Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-07-27
NEwsY STATE NOTES.


her son in Bad river during the recon
flood, and who continued the search fol
the body of her son after all others haf
given up, found the remains last weel
while wading down the stream in heI
bare feet. The body had been in the
stream for thirteen days and was par
TALLY covered with sediment.
Hoboes in large droves are fiocking tt
Sioux Falls. For the past week there
has not been a single night that les'
than twenty of the weary willie gentry
have been rounded up by the police
One night the number was swelled tt
twenty mine. Some of the hoboes are
inclined to be ugly when their can-rush
ing seances are disturbed and inclined
to put up fight but they have the
fighting spirit taken out of them IL
short order.
At Fort Pierre hearings were had IN
thirteen cases where prominent ranch
owners along Bad and White rivers are
charged yith Illegally fencing govern
-pentands They are r. w. Mathie'
son, George Porch, H. A. Scovel, E. W.
Thode, Fred H. Sears, E. III. Mollineux
f. f. Olney, Charles Smith, Osborne
Lawrence, Henry Schacht, J. A. Meker
Floyd d. Hedley and Mrs. Esther ID.
Currier. In all the hearings the parties
plead not guilty and were bound over.
A civil suit has just been brought by
Francis II. Wharton, of Lead, against
the Hidden Fortune mining company
calling for an accounting OF the SoO,OOo'
supposed to have been collected
the recent assessment of three cents Jost
levied. Papers have been served upon
the various members of the board OF
directors. and further developments are
expected within few days. Various
accusations have been made against the
management but so farnothing has been
substantiated.
The boards of county commissioners
of Clay and Yankton counties held a
mcst important meeting at Vermillion
last week. The new ditch law governed
the proceedings. The meeting was on
a Joint ditch petitioned for in Clay and
Yankton counties. The forces which
secured the passage of the law last win
ter are the same as those interested IN
the proposed ditch, and in fact it was
principally for the purpose of draining
this particular locality that the move
ment was set on foot.
A plan is being agitated in the Ancient
Order of Hibernians to invest portion
of the societys surplus in South Dakota
farm property. The society has large
surplus and it has been suggested that
some of the money on hand be used IN
this way and members of the order liv-
ing in overcrowded cities be placed on
the farms and given an opportunity to
get on their feet. A committee from
Columbus, Ohio, is said to have been
organized to come to this state to inves-
tigate the proposition.
What came near being serious acci-
dent happened Monday afternoon at
the new HAITI building in Aberdeen.
Three carpenters were standing on a
new scaffolding which they had just
erected when the board on which the
blanks for the scaffold were laid broke,
hurting them to the floor of the build
ing fourteen feet below. All three
landed in heap but none of them were
hurt, though the man who fell beneath
was quite badly scratched. All the
men returned to work after the acct
dent.
The large barn belonging to the gov
ernment insane asylum in Canton was
burned early Monday morning. Among
the contents were five head of horses. a
large amount of grain, tools and farm
machinery, besides several vehicles.
The horses were cremated and the other
property almost totally destroyed before
the fire was discovered. The origin is
supposed to be from spontaneous COM
bustion, caused by new hay which the
building had been filed with but few
days ago. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
For the first time in the last fourteen
years lake Kampeska, near WATERFOWL,
at the south end is overlooking. What
is known slough south of the highway
along the south end of the lake is now
full. For about ten or fifteen rods at
the approach to one of the bridges the
water is nearly foot deep in the trav-
eled road, so that the slough and the
lake are virtually one. All the sandy
and gravel beach is covered. the water
in many cases covering the ground
around the trunks Of trees that are
o foot in diameter.
The Dell Rapids Times has learned
how the catalogue houses are able to
sell Irvine at lower price to the farm.
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