Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-21

/ had gone to South Dakota to look at
| farm he was thinking of buying and
happened to be in Pierre the day the
registration opened He had no thought
of registering, and he and his friend
/ looked on and paid no serious attention
/ TO the young woman clerks VINO motto
ing them kept calling, 'Now is the
time to register " When imporiuned
by his friend to register, Mr. INog0od
refused saying he never dr,.w anything
in his life and didn't care TO fool away
his time with this lottery lie was
finally persuaded and non fourth place
aud was given thirt choice through the
disqualificatio Of No. !. He viii move
his family there in the spring
Another consignment o. supplies was
sent to Gettysburg or the soldiers who
are guarding the Ute Gndians The
train came from Fort Smelling and car.
ried ten supply wagons, forty mules
and thousands of pounds of bareback.
Fort Smelling has been designated AS
the post Of supplies for the soldiers at
the Cheyenne agency. Between 10 600
and 10000 pounds of army bread has
been sent from that fort to Gettysburg
About 900 soldiers are in the vicinity
of the agency. Blankets and winter
clothing have been forwarded and a
large amount of forage for horses has
been secured from farmers in the vicin-
ity. Conditions prevailing the last
week are practically unchanged. Most
of the dissatisfied Sioux who affiliated
with the Utes at the first demonstra-
tions of hostility have returned to their
own camps, AMI the Utes, with few
exceptions. are quiet and peaceable.
Persons from the agency say that except
for the presence of the soldiers, there is
nothing at the agency TO indicate trouble
aud none is expected.
In December and January WATERFOWL
will be the scene of six state gatherings
and may fittingly be characterized as
the convention city of South Dakota for
the winter of 1907 8. The dates are as
follows: December 9, state laundry
men, for the purpose of effecting state
association. December 10 12-Annual
meeting of the Retail Implement Deal
ers' association, whose membership
embraces the dealers of South Dakota,
northwestern Iowa and southwestern
Minnesota. From 600 to 1000 are
expected to attend December 30-31 and
January Annual meeting of the
South Dakota Educational association
and also the annual gathering of the
affiliated organization known as the
Federation of School Boards. The rep
resentatives of the various library
boards of the state will meet at the
same time and place The attendance
is expected to be at least 600 January
7-S-Annual meeting of the State Bar
association. January 16-17-Mid-w win
ter meeting of the State Press associa.
ton January 21-23-Annual session Of
the State Horticultural society
In carrying out the policy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Chief Forester Gift
ford Pinchot, some important work is
to be accomplished on the Black Hills
national forest the coming year. This
reserve is now under the supervision of
/ II M Hamilton on axpart lu,nharrpap
who, prior to coming here year ago,
was engaged in forest work in the MIN.
nesota lumber field near Duluth He
has reorganized the working force
under him AMI is planning an active
campaign to offset the destruction of
bark beetle aud the timberman's AK on
| this forest Miles of land now bare.
which once held the yellow pine, will
be reseeded by a method that expert
ment has proven a success. The Black
Hills national forest, rated as one of the
most important i'll the west, contains
], 1903, 900 acres of timberland, many
portions of which have been denuded.
These will all be leseeded by scattering
on top of the last spring snow the seed
of the yellow pine, the only kind that
will grow here, and permitting it to
find wet bed when the snow melts.
1t will require century for these seeds
to grow into matured timber here. while
in some sections Of California it requires
but ten years to grow tree.