Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-03-15
NEWSY A NOTES.
Representative Martin will make
three speeches III Lincoln County this
week.

crowded with persons desiring 10 file oil
lands west of the river and all indica
tons point TO a heavy increase il. trave
from this time on.
The old building covering the famous
plunge bath at Hot Springs has beer
torn down and a fine new one is to b,
erected, covering the same pool. Tn,
building will be 66x120 feet, constructed
of steel and iron and will cost abou.
$4,000
Anton Fredin, the ten-year old son o,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fredin, of Rapid City
was killed by a log that rolled on hi.
head. With some other children hs
was playing near a pile of lumber wher
one of the logs became loosened, rolling
over and crushing the child beneath it.
weight.
The Ogden mill chemical reduction
plant for gold ores in Deadwood was
burned to the ground early Monday
morning. l. had just completed its
first test run with satisfactory results.
1t treated ores by a new method with
cyanide ard other chemicals. The loss
is 5000. 1t will be rebuilt at once.
Walter Smead, of Deadwood, who
has been at home on a Through, has
been recalled to the naval academy at
Annapolis, Md, by telegram, to take an
examination for promotion. He expects
to be assigned to duty on the battleehip
Ohio, which is soon TO leave Boston to
spend three years on the Asiatic station.
Joseph Hubbard, better known as Joe
Bush, committed suicide at St Joseph's
hospital IN Deadwood, by drinking
cyanide of potassium 1t is believed an
illness from which he felt he would
never recover preyed on his mind and
caused him to take his life. He was an
expert machinist and one of the Black
Hills pioneers.
The house committee on public lands
in Washington has made a favorable
on the bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Burke, of South Dakota, for
the relief of certain persons in the
Chamberlain land district who have
violated the law. The settlers In ques-
ton were unconscious offenders, the
land authorities being at a fault though
ignorance of the existence of the statute.
The first meeting of the state board
of equalization for the year is fixed by
law for the fourth Tuesday in March
when they meet with the county audi
tors Of the state to discuss and formu-
plans for the general assessment
work of the state. The date this year
is March q. The work this year prob
ably will be devoted to correcting irreg-
ularaties which yet exist.
Suffering with melancholy, Herman
Boettel, a ranchman in the Crow Peak
district, took his life by shooting the
of his head off with a gun. He had
returned from a RABBIT hunt with a
and, after writing some letters,
went out with the latter, who busted
himself with chores on the ranch.
Boettel took a small saddle gun and
it over his left eye pulled the
For some weeks the people of Lyon
township, neal Sioux Falls, have been
excited over the discovery Of what they
believed to be a vein of good quality Of
soft coal. Recently they arranged TO
sink a shaft to a depth of 100 feet in
to ascertain if coal could be found
in sufficient quantities to liberate them
the grasp of the coal barons. The
shaft has demonstrated that coal does
not exist there.
The county cattle inspectors are
making the rounds in their counties
and investigating possibilities in the
way of development of scabIes this
The general dipping last year
practically wiped out the disease as a
prevalent one and only occasional herds
show Infection this spring. In such
cases a quarantine is established, and
the owners of herds where the disease
makes its appearance will be required
dip this spring. The general dipping
which vas required last year Will not
be necessary nor required.
The great missionary convention to
De held at Huron on the 2Sth, Both and
10th of the present mouth under the
Of the Methodist Episcopal
churches of South Dakota, will be the
greatest religious gathering ever wit
messed in this part Of the Northwest.
Local committees have made arrange
for the entertainment of at least
$50 delegates, besides a vsry large num-
Der Of visitors from all over the country.
No less than twenty. five prominent
leaders In the Methodist denomination,
including representatives from every
field in the world, will be in
attendance, bringing the latest infor-
from their respective fields.