Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-11-19
state. The figures are:

Fully 5000 sheep have been driven
from the ranges and will spend the
winter near Belle Fourche. Since the
the completion of the government
reclamation dam it is well established
fact that this district will become the
greatest winter feeding district in the
world. The entire PROJECT when COM
pleted will cost the government $780,.
600 and will reclaim tract OF $1,000
acres. At the present time about one.
third Of the acreage is under water and |
the fertility of the soil established.
The capitol commission at its meeting |
recently decided to ask the Legislature
for a sufficient appropriation to change
the interior fittings of the new capitol,
from imitation marble to the real thing
and to change stair balustrades from
iron TO marble, the changes causing an
increase of approximately twenty
thousand dollars from the original
figures. The commission estimate OF
the amount needed for the changes
decided upon for the changes for the
building, and for the parking of the
grounds will be about two hundred
thousand dollars, and the question for
the coming session TO solve is to decide
whether they want the work done at
once, or dragged along through many
sessions, and also the best manner of
raising the funds to push the work
along.
Holding up four men, single-handed
shooting two of them, and securing a
loot of 81 is the record of hold-up
man at the Bath depot Saturday even
ing The four men held up were Agent
Pasons, Night Operator Jack Hilber, j.
Reynolds, all of Bath, and Burke Ben
dickson, of Aberdeen. Reynolds was
shot under the arm aud Bendickso
was shot twice, once in the neck and
once under the left lung. Reynolds
wound is not serious, and Bendeckson's
while dangerous, are not thought to be
mortal. The robber escaped, and at an
early hour this morning no trace had
been found of him. Parsons was count
ing the cash when the man entered, and
the command to hold up his hands came
with such surprise that he could not
believe that hold-up man was stand
ing before him. Hubbard was receiv-
ing train order at the time, and kept
right on with his work. As soon as he
saw that the holdup man was in earnest
he wired the dispatcher of the trouble
without once leaving his seat.
II is now certain from the almost
complete figures of the recent vote that
Butte county, the biggest in the state
will, by the vote of its inhabitants, be
divided into three counties. The vote
on county division was heavy and was
decidedly affirmative. Butte county
today is over 100 miles long, and the
northern part of the county is almost
ont of touch with the southern half,
where the county seat now is. The
new counties are to be known as
! Perkins and Harding, but the question
of the county seat for each will not be
known. for a few days. Lennon
, which cast 2sS votes, probably will be
the county seat of Perkins county
which is the northeastern part Of the
county, and the northwestern part will
likely be governed from Camp Cook as
the county seat Of Harding county.
Butte county with its reduced territory
will continue to have its county seat at
Belle Fourche 1.-THE result will mean new
and Icommodious county building for
Belle Fourche. The two new counties
are fast filing mp with settlers