Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-04

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boat, be sure and blow down the
muzzle OF the unloaded gun first
It's little quicker.
| 1t is pointed out that the United
States produces twelve million
bushels of peanuts per year, but il
is clear that there must be hvavy
importations to meet the supply
which will be required in the insur.
gent campaign in South Dakota,
The Fifth Avenue hotel and site
in New York sold for $7,250,O0O.
The hotel will be replaced by an
office building, and the avenue cor
ner, where Platt held sway and
where it was decided to run Grant
for third term, will disappear for
ever.
The record has been broken in
Japan for deposits in the postal
savings banks of that country. The
people like to have the government
back of their savings, and they
deposit in postal savings banks at a
sacrifice of interest in behalf of
security.
In eleven months Of the fiscal year
l,130,6l5 immigrants have arrived
in the United States, which is much
the largest number in like peroid
During the twelve months of the
last fiscal year the foreign arrivals
were l,000,735. In 1898 the immi
grafton footed up only 229,209, but
the era of the greatest national pros
perity soon set in.
Senator Kittredge appeared as
the attorney for the Sioux Falls job
bers i'll the rate case against the
Milwaukee. This case will doubt
less be finally decided before the
interstate commerce commission and
the senator will argue the case. In
this connection it might be well to
add that Mr.. Kittredge refused to
accept any compensation for his SER
vices in this case.
aside from the assault on old
man Stuart, the beating of Justice
of the peace and killing of woman
there were no extraordinary incl
dents at Cripple Creek until the
troops arrived, when there was
much trouble" This is from the
testimony of one of the defense wit
nesses at Boise. 1t was introduced
for the purpose of showing that the
governor of Colorado wantonly sent
soldiers into peaceable community.
About three quarters of a million
acres of new land have been put
upon the tax rolls of the state this
year, as the result of the purchase
Of government land by actual set
tiers. This means an increased
assessment of three and half mil
lions of dollars to the real estate
valuation for the year; and if the
extravagent reform" apministra-
ton keeps up we shall need it, for
the last Legislature spent more
money than any Legislature which
ever met in South Dakota.
The general land Office, with the
approval of the secretary of the
interior, has issued circular to the
local land officers aud the public
generally relative to the matter of
allowance of second homestead
entries. The only general law
under which second homestead
entries may be allowed is that of
April %, 1904, which is only appli-
cable to those parties who made and
lost, forfeited or abandoned their
entries prior to the date of the act,
because of an honest mistake as to
the character of the land, or an
unavoidable complication of per-
sonal business affairs.
We do not presume to know what
happened at Sioux Falls when Taft
was there that caused the insurgent
leaders to rush into print to air
their grievances before the public,
which usually cares but little about
such minor things, and it can only
be construed that this incident must
be one of the great principles for
which Mr.. Crawford and Mr.. Gam
BILE are fighting. There is some
thing decidedly lacking in cause,
when such little things must be
made issues with which to arouse
the sleeping warriors to action. It