The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-06-20

| ureeders Convention An lnteres ting and
| Profitable Session-Other State Items.
The new creamery at Mllbank has
oeen successfully started.
The total membership of the Ma
sonic order within the state Is 4,296.
Bad Hlir, a Pine Ridge agency In
| lian policeman, has been bound over
at Hot Springs for cattle rustling.
The body OF Ben Murphy, a young
| ranchman drowned in Cheyenne river
| A few DAYS ago, was found floating In
| he Missouri river.
Cattle rustlels have been operating
in the western portion OF Jerauld
! county. Lawrence county Is also IN
iested by tina same class OF gentry.
Gov. Sheldon has issued a commits.
,ion to X. D. Jennings OF Hot Springs,
as number of the state board OF
health for four years from April
1895.
The eleventh annual commence
ment OF the South Dakota normal
school has Just taken place at Mitch
ell. The institution is in t1ourishing
condition.
The Dakota Methodist university
at Mitchell is one of the most pros
porous institutions of learning in the
state 1t has Just been closed Tor the
summer vacation.
The Washington Springs seminary
held commencement exercises a few
lays ago. The affairs OF the school
are in high degree complimentary to
the officers and faculty.
The state has been advised that re.
payment OF $3,259 by the govern
ment for the amount Illegally collect
ID for taking the census OF Dakota
Territory has been made.
The Aberdeen city council recently
adopted q resolution to reassess a
water main tax which was at one
time declared illegal by the courts i'll
1890. The amount involved, with in
terest, is now over $1l 900.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Lewis recent
y arrived at Chamberlain with Solo.
mon Yellow Hawk, Lower Brule In
dian, who has been lodged in Jail on
charge OF robbing the post office at
the agency a short time ago.
Judge Edgerton, OF the United
States court, does not care to hear
he Benedict babeas corpus case, and
postponement was taken until July
Eth, when Williams, of Little Rock
Ark, will hold court at Sioux Falls.
A terrible hail storm occurred at
Woonsocket few days ago. Garden
vegetables were pounded into the
ground. Small grain is sure to suffer
from it. All glass on north side Of
houses was broken. 1t was the worst
storm OF its kind we ever had in that
vicinity.
The Northwestern Colonization
company OF Chicago is proposing to
place a large number OF sheep and
cattle among the new settlers OF
South Dakota. whom the company
will locate on lands which it has Sc.
cured from loan companies under
favorable arrangements.
Agent GIBBS, OF the Milwaukee depot
at Sioux Falls, has received an I'M
dated letter from H. J. Ericsson, the
billing clerk who recently disappeared
from sight. Erickson practically adj
mits that the reason he skipped out
was beca use he did not want to get
married the following Wednesday, as
he was billed to do, and he did not
have nerve enough to 60 and tell his
fiancee OF mis- desire to cancel the
plighted troth.
A special Milwaukee train from Chi.
cago was at Mellette few days ago
bearing officials OF that road, who
came to see the Hunter irrigation
farm and the Salzer Seed Company's
and state of South Dakota's expert
mental plats. The visitors were:
Roswell Miller, president; A J. Earl
ing. general manager; II. r. Williams.
assistant general superintendent; J.
r Williams, and T.. ID. Armour.
They were enthusiastic in their praise
OF the farm.
Trude Martins. OF Bryant, recently
poisoned himself by taking dose OF
concentrated lye. He was a Swede,
II years OF age, and has been in poor
health for some time. He took
large dose CT the alkali thinking it to
be EPSON salts. AS he lived alone.
no one knew OF his trouble until after
he had fingered in agony worse than