Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-01

the department OF history at Pierre.
has been made instructor temporarily
of shorthand and typewriting at the
Northern Normal Industrial school at
Aberdeen, i'm place of Miss Edith Wit
eel, who is i'll.
Among the latest arrivals at the
Sioux Falls penitentary is an individ-
ual named lsreal Calkins, a somewhat
celebrated character of the Black Hills
portion of the state, who will serve two
years, having been convicted in the
state circuit court of Fall River of the
charge of grand larceny.
The State Historical ssciety meeting
at Groton elected N o. p. Synod
ground, of Groton, president; George
II. Whiting, Yankton, vice president:
N. f, Hansen, Brookings, secretary;
A. J. Gloden, Hitchcock, treasurer;
e ID. Cowles. Vermillion, librarian.
Groton was chosen as the meeting
place nex year.
Ice dealers at Pierre are hoping for a
continuation Of the cold wave, which
has prevailed over that section for the
past few days. Up TO the present not
a pound OF ice has been put up tor next
summer and the ice man" is waiting
and hoping for weather cold enough to
warrent his going ahead with the
harvest of his annual crop.
The department Of agriculture has
made provision for grazing on the
Black Hills forest reserve $4,000 mead
of cattle and horses The season viii
be from May Is to October 10, and the
charges 20 cents a head for stock of
reserve residents and 30 cents for stock
driven III from the outside he rate
limit is thirty head and applies TO cat
tie ouly,
a number of cases Of smallpox in a
light form have broken ont in Aber.
deem Three victims of the disease
have been taken to the pest house, and
any other persons afflicted with the
disease will be taken there as soon as
their cases develop. The authorities
are making special efforts to stamp out
the disease at its inception. The cases
are all Of a very mild type.
Just before midnight Sunday the
citizens Of Bowdle were aroused by the
alarm Of fire which was discovered TO
bs in what is known as the Glidly
building. The chemical engine being
frozen up all efforts to extinguish the
fire were of no avail, the entire bull :
ing, with several carriages and a lot of
machinery were consumed. The los S
is estimated At 81 200. Insurance $500.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Jacob Ressler, the chimney sweep
who pleaded guilty to robbing the
store at Groton, was given
eighteen months in the state peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls, the sentence being
imposed by Judge j. II. Mccoy, at a
special term of the Brown county Cir
cult court on Monday. Ressler thought
he should receive a lighter sentence.
because of his plea of guilty, bat the
judge believed him a dangerous. man
to be at large, and gave him eighteen
months, which is by no means the limit
for burglary.
Charles l.. Hyde his inten-
ton to begin early in the spring the
erection of an opera house in Pierre
which is TO be fitted up for the conven-
fence of flrst-class companies The
building is to have a seating capacity of
LOO. This city has needed a first-class
play house for years, and will especially
need such a building when the road
there to the Black Hills is com
which will bring to the city
better companies. on their way across
the state, between eastern and western
portions
A report sent out from Pierre several
days ago, giving the creamery cash
payments for the last fiscal year ar
practically a million dollars has been
classed by most papers az the amount
of the dairy products of the state for
that year. In that they are in error.
While the creamery cash payments for
the year were a good sum for the farm.
ers, the total dairy products of the
az shown by the census report was
practically $1,000 600 for the same
The error came from chasing
creamerys as diaries when in fact
they work Independently of one
another.
Ike Davis, whose real name Is Logan
Blissard, and who gave the authorities
near Sun Dance a chase during the
past week on account of the robbery Of
some horses on the Belle Fourche, has
been captured. He called up a friend
over the telephone at one of the ranches