Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-01-09

fees for serving papers, that busi-
ness now being confined exclusively
ia the sheriff and his deputies. The
constables and police officers have
legal right to serve papers as here
tofore, but they cannot collect any
fees for the service.
Ed Sutton, who owns ranch in
the northwestern portion of Sully
county, has an artesian we'll which
by reason of the water being heavily
impregnated with gas is one of the
most valuable wells of the kind in
South Dakota. In addition to the
well furnishing an abundance OF
water for domestic and stock pur-
poses, the gas from the well has
been turned to domestic uses and
now burns in three heating stoves
and range in his home, and besides
furnishes seven fine lights for the
house.
According to the preliminary esti-
mate of the production Of gold and
silver in he United States for the
year 1907, issued Saturday by the
treasury department, there was
SS9,620,335 in gold produced and
56,026,605 fine ounces of silver,
worth $57,571,5S0. As compared
with the production of 1906 there
was less gold and more silver, the
totals for 1906 being S94,373, 800 in
gold and S3S, 256, 400 in silver. The
average value of silver in 1906 was
So ceuts to the ounce and in 1907
sc cents to the ounce.
A marvel of surgery has been
shown to the academy of medicine
in Paris by DR.. Delair. A patient
had lost his chin, part of his lower
jaw, his lip, portion of his tongue
and his nose, owing to the explo-
sion of gun. An apparatus in
four pieces has been made for him,
which makes all traces of his loss
practically invisible. The chin and
lower lip, with false beard on them
are made of soft India rubber, and
the necessary teeth nose and jaws
have been supplied. The patient
can him elf remove and replace the
apparatus, which weighs only a
trihe more than an ounce.
Fifty miles of picturesque islets
and scraggy, precipitous rocks en-
the west coast of Needles and
Flattery Rocks reservations have
just been Withdrawn from the list of
government lands subject to entry
by authority of President Roosevelt,
the purpose being to make them
secure as preserves and breeding
grounds for native birds and ANNALS
The Audubon Society of Washing
ton, of which I'll w. Ref, game
warden of King county, is secretary,
was instrumental in bringing about
this order, and as result, thous-
ands of feathered things have been
made secure in their nesting places.
The Pierre Capital Journal tells
about the owner of an unimproved
quarter section of land in Sully
county who recently RENTED to the
county treasurer his taxes for 1907
He got his first practical demonstra-
ton of the cost of reform. In 1902
his taxes on this quarter were 81 40.
The next year they were $685., the
next year $10,0S, in 1905 they were
$9.66, in 1905 they were 1922 and
in 1907 they were $13.60--the
highest ever known. The reason is
not far to seek. The last Legislature
/
spent S650,OOO more money than
any legislature which ever met in
the state, and even with the high
taxes the state will roll up a def.
cheney of four hundred Thousand
dollars. The tax receipts for 1907
will make good many hundred
stalwart votes.
Tunnels through mountains have
become SO common that they attrac
attention only If of more than extra
ordinary length or difficulty. Tun
neling under rivers to permit trains
to save time is more recent limo
walton in railway engineering ant
nearly every new tunnel presents
peculiar features. The latest one
to attract attention Of engineers il
THAT by which the Michigan Central
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