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TOE DAILY HUBOXITESouth 'Dakota ch[elt;ivsMOM 1 KM TO FOSTER.j South Dubotu Frontier Guardian to be Remembered After Dentil.Sioux Falls.; movement hasS. I).. March 23.—A been inaugurated to erect a handsome and costly monument to the memory of (apt. Jack Foster, a former Texas cowboy, who was a pioneer of Dakota territory, and who gained fame as a frontiersman and frontier peace officer.The originator of the movement to erect the monument is Maj. Charles P. Jordan, of Rosebud Indian agency, a cousin of Gen. George A. Custer, and himself a frontiersman of considerable renown.(apt. Foster died about two years ago from heart failure caused by over-exertion in fighting a prairie fire, which threatened to sweep a large territory on the Rosebud reservation. At tin- time, and for a number of years prior thereto, (’apt. Foster was the government stock detective on the Rosebud reservation, and as such had run down and captured numerous mixed blood Indians ami lawless whitesDRY FARMING.Homesteaders West of the Missouri Iare Preparing to Kmplo) the (amp-!hell System.Pierre. S. !».. March 23.— Reports from ail the country west of the Missouri river show that the homestead- I ers were not discouraged by the dry weather of last year, but are busily at work in their fields getting in the I seed iroiu which they expect to reap i a harvest next fall. They are all developing along lines of dry farm- 1 ing, which means deep plowing and continuous cultivation of the soil fol- I lowing rains, ily this method they J conserve the moisture which gets into the soil and can feel an assurance of a c rop with a far less amount of rain | fall than where the ordinary supposed to he sufficient with)fallui cI?tivating to hold it and conser\atioudrywhichwere held in thlast winter did i gospel of water soil than thousi would do. and ittoonsudssprc t ioninthethede
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Huron Daily Huronite
Huron, South Dakota, US
Thu, Mar 23, 1911
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