Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-08-02
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

Egan Express, has just completed and
moved into his new Office, which is one
OF the best in the state
A dispatch from Cheyenne says it is
believed that Warner Moody was killed
by an enemy who followed him from
South Dakota, and not by gamblers.
Burglars broke into the store of
Heudrsckson & Underwood, of Egan,
last week, and secured about $40 in
cash besides a quantity of goods They
have not been apprehended.
The supreme court July Goth admitted
on the late court examination Tom @.
McNamee, of Brookings, Elnathan r.
Adams, of Java, Charles H. Taylor, of
Pierre, Herbert Abbott, of Sioux Falls,
George Phillip, of Fort Pierre, and
Fred @. Carpenter, of Parker.
Two million dollars will be paid by
the United States government at the
coming fall and winter to the Indians
of the Sisseton reservation This will
be nearly 81 600 to each man, woman
and child of Sioux blood belonging to
the Sisseton and Wahpeton tribes
Harry Bradford, of Rondell, has a
brown mare that has raised for him five
AID Gregor colts, and has another at her
side now Four of the colts have been
sold at an aggregate of $3.50, and
Harry has au offer of 800 for the fifth.
The mare is fourteen years old.
Through the efforts of Judge Thomp-
son and Postmaster Brass, of Mitchell
the identity of an unknown man, who
was murdered in that city July Is, has
been established, he proved to be John
Burke an ex-convict who had served
three years in the Nebraska peniten-
tiary for burglary,
Fred Strissel, who owns a farm
adjoining the townsite of Groton on the
southwest, was not only the first to cut
grain, but he also holds the record for
the first threshing of the 1906 crop.
which was done for him by Henry
Dean on Wednesday. The grain
threshed was barley, and turned out
| forty bushels to the acre
An organization of colored people
called the Northwestern Homestead
Movement company propose to bring a
number of negroes of the southern
states into the middle west and espec-
tally South Dakota. Already much
land has been bought in this state and
many companies have been formed,
each governing fifteen or twenty colored
families who expect to settle here. A
colony will be founded soon near White
Lake, Aurora county
| The bids for constructing the new
Marshall county court house were
opened at Britton July 20. There We're
due deliberation the county commits
sioners awarded the contract to Messrs
Void & Johnson, of Brookings, Their
bid was for $50, 935 and the contract
calls for a stone building. Messrs.
Bell & Detweller, of Minneapolis, are
the architects.
A well appointed houseboat carrying
Jack Boyle and family with several
friends, tied up at Pierre July "a on
their way down to st. Louis, coming
from Fort Benton. They had been
about two months on the trip so far
down the river and are in no hurry to
get to st. Louis, preferring to keep
further north during the heated portion
of the year. The party came overland
by team from Portland. Ore, to Fort
Benton, and built the boat for their trip
down the River.
State Secretary Wipf is preparing his
report to submit to the governor, and
shows receipts for that department for
the biennial period of So, 276 50. To
show the growing business of the
department the receipts for 1905 were
$25, 81. 3S, and those for 1906 were
$50, 275. go an increase of over five thou
sand dollars for the year. The heaviest
receipts come from the corporations
which file under the laws of this state
over fifty six thousand dollars of the
receipts being from that source.
Judge Smith, in recent term of
court in Lyman county, rendered a
decision which will affect a number of
saloon Licenses which have been granted
In Stanley and Lyman counties. The
case came from Kennebec, one of the
new towns on the Milwaukee line
extension, and was in the shape of an
injunction restraining the county COM
missioners of Lyman county from
granting license at that place. Judge
Smith held that no saloon license could
be granted where vote favorable to
license has not been had, and that
where license was requested at town
without an organization of its own a
favorable vote must have been secured
In the township in which the town is
located before legal license can be
granted.