Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-11-04
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

head foremost into well at Huron Q
few days since, receiving injuries that
may prove fatal
the first person ever deported from
South Dakota, so far as can be remem'
bered, is Christian Kahler, for some
little time resident of Gregory county,
where his family resides upon home.
steal. Kahler has been ordered
deported to Russia by the department
Of commerce ana labor. He will be
deported on the ground that he was not
mentally sound upon his arrival in the
United States few years ago, and now
is pronounced incurably insane.
Louis LaPlant, one of the old time
residents of Stanley county, whose ranch
location is on the Cheyenne river, just
recently completed good modern
dwelling on the ranch, and had moved
into it, when the building and contents
were destroyed by fire Sunday. The
loss is severe one, as nothing was
saved from the building, and among
the property which went was 5000 in
currency. The loss to Mr.. LaPlant was
several thousand dollars.
To make a profit of s35 an acre from
his crop of alfalfa in single season was
the experience of George Breeding, q
well-known farmer living near White
Lake. He has threshed his second crop
of the season for seen and secured about
two and one-half bushels an acre, which
at the prevailing price OF IS cents a
pound will bring him $25 an acre. Hay-
ing secured good crop of alfalfa hay
from the first cutting, the value of the
product of the land this season will
reach about $35 an acre.
OF all the states in the union South
Dakota is the healthiest. This is so
good state in which to live that even
heaven can't tempt people away.
According to mortality statistics for
1908 tabulated by the census depart
ment the death rate for this state is 10 l
persons in every 1000 for the year 1908
The highest was 1871 for California
while the rate for the nation was 1873
Nearly one-fifth of all the deaths are
infants under one year and one.fourth
are of children less than five years old.
Most deaths come in January and
fewest in June.
The Armenian and Syrian residents
Of Deadwood and vicinity, and there
are a number of them, are indignant
over communication received recently
by the clerk of the courts from Robert
s. Coleman, chief naturalization exam
liner, in which he holds that they are
ineligible to citizenship A number Of
men from those countries living here
had taken out their first papers, while
some would have been applicants for
their second papers at the coming term
of court. Examiner Coleman holds that
Armenians and Syrians, as Asiatics, are
no more eligible to citizenship than are
the Chinese.
A Pierre dispatch of October 30, says
Things are shaping up for the continual
ton of improvements ON the state cap.
itol grounds through the coming winter.
The derrick is now up for the big arte-
sian we'll to supply power and gas for
the building, and tt e drill will be drop;
ping on that work within day or two.
The contractors for grading the grounds
begun work here, and are starting by
scraping out what is intended as the
"lake" location, securing earth for fill
ing and also deepening the water loca-
ton. They will follow by filling
around the main building and then con.
tinuing over the grounds wherever fill.
ing is needed.
That he left personal property to the
value of about $500 is shown by the
last will and testiment of the late
Bishop William Hobart Hare, which
has been filed in the probate court
in Sioux Falls. The will bequeaths to
Mary Hare. granddaughter of the dead
prelate. the sum Of IS 900. The sum Of
81 900 each lie willed to Miss Helen and
Miss Mary Peabody. His theological
library is left to his successor, Bishop
Frederick Foote johnson. The
remainder Of the estate goes to his SON,
DR.. Robert Hare. Of Philadelphia. In
addition TO the personal property there
10 some real estate, the value of which
il not listed.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. John T. Kean, fol
twenty-five years q resident of Woon.
socket. and for many years very active
participant in the politics of the state
of South Dakota, left last week FOL
Minneapolis, where he and his family
will take up their permanent residences,
having had erected handsome new
residence at 4244 Fremont avenue south
John T. Kean came to Woonsocket II
May, 1884, from Washington, D. @.