Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-09-13
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

icpoht lOl thS ytdi cHulIS June OF, lJUO,
the first year of the operation of the
bureau in the state, shows that there
were 9.769 births in South Dakota
reported to the registers. OF these 5066
were males and 4,703 females This is
an average of % to the thousand of
population. There are 1880 married
women under 40 years DID, 1873 out of
each LOCO of these young women gave
birth TO child during the year The
families reporting births, reported an
average of 3 % children to the family.
There were 1874 deaths, AVERAGING
S.3 to- the thousand population. The
average in the United States is 1872
The chief fatalities were, Heart disease,
322; pneumonia, 295; tuberculosis, 270;
premature births congenital disability,
265; old age, 254; cancer 100; diarrhoea
and enteritis, 1875; apoplexy, l0S;
typhoid, 10; meningitis, 10 There
were 26S deaths from violent causes; 4S
drowned; 80 suicides; 5 murders; "a
gunshot; q killed by horses Is in rail
road accidents; % by burns and scalds;
in mines, and the remainder unclassi-
fed. The average age of death was
thirty-three years. Those who survived
early infancy lived to an average age of
| fiftyfive years Those dying from old
age averaged seventy. nine years. There
were 4, l41 marriages. OF the 295 VIC
tins of pneumonia, died in july, 3 in
August, 5 in September, 10 in October,
Is in November, 80 in December, 30 in
January, 45 in February, AZ in March
AZ in April, q in May and 10 in June
tuberculosis took 27o persons, an aver
age of SO 6 to the hundred thousand
against POP in the registration area of
the United States. There were 14l
marriages, the men averaging 20 2 years
and the women 1913. Six girls of IA,
seventeen of 15 and forty of 16 were
married. One boy of Is, two of 16, one
of II and fourteen of IS are reported
The oldest man was seventy and the
oldest woman seventy-one years old
There were sos divorces, only 152 of
whom were known to be residents of
the state. For Day county the report
gives 277 births, SO deaths, 1C2 mar
riages and divorces.
An important move in the matter of
good roads has been taken, and a road
has been surveyed from Hill City
Wyoming state line, connecting with
the Newcastle road, and another road
has been surveyed from the state line
east on the Lawrence county line to
Deadwood This new road has been
made necessary by the great number of
settlers who are now going into the
western part of that county. Until
the county has been a wilderness: deer
were found here in abucdance, and
other wild animals were frequently
encountered. The only honses to be
seen were the occasional shacks of pros
pectors or of the more occasional
rancher. But recently there has been
a great influx of settlers into that Sec
ton, and homes, substantial and per-
manent, are spring up on every hand
Both stock raisers and farmers are
going into this region which is also
valuable minerally. The new roads
which are about to be built will
encourage immigration to a great
degree. Much interest is being taken
this fall throughout the entire Black
Hills in the question of good roads
which has hithereto been neglected. In
the northern hills the matter is being
agitated ami the business men of dead
wood are taking steps to have the roads
of that section improved before snow
falls
The Aberdeen News offers the fol-
lowing on the present croD: The News
would like to repeat that this years
crop is not the largest this state has
ever raised. 1t is good crop-very
satisfactory indeed-but the News has
seen many larger yields, per acre, than
can be shown this year. The crop is
good enough even for South Dakota
if there was more of it people might
not know what TO do with it-bnt all
old timers know that it is not except
ional-that 1T is about an average crop,
per acre, for the past twenty-five years.
Bigger wheat, barley, flax and the like
have been raised many years within
the old timers recollection.
A few days ago while hunting prairie
chickens about sixteen miles southwest
of Parker, Fred Weizum of near Free
man was accidently killed by his COM
panion, Uketa Schavachuk. The
deceased was about 10 years old. Some
chickens has raised, and they shot at
them. The lad ran mp to see If there
were more, and more flew np, it was
then his companion, in his haste to
shoot, accldently shot the lad, the
whole charge striking him in the right
temple and blowing that part of his
head away, killing him instantly. The
body was buried Freeman. His
parents moved to North Dakota last