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The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1921-04-29
Plenty OF Visitors
Call at Bridge Site

Belvidcrc Times Riverside, J.
r. Buckmasters new town south
Of BeIviderc is by far the most
popular place in Jackson county.
There is a good big crowd there
every day to watch the excavation
work, and last Sunday when the
bunch were not at work and had
time to visit, l08 visitors we're
there during the day.
Work is progressing finely.
They are just about at the shaie
in the north pier and they gili go
down q couple of feet in this shsle
and then drive heavy steel I-beams
down into the shale so that they
will have a foundation that win
stand for all time.
The force has been increased
little, George Whyte, Walter Van
and V. w. Julian having been add
eG, while Roy Ruckmaster who
was working there last week went
to Kadoka Monday to work on q
grader.
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County Agents Hold
Meeting At Rapid

County Agent Ira S. johnson.
returned the latter part Of las,
week from Rapid City where ht
had been for a few days attend
ing the meeting of the Count.
Agents of the west river counties
A large number of the Count.
Agents were present at the meet
ing and a most enjoyable and pro
fitable time was had. The Rapio
City Journal has the following t.
say of the meeting:
The district conference of al
county agents from the counties
west of the Missouri river, which
has been in session in Rapid City
Monday and Tuesday of this week
came TO a close last night. Tht
Pennington Farm Bureau offics
has been an exceedingly busy pla
&C the past two days and the az
ents are leaving with a revival o.
their energies and'a new supply o
ideas which will afford them al
opportunity to give better servic'
to the farmers Of theii respective
counties. The success Of the tw'
days get together conference i
largely due TO the spirit witt
which the agents entered into tn
various discussions and message
brought to them by some of tn
best farm specialists sent out b.
the state college at Brookings.
Worth while talks were give
by George H. Valentine, assistan
county agent leader, f. w. Hale
county agent leader; J. c. Holme:
of the live stock extension board
p. S. Scarboro, boys and girls
club work. Ralph Johnson and N
X. Benedict arrived from Brook
ings yesterday morning and too,
part on the program. Judge Sou
lie gave the assembly a talk yester
day afternoon on Black Hill alfal
fa seed.
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Mrs. @. W. Meisenhoelder, wife OF
the mayor OF that place, in her own
home. early in the evening
The DeSmet public library which
has been housed IN the Episcopal
church for several years. has been
presented to the city and hereafter
will be a municipal institution.
In connection with the spring clean
up campaigns In South Dakota, a war
on rats is urged by E. c. ORoks, as
sistant professor OF zoology at State
college.
Louis Melvin Maloy, 19.months-old
child OF Mr. and Mrs. William Maloy
who live In the Walshtown district
died OF burns received at the Maloy
home.
Lake Preston has one of the mos,
active civic improvement clubs of any
town in that district. Acting In CO
operation with the city council the
club has concluded plans for improv
ing the city park this season by the
grading OF roads, building OF walks
planting Of shrubs and flowers and the
supplying OF park seats.
With the seasons paving program
held up pending more settled and
possibly lower costs, the Yankton
board OF city commissioners contem
nj q al
program OF sewerage construction.
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South Dakota
News

