Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-12
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

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G. l. w. Smith and Homer Charles,
of Rapid City. contemplate building a
foundry in Lead for the manufacture
of kerosene engines, for which Mr.
Charles has the patent
South Dakota is not a manufacturing
state. Still we have 685 factories
which represent an investment of ST.
$50, l42. which last year paid in wages
the snug sum of 81 40 $3.50 and which
produced an output worth s13 1856, 1888
last year.
Mrs. Eliza Baldwin has commenced
suit against the owners of the new HAITI
block in Aberdeen for injuries she
alleges she received through a fall
down the basement stairway of the
building on March 8 She asks dam
ages in the sum of 5000
The board of trustees of Dakota Wes-
leyan university at Mitchell, Saturday
awarded the contract for the building
of the presidents home to Fred Bod
strip, who was the lowest bidder,agree-
ing to build the building according to
the plans and specifications for a little
less than $4,000.
AT city election to be held at Tvn-
dali April IL, two important questions
will be submitted to the voters, one
whether license shall be granted by the
city authorities to the saloons to sell
Intoxicating liquors at retail, the other
shall the city erect tower and tank for
protection.
Indian Allotting Agent Carl Gunder.
son has completed his work on the
Cheyenne river reservation and has been
ordered to go to the Standing Rock
reservation to carry out the same line
of work. which will probably take him
several years, as none of that class of
work has yet been done on. that reser-
vation
Five years at hard labor was the SEN
tence given to both Elmer Jordan and
Richard Brueschweller of Vermillion
on an arson indictment by Judge Smith
last week. TheyI were charged with
burning the West hall and two other
buildings at the state university. Glenn
ency was recommended by the boys
attorney.
| The business of the department of the
secretary OF the state is growing to
point where it makes "a decided differ
renee in the revenues of the state. The
reports of that department for the
month of February were about 5000
and for March were $3,SlS, the heaviest
monthly accepts ever taken in by the
department.
Walter b. Saunders. one of Milbank' S
most influential citizens aud prominent
business men, diet Thursday evening
at o'clock at the Northwestern hospital
at Minneapolis from the effects of an
operation which was made short time
ago to relieve complications that had
set in from the effects of fall last
Thanksgiving day
The March collection of state taxes
for the state general fund amounted to
$433, oil The returns indicate that a
greater number than usual took advan-
tage of the division of taxes into two
payments in February and October,
than have done SO IN past years, and
this fact will increase the collections of
the call of January next materially.
In attempting to ford Pearl creek in
Beadle county last week, Ed Danielson
and 5. A. Carlyle, riding in a single
buggy, were overturned into the water
The horse and Danielson were drowned
but Carlyle succeeded in reaching shore
Danielson was about 30 years old, and
leaves wife and three children The
body of Danielson was recovered three
hours after the accident.
No arrests have been made in the
attempted wheat stealing from Car in
the railroad yards at Madison last week.
| Thirty-seven sacks had been filed with
grain and deposited on the ground out
side the car, when, for some reason, the
thieves were frightened away without
taking the grain. Upon examination
the sacks were found to belong to sew.
eral farmers in the vicinity, most of
them presumably stolen from Junius
elevator.
Hurrying down the tracks of the
Northwestern railroad near Lead, lit tie
Victoria lie Meque and Cordelia john
son, aged 10 and ii respectively sue
ceeding in warning the engineer of the
passenger train in time to prevent him
from running into large mass of rock,
which had fallen in one of the open
cuts. The children were taking
stroll on the tracks just outside of
Lead when they saw this rock, which
had become loosened by the wet
weather, fall upon the track. They
tried to roll it of, but finding that that
was useless thew hurrie1 dowu tho