The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-04

James. Inc placed on Tn
Western Union Tel egraph compan.
1927. 700; Postal Telegraph company.
$10.720; Continental Telegraph com
pany. SIS, 899. This company is
Milwaukee railroad proposition along
their Puget Sound line. and their re
!. ports showed such enormous earnings
that the board raised them from
10. 600 valuation of last year. The
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Saulte Ste.
darie Telegraph company, $3.50.
The valuation of telephones was
raised. there being over 400 lines in
the state the largest of these is the
Dakota Central, which was assessed
$50. 845. Over seventy telephone
companies have not yet reported and
the law allows the board to place and
increase of rs per cent on such lines
as a penlty for failure to report.
In the retirement of l.. L.. Ness as
secretary of the corn palace commit
tee, w. A. Wheeler was selected to
I'LL the position. The season for work
on the palace building will start
shortly to cover the structure With
new designs. The corn will be in
readiness for the work within two or
three weeks and that will give ample
time to complete the decorations be-
fore the palace opens Septe moar rs.
Most all of the attractions have
been secured, ard a goodly n mber of
the counties surrounding have ar
ranged to make an agricultural ex
hibit to refute the statements that
South Dikota has been unable 10
raise any crops this season. Good
appropriations have been made by thu
county commiss toner's to arrnage for
an exhibit at the palace and at the
state fair, and eastern visitors will be
shown that good products have been
raised despite the statement that the
country vas toosdry this seaons.
At former land registrations an d
different places in this state gamk-
ling element has thrivet at tn, ex :
Fpense. of those who gathered to reg
lister. j. w. Witten, the govern /
ment representative in charge of the :
work, is determined that this shall +
not be the case in the registration for /
lMellette and Bennett county lands, |
and has called upon the state author
jties to assist in the. work. After q
conference on the pat of Gov. Tessey |
and Attorney General Johnson, they |
have decided to call upon the local
Authorities to use every means to
prevent gambling at registration i
points, and have further rotifitd sue
local authorities that any complaints
in ergards to gambling at that tine
will mean the sending of a special |
prosecutor from the. at attorney gerer 81 |
department to take up the matter of
law enforcement. The local author
ities will be held responsible for any
failure. to suppress gambling which
will require action on the part of the
state legal department. In other
words, all the power of the state ex-
.ecutiye and legal departments will be
turned loose en- the situation where
the local authorities are either unable
or unwilling to cope with the sit
uation.
Farmers OF FIewr comfy are
watching with interest the behavior
of a most unusual and peculiar acting
green, worm which is infesting certain
portions Of the county in great MN
oers. The worm Is a stranger to
south DAKOTA. so far as old sett lers
can erecollect. 1t is bout inch long,
about as large arou nd as a match, and
has one pair of legs in front, another
pair at the rear, and six pairs in the
middle of the body. The worm trav
els in comp snies numbering thous-
ands, group of the worms extend
ing for A quarter of a mile in length.
At first tho farmers were inclir ed to
thi.'k the worm was the old fashioned
army worm, but later investigation
proved it to be al entirely ew species
40 far as this portion of South Dakota
is concerned. The most pc cGlair
thing about the W ,rm is that it cen
fines is feed solely to the Russian
thistle and to pigweed. 1t cleans up
the pigweed pretty thoroughly, but