Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-01

county. was mp at Summit last week,
and gave the blind pigs in that town
notice tkat they would have TO close NJ
or prosecution would follow.
Talk about winter. In one of the
pretty yards in East Pierre, pansies
have been in bloom every month since
last spring, and are blooming today.
Who wants to go south when flowers
bloom here all the year around.
The Lowell school at Sioux Falls
burned last week. The loss is $50 600
insurance so 600 The fire is believed
to have been of incendiary origin A
man was seen running from the build
ing n few minutes before the fire.
A team of horses belonging to Lee
Gamble, "a prominent farmer of Yank-
ran county, were forced over a Mis-
souri, river bluff and, together with the
wagon TO which they were hitched,
and another to which they were tied
they descended a distance of forty feet
.stricking railroad tracks, whore the
team was rescued u%ninjured, while
both wagons were badly demolished.
From a Santa Cruz, (Cal. newspaper,
the Sentinel. recently received, is
cleaned the information that Dan ID.
Collins, a former resident of Willow
+ oLa chic etata aud xubc FOR a nu,nbar
of years was deputy United States mar
shal; Ralph w. Helms, who at one time
was engaged in the lumber business in
Milbank city, and John A. Williams,
formerly sheriff OF Grant county, have
formed a partnership under the firm
name of Collins, Heins& Williams and
opened a real estate Office in Santa
Cruz.
An accident happened at the Sisse-
ton Roller mills on Thursday last that
came near causing the death Of Peter
Hogan. He was engaged in straight
ening up a stack of flour when the
whole pile fell Owe him. Ii was some
three quarters Of an hour before his con
dition was discovered and before he
could be extricatcd he was almost
smothered, his mouth, nose and ears
being filed with -four coming from the
contents of a broken sack. He was
oon revived, howSy s nd is now as
well as ever. .erAS
of \ S
Inc Decembet Of ~ the bureau
of vital statistics uonce MS a summary
of the reports for the first six months
of operation of the law. Commits
sioner Robinson says, there were S42
births in December and 1866 during
the six months. The deaths in Dece m
Der numbered BAT, aud for six months
|, 1872 During the six months l25, or
z 2 per cent, died from tuberculosis;
l8l or ~ per cent from heart failure /;
10 or 4 per cent from pneumonia, and
53 or 3 per cent from lancer. Acct
dents have been the cause of l3i
deaths. The accidental deaths from
drownding were "a; from gunshot, 10;
lightning, 10; railroad, 8; burned 5.
There were 10 suicides and 6 murders
In December AZ divorces were granted
an. in the six months 2l7.. In these
cases, 1877 or 63 per cent of tbe parties
were non-residents.
Work has began on the immense
government dam to be built near
Belle Fourche and which will contain
the main supply of water for Belle
Fourche aud the irrigation project.
This reservoir will be twelve miles
wide and will hold all the water of the
Belle Fourche river and adjacent
streams. The capacity canno b.
est mated at present, but its highest
point is lis feet from the ground. The
contract was let to Orman q Crook of
Colorado, and the amount of their bid
was 81 OILS, 900. The award was made
last October and machinery, is now
being shipped preparatory to beginning
the actual labor. Two carloads of
machinery including a large steam
shovel were received at Whitewood
Four years will be allowed for the com
pletion Of this reservoir, while the
entire irrigation project will take not
less than seven years.
The Homestake mine, of Lead, has
laid off fifty of the 1900 men who work
below ground on account of the vast
accumulation of ore. Several open
Slopes are now completely filed with
rock waiting to be taken out. Aside
from these, there are several open pass
ages from floor to floor also filed with
ore reserves. More ore is being broken
at present than is being hoisted and il
was necessary to reduce the ore output
for a time. The men who were laid
off were drill machine operators.
About 240 of these machines are in
constant use and fifteen of them are