Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-09-02
NEWSY STATE NOTES.


company, of New York to do business
in this state.
Dr. ID w. Robinson, of Pierre, has
been chosen to attend the American
Railway Surgeons convention. as a del.
egate, which commences in st Louis
next month. He will represent the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
Attorney General Clark, of this state,
has been honored by being placed upon
the program at the national meeting of
attorney generals to be held at Buffalo,
N. Y. next month. He has been given
the subject of the Police Power of the
State" on which to present paper
j. 4. Wipgfield, who has filled the
position of private secretary to Governor
Vessey since he took the Office of gov.
ernor, has resigned and will go back to
the public examiners department., in
which he worked before taking up the
new duties.
tract for the decorative work in the new
capitol to the William G. Andrews
Decorative company, of Clinton, Iowa.
The contract calls for mural paintings
b. Blasfield, Simmons and other noted
mural artists.
1t is estimated that the automobiles
now in use in the State of South Dakota
represent monetary outlay of upwards
of three million dollars, with the pros
pect that another million will be added
during the next twelve months, if the
present ratio of increase is maintained.
State Game Warden Bancroft has
made arrangement with the county
treasurers to send hunters licenses to
every town in the county in which
there is bank This will afford an
opportunity to those who live in and
near it TO get license without much
bother.
The Indians are making great prepa-
rations for a JOINT conference of the
Congregational and Presbyterian church
to be held for one week beginning Sep
TENDER LIST, at the Indian church twelve
miles north of Summit. They expect
over 500 delegates to be there from all
over the country. Special trains will
be run to Peever
On the night of August 26th, at $3.50
O'Clock the depot at Summit was entered
through the freight house door while
message. On his return he found that
the money drawer had been pried open
and $40 Go taken out. Searching par
ties went out in every direction, but no
clue of the robbers has yet been found
Sheriff George p. Perry, of the new
county of Corson, was in Pierre
recently for conference with Governor
Vessey in regard to the enforcement of
the state liquor laws in that county.
As large part of the county is reserva-
ton with heavy Indian population, this
is a question of more than usual inter-
est to the officers of that county and
may.prove to be a complicated one.
The bankers CT northern South
Dakota and southern North Dakota
held meeting and banquet August 26,
at Aberdeen. The principal object for
discussion being the feasibility of lower
ing 1.-THE interest rate paid on time
deposits. The Dakotas are SO uniformly
prosperous that the banks are experi-
encing great difficulty in disposing of
their funds to advantage after paying
the present high rate on time deposits
Elmer Howe, hack driver, was shot
four times in the arm by John Coleman,
passenger, following a dispute over
fare. Howe had driven Coleman from a
resort near Aberdeen, a quarrel ensued
when Coleman refused to pay fare
After the shooting Coleman disappeared
in the darkness. Coleman recently was
arrested here on suspicion or being a
MEMBER OF gang or yeggmen which
robbed the bank of Tulare June 90. but
was discharged
What promises to prove one of the
most important and prolific ore schools
in the Bald Mountain country, this
state, is new being opened up by the
Golden Reward Mining compan--
Since the installation of the slime plaat
at the mill in the first ward, the tr~tt-j
ment of the ones by the company mas
proved fairly profitable, the slime pro-
cess being considered successful. The
mill is now handling about 200 tons of
ore daily, the heads showing about %.
]. r. Show. of Mason City, Iowa and
l. b. Brandt, of Lakefield, Mimi. are
in Jail at Huron, charged with the
abduction of two girls, one aged Is and
the other II, from WATERFOWL. Shaw
is recognized as clothing salesman, of
Sioux Falls, and Brandt barber, of
Wolsey. They went to Huron with the
girls two or three days since and were
takau into I'm atndv an a yuaseaOa frosv,