Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-10-14
NEwsY STATE NOTES.

representing himself as an eastern agent
for the Rambler auto. He requested
the use of three machines TO display 20
his prospective customers, and the
request seemed so simple that the gar
age owner had no hesitancy in permit
ting his Rambler amos 70 be used for
demonstrating the good points OF the
machine. The garage owner has been
waiting ever SINGS for the return OF his
antos; the last he saw OF them was
when the three went over hill and
were lost TO view.
As the result of q distressing accident,
Mrs. @. Ganske, who resides on farm
in Yankton county, was seriously and
perhaps fatally injured Her daughter
bad Just arrived st the house with a
wagonload Of potatoes, which were to
be placed in the cellar. Mrs Ganske
was standing against the house beside
the outside entrance to the cellar when
the team attached to the wagon backed
suddenly and violently, pinning the
woman between the end of the wagon.
box and the house and crushing her.
Physicians are in almost constant
attendance and have slight hopes of
saving her life.
O. @. Daken, a prominent farmer liv-
ing in Brown county, was caused a
heavy loss by fire of mysterious origin.
The large barn on his place was
destroyed, including nearly 800 bushels
OF fax, together with seventeen horses
and colts. An employe on the farm was
severely burned while trying to open
the door OF the burning str ucturs 90 the
horses and colts could emerge. His
efforts were unsuccessful. bat he nearly
lost his own life in striving to save the
horses and colts. The barned property
was not insured aud therefore was
total loss
Efforts are being made to secure
pardon for Andrew Caller. formerly oil
Dubuque, Iowa, who 10 serving a term
OF eighteen months in the Sioux Falls
penitentiary for assauiting John o Lery
town marshall Of Emery. Caller was
lodged in the penitentiary last winter,
Immediately following his trial. The
movement seeking to have him par
doned was inaugurated by his faithful
brother, Il. l.. Gaier, OF Dubuque, who
(. day or two ago visited Emery and
other places far the purpose of secur-
ing signatures r. the application for the
pardon OF his brother The prisoners
health is failing
$ M. Howard. Of Gettysburg, who
believes his invention of what he calls
the "aquaplanen will revolutionize
transportation on western rivers, is
almost ready to give his boat trial.
be has constructed model boat thirty
feet long, with five and one.half feet
beam, and has ordered a ten-horse
power gasoline engine to operate il
with, aud expects to have the craft
launched on the Missouri in few days.
The main principle of his boat Is a
device which will keep it gliding over
the surface OF the water instead OF cut.
ting through IL, aud the plan he believes
will give him speed of thirty miles or
more an hour.
President Warren, of Yankton col
lege, Announces that on October 10 ard
20 next an examination for the Cecil
Rhodes Oxford scholarship will be held
AZ the college. The examining board
will be comprised OF DR.. Warren, Pres.
ident Gault. OF Vermiilion university,
and DR.. Kerfoot. OF Mitchell university.
The same requirements as 70 scholar
ship, mental and physical stpndards.
will be maintained. but IL is announced
that Greek will not be required at this
preliminary examination. but can be
taken At Oxford. This Is an item OF
considerable interest over the state
among those students who intend hav-
ing a try for the scholarship. The
examination is fer entrance to Oxford
in 1910.
Doane Robinson. OF the state statiscal
department., has been working out oom-
parative figures on production OF new
wealth In the northwestern states, using
the government figures to work from,
and finds that for last year South
Dakota continued 70 hold first place In
production Of new wealth per capita of
population The figures show that
the cereal production Of the states Of
Iowa, Minnesota, North and south
Dakota, from the period extending from
1900 20 1908. on per capita Of population
were: Iowa, $678 o.; Minnesota, $ies.
GO North Dakota, q, 107 80; South
Dakota, $l.ll4 o. The hive stock fig.
ures for the same period are: Iowa.
t97. 5os Msnnesota. $500; North
Dakota. SIN 30; south Dakota. seas. 40.
For the year 1908 she cereal production
pr capita Of these states was: Iowa,
397.5 so; Minnesota, o66 co; North
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