Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-11-10
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

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Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Aberdeen last Tuesday
night.
"Shows"-good, bad and Indifferent
are numerous throughout the state
just now.
Joseph Murphy, sixtcen-year-old
Yankton lad is wanted by the sheriff.
He is accused Of rape.
Chas. w. Hooper. at one time con-
nected with the White Lake Wave,
has purchased the Ainocqua Wis
Times
Ed Mertcn, Peter Mingcr and Ed
Hickey were killed by the explosion
Of thicshing machine near Bath
last Friday.
The agents of the Milwaukee rail-
road viii assist South Dakota people
who wish to be so foolish as to pay
sl.00 for one OF the Columbian hal.
dollars.
The grading contract for the Sioux
Falls and IanktDn road were let on
Monday last. The road is scvcnty-hve
miles long and is TO be finished by
Aug LIST. 1893.
State Treasurer Taylor has Just
closed up deal for the refunding of
S92,5o0 insane hospital J.: per cent.
bonds al 81 per cent. This shows
that the credit OF the state ranks way
up.
j. \. Fitzgerald. of Sioux Falls.
agent for Dyer Bros music house.
st. Paul, and Century Company.
Minneapolis. has absconded, leaving
many obligations. He deserted his
wife and a three weeks old baby.
The Yankton Bridge Company has
let the contract for building com
bincd railroad and wagon bridge over
the Missouri at that point. Work
will be commenced before the first Of
July, 1898.
Walker beavers. convicted OF per-
jury in a pension case and sentenced
-tpril,isao, to thirteen months hard la
nor in Sioux Falls renitentiary. has
been paTdoned b. President Harrison.
beavers is over eighty years old.
Owing toa blunder Oh the demo-
craft central committee the ballots.
some 1900 for Lincoln county. had
u be printed twice. The error was
discovered on the day for official dis
tributon. The loss to the county
will be several hundred dollars.
The first coursins meet Of the
Mitchell Kennel association was held
las, week. This is the first gather
ing o, the sort in the state, and grows
out Of the ownership Of large Num-
Der ST fine hounds in the vicinity.
which have engaged in impromptu
races in years past.
The Security bank Of Mitchell
changed hands on the lSt inst. by the
retirement Of Ct. II. Rathman and
several outside stockholders and the
transfer Of their interests to y. NJ.
Rowdie Of Mitchell and J. w. Seaman
Of Eagerton Will make it u purely
Mitchell institution.
DR. Regina Bigler. who has prac
ticed at Mitchell for the past eight
years, has left for Canton. China
where she will join her former part
ner. DIR. S. l.. Halverson. Both these
ladies are working under the auspices
Of the United Brethren Foreign Mis-
sion society, which has its leadQuar-
tiers in Dayton, Ohio.
Ed Martin. a cigarmakcr OF Sioux
Falls, committed suicide by taking
laudanum. He was rather queer in
his habits. The only clue he ever
gave out regarding his family was
| told to one Of his intimate friends.
that his mother lived in Council
Bluffs. He had been married twice
and had a daughter eight years old
Further than this his past is a mys
terry.
Two men under the names of j. n
Nelson and r. Wilson We're arrested
at Aurora for running blind pig and
brought to Brookings. Their stock
Of goods was taken possession of BY
the sheriff. The prisoners were
| locked in a room at the Jordan house
and their pants taken from them for
better security. During the night
they removed the lock from the door
and made thcil escape.
Twelve train!oads. or over 100 cars
1 fram Pierre last week. The tota
! SUI PlhSAls lui lltll I'LL lilIs
fall are nearly 10000 head, and this
will be increased to fully Is. 200 hcaC
before the shipping season is over
When it is taken into consideration
that each steer brings about $40, the
amount of money that the cattlemer
are receiving is found to be over
is500,00O. The growth OF the stock
business west CT Pierre has been phe
nOmenal.
Senator Pettigrew let the contrac,
for thirty miles Of grading for the
Sioux Falls and Yankton railway, q
project of his own. The contract on
the first division was secured by AL.
fred Jones, who will grade from Sious
Falls ten miles south. j. d. Melon.
aid gets ten miles in Yankton county
and Joseph Sampson ten miles in
Turner county. A proposition has
been submitted to Yankton citizens
to grade fifteen miles from that poin,
| toward Sioux Falls.
The acting commissioner Of the
general land Office has agreed to the
compromise recently effected between
| the townsite claimants of Lead City
and the mineral lOcatOrS. by which