Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-15

ments of the different railways in the
state for this year, and has given all the
roads a decided raise, which with the
new mileage included is about 40 per
cent for the Northwestern aud 81 per
cent for the Milwaukee system. The
increase was in part imposed upon the
board By the new law, and there was
no sealing down on corporate property
anywhere along the line, tie present
| figures being intended 70 place snch
PROPERTY on what the board believes to
be an equal taxpaylng basis with other
property of the state.
The state has received from the gen
eral government 81, 752 %, as its portion
of the forest reserve fund, which amount
goes 70 the different counties of the
state in which the forest reserves are
located, and by them it is applied to the
road and school funds of such counties,
on basis of 80 per cent TO the road
funds and 10 per cent 10 the school
funds. The counties which get the ben
efits are Lawrence Pennington, Custer,
Meade and Butte, the money coming
| from the Black Hills reserve, with
small payments from the Cave Hills,
Short Pine and Slim Butte reserves, the
three being in Butte County, and the
general reserve in the other counties
named.
The action of the city council of Sioux
Falls in revolving by vote of 6 to 8,
the license of Il. Vogel, who for some
time has been conducting saloon in
Sioux Falls, has created CONSERVATION
among some OF the saloon men there.
Some weeks ago the city council passed
an ordinance prohibiting all saloon men
from giving free lunches in their places
of business. Vogel, in the alleged effort
to evade the provisions of the new ordi-
nance, placed large dish of sandwiches
in his saloon and sold the sandwiches
for cents each. As the result of this
effort to evade the provisions of the
ordinance Vogel finds himself without
a license and has been compelled TO
retire from business.
Lars Sunholdt, foreman of an artesian
well drilling outfit at work in Sphinx
county, has met with peculiar and
distressing accident The drillers struck
large and solid "nigger head" (native
stone) and decided to break il with a
charge of dynamite. Sundholt, to make
sure that everything would work all
right, prepared trial shot, using a
piece of gas pipe as receptacle for the
explosive, and firing it by electricity
near the tent occupied by himself and
his assistants. The result of his exper-
iment was that the gas pipe was torn to
pieces by the force of the explosion.
The tent, after the explosion, looked as
If cannon using grapeshot had been
bombarding it. A piece of the gas pipe,
shaped like rife ball, struck Sundholt
in the abdomen, infiicting dangerous
wound.
Up to the present there has been but
little effort made to raise winter wheat
in that part of the state west of the
Missouri river, but last fall several of
the homesteaders west of the river made
a try with this class of grain and now
have their wheat in the shock and are
certain that it will show about thirty
bushels to the acre. One of the old
time cattle ranchers was induced to try
it after he had made game of his new
neighbors who were making venture
in that direction, and reports yield
which would be satisfactory in any
state. 1t has the advantage of ripening
earlier than the spring wheat and is out
of the way before the chances of dry
weather injuring it the latter part of
July, and the experiments made this
year will mean good acreage of winter
wheat next year.
/ County Superintendent of Schools H.
| K. French said at the opening of the
Union county institute this year that
twelve years ago he conducted the
Union county institute and iS5 teachers
were enrolled This year they were
about 50. The prosperous times, the
government homesteads, the excellent
positions offered for steDographerg, the
demand for telegraph operators, the
uncertainty of the teachers positions,
the long vacation without pay, the poor
wages, and the great demand now made
upon the teacher by way of preparation,
are some of the causes of the depletion
of the teachers ranks. Many of the
school boards seem to be aware of the
shortage of teachers and are offering a
substantial advance on last years
wages.
Rev. Jacob Oson. of Canton, who
last year was strong advocate of
insurgency, but who has left the ranks
of the alleged reformers, spent the other
day in Sioux Falls completing arrange
ments to start Norwegian state paper
there in abous month. The paper
will line mp with the stalwarts. Asked
about this. Mr.. Olson said: am more
devoted to reform than ever, but also
Imore than ever opposed TO reform hypo-