The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-12-24
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Intercstiny News Items From all
over the state.

FREQ StUrIcNant, an Olu .tSiutil vi
Tyndall, was accidentally poisoned by
taking horse medicine.
f. Il. Sattmarsh. who has some 1,5OO
sheep in the vicinity of Miller, lost 100
during the recent cold wave.
Hay, which found few buyers at
Miller before the winter set in ut 81
a ton, now sells for 81.
J. T.. Wylie, a prominent business
man of Ncrmillion. committed suicide
with a revolver. No cause is known
for the deed.
C. G. Cannon, a farmer living near
Chamberlain, committed suicide. He
! both shot and hung himself. He leaves
a family. No reason is yet known Tor
the deed.
The body of an old nan named Koch,
who became lost in the blizzard on
Thanksgiving day, was ound about
| sixty rods from his home on Chap
pelle creek near Blunt.
Wolves are quit numerous again this
winter around Miller, but they do not
| attack stock, as they can feed upon an
| occasional frozen carcass on the pralr-
les.
Frank Mullen. issue clerk at Rose
bud Agency, has been appointed Unit
ed States commissioner. Pine Ridge
Agency also has IA resident coumiS-
siOner.
At Redfeld Lee Kemmerer, the H.
yearold son Of he Sheritf-elcct, was
shot through the leg by Il playmate.
The boys had been playing with the
| revolver and the Hearty boy in dis
charging it missed his mark and shot
! Lee instead.
In spite of the drawbacks caused by
| early snow South Dakota is coming
| rapidly to the front as a stock pro-
, ducing portion of the Northwest. Not
| only cattle but sheep are attracting the
attention of those wishing to engage
in a safe. lucrative business.
A car load of mineral paint from the
Black Hills will be ground up and dis
tributed over Brule county in small
quantities, for the purpose of giving 1t
a practical test. 1t is estimated that
there are 100000 tons in the deposit,
in Two Bit gulch, lying in a vein five
| feet thick.
William Davis offered a large num-
Der Of stamps to the postmaster at
| Meckling at Il decided discount. The
! postmaster, suspecting Davis had sto-
| len the stamps, caused his arrest and
sent for Inspector FOsness. Davis had
| $40 worth Of stamps on his person and
he admitted that they were stolen
from the postottice at Aten, Neb.
! A Lower Brule Sioux, bearing the
musical name Of Herbert Pretty
} Sounding Flute, vas held by United
States Commissioner Stuart ut Cham
berlain to appear before the next fed
eral grand jury on a charge OF adul-
terry and larceny. The latter offense
consisted Of breaking into the office of
the government physician ut Lower
Brule agency and a~bStractinE a guam
| tity of alcohol with which to get drunk.
At Chamberlain Judge Smith ON
tinued the case of the state against
DR.. Il. A. Hamill until the June term Of
the court and in the meantime the
prisoner will be taken to and kept in
the Alexandria Jail. Hammill is charg-
ed with attempting to kill Rev. +. w.
Jenney. The collapse Of the prisoner
Is understood to be the reason of the
continuance. F%Orty-four witnesses had
been s~ubpoenaed.
Word has been received from Fort
Pierre that DR.. III. NJ. Kennedy, who
owned a sheep ranch about fifty miles
up Bad river. wandered away in the
storm and was frozen to death. No
particulars as to the delay in finding
him can be learned. Another man,
named Koch, a German living on Cha
pelle creek. in the southern part Of
this county, has also been missing
ever since the storm, n ii is feared
he is dead somewhere on the prairie.
In the circuit court at Sioux Falls
! I,1pn Jonnc dnniHaI that a emit for
the value Of liquor sold in this state
had no standing in court, because the
sale was in violation Of the prohibition
law. The action was brought by j. j.
Douglass Of Louisville, Ky. against a
local saloon "a for the value OF sew
| eral barrels Of whisky. The court di-
rected a verdict for the defendant, who
had admitted the money was due.
Information has been received that
the architect of the Indian bureau Is
now engaged in the preparation of
plans and specifications for the Indian
schools ut Rapid City and Chamber
lain. Money for the building of these
schools was appropriated by the last
congress. Commissioner Browning
writes that the plans and specifications
will be completed as speedily as posi-
BILE, so the contracts for constructing
the buildings can be let ut an early
day.
Rasmus C~hristianson n Buffalo
ty settler. has been taken to Kimball
, in a deplorable condition. He left 4
neighbours place about 9 O'Clock the
| other night for home, but got lost and
wandered about on the ope prairie
! until 10 o'clock the next forenoon, when
he made his way back to the place he
had left. The German socks and over
tirely worn away and his feet, besides
being badly frozen, were terribly cut