Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-07
REPORTER AND FARMER.
Thursday, February 7, 1907.

formulated the constitution OF the STATE
has been preserved. This is in fad d
type writing and is in the possession OF
the State Historical Society Senator
Dillon has a bill directing the state
librarian to edit and prepare the debates
for publication aud directing the com.
missioner Of public printing TO print
one thousand copies aud bind the same
substantially in boards and after supply
ing the state departments and insutu
tions 10 offer the balance to the public
at 81 per copy
As a result Of che explosion of the
water front of a cook stove Mrs. Marion
Willis OF Deadwood, aged Owe seventy
years. was seriously injured aud now
lies i'm a critical condition The eXplo-
SION was 50 severe that the nOis" was
heard all over Ingleside, where Mrs.
Willitts lives. The front Of the stove
was blown through the side Of the build
ing, all OF the windows were broken,
and the inside of the room is a complete
wreck. The cause Of the accident Il
unknown. Mrs. Willitts makes her
home with a son, who is a prominent
merchant in Deadwood.
The annual reports of the officers OF
the CLARK Cooperative Creamery com
pany show that during the past year
the creamery purchased a total of 1856
pounds Of milk aud $50 $40 pounds of
cream. The sun of $50, Do 10 was paid
patrons OF the Institution in payment
for milk aud cream. In the past ten
years he disbursements of the creamery
have grown from S3,245 in 1886, to
S5i ,5G2 81 in 1906 In the last five years
the creamery has disbursed more than a
quarter Of a millior Of dollars
The extension OF the Bonesteel
branch of the Northwestern is com
pleted 10 within three miles of Gregory,
which will be the terminus until spring
when, il is understood, the road will
push through Trip and Meyer counties
to a junction with the main line of the
Northwestern about sixty miles west of
Pierre. This will place Bouesteel on
the main lire from the Black Hills 70
Omaha
Who says South Dakota land is not
advancing in price at a good pace!
Not many years z the VIM Hunte
man farm. ten miles south of Dell
Rapids, was sold by him for s35 an
acre The farm has changed hands
three or -four times since and each time
at a substantial increase in price
Recently it was sold again at $50 per
acre.
w @. Chapman, a lineman for the
North Dakota Central Telephone COM
pany at WATERFOWL, committed suicide
last week by shooting himself in the
mouth with a revolver at his home in
Watertown. He died almost instantly.
He leaves a wife and four children
jealousy is assigned as the cause He
was formerly from Blue Earth, MINI.
Another artesian we'll has been
secured on the new railway line
between Pierre and the Black Hills
The flow is found at a much greater
depth west Of the river than east of it,
the we'll just secured at Nowlin having
a depth of I,S42 feet This is almost
double the denth at which water is
fonndin the James River valley.
The total 0 Of individual
deposits in the state AND national banks
at the time of the November call for
publication of statements was $S0,l47
1908, an increase of $1l .216, III II
over a year ago. With a population OF
800 600. these figures give 500 on
deposit in the bank for each man,
woman aud child in the state.
II. NJ. Stewart, president of Western
South Dakota Stockmen's association,
has received a telegram from Presi-
d ut Roosevelt asking him to come to
Washington in conference at that city
on February II with the public lands
lands committee on the best methods OF
preserving the public range.
Judge Garland. of the United States
court. denied the application for a tenn
porary injunction of Montgomery
Ward q Co., of Chicago, against
officers aud directors of the South
Dakota Retail Merchants and Hard
ware Dealers association, and 4 J.
Mannix, editor of the Commercial
News OF Sioux Falls.
Coincident with the announcement
that Alfred I. Rogers. formerly a resi-
dent Of Plankinton, has associated HIM
self in law partnership with Senator
Robert NJ. LnFollette, at Madison,
Wis. m the report that Mr.. Rogers
will marty the senator's daughter, Miss
Fola, who has been au actress the past
two years.
During the storm on Friday night a
building on Fourth avenue east between
Arch and State streets, In Aberdeen,
was blown from its position above the
cellar into the excavation below.
Haryny J.. Rice. secretary of the
grand lodge OF South Dakota Odd
Fellows. thas the frand fol
The Odd Fellowa' home increased the
past year to q total Of $l7,000.
The First National bank at Scotland