Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-18

1857 P'o's
for the regulation of corporations, joint
stock companies. and other associations
engaging in interstate and foreign COM
merce in food and fuel supplies, has
received the unqualified endorsement
of the administration and will in all
likelihood become a law.
The Stanley county commissioners
gathered Monday at the Bad river
bridge site as per contract TO receive and
pay for new bridge: but same was not
completed. A. Y. Bayne q Co, have
the contract and and will forfeit S. a
day for the first week and so a day
thereafter until bridge is completed
Robert l.. Stague, PHI. D., was
installed as president of the Brookings
agricultural college Tuesday, The
student body and as many friends of
the school as could crowd into the
chapel met at l0:30 a. m to witness the
installation ceremonies. Prof. b. III
Mathews, vice president of the school
presided.
The sheriff of Lawrence county is
about to appeal to the circuit court
for a mileage bill which the county
commissioners have refused him. The
bill was for mileage outside of the
county and the board took the position
that the sheriff had no business to go
u of the county on county business
without orders.
Fort Pierre business men have
formed a stock company with a
capital of $3.50 600 to bore for oil or dry
gas which they hope to find below the
present artesian basin. The company
will use the present artesian well and
will bore from it's present depth until
they find hat for which they seek or
explode the theory that it exists there.
Mrs. A. Draper, Of Recluse, about
100 miles west of Pierre, with a six
year old daughter had a narrow escape
from death a few DAYS Ago.. They lived
in a log house with a dirt roof, and
without warning the center log of the
roof broke letting the timbers and dirt
down on them. The mother managed
to dig her way through the wreckage
and call assistance to dig put the child,
who was found with o broken leg,
pinned under some of the timbers.
The Huronite says Miss Lottie Tillot-
son, who has gained the reputation of
a CRATER throughout the state, gave
her lecture in the 1. 0. o. f. hall in
that city on Monday night, and her
usual graft was practiced. Seven dol.
lars and a half had been taken in, of
which she was to receive half, after
expenses had been paid, but as usual
she ~pocketed the whole amount plus
twenty cents and said good bye. And
the organization which brought her
here is out, the expenses of the enter
tainment. She is a good ''swindoozler"
and we wonder how much longer she
viii continue to work her little game.
An unusual addition has just been
made to the student body OF the state
school of mines in the person of young
Hong Quong, a Chinese student.
Young Quong who has just returned
from a two years absence in China, is
really an American youth, having been
born in this country and also having
received the greater part of his educa-
ton here. He attended the Deadwood
schools until he had completed the
first year in the high school and then
returned TO China were he was a stu.
dent for some time at Queens college,
Hong Kong. He is the son of DIR.
Wing True a well known real estate
owner and practicing physician of Dead
wood,
A. NJ. Nelson, manager of the Brown
barber shop, of Britton is wearing a
a badly disfigured face this week as a
result of an explosion of carbide gas
which occurred in the basement of the
barber shop on Monday morning about
eight o'clock. 1t appears that on Sat-
day some one had emptied the waste
pan of the tank into an empty carbide
can and screwed the top on, which
naturally caused a lot of gas TO form in
the can. When Mr. Nelson went into
the basement to charge the tank he
supposed the can contained fresh car
bide and unscrewed the top. As it was
quite dark he struck a match and / n an
instant there was a fierce explosion,
the fame striking him full in the face.
When the Ping Pong u of Carrot
son for Sioux Falls had nearly reached
Corson Friday morning it met with q
most peculiar accident and one which