The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-02-11
SOUTH DAKOTA
,terestlnI Ne ra Hens From MI
over the state.

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# The Bridgewater creamery expects
ITO start up about April | for n big bust
mess.
ri Kimball is to be made II distributing
M point for the Standard Oil company in
Mi the spring.
WI John McCue. an old bachelor aged
ffty-two years. living near Elk Point,
Sdropped dead last week while gather
ing up an armful of wood.
# 4 whist, chess and checker club. with
= membership of sixteen. has been or
panized in Mitchell, which includes
Eome of the best players in the state.
4iU and Balmoral Advertiser, three
new candidates. are bright. spicy jour
nails. and will do their part in the de-
relopment Of the Hills.
w. J. Lewis of Bridgewater will ship
n car load of beans to Sioux City. from
(which place he has had an offer of 81
per bushel.
Canton reports that Iowa cattle-buy-
ers are buying up all the cattle they
can get hold Of at very high prices and
ship most of them for feeders.
# A company known as the Farmers
. Mercantile has been organized at Tor
MI onto with a capital stock Of $4,000.
# They will conduct II general mercan-
"a tile business.
The saloons of John Murphy aud
VA Peter HcndrickSOn at NibOrg were
al raided by Sheriff Anderson, who con-
III fscated all liquors found on hand and
W placed injunctiOns on the building.
W The Ragged Top Shaft, Ga!ena Union
3 srhe Mitchell Juvenile band is nego-
# tiating with the Lake Madison Chau-
N tauqua management for IN engage
N mcnt during the coming season.
III Nellie Ormsby located a claim in the
n Ragged Top district. and Il recent as
n say of rock taken off her land showed
the presence of $500 ore. Now. look
\ out for offers Of marriage.
Il While clearing snow off its line at
Il Bonilla the snow WIS thrown with
II such force by the Milwaukee engineer
NJ as to break four window lights III the
M depot.
M Huron has been having ice shipped
M i'm from the Missouri river. \ train or
III twelve cars besides the regular traffic
cars was brought in by two engines
MI recently.
& Stock subscribers of the Yankton
SM State Fair association have. in some
M cases. failed to pay their assessments.
land the secretary has retained lawyers
TO collect the different sums.
W A carload Of wheat left on Il side
x4track at Madison was o into dur
ing the night and sixty bushels were
taken. The thieves have not been ap-
pretended yet
A Mitchell man lost his two-story
house by fire. The snow drifts We're
so deep that the fire department could
not get their apparatus there in time
to save the house.
nj The commissioner of lands issued
thirty-Onc patents in January. Clay
county secured the highest number,
seven The rest were scattered i'll
other counties il. the southeastern por-
rion of the state.
The Northwestern road has four en-
gines dead at Wolscy. and further
west four more engines are reported
to be in the same condition. Their ro-
tary jumped the track and is lying up
side down on the prairie.
A Yankton county former who left
Yankton one night in an intoxicated
& condition to drive home, was found
face down in the snow frozen to death.
\ The horses came home alone. and one
had been badly cut on a barbed wire
fence.
Canton is having Il merry oil war.
Some Of the merchants dislike the
methods Of the Standard Oil company.
and began TO sell it at - cents. The
Standard Oil company at once cut the
price to 10 cents. The people Of Can
ton knew n good thing when they saw
1t, and are laying in a supply.
M " 49,
the Chicago Great Western and the
Great Western Railway companies
will establish experimental stations
this year to test the efficacy of Camp
bells Soil Culture Method. The Mil
waukee folks are sending Il large nun
Der of farmers in Brule county Camp
bells Soil Culture and Farm Journal
six months free Of charge
Inventor G.. Laukc of Huron is push
ing to completion his plans for estab-
fishing there Il maEufactOry for his pat
ent STRENGTHENING stoves. and various
others of his patented articles. a large
room in the Reed block is being fitted
up for the purpose. and Mr.. Lauke
hopes to begin manufacturing about
April 1.
1t is only Il question of n few weeks
before Rcdficld is again lighted by
electricity. \ stock company has been
formed and will sink an eight-inch we'll
near the site Of the old one. The pow
er obtained will be utilized in the run
ming of the dynamos, and the water
afterwards used for irrigation pur-
poses. Work has already beer begun.
The company Is Incorporated.
The residence of George A. Clark at
Mitchell was destroyed by fire, and the