer nea Boyd.
A Obstructive prairie fire in Potter
county wrought destruction to grain
and farm buildings over a large area
Among the sufferers were A. w. Bar
rett, who lost his hay, 500 bushels Of
wheat and $50 bushels Of oats; Georgs
Medbury, who lost a new cattle barn a
horse barn and all his hay; Charles
Eggert. 100 tons of hay.
The brick work on the new United
Presbyterian church, at Brookings, is
completed and the interior work is
being pushed rapidly. The new edifice
will cost $1,000. There has been a con-
slant drain on the potato supply at
Brookings, South Dakota, for the
past month, many carloads having
been shipped to eastern markets. The
tubers raised there are of fine quality.
A peculiar accident happened to Peter
Riley and his wife while going from
Bell Fouche to their ranch. They had
stocked up their wagon with provis-
ious and supplies, and when several
miles out of town they discovered the
wagon and contents were on fire. 1t
was impossible to ~extinguish the flames
and the entire outfit was destroyed. 1t
is believed that . spark from Riley's
pipe started the fire. The loss was $500.
As near as can be ascertained the
number of artesian wells in Hand
county Is given at 400 and new ones are
being constantly bored. There IL some
gas in many OF these wells, but farther
northwest in Sully county there 10 gas
enough In many Of them to furnish
light and fuel for the ranch and homes
the same a. in Hughes county. The
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