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


Roberts county, who asked that he be
discharged from bankruptcy.
w. H. Roddle, of Brookings, yester-
day filed his resignation as assistant
attorney general, aud the appointment
of Auber Lawrence, of the same place,
was made to fill the vacancy.
The members and officers Of the Tri-
State Fanciers association of Water.
town, are very busy people these days
getting in readiness for the coming
poultry, dog and pet stock show, to be
held December Is to % inclusive.
John 7. Cogan, secretary of the
South Dakota Press association, who is
in Chicago for the purpose of complet-
ing arrangements for the trip OF the
South Dakata editors to the national
capital next week, has informed loca |
friends that the party will consist of
one hundred or more.
Hans Berg, mail carrier on Route
No Canton, sustained a very serious
and painful injury last Friday mornin g
while hitching his team to the mail
wagon. One Of the horses kicking him
in the jaw which kick broke the jaw on
either side, and than part of the face
has been in a plaster cast ever since
A correspondent from Deadwood,
says in the Minneapolis Journal that
there is a scarcity of men in the Black
Hills for labor. The wages paid are
high, and yet it is impossible TO get
enough carpenters mechanics and
laborers. One thousand men could
find immediate employment here.
There is also a scarcity of teams.
The state brand commission has COM
pleted its fall session at Pierre, passing
on 1876 brands aud making the total
number recorded up to date 1888. 1t
is presumed that the registration of
brands will not be SO great with the
settlement of the range country by
homesteaders, although this is probe :
NAUTICAL, as those who wish to hold a
few cattle may feel safer with a regis
terd brand.
The hunting season IN the state is
about to close, and by the first of the
month over 400 permits will have been
granted for hunters in the Hills
for the hunting of deer. 1t is estimated
that the number of deer killed this year
will average one to each hunter. Many
nimrods have succeeded in killing the
limit of two for each man. This sea-
son has been unusually fine for hunting
of this kind, owing to the light fall of
snow.
The hex time Alfred Linder, of Mid
land catches a coyoute in a trap he will
kill it ten times before he stops, on the
theory that it cannot have many mere
lives then the average cat. And this
all because he thought he had killed a
trapped coyote at one trial with a club.
The animal "played possum," and Lin
der started to carry it home swung over
his shoulder. He discovered the differ
ence when the animal fastened onto his
leg, and created enough of a diversion
in the mind of Linder so that he
released his hold, aud a minute later
saw a grey streak vanishing across the
prairie, which streak was the one time
trapped and killed coyote whose scalp
was to bring the hunter a bounty.
The granery of James Julson, a
prominent and wealthy farmer resid-
ing seven and a half miles southwest of
Groton, was burned last Saturday
night with all its contents which
included 800 bushels of wheat and all
his farming implements. The total loss
will amount to nearly $1,000. The fire
is thought to have been set by a farm
hand with whom Mr.. Julson had had
trouble the afternoon before the fire
in making settlement for his summers
wages. The farm hand at last accepted
his employers reckoning, but with no
very good grace. That nj Int the gram
airy burned and the man has not been
seen or heard of since.
Judge Garland, Of the United States
court in Sioux Falls on application of the
American Waterworks and Guarantee
company Of New Jersey, has appointed
a receiver for the South Dakota Water
company, the private corporation which
for twenty years or more has been
furnishing the water supply of this
city. The appointment of the receiver
is practically the closing step in the
litigation which has been in progress
for several years between the company
and the city of Sioux Falls and which
involved the right of the city to operate
a municipal system Of water works.
The private company was defeated in
the courts and appealed the case to the
United States supreme court, which
recently decided in favor OF the city.
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