The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
IN SOUTH nAkOTA
I~ntersstinx News Items FROM "''
over the state.

w lS Il cdliilUdlt loI tht I'Hi'''
Indian agent at the iankton agency.
There were seventy-eight votes for
ana thirteen against license at the re-
cent election in LenloX.
The dam OF Bates Il Co.'S Touring
! mill at Flandrcau has been badly nan
| died by the ice and high water, anu Il
considerable loss has been sustained.
Growing wheat is in plain view on
| the Pcterka farm, seven miles Oh
| Yankton. Mr.. Pc; nrka SOwed his crop
two weeks ago.
The Violin creamery paid its patrons
II cents II pound for the butter manu-
featured during the month Of Febru-
airy.
Alexandria has fixed the license Zee
at $40 per year. That figure VIII
! make the saloons pay Il license OF
SG4O.
The town OF Waubay. in Day county,
| voted on the liquor license question
last week. and the supporters of license
carried the day
The MOntrosc creamery Will start
| with Il larger patronage than ever be-
fore. Farmers are beginning TO take
| great interest in COWS and creamcries.
SisSrtnn will have three saloons, if
the Applications ar" granted and the
| voters decide ut the election that they
wish saloons.
Col. Frost. acting adjutant general
of the state militia. has announced
that the state cucampmcuT will prob
ably he held at Bryant this year.
\ fine iron bridge across the Mecca
sin creek. near aberdeen. was carried,
with it's stone ballast. down the stream
a distance of five miles by the recent
foods.
Farmers who want to try the raising
of sugar hentS can get Il package of
seed free by applying to James III.
Shepard. director of United Setatcs
experimental station, ~Brookings, :. ID.
Arrangements have been completed
to place II dam across the outlet OF
Lake Campbell. to retain the water
and make Il permanent pleasure resort
from this on.
Charles II. Huntington Of the One
Hundred and Sixth Illinois infantry,
an early settler i'll Huron. and one OF
the best known insurance men in the
state. is dead.
'tIp' i'htShNlAS VI HiNiiN'h h"N
made the appor,iohment of state
school funds for the quarter ending
March /. 1891. amounting 10 &2.T261G,
or AT the rate Of S1.0S per capita TO the
school children OF the county.
Willie Bowar. Willie wrestling on the
]sChOOlhOr SO ground" at Chamberlain,
had Onc ui his legs broken. He is do
ing as we'll as could he expected. This
To IL. 49, al III -, ~, tl,4.
school house grounds within Il few
| weeks.
City Attorney Willmar,h of Huron
has received n telegram stating that
the supreme court has dismissed the
appeal and affirmed the decision of
Judge Gaffy. in the ease o. the Chica-
90 National Bank IS. the City of HUI
ron. The question involved is the val
idity Of SG0,OoO in bonds issued by the
city in 1890.
William Gu, the Bald Mountain
,niner, who was arrested five weeks
ago charged with the murder of his
friend. James Andrews. at Terry. was
sentenced ut Lead by Judge PlOwman.
in circuit court. to four years in the
p~enitentiary. Gill's trial consumed
less than Il day.
The huSint S. transacted at the United
| States land Office at Aberdeen for the
| quarter ending March 81. 1896, COM
| prised the following: Forty homestead
entries. embracing 1888. X acres: four
final homestead proofs. go acres: thir-
ty-seven final timberculnlrc proofs.
6.13l.l9 acres. The receipts Of the Of
flee for The given period were SS36.sS.
But little seeding has thus far been
done in South Dakota. The rains Of
the present week have caused another
Delay. and it will probably he Il week
longer before work in the fields is fair
ly inaugurated. The season is late.
hut the soil aad climate of this state
have wonderful SUCCESS in achieving
results when their forces are united.
The directors Of the Aberdeen Grain
Palace association are already discus
sing plans for the exhibition Of 1897.
1t Is proposed to give the people of this
section OF the Northwest one Of the
best programmes Of entertainment ever
placed before them, and also make the
exhibits Uf a more general nature and
particularly attractive.
| Some time ago the officers OF Lead
received Il description of Il man who
had committed highway robbery at
Anaconda. Mont. by holding UP n man
aud robling hirl of over 500. and on
the first of the week Billy Cunning
ham. alias william Jones. 4 stranger
in Lead. was arrested and locked up
as the man wanted by the Montana
officers. who We're notified of the ar
rest.
s proclamation ''Gned by Peter Mar
quart. acting grarC master, and llar-
| yey j. Rice. grand secretary, has been
issued 10 |. d. O.. +. lodges in South