Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-03-04

III yermillion seed house holds the
unique record of having shipped con-
Segment of twenty bushels OF seed corn
TO Russia. The order came last week
for twenty bushels of corn of the white
variety and it Was Immediately filled
aud started on its way.
Caroline Wilson was found dead in
her bed in Aberdeen Monday morning,
the cause of her death being asphyxia-
ton from Illuminating gas. The gas
Jet in the room was broken so there was
no stop to indicate when the gas was
turned off and when the Young lady
retired she had evidently turned the
valve too far aud opened it again. Her
parents live in North Dakota.
Prof James H. Shepherd, of the
South Dakota agricultural college, at
Brookings, left tor London, England,
last Saturday in response to a cable
gram from royal committee having
under investigation the bleached -four
made by the modern mills. Prof
Shepherd has an international reputa-
ton as a chemist aud his expert testi-
mony is sought by specialists on all food
propositions.
While visiting relatives near Gosh
octon, Ohio, last week Senator Craw-
ford was food bound by overlooking
rivers, and had 70 ride in q canoe three
miles TO reach the railroad station. One
time the canoe stuck on top of rail
fence and came near precipitating the
senator into the ice cold water. He
had to aid the oarsman frequently to
pull the boat from the dangerous places,
but finally arrived in town. among the
first to enter the place since the flood
isolated it
Under the present law the state land
department is obliged to offer for sale
not less than $1,000 acres of state lands
each year, In this line they have
selected lands in number of counties
which they will place upon the market
in April aud May. The counties and
dates for offerings in each of them are
as follows: Sanborn, April Is; Jerauld
April 81; Miner, April 80; Minnehaha,
| April 80; Aurora, April 30; Douglas,
May l; Charles Mix, May 3; Gregory
May 4; Sphinx. May 3; Clark, May 4;
Day, May 6; Edmunds May 7; McPher-
son, May s. The lease dates in the
counties in which lands will be offered
will be the day following the sale. ln
other counties the lease date is in March.
South Dakota legislators ask for
appropriations exceeding $4,000, 900, an
amount SIX times as large as was asked
by the Legislature twelve years ago.
During this peroid the state has hardly
doubled in population, yet its expenses
| have Increased under reform admins
strations six times. Let us return TO
the days of the fathers, to the honest
ways of the plain Mellette, and OF
farmer Sheldon and OF the able Herreid
and the.honest Elrod Let's get down
once more to common sense and cut
out thes frivolous ideas of reform
Better have a solvent treasury than
high sounding oratory and waves of
spasmodic reforms which furnish only
excuses for raiding the treasury
Huron Huronite.
Judge Garland of the United States
court Monday filed an order granting a
temporary injunction in the case involv
ing the two cent passenger fare rate law
recently enacted by the state legisla-
ture. The injunction restrains mem.
bers of the state board of railroad com.
missioners, the attorney general. and
states attorneys of various counties
throughout the territory in which the
lines of railroads run from attempting
to compel the railroad companies CON.
cerned to comply with the law in con-
troversy. All passengers are also
enjoined from instituting any action
against the railroad companies for VIC.
lating the law and from demanding that
1t be carried at the rate fixed by the
new law between points within the