Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-12-23
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

surveyor general of South Dakota fror
$1,000 TO 1000 year. The position i
held by Q. b. Afford, of Huron.
Speaker Cannon presented to tn
house Friday Rep sentative Martin
resignation from the public lands com
mittee Ii was accepted and the speake
appointed Representative McCredie, O
Washington, TO take Martins place.
The house Indian affairs committe,
Friday ordered favorable report OF
REPRESENTATIVE Burke's bill to paw the
Indians on the Cheyenne River Indian
reservation for that portion of the coded
lands that went to the State of South
Dakota under the school grant.
The University OF South Dakota will
participate in two debates in the spring,
and both of them will be with Ames
agricultural college of Iowa. They
will be held on the same evening, one
IN Vermillion and the other at Ames
The same questions will be discussed in
both debates.
Chairman Burke reported Friday that
the house Indian committee had decided
to recommend his bill increasing the
amount paid the Standing Rock and
Cheyenne river Indians for Dakota
lands from 81 % to ~ so per acre. This
means $500 900 additional funds for
these Indians if congress passes the
Burke bill
Before Justice l.. NJ. Hatch, at Wax.
onda, Henry Hackett was arrsigned for
firing two shots from q shotgun at
Leonard Teeters, both charges pene.
trating the latter's legs and hands.
The defense introduced no witnesses,
and Hackett was held to the circuit
court in $500 bonds Both men are
farmers and have had trouble over land
Vincent Stepanek, the Bohemian
farmer discovered with his head nearly
blown off with AS calder rife mt
Yankton, came to his death through his
own hands, with intent to commit
suicide, says the jury that heard the
evidence in the case in the coroners
inquest that went into the case. Step.
anek left will and other papers, show
ing his act was well deliberated He
even dressed up in clean clothes for the
event
hurry J. Richardson, a homesteader
near Meadow, in Perkins county, COM
mltted suicide by taking strychnine,
while Respondent over continued i'll
fortune. His wife discovered him in
the act OF swallowing the poison, but
too late to save him, Richardson
Immediately repented his act, and his
wife hurried him into wagon to take
him where medical assistance could be
procured, but he died before they
reached their nearest neighbor,
s. Kruger, one of the men brought
out from Chicago to do railway work
near Blunt, was taken to the hospital at
Pierre Friday night with both legs cut
off by falling under the westbound
passenger train at Blunt, He lived to
reach the hospital but died afterwards
from the injuries received. On his per.
son was found ticket to Chicago, but
he was attempting to ride the blind |
baggage with friends, and he was
unlucky aud fell under the baggage car. |
The distances mileage tariff for express
companies doing business in South |
Dakota has been adopted by the state
board OF railroad commissioners, " hich |
is now holding special meeting in
Pierre. The board has ordered that the |
new schedule shall go into effect Jan.
nary Is The new schedule makes |
material reduction in rates The Wells
Fargo company is affected most by the
new distance mileage, and il the nav
schedule is contested IN the courts il
will be by that company.
The report Vt the tate auditor shows
that unrer the law requiring railroad
improvements to be assessed separate
from their mileage, the railroad towns
Of the state secure material benefits in
the way of taxable property. The
towns which reap the largest benefits
from this method of valuation are
Pierre, s349,0 97; Sioux Falls. s243, Dos;
Deadwood. s25o.07l; Huron, S22l 2s7 |;
Aberdeen, $2c5, 99a, watettown, &c.,.
67s. Pierre gets the benefit OF eies, 900
for it's share OF tha valuation OF the
Missouri river bridge. within the COR
porate limits Of the city. which places
It at the head OF the list of valuations.
Andy Wynn. Of Civil Bend township,
was instantly killed by the west bound
passenger as he was going home from
Eak Point Friday. On the road home
the wagon tongue broke. SO Mr.. Wynn
unhitched the horses and started to ride
nome on one horse. leading the other
In some manner Mr.. Wynn took the
railroad track Instead OF the wagon
road. As the passenger came along HI
was ST. mex, fifli mo- him and one of thu