Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-08-30
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

The Pierre wool market this season
has handled 500, 900 pounds of wool
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the presi-
dent is hunting in the Black Hills with
United States Marshal Bullock.
1t is claimed that the loco weed has
made its appearance along the Missouri
on the west side of the stream, and that
over fifty horses in the herds near old
Fort Bennett have died this summer
from the effects of the plant.
Another scene in the Selby- Bangor
county seat fight is about to be enacted.
II will be in a courtroom, and fifty
citizens of Selby will be defendants in
a suit brought by the commissioners of
Walworth county for $4,000 for the
destruction of the Bangor courthouse,
December 1904
A parochical school has been estab-
lished in Lead by Bishop Stariha of the
Catholic church and will oe opened ON
the Sd of September. The school will
be held i'll a newly renovated building
which has been the property of the
church for some time.
One IF the largest families in South
Dakota resides near Eureka. Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Heb, the parties referred to
are the parents of fifteen children
thirteen of whom are alive and well.
The youngest of the fifteen children
who have been born to the couple
arrived few days ago.
Thomas Appleton, superintendent OF
construction at Evanston, Wyo, has
been detailed by the supervising archi-
tect at Washington, d. c., to select
public building sites at Lead, Mitchell
and WATERFOWL, in South Dakota.
Several offers of sites have been made
in ca ch instance.
North Dakota has south Dakota
beaten two to one on the aggregate Of
the wheat crop, but when it comes to
corn and oats and barley and fax and
hay and potatoes, that is an other story.
South Dakota is no longer distinct
lively wheat state for the reason that
there is more money in other lines.
The stewards of the Methodist church
at Cotton, near Sioux Falls, held a
meeting at which it was decided to
erect a fine new church building. A
site for the new structure already has
been secured, The new church build
ing will be "a by 30 feet in size, with
basement, and will be modern in every
respect
James Dorly, harness maker by
trade, hung himself in the Edmunds
county Jail at Ipswich some time last
Wednesday night. His dead body was
found suspended from an iron bar in
his cell early on Thursday morning.
The body was sent to Mankato, Mimi,
for burial, as his parents reside at that
place. He was about 40 years of age
and unmerried.
About dozen young girls of Clark,
submitted to the removal of their cuti-
Gle so that it could be grated onto the
body of Matte Amundson, of Bradley,
who was badly burned month ago by
an explosion of gasoline. The oper-
alton is said to have been successful
and the injured girl is reported now to
be progressing nicely. The girls who
submitted to the operations were entire
strangers TO Miss Amundson.
Railroad rumors in South Dakota
these days are as thick as flies, and they
attract little more attention. South
Dakota has the business to give, and
hence the railroads look with coveteous
eyes on unoccupied territory. This
state this year leads the list of railroad
extensions, and it is likely also to head
the list of states for the per capita pro-
duction of new wealth, and for the
immigration which will be secured. 1t
Is ble year VI oOutu DdhOea eiAumPh'
Perhaps the champion pedestrian OF
his age in the country is an old gentle
man Morrison, who arrived at Fairfax
few days ago after having walked the
entire distance from Butte, Neb. He
is SO years of age, having been born in
1918. He was on his way to visit with
old acquaintance in the coded portion
of the Rose bud reservation. The old
man halls from North Dakota, where
he has homestead. On his breast he
proudly wears G.. A. X. Button.
State Secretary Wipf Friday opened
bids for the printing of the South
Dakota supreme court reports for the
next eight years. The bidders were
State Publishing Company Pierre, III Al,
Callahan company, Chicago, GAG per
volume; John Longstaff, Huron. $3.50;
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y, 81; Nipple Printing
Co., Pierre, sl.74, the firm getting the
contract. The law requires the con-
tracing firm to supply the books to
residents of the state at ....e contract
price.