The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-01
CATTLE GO TO MARKET
STOCK RAISERS ARE TAKING NO
CHANCES OF ALLOWING
HERDS TO PERISH.

the western part Of the state, from
the north line OF the state to the
south lines reports heavy shipments OF
cattle to the market. Last year ranch
ers waited until later in the season
for many of Their shipments and could
not get the cars as they expected. For
this reason many cattle which were
driven to the shipping stations were
driven back to the home range after
being held in shipping pens for periods
from two or three days to a week,
waiting for cars. which never came,
and this helped pile up the losses Of
live stock for the winter. While feed
Is plentiful this fall, 40 chances are
being taken, and the stock intended
to be marketed is sent in as soon as
cars can be procured to prevent an
other situation as was forced upon the
cattle raisers last year.
On October go bids will be opened
by the government officials at Rose
bud Indian agency for the sale of many
thousands Of acres Of Indian land. The
tracts to be sold are in Todd, Mellette
and Trip counties, and embrace some
Of the best grazing and farming land
in the south-central part Of the state.
The Rosebud Merchants association
has taken up with the state railroad
commissioner and the interstate com
merce commission the problem OF i'm
mediately providing cars for the ship
ment OF the Rosebud grain crop. At
the present time no relief for the
shortage appears and it is feared that
an immense loss will be sustained by
the farmers of this section Of South
Dakota unless grain cars are at once
provided.
Warning of impending danger OF
prairie fires because Of the dry, hot
weather, and because thousands of
acres Of wild grass has been "sured"
to the point where it is easily ignited,
has been issued to ranchers through
out the state by the state fire marshal.
On account Of the character or coal
which railways are required to use,
it Is claimed that more fires than
usual are being set by locomotives this
fall.
The secretary Of the State His
torical society, Doane Robinson. de-
sires reports from anyone having
knowledge of contributions on the part
of South Dakotans the past year, this
for the purpose Of properly applying
the Beadle prize. Inventions, formu-
las, theses and expositions of adj
vanced scholarship will be considered
in the list Of subjects on which the
award will be made.
The seven and one-half miles Of
paved streets in Vermillion are tempt
ing many students returning to the
University Of South Dakota this fall
10 bring along their automobiles, or,
mere accurately, their fathers. Last
year about twenty students had ma
chimes and this year double the mum.
bel will have them.
Ethnologists of the University of
South Dakota have discovered the re-
mains of five more Indian villages
near Mobridge. One Of them is OF
Mandan origin. The Mandans settled
in the Dakotas in the thirteenth or
fourteenth centuries. The Sioux did
not cross from Minnesota until about
1850.
At a special election held in Madi
son bonds Of 100000 were author
lied to be issued, a majority vote be
ing cast in favor of the bonds. The
sum of $4,000. will be used for the ex
tension of the waterwOrks system and
the remaining $4,000 for sewer con
struction and extension.
A high wind, which prevailed in the
central part Of the state a few days
ago, is reported to have blown the cut
hay from a number Of fields about
washington, leaving them bare, and
the hay. which had been cut and IN
some fields was put in winrOws, scat
tered over the country.
A heavy hailstorm swept over the
north end of Riverview and Spring
Creek townships, doing considerable
damage to corn and grain in shock.
There was considerable wind and rain
WIFI Tic SUI Ill anu IuS uoiioSC OA
some farms ran very heavy,
South Dakota's annual Sunday
school convention, One Of the two larg
est conventions held in the state each
year, will be held in Mitchell in 1921
1t was decided at a session OF the
state executive committee in Huron.
The Watertown gas company fran
chise passed by the city council ant
referred to a vote Of the people who ap
proved at a special election by a ma
jority of 81 votes.
The "permanent-tempOrary" bridge
across the Cheyenne river is now in
use and affords means for crossing the
erratic stream.
The health department OF Tolstoy
inaugurated q baby welfare week
which was very successful.
Cupid is playing havoc with the
LaBolt public schools.
Wool growers Of South Dakota have
shipped approximately 100000
pounds Of wool to Chicago up to date
In he sOld In the state wool DOOl The