Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-14
NEWSY STATE NOTES.


had painful experience while umpir-
ing a game of baseball between the
Groton and Warner teams. He was
running to first base to make close
decision and was struck on the nose by
thrown ball. His nose was fractured
and he was compelled to retire from
the game.
The Chicago g. Northwestern railway
has filed in the Office of the state land
department plats of the state lands
which it will cross in its Gregory
county extension. This 10 the line
which is to extend from Bonesteel to
Burke by way of Herrick and Gregory,
aud the line which it is expected will be
extended northwest through the state
by way of Midland, crossing the Pierre
Rapid City line at that point.
Yankton has had the worst fire which
has occurred in many years. The w.
I Van Epps livery, which accommo-
dated sixty horses was destroyed with
seven head of stock; huge woodpile of
many cords was burned, and barn of
the Loonan Lumber company also went
up in smoke. The main business dis.
trict was abandoned during the are.
The fire department COPIED successfully
with the flames. The loss will not
exceed 5000
The petty burglaries which have been
going on in Pierre for the past year will
probably be brought to an end by the
arrests made last week and others
which are likely to follow before the
matter is ended. The work has been
that of crowd of young fellows from
sixteen to twenty years of age, who
have been going pretty lively gait,
most of them sons of good families who
were not satisfied with home restraints.
The Modern Brotherhood of Yankton
with headquarters in Iowa, has been
sued for 81 900, the insurance held in
the order by Mrs S. A. Thomas, who
joined the order in September last, and
died about four months later. The
case will likely residue itself into one
of medical opinions, as the case turns
on the cause of death, the order holding
the woman died of disease that she
could not have obtained insurance on
if she had answered correctly the ques.
tons put at her examination.
Albert Horst, of Yankton, a telephone
lIneman, is around town with two
mutilated hands and badly cut face,
the result of tampering with a live
wire. At the Pierce hotel is an electric
clock, and the wires got crossed with
the telephone. In attempting to
untangle things Horst got caught by
both hands on the live wire, which held
him until his hands were burned to the
bone, when he was released and he fell
to the floor. some eighteen feet, where
he received fresh injuries through his
head striking the cement floor.
Ira 0. Curtiss, an attorney, who owns
large farm west OF Aberdeen, has
broken the record for tree planting this
spring. He has planted 500 trees.
Mr.. Curtiss' hobby is demonstration, he
wants to see the South Dakota prairies
turned into forests, and to this end he
has not only planted many trees him.
self, but has sent thousands of trees
free to applicants on condition that the
trees be planted OF the trees planted
by Mr.. Curtiss, 5000 are forest trees,
100 are fruit trees and 5000 were CON-
posed of cuttings of various kinds.
The papers of western Lyman county
are not well pleased with the treatment
accorded to them by the officials of the
county who were elected two years ago
from the older settled eastern part of
the county. The people of the west
end claim they are beng allowed to
shift for themselves, and they are
demanding redistricting of the county
into new commissioner districts to more
nearly conform to an even division of
population. They also demand the
creation of q number Of new election
precincts, as at present many voters