Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-11
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

Preparations now have e COM
pleted for the opening of a new bank at
Estelline ON Jan. 10.
There is not a printer nor a journalist
in the South Dakota ~penitentiary. All
other and professions in the category of
labor are represented.
Robert Corey, who resides north of
Sioux Falls, is about to receive his
share of the $40 1000 900 estate of Sir
Francis Drake, England's terror of the
seas in the eighteenth century, he
being one of the legal heirs of the
estate.
Ordinances have been introduced in
the city councils of both Pierre and
Fort Pierre, granting street car fran
chises in both cities to Noah Newbanks
of Pierre. The ordinance is for an
electric line with about six miles of
trackage. The intent of the company
under the franchise is to put in a sys-
TEN which will give a joint service &c
the two towns, with local service within
them.
Local republicans of Yankton have
organized a Roosevelt republican
league. This organization is in accord
with state leaders in the matter of the
enactment of a primary election law
ana with the presidents views on the
rate legislation. 1t bids fair to be a
strong organization. Hon. f. ID
Wyman was chosen president and E. II.
Willis secretary of the local league.
On the tenth of this month, the state
treasury will take up $400, 900 of emer-
gency warrants which were issued a
year ago at a shade over four per cent
interest. This will exhaust the general
fund cash on hand and will leave prac-
tically 5000, 600 of outstanding 7 per
cent general warrants. Whether any
move will be made to fund any of these
warrants at a lower rate of interest yet
remains to be seen.
Inc CiidlicS IeSou htuu VI
Sturgis is preparing to run a telephone
line from hat city to Reed p~ostoffice, a
distance of about sixteen miles. The
route passes seventeen ranches and it is
thought the owners can be induced to
connect II. The object of this %inititaory
lines is 10 show the convenience and
value of telephone communication to
the end that the circuit NAV be extend
ed to embrace all the well settled
regions near Sturgis.
Attorney George N. Williamson, of
the law firm of Taubman, Williamson
& Herreid, of Aberdeen, was the victim
of an unusual experience. He was i'm
the vault in the county auditors Office
looking over some papers when the
employees of the office, who had for
gotten the lawyer was in the vault,
locked the door and went to dinner. 1t
was well along in the afternoon before
the attorney succeeded in making him
self heard aud secured his release.
Pension, the engineer in charge of
the sounding on the river, has begun
work with a well boring machine to
find the depth Of the shale which they
have located thirty feet below the sur-
face or bed of the river. The work Will
be started at the south end of Blue
Blanket island five miles north of
Evarts and will run toward that city.
The location of the temporary bridge,
or portion from present indications
will be at the north end of Fox island,
about a quarter of a mile north of
Evarts.
Articles of incorporation have been
flied with the secretary of state for the
Minnesota, Dakota & Pacific Railway
company, with headquarters at Water
town. The capital is $500, 900. The
incorporators are l.. +. Day, George w.
Sewers, Frederick Wing, Minneapolis,
George w. Case, Walter ID. Morris,
Watertown. The purpose of the COM
pany is to construct fifty miles of rail-
way, estimated at a cost of 81, 600.
The line is to extend from WATERFOWL
across the counties of Codington and
Clark to a point ON the east line Of
Sphinx county. This is what is known
as the extension of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railway.
Tho town of Selby, beaten in it's
attempt to gain possession of the county
seat of Walworth county a year ago,
has evolved a novel plan to capture the
prize and get the better of Bangor, the
present county seat, and her bitter
enemy. 1t has served notice that it will
try to incorporate in its limits a strip of
land, two rods wide and five and a half
miles long, which will include the pre-
sent site of the court house at Bangor.
Lawyers state that this method, if car.
ried ont, is legal, providing that two