Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-02-08

secretary or wal TO furnish condemned
cannon to the board of regents of the
University of South Dakota, to be
placed on the campus of the institution
as a memorial of its students who
served in the Spanish war.
Over 300 prime skunk skins were
harvested in January by John Lucas,
living southeast of Elk Point in the
great bluffs along the Missouri river.
Lucas is said to be amassing. a fortune
by the raising and killing of skunks
for theit skins and oil. He has been
doing this for several years aud now
has established a veritable farm of
these animals,
Mcpherson county is the owner of a
new Jail, and now has one of the safest
places of any county in the northern
part of the state to keep prisoners.
Sheriff Young, with the assistance of
Deputy Sheriff George Waisler, put the
finishing touches on the new Jail, hav-
ing had personal charge of the work of
rivetiug the steel cells and placing
them in position.
The Catholic ladies of Spencer, S. D.,
aud the vicinity have embarked in a
landable undertaking, the raising of
funds for the erection of a new Catho-
lie church building at Spencer. AS the
preliminary step toward the rails ng of
funds for the purpose stated they have
organized a sewing society, the profits
OF which will be placed in the fund for
the erection of the new church.
The authorities of Willow Lakes are
the latest to put on the cid" Acting
under instructions from the town coun-
Gil. City Marshall Carmichael has
caused the removal of every slot
machine in town, and all these
machines have disappeared. The war
fare against them is due to the activity
of the members of the Willow Lakes
Women's Christian Temperance union.
The Fort Pierre Fairplay in a recent
issue says: r. l. Yokum has a novelty
in the shape of a team of buffalo calves
which he has broken to drive to a cart
He had them on this side of the river
Saturday and they attracted a great
deal of attention. They were dressed
in fine new harness AMI hitched to a
chariot shaped cart which has been
used during the breaking process.
Some easterner will come along n of
these days and offer Bob a handsome
price for his team.
Dick Ashton has been promoted to
be general manager of the Northwest
ern railway. Mr.. Ashton has thous-
ands of South Dakota friends who will
rejoice in his pr ospesity. He is of the
class of successful fellows who have
made their own way from the bottom
TO the top of the ladder. When the
Northwestern was built into Pierre a
quarter of a century ago, Dick Ashton
carried the chain in the surveying crew.
1t is crafty ing to know that the n
veyor boy is now general manager of
the great system which extends that
road from Pierre to the Hills.
Herbert Steadman, who has been in
the employ of Norbeck 81 Nicholson at
Redfield for a short time, had a narrow
escape from death Wednesday after
noon. In some way his clothing
became tangled in the fiy-wheel of the
twelve horse power gasoline engine
which furnishes the motive power to
RON the machinery in the foundry and
he was thrown around during several
revolutions of the wheel. When he
was rescued from his perilous position
he was unconscious but an examination
showed that he had sustained no severe
injuries. He will be all right in a few
While the irrigation law passed at the
last session Of the legislature provides
for a state engineer of irrigation, with
an office at the state capitol, aud an
annual salary of $1,000, no such
appointment has been made The same
law provides for three water commits
sioners, who shall be allowed five dol
lars a day and expenses, not to exceed
one hundred days work in any oney ear
and other expenses are provided by law.
While this law was given practically
as much consideration as any act of the
last legislature. yet after providing for
these Officials for carrying out it's pro-
it only appropriates a total of
"a 600 for the time from July l, 1905 to
July l, 1907. This appropriation would
not go very far in paying the salaries
for the two years, without expenses If
all the officers called for should be
appointed. Two of the water commits
sioners have been selected, the one for
district No. / being Walter S. Hamil-
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