Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-12
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

statements, tOtal OF 0ZU, Wnlcn eQuhIS
81 200 acres, or two and third town.
ships. Besides the filings, the business
of the Office was nine final proofs and
sixteen cash entries to secure title. The
contest business keeps up, seventyfour
cases having been started for the month
Another proof of the increasing pros
perity of Rapid City is that at special
election held last week bonds to the
amount of $4,000, to run twenty
years, and to bear interest at per cent
were voted. The money for the sale of
these bonds is to be used for the purpose
of installing a sewer system. A very
light vote was polled but the bond issue
carried by overwhelming majority.
The number of votes cast for the
organization in the late primaries in
this state exceeded those cast by the
successful candidates by nearly five
thousand votes La other words, under
the direct nomination plan, Elrod
would have been nominated for COVER
nor, Martin endorsed for senator, Burke
and Campbell nominated for congress
The advocates of the primary would
have been defeated
The annual financial statement of the
secretary of state for the fiscal year end
ing June 30 of this year shows receipts
by that department of $30,62l 20. The
greater part of this came from fees
paid bv domestic corpora tons which
secured charters, that source bringing
in SD ,436. Foreign corpora tons paid
81 lis 80; banks, $50: nota ries, "a, Az
80; session laws, $l15. Is; miscellaneous
receipts, $4,760.75.
George Armantrout, the little son of
G.. w. Armantrout, of Aberdeen, was
accidently shot and seriously injured by
playmate, the son of w. H. Koch,
Thursday afternoon. The children
were playing with small rifle near the
barn at Armantrout's home and while
the Koch boy was holding the weapon.
it was aoeldently discharged. The bull
let entered the other boys thigh and
passed almost through the limb,
Moses Kaufman, wealthy brewer,
with his wife, Mrs Emma Kaufman
who as tho result of her preliminary
examination on June 20 was held for
trial in the state circuit court of Sioux
Falls accused of numbering Miss Agnes
Polreis, her sixteen-year- domestic,
and who was admitted to bail in the
sum of S25, 900 by the state supreme
court, accompanied by their son Charles
departed Wednesday for an unknown
destination.
Constable Ed Dunn, of Hand county,
who has located and brought back
many stolen horses for others, has lost
a valuable horse from his stable, and he
believes it was stolen. The Martin
MAS brothers, near Orient, had one
stolen last week and it is said that
horses are being stolen frequently south
west of hereon the east side of the Mis-
souri, river. A fayOrite method of the
outlaws is to take the yearling colts
that have not been branded.
The old A. s. Garretson residence in
The suburb of Morning Side has been
old to Morning Side college, for use as
/ coordinate women's college. The |
has been secured through the
az IF he /
lean of the women, and before Sep
ember it will be converted into model
lormitory for women students. A
girls gymnasium is also to be installed.
The Garretson house and property is
one of the finest in the city, having
ost originally $63, 900.
Three burglars who were captured in
lincoln county near Centerville, on
'une is, and lodged in the county Jail
u Canton escaped Monday morning at
o'clock. They gave their names when
aptured "a Henry Colvin, Geo. Gard
er, and James Rogers, and from the
manner of escape they are experts
hey secured a drill from outside !.
riends and bored bolt that allowed
hem to get outside the cage. A bar on I,
he outside window was cut and thus
hey escaped. Sheriff Opsall has offered
reward of $25 for the capture of any /
T them. A man named Harry Ray,
cid for criminal assault esca~ed with Q
he burglars. 8
While engaged in making a gallent Q
fort to rescue little child who had q
allen into the Big Sioux river. John t
/. Moore, a pioneer resident of Mime 4
aha county, lost his life by drowning. t
he little girl was finally rescued by :
er brother. Moore's body was v
in about two hours after he i
for the last time beneath f
he surface of the river. Several men
nd their families we're enjoying pic a
ic on the banks of the river at what is q
nown as the Palisades, near GARRISON
nd the little daughter of Edward D
militia member Of the party accidently Il
I'll into the river. Moore jumped in to
sscue her. but evidently was taken n
nth cramps. In