Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-07
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

alLof lat gear. and each of them is
said to have sold $1,000 worth of goods.
The same firm is planning 10 put twelve
new wagons into the state this year.
which would mean for this one firm
sixteen wagons, doing a gross business
of not less than $4,000 for The year.
Drug houses in Wiuona, Mimi, III
Freeport, H., and other places also
kept "A lot of these wagons IN the state.
They pay rent. aud no tuXps. and very
little of the money paid TO them is left
in thc state The wagons o only sell
drugs and patent medicines but nouons
toilet articles, etc and the business
seems to have been very profitable. To
protect themselves the retail druggists
of the state intend 10 try to secure
from the Legislature an amendment OF
the present law against peddlers. SO
far as reported, not a single license was
paid by one of these peddlers' wagons
in any county last year. IL may be
well doubted whether the license was
eXacted in other counties. The drug
gists pay rent and on taxes and they
feel chat if the medicine wagons are
are allowed to travel through the state
they ought TO pay a license equal at
least to the average rental and taxation
paid by the druggists, A license of $50
per month for each wagon is suggested,
with heavy penalties for selling with
out the license. 1t is understood that
after a conference, the bill will be
drafted, and it will be urged with all
the force that the druggists can muster.
1t is the confident hope of the people
of Turner comfy, in view of develop
ments during the last ten days, that the
mystery surrounding the death last fall
of Mrs. Harey E. Collins, wife Of a
prominent resident OF Turner county, is
about to be solved. Mrs. Collins was
found dead in bed Monday morning,
Oct. l., last under circumstances which
left no doubt that she was a victim of a
cold blooded murder. Several of the
shrewdest detectives i'll the United
States for some weeks after Der death
worked upon the case in the effort to
u~nravel the mystery punish the guilty
and win the reward of more han 81 600
which was promptedly offered for the
arrest and conviction of the party or
parties responsible for her death. States
Attorney l.. L. Fleeger and Sheriff
Joen Shanks who early in the present
year assumed the duties of their pre-
decessors in office and are making &
renewed and energetic effort to solve
the mystery surrounding the death Of
the unfortunate woman. The services
of other detectives have been engaged
and the fact that a term of state circuit
court will be held in Turner county
during the coming month has made the
new officers extremely anxious if pos
sible to solvel the mystery before court
c]onvenes.
Eighty. eight head of Thoroughbred
cattle comprising Shorthorns, Aber-
been-Angus and Polled- Angus, were
sold at Mitchell Thursday under the
auspices of the South Dakota improved
Live Stock association, and the amphi-
theater was filled to its utmost capacity
by the stockmen of the state. In the
Shorthorn class a bull owned by G. c..
Sipple of Faulkton topped the entire
sale at $3.50 and was bought by j. w.
Cary of Ellis, s. ID. In the Polled
Angus class two bulls brought 800
each, and both were purchased by
Z. H. Stratton of Odebolt, Iowa. In
the Hereford class a bull owned by the
South Dakota agricultural college sold
for $l30 to O. w. Mable of Parker.
The entite amount of the sales was
81, 7l4, making an average of $S7 per
head. Col. Cary Jones, n of the auc-
tioneers, made the statement at the con-
]clusion of the sale, that South Dakota
held the record IN the United States for
the largest number of registered cattle
sold at an afternoon sale. The prices
were much higher than a year ago, and
it was a matter of comment among the
stock men that the quality Of the cattle
was far superior.
Major James Mclaughlin, who was
sent by President Roosevelt to treat
with the Rosebud Sioux, for the open
ing of the Trip county lands, hes Just
completed an agreement, along the lines
of the Burke hill. for the settlement of
the Trlpp county portion of the reser-
walton. The Indians, after several
weeks of parleying, agreed to accept $6
an acre for the lands settled the first
three months, 81. 80 an acre after that
for four months, and 81 30 for all after
that, including school lands. All
Indian children born in the past eight
years are to receive allotments. The
opening will be similar to that at Bone
steel, of the Gregory county portion of
the reserve, and will take place prob
ably not before a year. There are in
the county 1904, 900 acres, Of which
$1,000 have already been allotted, leav-
ing 5000 now open. This will be
reduced materially by allotments to the