Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-02

South Dakota, has issued an official
notice to the effect that the grand
Masonic and Templar bodies and grand
chapter o. K s., OF South Dakota. will
hold their annual meetings at Lead,
commencing on Tuesday, June IL, and
continue for several days.
This years meeting will be the thirty
third annual communication of the
grand lodge, A. +. and A. M; the
eighteenth annual c~onvocation of the
grand chapter Royal Arch Masons; the
twenty-fourth annual conclave of grand
c~ommandery, Knights Templar and the
nineteenth annual session of the grand
chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.
A new map is soon to be issued by
the state board of railroad commission.
ers. Some four or five thousand at
least will be printed-more than in
previous years, to meet an increased
demand for the maps They are for
free distribution to the public, and are
scattered all over the country upon
requests received through the mails by
the commission's secretary.
BY the heroic action of his son the
life of James Bowers, a farmer residing
near Verdon was saved. Bowers was
engaged in operating a pulverizer drill,
to which four horses were attached,
when the animals became frightened
and started to run away. In endeavor-
ing to control the animals the farmer
was thrown to the ground, and in an
instant was being trampled by the
plungipg horses. In a moment more
they would have broken away, and he
would have been battered to pieces by
the machine being dragged over him
At the most critical juncture the son,
having noticed the plight of his father,
rushed to his assistance, and by a DIES
perate effort succeeded in bringing the
horses to a standstill when the machine
was only a few inches from his fathers
PHOSPHATE form.
Immediately after the Rt. Rev. Viii.
liam Hobart Hare, the venerable Epis-
copal bishop of South Dakota, departed
from Sioux Fails for the East about ten
days ago, it was denied by some of those
associated with him here that he
intended to have an operation performed
but their denials prove to have been
without foundation. The bishops
friends throughout the state and North
west will be interested IN the informa-
ton that he recently submitted to oper-
alton at an Eastern hospital, and that
the operation was fully as successful as
was anticipated. Bishop Hare went
direct from Sioux Falls to st. Lukes
hospital in New York city and the oper-
alton to which he submitted was for
the removal of his right eye. The
removal of the eye was necessary
because of a cancerous sore with which
the bishop has been afflicted for some
years.
Charles G. King, arrested in Chicago
and taken to Sioux Falls for his connec-
ton with the failure of theF irstNational
bank of Scotland, has been unable TO
furnish a bond and occupies a cell in
the Minnehaha county Jail. An effort
was made by his attorney to have his
bond reduced from $4,000, the amount
fixed by United States Commissioners
Foote, of Chicago, before whom he was
taken o after his arrest, to the sum
of $1,000, but he did not succeed. How
ever, the amount has been cut to $4,000,
this being deemed a satisfactory amount
by Judge Garland and United States
Attorney w. G.. Porter. Several CON-
panies are willing to furnish a bond on
condition that King give them ample
security, but thus far he has been
unable to do this. Mrs. King returned
to Scotland a few days ago from Dixon,
ILL.,, where Mr.. King took his family
several weeks before his arrest.
The sales dates of the state capitol
building lands and average minimum
prices for this year are: Hyde county,
at Highmore. May Ii, average from 50
to $l1 an acre; Hand county, at Miller,
May IA, with a minimum of from 80 to
SO an acre; Faux county sales will be
at Faulkton on May 10, with minimum
ranging from IS to Sl4 ali acre; Potter
county, at Gettysburg, May l6, with
minimums ranging from IS 10 sl2:
Edmunds county. at Ipswich, May 81,
with minimums ranging from s. to 81;
Mcpherson county, at Leola, May 20,
with minimums ranging from So to $40
an acre; Sully county, al Onida May
%, ranging from So to $40 an acre.
With a $40 minimum handicap last year
enough of this land was disposed of to
bring in the funds required under the
proposed plan to erect only one wing of
the building. and Commissioner Dokken
with more leeway in the matter of sales
and with the privilege of giving time on
half the purchase price will do all in
his power to sell enough of the lands TO
keep the work on the building going
without drawing upon the state fund
appropriated as an emergency in case
the sales do not meet the situation.