Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-25
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

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Andrew Thompson, a II year old
boy near Miller, raised and sold $Si 30
worth of popcorn last wear.
Elk Lieutenant Governor John j.
Keen was married at Seattle January
Bird to Miss Manila Page of that city
On January Goth the state railway
commission will meet at Avon to hear
the petition of f. il. Smith for an
elevator site on the Milwaukee right of
way.
N. f. Hansen, of ~Brookings, was
elected secretary of the plant section of
the American Breeders Association at
its annual meeting at Lincoln, Neb
last week.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Memo Rural Telephone
company at Memo, with a capital of
So, 600. Incorporators, G. w. Nuns
ner, NJ. H Claggett and Peter Gunder-
son.
The state appraisemeut board has
fixed the minimum selling price of the
school section adjoining Rapid City at
from $50 to $50 an acre, according to
location of the tracts in relation to the
present town These tracts will be
offered at auction on the third day of
March.
jacob Ressler, a chimney sweep, was
taken 70 Aberdeen late Thursday,
charged with robbiug the Mallett hard
ware store at Groton of $500 to await
the action of the circuit court. Ressler
was suspected of the robbery, which
occurred several days ago, aud when his
room was searched, the stolen goods
were discovered He acknowledged his
guilt.
AS the result of numerous attacks
upon the official record of Thomas j.
Bushnell, a member of the city council
of Sioux Falls. Mr.. Bushnell had
Charles w. Kingsbury, Jr, editor of
the Sioux Falls Cataract, arrested on
the charge of criminal libel. The
| editor furnished a bond in the sum of
$3.50 for his appearance at the next
term of state circuit court
Judge J II. Mccoy Friday granted
the petition of former Governor Her
ried, as attorney for the Great North
ern road, to hold a special term of cir
cult court and empanel a special jury
to hear the condemnation proceedings
begun against the owners of the Park
Place hotel by the road, to secure the
ownership of the hotel property for a
site for the downtown station of the
Great Northern. The date for the
special term was set for Feb. 16.
The last legislative session increased
the annual sum allowable for wolf
bounty from 5000 to $4,000. For
the first six months of the fiscal year
under the new appropriation the claims
for bounty amounted to $500, and for
the first half of January claims were
filed to the amount of $1,000. At the
rate the claims are coming in the &c.,
00o, will have to be prorated at the close
of the fiscal year, as did the smaller
amount in past years.
Last week at Langford about thirty
people were sliding down hill in a bob
sled at last the sled became unmanage-
able and tipped over. The most SER
iously injured were Miss Julia Benson,
Langford, left shoulder fractured.
Miss Nelson, Pierpont, face badly cut
and bruised, Miss Nellie Green, Lang
ford, face badly bruised, Ciaud Beatty,
Langford, head bruised and hand cut,
Robbie Holdridge, Langford face cut
minor injuries.
On account of the age of Charles
Manville, the young horse thief now
in the M%innehaha Jail, efferts are being
made to have him sent 10 the Planking-
ton reform school at once. Manville
is but II years of age and if the law
is allowed to take its course he will be
obliged to remain in the county Jail
until next April as there will be no
term of federal court before that time.
If arrangements can be made to have
the youth plead guilty and sent to
Plankiugton such action will be taken.
Notices have been served on Yankton
saloons that from February | positively
no violation of the state liquor law will
be tolerated. The law demands that
all tables, chairs, curtains, games and
other devices or screens must be abol-
ished and the local county officials
demand that the law be complied with.
Yankton has been subject in the past
to these reform waves, but the saloons
have gradually worked back to where
they operate gambling rooms, they
have pool rooms in connection and they