Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-07-30
NEwsY STATE NOTES.


miles loLg east of Canistota.
Gov. Crawford has appointed G. M.
Henry, Of Sioux Falls, to succeed Olaf
Paulson as state inspector OF warehouse
and scales
The Ute Indians, vino made SO much
trouble at Thunder Butte last winter.
started Monday ov, rland with cavalry
escort for their reservation in Utah.
@ l. Johnson, of Laura, Sullv coui-
ty, has been experimenting with pop
corn for several years, and fluids IL to be
one Of the best paying crops he can
AS result of special election just
held at Mellette, bonds in the sum of
%, 500 were voted for the purpose Of
constructing aud maintaining q sewer
system.
Five cars derailed, three of which
We're left crosswise of the track. is tie
result of wreck on the st Louis road
Sunday afternoon. The freight was
coming from the east, and when about
four miles from WATERFOWL, the center
of the train left the tracks, bringing the
whole to sudden stop.
Pleading guilty to burglary in the
third degree, John Burns, a miner, was
arraigned in circuit court at Deadwood
and sentenced by Judge Rice to ten
months in the penitentiary. Burns has
not been in trouble before, but drink
led him to break into the store of j. w.
Mcdonald of Central City and clean out
cases.
handle He raises from 80 to 40 BUSH
els per acre, and cuts it with corn
binder, Smelling it by running 1t through
a threshing machine. The average
price at which he sold his product last
ye IT was three cents pound. He has
twenty-five acres of this crop this year.
and is carrying 700 bushels of old crop
in the bins on his farm.
Ben w Wilder, of Mitchell, was at
Letcher the other day and boarded
circus train on his return. On the way
a circus roustabout touched him for
over $500. He said nothing until he
reached home and then took an officer
and made the rounds of the circus He
found the man who had robbed him,
got his money back and had the thief
arrested
The homesteaders and other residents
in the rfgion tributary to the little town
of Buffalo Gap, in the extreme western
part of Lyman county, are agitating
the organization of vigilance commit
tee to put effective stop to the depreda-
lions of hoo ilums, who make practice
of visiting and wrecking the interior of
claim "shanties" during the temporary
absense of the owners.
Several hundred visitors celebrated
the initial trip of the new paddle stern
wheel steamer on the Belle Fourche
river. The boat was built especially for
excursions on the river to the irrigation
project and makes night runs Nhen it
is brilliantly lighted up 1t contains
two d, cks and has band of music to-
supply the dancers This is the first
thing OF the kind ever attempted in the
Black Hills and is proving immensely
popular.
A colored man claiming to hail from
Hopkins, Mimi. and flashing a PASS.
book Of Hopkins bank, showing $500
on deposit there TO his credit, was ar
rested Sunday at Watertown on infor-
nation from the Bank Of Hopkins. He
already had secured 500 from local
bank, 1t is alleged, and an expensive
suit of clothes on the strength of his
bank account He gave his name as
George Barange
A preliminary survey is being made
of the Vermilion river for distance of
twenty miles by officials sent here by
the department of agriculture In order
to estimate the cost of Strengthening
that crooked stream to prevent over
flows. For many years thousands of
acres of valuable Clay county land
along the Vermillion river valley have
been made worthless by reason of over
flows, and the property owners are de-
termined to reclaim the greater portion
of il if the expense is not too great.
Walking thru rushing flames in her
bare feet and almost choked by smoke,
7 year-old Helen Norris of Bulkley res
cued her baby sister from almost Ger
tain death in fire which destroyed the
farm home of her father, Henry Norris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norris had gone to the
home Of their daughter, Mrs. Kennels,
a short diatance away, leaving the two
children alone. The little girl tried to
light the gasoline stove with the not mr.
common result. For time she, rtrove
vainly to quench the flames, but when
she saw the house was doomed she gave
mp. Then she turned her thoughts 10
the babe in the next room. IL was nec-
essary for her to 60 thru the flames to
reach the baby and then run back thru
them to escape from the house.