The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-12-16
SOUTH DAKOTA.


have ben raised 90 per cent
Joe Sindelar of Ipswich, Edmunds
county, has started for the klondike.
]. Veteck. aged seventy yeas. a pi-
oneer resident of Russian birth. OF
Bon Homme county, died last week.
There is talk of several buildings
being put up ut Montrose in the near
future.
Joseph Grouix is charged with hay
ing dynamited the Sentinel office at
Rritton. He is under arrest.
Olivef West is said TO be dying Of in
flammation of the bladder. He is an
old resident of Br.dgewater and highly
respected for his many good qualities.
Charles Smith is in jail at Huron to
answer to charge of grand larceny,
being accused of robbng Capt. Lyon,
an infirm old soldier, OF $40 in cash.
Hon. Walter Lloyd, leading Popu-
list of South Dakota, and well known
in Geighboling states, died of heart
failure mt his home in Washington.
Forty towns of South Dakota are
now connected by telephone wires Of
the Dakota Central system at Aber-
deem.
Frank Fox of Madison, known to n
host of people in South Dakota. has
gone to Alabama for winters recrea-
ton.
The 145 crcamerieS in South Dakota
turned out 12.000.000 pounds of butter
for the last six months. 1t was val
ued ut 100000.
DR.. and Mrs. +. L. Doty Of Rapid
City. who lived nineteen years in the
Black Hills, have gone TO, Detroit
Mich, to live.
The following pensions have been
granted TO South Dakotans: Increase:
James III. Starks. Hot Springs; Perry
A. Decker, Roscoe; AlpheuS Haner,
Madison.
Three checks for s. each on the
American State Bank Of Iankton by
Perry Whalen of Norfolk. have turned
up in Yankton, but We're not paid be-
cause the maker had no deposit.
William Albright of Mcpherson
county was at work in Il well on his
farm, when the rope that held him
broke and he fell into the water and
was drowned.
An old resident of Sturgis named
William Esper was found dead in his
bed at his home. 1t is supposed that
deceased came to his death from too
free use of alcoholic stimulants.
A contract has been let for the sink
ing of shaft on the property of the
Minna Mining company, near Central.
1t is calculated that good vein Of orc
will be struck at twenty-five feet.
The jury in the $1,000 damage suit
of Leon w. Washburn VS.. Sheriff
Hickey Of Yankton county, returned
verdict for Hickey. after being out an
hour, thus vindicating him completely.
A young man named Carney of Yer
million was accidentally shot by his
brother while loading n shot gun. He
received the full charge in the back Of
his head. He will die.
Several tracts of farm lands have
been sold in Lake county during the
months of October and November, and
recorded i'm the register of deeds office
of that county. The amount paid for
these farm lands was S5O,4O5.
A report from Chamberlain says:
There has been more blowing done this
fall than for the past ten years. The
ground is now frozen solid, which is
an indication always of the following
crop being good one.
The capacity of the new state nor
NAL school at Spearfish is severely
taxed there being 1S5 pupils in the
nomal department and so in the model
department. This is the largest at
tendance ever enrolled.
In the trial of David House ut Alex
andria for horse stealing, he was con-
victed and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary for that crime and
given an additional year for jail-break-
ing.
Prof. James +. Todd. acting presi-
dent of the state university. has been
chosen as one of the state delegates to
the American Tnti-SalOon League.
which holds its second meeting ut
! Columbus, Ohio, January lib. 1893.
The sheriff and states attorney Of
Butte county have resigned their ottic-
eS because the commissioners of the
county would not allow their bills i'm
the bank-robber case that occurred at
Belle FOurche.
Mrs. Karon Ringsrud. mother of A.
0. Ringsrud Of Elk Point. Republican
candidate for governor a year ago. eel
ebrated her seventy-fifth birth day
few days ago. She has lived in Brule
township, Clay county, since 1868.
The contested election case for cOun-
ty attorney In Sturgis county. between
Polk, Republican. and Mcmahon, Pop
ulist. has been decided I'm favor Of the
| former by the supreme court, which
holds that Indians on military reserv-
atoms cannot vote,
Pension Agent T.. G. Walton has been
notified that Il WidnW'S nenSinn hns