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

over the Missouri at YanktonD' bridge
At Baltic a few days ago epra,.,
citizens, backed by the deputy sba,:s
seized the liquors in the saloon
Joan Gilman who has been rnnn;'of
wide OPEN for a year or ore lug
No better indication of the r.-
mode OF farming, being adopted
South Dakota, can be imagined tho
the numerous train loads Gf fat 90.
tie constantly being shipped east,
The Rapid City Journal is pubI;sh.
ing n large amount of matter in fave,
OF the new railroad from St. p.r,
and Minneapolis by the way of An,
deem and Pierre to the Black Hills
The property turned over by W, "
Taylor falls $4,000 short of mai.
ing good his defalcation. What stsr.
Will be AIKEN to secure the balancs
from the bondsmen is as yet probIs.
matical.
Cattlemen or the coded reservation
have assessed each other two cents q
head on stock which is to be paid as
a bounty on grey wolves. Lots of
exciting sport among the COW boys is
the result.
Toe old bank OF Elgerton building
and fixtures at Edserton has been
purchased by Merrers. Arnold & An.
drews, OF Sioux Rapids Ia, who will
open up the bank and begin business
in a few days.
Maj. f. F. B. Coffin has about Fin.
lshed his engagement with the United
States geological survey, but the
work upon which the survey is an.
gagged will not be completed for two
years Or more.
The bonanza yield OF fax has been
reported from the farm OF Ole Larson,
10 miles north OF Sioux Falls. The
flax overruns in weight enough to
bring the yield up to a trifle over 80
bushels to the acre,
me land commissioners office has
made a call on the counties for re.
ports OF collection of permanent
schoo. and interest and income funds
up to December /, preparatory to
making quarterly settlement and
Irawing upon them for amounts
Is.
1t has come TO the knowledge OF our
citizens that the three blind pigs OF
Parker have suddenly blossomed into
saloons, hence a rousing mass meet.
ing was held recently at the Baptist
church, a committee appointed and
money raised to prosecute the ALLEGED !
offenders. A more determined spht J
than ever before was exhibited.
A few days ago a petition was pre- |
sented to Attorney General Crawford
from citizens OF Sioux Falls asking
him to appoint someone to enforce
the prohibition law. He has answer
ed that when il is shown to him that
I he states attorney fails to act upon
specific complaints he himself Will
take the matter IN charge and not
before.
The Brookings agricultural college
is doing splendid work in extending
careful farm methods and practical
dairying and creamery work IN the
state, not only by the college WORK
proper but by the special winter
course devised especially for practlcsl
farmers and by thesystem OF farmers
Institutes which it conducts through
out the state.
The three men who were captured
while attempting to burslarize tne
postofice at Brookings a few
days ago register their names as
Fred Moore, James Howard and
Tom Barker. The sheriff OF Lake
county has identified one OF the pre-,
oners as one OF the parties arresteu
for burglarizing the Madison posi-.
officA, but was released on account
OF lack of evidence.
The editorial on Conklin's DaKo'
tian on "How to Control Elevators
and Warehouses; is attracting mueD
notice among the grain growers o.
the state. 1t is generally conceds0
that Conklin Is right and elevator
margins can and should be controlie
the same as freight aud passeneei'
ferry, and hack charges now as
This would give the producer a MAJ
gin on what he now sells that wouI
aid materially in improving ~
country.