Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-03-25
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

seat VI Ierhlus county
W. G.. Youngworth, vice president of
the First National bank of Tyndall,
dropped dead while hunting near there
Thursday.
Governor Wesley has appointed j. N.
Long, of Waubay, and P. H. O'Neill, of
Yankton, as members of the state live
stock sanitary board.
A petition is being circulated in Pierre
asking that the commission form of
government be adopted to take the place
of the present city council form.
Fred Gates, night foreman at the
cement works at Yankton. was struck
Friday night by steel bar on a revolv-
ing shaft while making repairs, and is
reported to BIZ fatally injured.
Mrs. Emmett Phelps, of Armour,
who was brutality beaten by her hus.
band, is under a physicians care.
Police Justice Beddow sentenced the
drunken husband 10 thirty days in
Jail.
\ At meeting of the board Of directors
of the Aberdeen Commercial Club
Thursday Tom Roberts, former private
secretary to Hon. A. B. Kittredge, was
engaged as secretary OF the Dakota
Homecoming.
Wednesday, May ., has been fixed as
the tine for the annual meeting Of the
Lutheran church synod of North and
South Dakota which will be held at
Eureka. 1t is expected that fully 100
delegates will be present.
Black Sign. an Aberdeen.Angus bull,
was sold by J. w. Reedy, Of Beresford.
TO Mathew Bergen, of the same town
for IS, 500 on Saturday. The ninety-two
head of cattle sold at the sale brought
sls, 2s25O. 1t pays to raise good stock.
State Treasurer Johnson has issued u
call for the 18th of the month for gen.
eral fund warrants mp TO register num-
Der l9, l0l This will mean a call Of
half a million dollars which will be
funded into revenue warrants at a much
lower rate of interest than the general
fund warrants.
A number of the representative far
mers of Potter county held meeting
and made preliminary arrangements for
the organization of stock company,
the intention of the farmers being to
engage in the elevator business, prob
ably at Gettysburg, aud in future
handle their own grain and coal.
The Brookings Press says: Con-
gresham Philo Hall has not yet
returned from Washington, although
expected to do so any day. 1t is
rumored that he has gone to the
Pacifit coast TO look up a new location,
having previously written to parties out
there regarding the prospects.
r. II. Sands, of Murdo, has been
appointed by President Taft as govern
ment stock inspector and detective on
the Rosebud Indian reservation. Mr..
Sands is a prominent merchant OF
Murdo, and his appointment to this
position is pleasing to his many friends
throughout the entire country. His
headquarters will be at the agency on
the reservation.
Business men of Wolsey have organ
lied stock company and will build a
a. nf ln0 No L. |
day, and an elevator Later on il is
expected an electric light plant will be
added. Work on the mill and elevator |
will be started as soon as spring opens
The company, known as the Farmers
Co. Operative Mill & Elevator company,
is Incorporated for $4,000.
Wedged between the cage and the
shaft in the Star workings of the Home.
stake mine at Lead Thursday afternoon,
John p. johnson, a shaft repairer, was
slowly crushed until his form, released,
shot 1000 feet to the bottom of the shaft.
His remains were only partly found and
brought to the surface in basket. A
misunderstanding of signals is said to
have caused the accident. johnson
leaves wife and family.
Charged with doping" and robbing
Edward Sharpe, a lumberjack from
West Nahant, Tom Conpors and Tom
Jones were bound over to the circuit
court and will be tried at Deadwood.
Sharpe says the men administered
knockout drops that resulted in an
illness approaching death, and that
W lille in that condition he was robbed
of his money and placed on train for
his home.
Secretary of the Interior Ballingei
advised the Dallas delegation, headed
by E. A. jackson. Thursday that he
could not reopen the government land
office controversy as regards its removal
from Mitchell to Gregory. The secre-
tary held the view that inasmuch rs
che removal had been determined upon |
by his predecessor In Office and ordered !
by the president he could not now
interfere with its transfer from Mitchell
to Gregory. y