The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-11-07

pointmentsa at Mitchell.
A new creamery company has been
organized in Norway township, near
Canton, and the creamery will be
built at Moe. There are about forty
stockholders.
Mayor Lowering OF White Lake has
received an addition to his herd in
the shape of a carload of calves. He
will sorn develop into q Veritable
cattle king at this rate.
Members of Judge Edgerton's fam.
lily have expressed the belief that II
may be necessary for his health
to resign from the bench. This has
started speculation concerning his
successor.
The DeSmet creamery paid of for
September a few days ago at the rate
Of 50 cents for 4 per ct. milk, About
eight Thousand pounds of butter was
made i'll September, and the patrons
realized nearly thirteen hundred dol
lars net.
Norton Odell, OF Mcntrose, has fin
ished threshing and has as a result
one thousand eight hundred bushels
OF wheat, eight hundred bushels Of
oats, three hundred and sixty bushels
OF flax. TIE number OF acres he had
under cultivation wss one hundred
and thirty.
The Ochsner hardware company OF
Brule county has decided to embark
in irrigation, and preparations for
putting down an artesian well are be-
ing made. The company owns three
quarter sections Of land, and all OF it
will be cultivated and irrigated. A
three.acre reservoir will be construct
ed. Irrigation is to be tried west OF
the Mis-: ouri river.
There are now about 40 co.opera-
tive creameries in operation in South
Dakota, and several Others under
way, and 1T is notable that while each
has been more or less successful, the
greatest successes have been in those
localities where wheat growing has
been uncertain, and where many farm
ers were ready to give up after years
OF most dlsCouraglne crop failure.
John Crawford's frozen corpse was
discovered a few mornings ago in the
river at Huron in the bottom of his
wagon, just north OF the bridge cross
ing the jim. Both horses were frozen
to death an1 were standing in the
mud and water up to their shoulders.
The water did not cover the bottom
OF the wagon and the body OF the
dead man was found curled up in the
wagon frozen in death.
The settlers on that portion OF the
Yankton reservation, which was OPP
ened to settlement last spring, are
taking steps necessary to organize
that portion Of Charles Mix county
included within the newly opened
land. BY the treaty with the govern
ment the settlers and the Indians
were granted all the rights of citizen
ship, and the r petitions for orgaui.
zation will be treated fairly.
Geo. kalensky, who recently shot
and killed his wife near Devils Lake.
n. d., is a resident OF Eureka, where
for the past two or three J ears he had
kept a store. During this time he has
trouble with his wife and on several
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some time ago she left him. A couple
OF. weeks ago he shut up his store and
went away and had not been heard
from until the news came OF the ter.
rible tragedy.
The enterprises OF state wide con-
Germ have become established facts in
South Dakota this year, says a cores
pondent in the Minneapolis Journal,
enterprises which must invariably
account for much in the future of this
commonwealth cooperative cream.
cries and artesian irrigation. Each
had been previously tried in q desul-
tory and experimental way, but this
year solid foundations have been
laid and substantial success reaped.
Major S. II. Jumper OF Aberdeen
has made an application before the
United States land Office to purchase
the tract known as "Squatterville"
for and in behalf OF the city, in &C.
cordance with the conclusion OF long
drawn out litigation. The 7th of
December was set as the day when
proof will be submitted by the city,
and opportunity given to persons
who desire to protest the allowance
OF said proof and payment 70 he