Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-28
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.


sausage that will sizzle.
Secretary Shaw fayors smaller
dollar bills. The present bill covers
all to few groceries.
This canned meat business almost
makes fellow suspect that some of
the unparalleled prosperity now on
the market is not always just exactly
what it is labeled, either.
Ii Oklahoma votes to come in she
will have to agree to prohibition for
twenty one years. They are used
to drouth down there, but this one
is of exceptional length and severity.
San Francisco is doing some ter
rifle saloon regulating" The
saloon license has been increa sed to
$4,000 a year and the saloons must
close at s p. m. This means gold
plated cid"
The fact that Mr.. Beveridge took
a $4,000 attorney fee from an
insurance company before he was
elected to the senate does not make
very satisfactory scandal" but
his enemies deem it better than
nothing.
A farmer, says an exchange, has
made discovery that will be of vast
Importance to farmers during a dry
season. He has found that by plant
ing onions and potatoes in the same
field in alternate rows the onions
being so strong that they bring
tears to the eyes of the potatoes in
such volumes that the roots of the
vines are kept moist and big crop
is raised in spite OF the drouth.
According to the testimony now
going on in the Zion City case,
Dowie was indeed "Peofit." There
were deposits of over half million
in the Zion bank when Voliva
assumed control, and not cent Of
money. The deposits at one time
reached two millions and about
seventy-fve cents was all that any
one depositor could withdraw. The
Zion City graft seems to have lead
all the rest.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, has seen
thirty three years continuous service
in the senate. He served three
years in congress before his promo
tion to the senate, making in all
thirty nine years of public service at
Washington. When he shall have
served his present term he will have
represented his state at Washington
forty-two years. There was a
break" however, of two years
between his congressional career
and his election to the senate.
Some idea of the number of
important letters which every year
go estray either from inadequate
addresses or from failing to reach
the parties for whom intended, may
be gained from the statement that
last year the total amount OF cash
turned over to the United States
treasury department from the open
ing division of the dead letter office
was $50, 101.16. and the amount of
checks, drafts and money orders
taken in was $603, 1915. The
greater part Of this was returned to
the senders. If this amount should
be confiscated by the postofiice
department the dead letter office
could be operated for FIVE years on
one years receipts.
The civic league Of Lewistown,
Montana, has paid the youngsters
half a cent a pound for dandelion
plants with roots on" Such muni.
fcence was hooted at by some Of The
business men, but when swarms d
happy, dirty, redfaced, and prespir
ing small girls and boys came lugg
ing their burden Of green freckled
with yellow, until four thousant
pounds we're piled up and the rea
estate Of the town was "unincum
bered' to the extent Of exactly tws