The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-10-15
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Interesting News Items From all
over tho state.

Hog cholera is again appearing ia
Bon Homme county. Much a%pprehcn-
sion is felt.
Mrs. Frank Guider. the young Wife
of Frank Guider of Madison, died of
quick consumption.
Two young boys, o IN OF X. G. Parm-
ley and Mayor Sites Of Sioux Falls.
have invented an air ship" which is
attracting considerable attention be-
J. c.. Eldridge of Benton township,
M~innehaha county, had a large barn
filed with hay totally destroyed by
fire. The fire caught from the sparks
Of a threshing engine.
In two days, recently, 5000 head of
cattle were shipped from Belle Four
che. Stock on the ranges Is in fine
condition, and Il is expected that ship
ments will continue until Christmas.
Wallace Mattice of BrookingS has
accepted a position as operator in the
office of O. Z. Taylor. chief train dis
patcher at Huron, for the Chicago Il
Northwestern line.
Two n~eweelevators were thrown
open at Tyndall. This makes eight
grain buyers at that point, and over
$4,000 is being paid out daily for grain
at this market.
Charles J. Smith was killed in his
barber shop at PlankintOn by having
the top Of his head blown off with a
gun. Whether it was a case Of suicide
or an accident 1t not known.
At Huron Judge Campbell has sen
fenced John Burns, the man who
robbed ]. G.. Affords jewelry store, Il
few nights ago, to M year and eight
months in the p~enitentiary. Burns
says Minneapolis is his home, and that
this is the nineteenth time he has been
sentenced to serve time in prison.
The largest corn crop in the history
of Bon Homme county will be gath
cred this year. 1t will be impossible
for the COrn-growers to gather II con-
siderable proportion of their crop. and
at. present it is impossible to secure
any help, although good wages are
offered.
y paper printed Mt Terry, one OF the
prominent Black Hills mining towns,
says that negotiations are in progress
between prominent mining men and n
party of English capitalists to invest
100000 in a smelter and the develop
ment of their property, or TO buy other
producing mines to keep the plant in
operation with their own ore.
1t has just been discovered that the
dreaded Russian thistle is a thing of
the past in the Black Hills. Three
years ago the weed overran the terri
tory along the Elkhorn railroad and in
the valleys. After the first frost the
weeds would break loose from the
ground and roll across the country
with the prevailing winds, scattering
seeds everywhere. These would burst
forth the following season into great
punches of the weed, which became a
menace TO traffic and agricultural pur-
suits. Some efforts were made to de-
stroy 1t, but the task appeared futile
and disCOuraging. From some I'M
known cause, the weeds seem to have
entirely disappeared. and the farmers
are naturally gratitied.
Information reaches Chamberlain
hat gray wolves have done a vast
amOun Of damage on the lower Red
River range during the past summer.
Prior to this season the ranchmen have
had only the comparatively harmless
little coyote 10 contend with; but now
the large buffalo wolf has come down
upon them in large numbers, and is
making havoc with the Bad River
herds. While all kinds of stock are
killed and eaten by them. they show n
decided preference for young colts rs
an article of diet. In securing their
quarry they display wonderful sagac-
ity and almost human intelligence.
Whenever a pack of wolves discover a
band of horses feeding among the
trees and underbrush along the river.
they stalk them as skillfully as a hunt
err would stalk Il deer, keeping we'll to
the leewaTd. so that no tell-tale scent
shall be carried by the wind to the
acute nostrils of the horses. Suddenly
a wolf will spring from behind a
clump of bushes. and. with one quick
snap. hamstring an unsuspecting colt.
Then the whole pack will rush in
among the horses, which gallOp away
to the hills. leaving the helpless colt
to be torn to pieces and devOured by
the hungry brutcS. The stOckmen are
up in arms against them. and a good
many have been shot, trapped and las
seed, but. nevertheless. they appear to
be steadily increasing in numbers.
The United States court, Judge Car
land presiding. adjourned at Pierre,
after remaining IN session three days.
The only case OF importance coming
before the court was that OF Frank NJ.
Thomas VS.. The Chicago X Northwest
ern Railway Company. Thomas was
formerly yardmaster at Pierre for the
road, and several years ago he was
knocked from a moving train by a pro-
jecting warehouse platform. AS a re-
suit Of the accident his eyesight was
affected. While the loss of sight was
only partial. the company made a set
Element with him for $500. Since then
he has become totally blind, and a
short time ago he commenced suit
against the company for $4,000. His
attorneys claim thu the prac-