Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-11-30

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DRY county have been paving one Guy
Greenough $50 month for the past
year for the care of his wife who, he
claimed, was insane. Recently he
skipped out after selling all personal
property. and an Investigation dis
closed the young woman and hAr 1S-
months old babe. locked in a ga ret,
%scantily clothed aud without food or
fire.
The deposits of the First National
aud the Pennington County banks, of
Rapid City, show a deposit of $940.54,
which is about 1915 to each inhabitant
of the city. This is believed to be the
largest deposit, in proportion 70 popula-
tion, of any city in the state. The
resources of the two banks is $l,S67, 79l.
The year has been unusually good for
the cattle business, and n large amount
of money has come in on account of the
railroad building and other improvel
ments in this state.
The proportion of divorces to mar
riages in South Dakota for the month
of October are as one to eight. This
shows a much smaller proportion of
divorces that is noticeable IN several
other states, and eliminating the peo-
pie who come to this state for the
purpose Of securing divorces, it will be
found that South Dakota couples are
unusually faithful and South Dakota
homes remarkably permanent institu-
tions.
During the month of October there
were ninty-five filings OF homestead
land in the United States land Office in
Rapid City amounting to 1865 ceres.
During the same month ESQ acres Of
desert land were taken up and the
state appropriated 10. $40 acres of school
lands. The first eleven days of Novem-
Der recorded thirth-two filings upon
homestead lands, amounting to 1890
acsrs. Since the first of the year 100
500 acres of land have been filed on at
that Office. A great deal of this land is
w a II hnOWh 10 pAaAiAV iahh "a 10
being taken up now along the proposed
railroad routes.
The Felsing Bros. @i@ live on the
old John Ford farm twelve miles north
west OF Howard, have tho scheme in
operation for turning over the stubble.
quickly and doing it well. They have
I thraa ~ tl,on - lfSa st,.no for,w
plows on each gang. making twelve
plows in all TO which they have
attached their traction engine. Every
time around they turn over an acre
aud a half One days work leaves u
good wide streak in the field and n
weeks work will clean up over a
quarter. IT'S the way they do in
Miner county, on a big scale. Big
farms, big crops, big vegetables and
big, healthy children, TOO.
Deputy United States Marshall Orrin
V. Lamb arrived III Aberdeea Thurs
day from the west having in his
custody an Indian Of the Cheyenne
reservation by the name Of Daniel Runs
The Enemy. He was arrested at his
flther's home on the Cheyenne reserva-
ton for horse stealing. being an alleged
accomplice Of Brown Takes The Gun,
who was arrested last week and brought
to Aberdeen. The two men were given
a preliminary hearing Thursday even
ing before United States Comm ssioner
William Wallace, who found.probable
cause for their guilt and bound them
over to the next term OF United States
court at Sioux Falls. Takes The Gun
practically admits that he is guilty, but
Runs The Enemy stoutly proclainS
that he is innocent.
lowering between life and death ia
the city hospital at Sioux Falls, is
Oscar Nelson, a young man. aged 20,
who Is supposed to have been a victim
Of an intended assassin. One Of the
assassin's bullets fiattened itself
against a bone in the young mans
forehead and made an ugly wound,
while another pierced the temporal
bone and lodged in the tissue protecting
the brain, a third bullet fired at tho
young man struck the fieshy part of the
leg. Physicians at the hospital nc
ceeded in their proping for bullets and
located all three. The shooting Of
Nelson is surrounded with various
mysterious features. He is supposed to
have been shot while in Sioux Falls
and while wounded and dazed walked
a distance Of one and a half miles to
the home Of his brother, Louis Nelson,
living on . farm northeast Of town,
where be took refuge ID ! barn. He
was found there q short time later "
mon employed on ths farm. "A A.