The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-07-22
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
r%ntercstinr NcTs Itcn' FROM M
over the state

An aIoctinn In vote $4,000 ni bonds
for y school house VIII he held IL Can
ton.
Tie State homeopathic Medical so
ciety met at Huron for q tWo~aiyS
session recently. y large gathering
was present.
GOV. Lee has appointed William Min
er of IIurOl as IN additional deieShi"
to the ans-MiSSiSsippi congress, 10 De
held at Salt Lake City.
Two men anmrd Tuslcc and Star.
from the S;iSSCton reservation, We're
held at Aberdeen for selling liquor to
Indians.
The cheese factory mt ipswich Il
turning out about $50 pounds Of cheese
per day, ana expects To Go much better
o
4 great amount Of lumber Is being
bought by farmers around ipSWlch,
and houses and barns are being DuSSt
throughout the country.
JamcsE.M Mcdowell. for the past sew
en- Years chief ..lcrk in the United
States land office at Huron, has been
transferred to Washington. ID. c.,
where he takes n position under Pub
liz Printer Palmer
Surveyors of the United States Fish
commission are making surveys on the
Spearfish river. near the Touring mill
at SpeartisII, for the fish hatchery. The
fall of the river and the temperature
of the water seem TO be favorable at
tie old mill site.
Inspector General Avcrill inspected
the soldicrs' hCmc At Hot Springs. and
report OIL il TO be in excellent condition.
He says that there is no doubt but
that the national s%anitarium of old
diers will be located here in the lei
future.
At PORTRAYAL. Fred CAN'T. express
m~cssengC.' III the Spcar'iSh line. was
crushed between two passenger coach
eS, and will probably die. He was
II aking II coupling when caught. ana
squeezed into the space Of three inch
cs. He vas we'll Known in thr Hills.
Articles of Incorporation have been
fled for rhc Arden Land ami Cattle
company ~ DradWood. with n capital
of 5000, 600. The i~nCorpOratOrs are
Harris Franklin. Ben Baer. Nathan d..
Franklin. DeadwOod: Samuel w. Al
lertCn. Chicago; Edward II, Harmon,
New York.
\ farmer named William Gcmill Of
Iankton has received II check for SO
from the United States government IN
settlement Of II claim which he has
been c~ndeavoring to collect for twenty
years. The check was for supplies
furnished to Clusters command aS il
passed through Yankton into the little
Big Horn country in 1876.
On their arrival ut Huron recently
from the state militia cnCampmrnt ut
Bryant. where they took first hOnOrS.
Company y of he national guard of
Pierre was given "A reception and SUP
per mt the Depot Hotel by Company
ii Of Huron. Speeches were made by
Mayor Hutchinson. Capt. Fuller. Chap
lain Daley and others. after which an
exhibition drill was given.
An archaeological party exploring the
Missouri river country passed through
Aberdeen recently laden with arrow
and spear heads. knives. axes. pottery,
bones. etc. taken from the mounds
along the Missouri in Walworth cOun-
ry. The pottery was we'll preserved
AMI showed that much skill was cXor-
cised in its manufacture.
The preliminary examination of r.. A
FarnSwOrth was held before Judge
Copeland at NermilliOn. He was uD
or a charge of assault with intent TO
commit rape upon the Misses Dole anu
ThorsOn. Miss ThOrsOn has since died
from the effects of the injuries re-
ccived while escaping. Tie defendant
was held 10 appear ut the next term OF
court and admitted to bail at $1,000.
Crop conditions continue very favor
able. Except in n few localities. the
rainfall has been ample and the hot
winds have thus far failed TO appear:
Harvest will necessarily be late on 40.
counf of the exceptionally late spring:
but there never has been a more rapid
or healthy growth of plant life than.
i'll the past three weeks. Corn stood
the late frost remarkably well and IN
waist-high ut this time. Encouraged
by the excellent prospects and aided.
by the prevailing good prices Of farm.
products, the farmers are building and
making other improvements to a. con-
siderable extent. Several hundred
new buildings are going up in this
country. Machinery and implement
dealers are doing an active business.
IraG" conditions generally are good,
II a better feeling prevails among
all classes than for years past.
Tom F1nnerty, Dick RUSSELL and Il.
A. Latham. three Black Hills, crooks.
hel' up Il man five miles south of
Macy. and relieved him of a watch,
and chain. n few dollars i'm silver and,
$500 in sreenbacks. They noticed that
the stranger seemed much amused an
his heavy BOSS. The next day they Of