Crop conditions in Brown county
ire excellent according to farmers.
Mobridge will have a fine new
school building as result Of the recent
iistr.ct election to vote on whether OF
lot bonds in the sum OF $15O,0O0
should be issued. The measure
.assed by 76 votes.
At mass meeting Of Lsnnox resi-
ie1ts it was practically unanimously
lacided that steps should be taken
ior the early erection OF q new public
school building, at an estimated cost
If about $4,000.
The Worthing town board has
awarded the contract for the eoastruc-
ton Of line for the transmission OF
electric current from Harrisburg, and
also for the installing Of a distributing
system within the town.
Redfleld will stage one of the big.
gest Fourth OF July celebrations in
the history of South Dakota this year,
the commercial club and American LIE.
sion joining forces to make the oc'
casion success.
Word has been received from the
state highway commission At Pierre
that a state highway will be built
through Artssian, Forestburg and
Woonsocket this season and that work
| will be commenced soon.
A standard.size ferryboat, 22x5G
feet, large enough to take care of all
traffic, is being built, and 1t is expect
ed that the ferry will be in operation
across the Missouri river, near Elk
Point. about May /.
A reward, not to exceed $1,000, has
been offered by the county commits
sioners Of Clay county for the arrest
and conviction Of any one on a felony
charge. The reward is offered prom
arily to assist In the apprehension OF
automobile thieves.
The April farm labor report ha:
| been tabulated and mailed to al
county farm bureaus b. the South Da
kota farm bureau federation. Wage,
offered for farm help run from $40 t.
| $40 a month. Wages for married mer
vary from $40 to SIS . month.
Game and fish wardens in diffsren
parts OF the state have recently de
tected anglers IA the act Of catching
pike. 1t Is illegal to catch pike II
South Dakota before May /, while tn,
bass season does not open until Jun,
/.
In accordance with the terms of
recent contract awarded by the cit,
council, work on the Improvement ant
extension Of the municipal waterwork
system in Scotland will commenc,
June 15 and be completed not late
than August Is.
Judge r. B. Tripp has decided il
favor Of the city of Wagner in the &C
tion brought to prevent the South Da
kota Light and Power company. o
Wagner. from increasing its rates II
Wagner over the amount fixed in tn
company's franchise Of 1913.
The representative Of an aviation
company q Minneapolis II In CORE
spond@oo Nth tha Lad nommercia
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West River Country
Should Advertise

The following article which ap-
peared in the last issue Of the Muir
do Coyote is one that contains
suggestion and truth worth while
the consideration of the people Of
this west river country. The Coy
ote states that they do not know
who the author of the above is.
but whoever it is they have certa.
inly hit the nail on the head:
Some of our friends in the couh.
Try imagine that they are hard up
and just about facing ruin. They
should take a little trip through
loaa and Illinois these days where
farmers have been paying rent Of
twenty dollars per acre and buy
ing land at five hundred per acre.
and be satisfied with their lot iA.
Western South Dakota Every
little while we hear Of some fellow
who has gone fat broke trying ts
pay eastern farm rents, and We
wonder why they don't load up
Nancy and the kids and come tn
Haakon county, South Dakota,
where they can buy farm for q
smaller cash payment than they
have to pay each year for rent.
and from the start be independent
This is the land that bcckons them
Why don't they come?
You wonder why? Well we new
er did from the day We set foot
west of the river. The principal
reason why this part of the statp
is not settling up as fast a. natur+
| al conditions warrant Is the utter
lack of publicity. Certain inter-
ests in the eastern and southern
| portions of this state spread prop
aganda condemnatory to the west
Of the river country and no effort
has ever been made to counteract
it.
This section has witnessed som.
rather dry years but never any
more so than the eastern and sou
thern portions Of South Dakota IL
as much. As boy on An Illinois
farm we recall solicitors travelling
through that state begging con-
tributions from the farmers to
keep those farmers in South OAK
ota from starving to death" If
one was not inclined to give cash
grain was acceptable. The farm.
ers in~the section west of the river
country have never found it nee.
essary to call on any section OK
the United States for aid. They
have gone through lean years but
always weathered the shortage
without a Macedonian cry to feed
Ethem.
If the real estate men through
out the west of the vivcr county
would combine into an organizat-
ion and spend few thousand dol.
lars Zach year advertising the 50.
lcndid opportunities open here ia
the man with red blood in his We.
ins and few dollars in his pocket
the influx Of settlers would mora
than double.
As it is. each one Of them sauAsa
in his little office waiting to catch
the man who passes his door in
search Of a home. Those are the
methods Of the spider. But the
spider never gets anywhere.
| The west Of the river country il
| just tas desirable for agriculture
and stock-raising purposes as sny
other part of the state. Bat the
orid does not know il. The mar
who has land to sell should blow
his horn.
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1921-04-29
Oil xcitement Causes
An Amusing Incident

