Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-09-14
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

hSlu IoI eAHlDltlOn at the state ta1r at
Huron.
Articles OF Incorporation have been
filed for the Great Western Telephone
company at Chamberlain with capital
of So, 900.
The Union county commissioners
after accepting the resi- gnation of w.
w. Palmer, states attorney, elected Ira
l.. Nichols to fill the vacancy.
The exhibit Of Hughes county which
will be shown at the state fair at Huron
and later taken to the Mitchell corn
palace, was sent to Huron this week.
K. w. johnson, of Washington
Springs threshed his oats and speltz
this week, the oats yielding little over
30 bushels per acre and the speltz 70
busehls.
The artesian we'll drillers at Andover
are down about $50 feet. Andover will
soon pave new four-and-a- half Inch
well. The present well does not fu rnish
sufficient water.
The First National bank of Canton,
was entered by burglars last week and
several thousand dollars, all the bank
had on hand, was taken. The safe was
blown to pieces.
A disease called "pink eye" is pre-,
valent among the upper Bad river herds
of cattle. The eyes turn red, and swell
shut, binding the animal, and in some
cases the eyeball bursts.
The great Indian convocation Of the
Episcopal church of South Dakota con-
vened Friday at White Swan on the
Missouri river, opposite old Fort Ran
dell, in the southern part of the state.
Between two and three hundred
Sioux Indians are at Huron to attend
the state fair which opens Monday, and
to assist in entertaining the great crowd
that is expected to be here during fair
week.
Drifting Goose, who is probably the
oldest native inhabitant of this part of
the state if not of the whole of South
Dakota, is on his way from Fort
Thmopson on the Sioux Reservation to
the state fair at Huron.
The passenger srain ran into a team
of horses last Saturday evening about
seven o'clock three miles east of Redfield
killing the horses instantly. Two men
who were riding behind the horses
escaped without scratch.
Sunday evening saw the close of the
great annual concocatoin of the Mob
rara deanery of the Episcopal church in
South Dakota, at which attended 5000
Dakotans of the various allied tribes of
the state, representing 10000 redmen of
the Episcopal faith.
The authorities of Wagner, new
town in the coded portion of the Yank-
ton Indian reservation in Charles Mix
county, have called special election,
on Sept. 25, to vote on the proposition
of isuing bonds of 10000 for a NUM-
cipal system of waterworks.
The councilmen of Pierre have decid-
ed to put in an incandescent electric
lighting plaut, to be operated with
waste water from the city wells, tests
showing that they can develop more
than enough power from this source for
the operation of such plant.
A meeting of the state board of par
dons will meet at Pierre on the fourth
of October At that meeting an appli-
cation will be made for pardon for
Edward Wilson, who is serving a life
sentence on the charge of numbering
Otto Solqulst in Moody county in 1894
About two years ago two Kimball
men purchased quarter section q land
near that place paying $1,000 for the
tract. They Immediately offered the
farm for sale at $500, but couH find
no one who cared to take it at that
price. The other day the farm, which
has no improvements of any kind Upon
it, was sold for $500.
Deputy Sheriff Anthier arrested at
his parents home north of Elk Point
Frank Messex, young man wanted at
LeMars, Iowa, for grand larceny and
Jail breaking and at Homer, Neb., for
leaving the state with a mortgaged
team. He had just arrived at home for
a brief visit. Some resistance to the
arrest was offered, but he is now in Jail
at Elk Point awaiting the arrival of
requisition papers.
/ IL. w. Zietlow. president Of the
Dakota Central Telephone Company,
purchased the lines and exchanges of
the Capital City Telephone company.
The deal was completed last week and
a result the Dakota Central now owns
ali the lines and exchanges Of the Fierre
company. The property oonsistsNf tho
exchanges az Pierre and TT. Rieme a.
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