Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-28
NEHSY STATE NOTES.

A bear weighing E75 pounds was
caught IN trap near Deadwood last
week and afterwards dispatched with a
bullet.
Michael Hoffer, while setting a fish
net In the James river near Huron
became entangled in the net and was
drowned Friday.
An item of much interest over this
state comes here from Dallas, Tex,
where Miss Jessie Fulier, was married
to Earl O. Bosch. Miss Fuller was for
a number of years stenographer Of
the supreme court of South Dakota.
The selection of the site at Luroc for
the steel bridge to be built across the
Missouri by the Milwaukee road, made
by the Surveyors after examining the
river for miles in both directions, has
been Endorsed by the president of the
road.
E. G. Corey, claim holder a few
miles west of Murdo was bitten by
rattlesnake, but doctor was summoned
at once and prompt treatment saved
him from serious injury. This is the
second case reported in the county this
season.
The county commissioners of Mar
shall county who weat to Pierre to
confer with Commissioner Bach rela-
tive to the states taking the county
court house bonds, have returned and
given out the information that the state
will take the bonds and work will be
commenced on the building as soon as
possible. The board has not yet decided
on the site for the building.
While the capitol commission is
wrestling with the stone question,
| what's the matter with using "hard
| heads" for tdae foundationand the lower
story of the building? Pierre has
Carnegie library constructed of these
stone and it is a handsome structure.
Enough hard heads can be Sound on the
top of the gro1nd in the vicinity of
Pierre to erect forty capitols.
The Grand Army post at WATERFOWL
has sold it's hall and lot and will devote
the proceeds to the erection of a statue
of Governor Arthur c. Mellette in the
court house park opposite the monu
ment to the soldiers Of the Philippine
war. Governor Mellette was citizen
of Watertown, member of that G.. A.
r.. post, and no one so well as his com
rades and neighbors knew his splendid
qualities.
The present per capita circulation in
the United States is $32 30 THIS
includes all money in banks, savings, in
the pocket Of the people and passing
from hand to hand in the course of
business. in South DAKOTA there is on
deposit in the SKATE banks alone $50 per
capita for its population, which repre-
sents bat small proportion of the per
capita circulation in the state. Don't
you think South Dakota is pretty
good place to tie to?
Secretary Wilson is deeply interested
in the several projects started for the
of alcohol and has arranged
TO send Professor Hanson, of Bookings,
to Europe the last of July, and he will
make trip all over the continent,
with the northern countries,
Norway and Sweden and Russia, work
ing around through southern Europe.
His object will be particularly to study
what is known as the large white stock |
potato and all other plants which |
promise to be suitable for the produc-
ton of alcohol in this country. He will
bring back seeds and plants with view
of treating them in this country. The
corn canning factories of the middle
west have large quantities of refuse
material which it is hoped ultimately
may be used for the production of alco-
hol, and Secretary Wilson, at their
is investigating this subject.
The state land department at Pierre
mas made its second apportionment tor
he year OF the income fund to the
various endowed state institutions, this
fund is distributed as it accumulates,
md there will be other distributions
before the close of the year. The
amount sent to each institution for the
present apportionment is: Agricultural
college. $4Sl7l; Northern hospital,
1899 .3S; Blind asylum, $1,l75.99; Deaf
md dumb school, S438,10; Reform
chool, SOL, 81; Spearfish normal, $685.
q; Madison normal, $49S.63; Spring
ield normal, s3Sl.7l; Northern hospital
1899. SO; Blind asylum, $343.96; School
If mines, 1921. The amount of the
present distribution is $9,425. 0S; and
hat of April this year was SEQ, 587 SO,
making total SO far this year Of $780,
)l207, which is about $500 more than
or the same period last year. The
und which goes to the support of these
Institutions is growing every year and
will soon be a decided factor in the