Pierre The oil in the country
west of the Missouri has put man!
residents of that section on th'
hair trigger" whenever oil is mer
toned. A somewhat amusing sit
uation is reported from Cotton.
wood in this relation. A well was
being drilled for water, and at {
depth of about hundred feet Tho
bailer brought up a load of oily
gumbo, and if that was not an in.
dication of oil what was it. An
excited individual secured hand
full of this crude oil'' and rushed
to Cottonwood to report the fine
as confirmation that they were ir
the oil belt for certain. He soor
had an audience composed of
large part of the residents of the
town, and as the excitement grew
the word reached Philip, and
line of autos was soon on the way
from that town to the new oil 10
cation. But the excitement abat
ed as fast as it had grown wher
on reaching the site of the new
"oil well", the driller in charge
said he had upset jug of oil tha'
day and that a part of it had rur
into the hole he was drilling
That when the drill was agair
put down it naturally churnet
this oil up into the gray shale il
which he was drilling and tha
this was decidedly oily when i
was drawn out with the baileI
This was only a little symptom o
what will result if some of the pr
ojects which are under way il
that part of the state ever max
the showing which their backer
are certain will develop into pay
ing propositions when they ge
down to the proper depth.
n
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Ice or the county superintendent.
Conversion OF a vacant lot in the
downtown district OF Yankton into a
public playground for children has
been decided upon by the park board
Preparations are being made to push
the construction Of new public
school building at Hill City, which is
to cost $4,000.
There is every probability that the
state soldiers bonus board will be II
suing pCaey by the latter part OF
May.
Gerald. the 3-year.o. son OF Elmel
Otterson, a farmer residing near Del.
Rapids, fell into water trough in the
barnyard and was drowned.
A trainload OF thirty cars Of corr
were donated by South Dakota farmers
for the relief Of the starving in Europe
and the near east
With fight on over the raising OF
tax for the support OF the band the
city election in Elkton promises to b.
battle royal
A general move is now under way
throughout the state to adjust the
sage scale for country school teachers
Tor the ensuing year.
Yankton county will spend nearly
$245,00O in road and bridge work this
year, and the state will spend 500.
900 more.
Over $4,000 in college scholarships
are offered annually this time OF the
year by the South Dakota Association
Of Colleges to the boys and girls OF
the state.
Eight hundred railway employees, 10.
Gated in Mitchell, have received notice
that on May /, fiat reduction of 20
per cent in wages will be put into Of.
feet.
South Dakota will surpass every
other state in the west this year In the
construction OF school houses, Ia the
opinion Of G. p Harris. Sioux Falls
"eAAus"5 ShSPoStOi.
At a recent meeting OF the business
men and farmers OF Artesian and vi.
cinity. decision was reached to build
stock sales pavilion within the city
limits Of Artesian.
The South Dakota Shorttorn Breed
crs' association is making arrange.
ment for big gathering in Redfield
juno 1s, whom = big sale and picnic
will be held.
The Rapid City American Legion
post has decided to erect building
costing about $4,000 for permanent
home and club room for members OF
the post.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the proper observance OF Ne
mortal Day by members OF the FRO
quois Relief Corps and American La
gion.
Police are holding two men and one
boy who, they say, confessed to slay
! Ing Clarence Hetland. grocer at Ia
coma Park. near Aberdeen, while in
the act OF, robbing Hetland's store.
A new municipal electric light PLAN
has been completed and placed IL
operation at Wakpsla. Power alst
will be furnished by the plaat for In
| !ustrial concerns.
The Clay county fair board does no
! believe the financial situation war
rants holding fair this fall, and al
plans have been Cancelled. The fai
will probably be held In 1922.
Mystery still shrOuds the death q
earkston o. March = by shooting. a
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club, with the object of the club TAX.
lag steps to aid the company in pro.
viding a permanent landing place for
airplanes in the vicinity OF Lead. The
company, it is stated, is considering a
plan for an air route through the
Black Hills.
In an effort to tighten the burden
on the taxpayers of Hamhn county,
the board Of county commissioner
has reduced the salaries of some of
the deputy county officers from SIS
to s25 per month. The price for road
work for a man and team was fixed
at s. per day OF tea hours; $3.50 for
= man and two teams. and So for q
man.
Many Improvements are being made
on the South Dakota state fail
grounds. c. N. Mcilvaine, secretary OF
the state fair board, mas announced
taat another womans build.ns viii We
~-uSI c~-~.. u-L.o.A 81 - s-.... ..u.y a..
wall bs completed for next years Ca
position. Three new swine buiidina s
were recently completed with ca
pacIty OF fifty-fivs pens each. Two
new sheep barns also have recently
been completed.
A loss of 100000 is estimated to
have resulted from prairie fire
which started about six miles east OF
Seneca and two miles west of Bsrk
mere, Faulk county. and Travelled
northeasterly, sweeping over an area
about three miles wide. 1t burned Oh
forty different sections OF land during
its progress, missing the village OF
Berkmere by about a mile. 1t waI
brought under control whezl It reached
the Chicago aad Northwestern rail
road tracks north of Faulkton. A
total Of about 100000 acres wer.
burned over. Hundreds OF men fought
the fire for hours.
Owing to recent wholesale cattle
and horse 'rustling" and other crimes
. number Of the men of tho Wood dis
trict have organized vigilance com
mittee and will render material assist
ance to the authorities in running
down the criminals or driving then
! from the district.
No longer will Milwaukee railway
/ engines on the Platte line bs stalled
! with engine trouble IL present plans
! Of the railroad work out. Machinery
| and equipment for a soft water plan
| are now being installed at the end o
{ the lips.
! Canton will celebrate the Fourth OF
July this year. according to an an
uouncement made.
The state headquarters OF the Saliva.
ton Army Of South Dakota. now fs To-
Gated in Huron.
Plans are under way to construct q
road to the top of Terry Peak, near
Deadwood.
At . meeting of the women of White
Lake q civic improvement association
was organized.
Tho Baltic consolidated school Ques
ton IL to be finally settled by another
election.
There arc 1896 children in the
1859 schools throughout the state O!
South Dakota enrolled in the Junior
Red Cross.
David Hofer. age p. OF Ladelle. 9
town twenty miles northeast OF Huron
was killed when an automobile he wss
driving turned over.
Yankton county will have q rura
school named Harding. according t.
plans now being dsysiopsd 2. the Of
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Pasture--65c per month. Inqu-
ire Of e Z, Sins. 4-14St.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-01-27
PREDICTS REVIVAL !
Of AUSTIN MINES

