The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-09-12

One OF the best artesian wells in the
state has been struck on the ranch OF
Rhodes Bros, in Charles Mix county.
| The we'll is eight inches and throws
water Al inches above the top OF the
pipe.
Thomas Twostars, an Indian 25
years old, living at Big Cooley, while
enjoying a big drunk at Waubay re-
Gently, drank so much whisky that
he became unconscious and died IN a
few hours.
A telegram announces the death OF
Mrs. BIB. Blosser at ~Carlirville, Ill.
Her husband was until last May edi-
tor and proprietor OF the True Re-
publican at Washington Springs, but
sold out and moved to Carl inville.
Circuit. Judge Campbell has granted
q decree OF divorce to Mrs. Elizabeth
Musser OF Marshall county. from
her husband, Edward Musser,
on the ground of desertion and fail
ure to support. The defendant made
40 appearance.
1t is announced that the city coun.
ell OF Mellette has ordered the saloons
closed on Sundays. The hoboes had
too great a penchaut for fighting when
filled with booze, to permit a continu-
ance of the wide open policy on the
Lords day.
Joseph Majors, who recently bought
the Dala mica property, near Custer
was in Deadwood the other day. He
is working quite a crew OF men taking
out mica for shipment to the eastern
makets. He expects in a few weeks
to make q shipment OF n ton that
will be worth $4,000.
A laborer named James Gillespie
lost his life while attempting to clean
out an old well which was full of air
damp on the premises OF William To-
hey of Ethan, near Mitchell, a few
days ago. AS yet the body remains
in the well, every effort to raise it
having failed. The was mott.
fed.
A body OF armed and masked men
recently called at the home Of j. II.
Casterline, in Hand county, near Bur-
lette, and took him forth into the
night and nothing more has been seen
Of him. Casterline is the man impli-
Gated long ago in the robbery OF hors-
es and goods at Hitchcock and Red
field.
Mrs. Charity Eliot, mother OF Mrs.
Ex-senator G. C. Moody, died recently
at Deadwood at the advanced age of
100 years, four months and twenty
four days. She was ont Of the oldest
residents of South Dakota and up to
three years ago, when she had a bad
fall, which resulted indirectly in her
death al this time, had been quite &C
tive.
Adolph Berlin, a butcher of Column
bia, became so angered by the request
of his employer, Andrew Stone, OF
Aberdeen, for an accounting, that he
drew a long steak knife and under.
took to carve his benefactor. But
for the interference of citizens a TRACE
dy would have resulted. He was ar
rested and taken to Aberdeen and is
now in Jail in default of bail.
Bessie Moore, who eloped from
Aberdeen in company with A. H. Gar
field, a married man, returned to her
home at Mellette q few days ago. An
attempt will be made to place her in the
state reform school at Plankinton.
1t is averred that there will be no
reconciliation between Garfield and
his wife, and that q mutual separa.
ton will take place after which Gar
field and Bessie will become one in
the eyes OF the law.
A special telegram from Yankton OF
recent date says the story published
widely in outside papers and later
sent out from Chamberlain as a special
stating that an organized gang of des.
perate burglars exists in Yankton is
wholly untrue. There are no burglars,
there have been no robberies, and the
story is q pure fake from beginning to
end. Eighteen years ago afarmer was
robbed of q few dollars that he had
seereted in a hay NOW, and this is
probably the story referred to.
Commissioners Lockhart and Audi.
tor Nipple have returned to Pierre
from their trip to Sully and Potter
assessing the land turned into the
the state by w. w. Taylor. They
accepted the lands in Sully county at
the assessed value placed upon it by
the county. In Potter county there
was other property besides lands.