Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-31
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

granted two new saloon licenses max
ing seventeen in all in the Hub City.
The Yankton Elks have decided tc
withdraw from the Sioux Falls lodge
and organize lodge of that order a,
Yankton.
o. A. Griffilts, of Aberdeen, has been
appointed by Governor Elrod, as a
member of the state board of pharmacy
for three year term.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has filed protest against the
raise of $780, on their South Dakota
property by the state assessment board.
A threshing machine belonging to
Ole Ringsrud, of Elk Point, blew up
doing great damage bet Smith, the
engineer, was painfully though not
seriously scalded.
The counties in the northern portion
of Sonth Dakota, without exception
show gratifying increase in popula-
lation. Northern South Dakota is all
right, and people are finding it out
hence the growth in population.
d M. Birdseye, a n Aberdeen builder.
has secured the contract for the erec-
ton of new bank building for M. p.
Beebe at Ipswich. The building will
be of stone, 24x70 feet, one story high,
and will cost from $40, 500 to $4,000.
Fire last week totally destroyed the
large barn at the government Indian
school in Chamberlain. Five valuable
horses were burned. Only a provi-
Dental rain saved the entire group of
valuable buildings from destruction.
Ole Torgeson farmer residing near
Aten, across the river, while returning
home Saturday from Yankton. was in
some manner thrown from his rig and
died shortly after being found by his
family.
VIM. Cline, who resides about four
teen miles west of Dell Rapids, suffered
the loss of fine team of horses by
lightning during the storm Sunday
evening. The animals were i'm the barn
with some others, but other damage
was slight.
William Henney, of Redfield, had the
hearing of one of his ears almost, if not
entirely destroyed Junday by the burst
ing of small rifle. A joker CD put a
smokeless cartridge in a rifle not made
for that kind of shell with the above
results.
Railroad Commissioner Smith has
been notified by the railway companies
that oil rates have been reduced from
third class to fourth class in less thar
car lots, which benefits consumers as il
gives independent lines a chance tc
compete.
The two-year-old son of William
Scharff, living near Ferney, wa.
drowned in watering trough which
stood in the yard. The child was tod.
ding about the yard and fell into the
trough, which contained sufficien,
water to drown him.
Rattle snakes are said to be unusu.
ally numerous near the Missouri in the
northern part of the state. The six
year-old sou of VIM. Taylor, near Pol
lock, was bitten by one few days age
and died in short time. Three snakes
were killed in Pollock in one day.
RI Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, bishop
of Sioux Falls, according to report ii
circulation in that city, is talked of as
the successor of Archbishop Chapelle. oi
New Orleans, who died of yellow fever
two weeks ago. Although the report
lacks official confirmation it has
attracted considerable attention.
Discovery that the indictments
against @. A. Kelley,of Huron. returned
by the grand jury at the March term OF
circuit court, are missing from the
clerks office has caused much comment
but it is understood this will cause nc
delay in the hearing of the cases at the
September term.
Articles of incorporation have beer
| filed by the Sioux Falls Interburtan
electric Railway company of Sioux
Falls with capital of 100000. The
purpose of this company is to construct
an electric line from Sioux falls to
Salem. a distance Of forty miles, In the
counties of Minnehaea and McCook.
Land Commissioner Bach is sending
out circular letter to county treasurers
over the state asking that they push
interest collections on the state school
fund on all delinquent interest, 20 that
the funds for the schools can Be kept to
as high point as possible. The first
distribution for the year was e2.25 per
capita on school population, and it is
hoped to make the second one not less
than IS cents, bringing the total for the