For long time there has been
little doing at Birch Creek, but as
soon as the weather settles down to
nice. balmy spring, it is highly prob
able that there will be more going on
than ever before.
Jack Cahilk the original locator of
the wonderful gold deposit that made
the camp come into prominence so
fast, has lost none of his faith, and is
all ready to resume operations on his
Cahill Lode property. He last year
sank shaft to penetrate the iron
cap-plug that covers the gold depos-
its, few hundred feet from the point
at which he found it in the first in
stance, using the primitive windlass
and bucket. This shaft reaches to
point where progress couldn't longer
be made. and he stopped. pending the
installation of hoist. This hoist is
now on the ground and ready for
business and as soon as spring opens
he intends to put on a crew of men
and send the shaft on down through
the Gaping. The hole is now down
about IS feet, and he expects to cut
through and be In the big high-grade
streak In about thirty feet more. He
is also doing some prospecting on
other ground, some distance from the
original strike, using a tunnel for his
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-01-27
INDIAN WAS MAKING 1T
In MILK CAN APPARATUS

Peggy PARROT, an Indian woman of
middle age who had gained some pub
licity through her claim as a daugh-
ter in the estate of the late Mat Par
rott, who for many years was pro-
prietor of sporting goods store in
Reno, was arrested at cabin by Fed
eral Prohibition Officers Nash, Brown
and Sheehan, says the Gazette. OFF,
Ger Nash displayed still, which. he
said, was seized In the raid. 1t was
of unique and dangerous construction,
for the brew was cooked in a ten-gal-
Ion milk can that showed signs of
frequent usage. The copper worm de-
scended into a candy bucket used as
a cooler.
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have passed expects to take some

ihefS puoSSu cApcSto " tohS SohiC
more sensational developments.
Cahill is a prospector, from his
shoes to his hat, and although he can
afford to quit the game If he wanted
to. sticks to it because he likes it.
With his wife, who is also a thorough
prospector, and who loves the sage
brush as well as he, he has continued
roaming the hills, and after spend
ing all last season travelling over
other sections, has returned to the
Birch creek section, and will put in
the coming season digging at the
place where he found the great de-
post of gold.
1t is not improbable that the Ne
vada Birch Creek people who pur-
chased the original location from
Cahill, will soon resume operations
on a much larger and comprehensive
scale than ever before. An engineer
has made a careful examination of
the ground, and recommended an ex-
tensive and expensive system of de-
velopment. and recommendations viii
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-01-27
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF
EXECUTRIX; AND
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Sixth Judicial District Court
of the State of Nevada, in and for
Humboldt County.
In the Matter of the estate of Lena
Lorentz, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been, on Tuesday,
January 4, 1921, duly appointed and
qualified by the Sixth Judicial Dis
trict Court of the State of Nevada, in
and for the County of Humboldt, as
executrix of the estate of Lena Lo-
rentz. late of said county, deceased.
All creditors having claims against
staid estate are required to file the
same, with the proper vouchers and
statutory affidavits attached, with the
clerk of the Court, within three
months from the date of the first pub
LEGATION of this notice.
Dated. January 5, 1921.
Said first publication is January 6,
1921. THERESA LORENTZ,
Executrix of said Estate.
Last publication February 8, 1921.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-01-27
P|OCHE DISTRICT
GOOD FOR STOCK

Stockgrowers of Nevada and Utah
good spirits ut this time, due to the
heayy fall of snow that has visited
this territory in such an orderly fash
ion during the last week.
From all appearances there are at
least eight inches of snow on the lev
ell. all of which will tend to enhance
the prospects of the farmer and
rancher for the ensuing season.
This is just another of those evil
dences that all matters will adjust
themselves If we but bde our time
and play the game in the meantime.
With mining prospects of this dis
trict. for the year, brighter than In
many years passed, in spite of the low
metal markets, with economic condi-
tons, as they effect the individual,
making n slow but sure counteraction
on the during the-war fluctuation, and
lastly with the precipitation during
the winter months I'D to or above the
average, making for the ultimate sue
cess of the farmer and the stock
grower, there is every reason to be-
1ieve that Nevada. will share in the
prosperity that is certain to be APP
parent in the world during the year.
Phoebe Record.
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TELEPHONE WAS too
SMART FOR INDIAN

Editors these days when news is
scarce as hens teeth and advertising
columns sadly depleted by seared-out
merchants-grab with glee any pub
LEGATION they think will furnish a col
umn of type. SO it is getting to be a
habit to watch the Reese River
Reveille, published at Austin, for one
of Bill Ellis yarns. Generally he
writes in very entertaining style and
once in awhile he has some darn fool
story that makes grouchy idiotors
laugh whether they want TO or not,
and for the moment they worry less
about where the next shipment of
golden news printpaper is coming
from. Bill had story last week
about the first telephone in Lander
county, and while it's not quite up to
his standard. here 1t is:
On these cold winter evenings.
when there is nothing to do but play
cards or tell yarns. the boys occa-
sionally sit by the stove in the pool
room and tell of the things that hap
pened in the long ago. when Smoky
Valley was an unknown land, and the
Indians held sway.
The other night John Spencer was
in reminiscent mood, and told of the
first telephone line which ran down
the valley. AT that time John was
farming on the Birch Greek ranch,
which WAS used as a stage station on
the line from Austin TO Tonopah. and
a telephone line had been run to Mil
let's for convenience. An Indian
rode down from Grass Valley to have
a talk with another of his tribe, and
arriving at the ranch WAS disappoint-
ed in that his friend had gone to Mil
let's. to be gone several days. As his
time away from the Grass Valley
ranch was limited he regretted that
Mr.. Spencer said: That's all right,
Pete; you can talk to him over the
telephone. Ringing up Millett's he
inquired for the Indian. Tom. and
Tom was called TO the phone Under
Instructions pete said Hello" and
receiving an answer in English, be-
gan his talk in English. Spencer told
him to talk Indian. and he did. enjoy
ing the novelty to the full. Finishing
his conversation, he hung up the re-
ceiyer. and turning to his host. ex-
pressed himself as follows:
John, that telephone too dam
smart. Some white man. he talk little
Injun. Some Chinaman he talk Injun
some. Some Basko talk Iniun. Some
Injun he talk Basko. That telephone
he talk Injun. Basko, Chinaman.
white man, everything. He too dam
smart"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-01-27
AGED TRAPPER KILLED

James Dollard, an aged trapper liv-
ing about forty miles from Wells was
found Sunday by mail carrier MUIR
dered in his cabin The man had been
shot four times. They is no clue to
the murderer. 1t is supposed that the
man was killed for the small amount
of money he kept about his cabin.