The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-29
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
g%nse-estInx Ness Items From nj
over the state.

A creamery is being built at Taopi,
on Ed ColtOn'S farm. l tWlii DC o"hc"
by Il stock company.
The saloon license IN Chamberlain
will be $500, and about three saloons
will pay il.
O.. B.. Heath. for the pas tive years
! treasurer Of Portage township school.
has absconded with $4,000 OF school
funds.
The Elk Point city license has been
fixed at 5000. making the total saloon
license $1,000. The proposition carried
by Il vote Of 10 to 40.
1t has cost the Milwaukee, company
SlJO.OOO to keep their tracks clear from
snow in this state. and the wasl-outs
will eat up 100000 more.
Gov. Lee has appointed as state brand
commissioners, +. NJ. Stewart of Butfa-
10 Gap: John Il. Harmon OF Sturgis;
Noah Newbanks of Pierre.
All school lands i'm Union county will
be leased during the month of April for
Il period of one year. Thcr are forty
acres in Elk Point township, 12o i'll JEFF
fcrson and 80 in Virginia.
Besides the fourteen applicants for
I Shl'vii LEV at
two men who intend To open. billiard
! halls. as the saloons had TO give up
their tables.
The iirSt flow Of water has been
| struck in the big well north of Rediicld,
Mt Il depth OF $40 feet. Work will con-
time rapidly until the we'll is sunk 100
feet deeper. The electric light plant
will be- started as SOon as the we'll is
completed.
The four-yCar-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. G. Kinney. who reside 4
few miles north of Aberdeen, was
drowned in Il slough near there. This
is the first case of death from floods in
that vicinity.
The members of the First Regiment
band at Brookings are p%etitioning the
adiutant general of the state militia to
be mustered out of service rs IL rcgi-
mental band AN honor which they have
held for something like ten yracs.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Central Trust company Of
Sioux Falls. capital. 81 100000. to hand
le mining properties. The i~ncOrDUlat-
OrS are j. Louis Pau. Jr., Edgar Il.
Warren ana Frank Jones.
A. +. Fuller. of the Madison iirempn's
soliciting committee, says the $1,000
guarar ~ for securing the state tourna-
ment he's all been secured. The tracks
are to be improved into fine shape. ana
a good meet is assured. The dates are
set for June %, n and %.
August LundStrum. living on the Jim.
east Of Redtield. lost eight head of cat
tie one night last week. AT night the
water was not whrc it was like To do
any harm. bat before morning il had
risen about six feet, filled the stable
and drowned the cattle.
Conductor Maxwell. Of the Running
Water Branch, met with Il sevCre acct
dent one day last week, near the Jim
River railroad bridge. while trying to
board his train. He slipped and fell.
striking his head on Il railroad tie and
rendering himself unconscious for some
time thereafter. He had Il narrow cs-
cape from death.
The dead body Of Joseph Janda. a
highly-respected citizen Of Scotland,
was found in his saloon with Il bullet
hole in the right temple. A revolver
was lying by his side. The ]cOroner's
inquest pronounced il Il suicide. The
cause Is not known. Janda leaves Il
wife and five children, the Oldest six
Tee nycafS OF age.
Sheriff A. JAY Anderson and his dep
uty. John Molezed. ut Parker. went to
Centerville, in he lower end Of the
county. recently and captured q coIn-
terfciting outfit and arrested one Of the
alleged CountcrfeitcrS Sam RoSenbur-
ger. Another man skipped out the
night before. and ut this writing has
not been secured.
The creamery for The cooperative
company ut ParkstOn is being rushed
toward completion. The first payday
for the creamery has arrived, and Il
good showing has been made. II has
paid IN average for the first month of
II II cents per pound to the farmers
for the butter produced from the milk
furnished.
County Superintendent Dickson of
Iankton county has Just made the
quarterly apportioument Of the general
school fund. There are 1884 school
children IL the county. 1865 of whom
are in the city of YanktOn. The appor-
tiOnment mounts to T cents each.
The law comp"lS the superintendent to
withhold the September ap"portiunmcnt
from all districts which have not main
tanned six months school during the
year.
There are 1913 Indians on the roll M
the Sisseton agency. They have recent
ly benz allowed SO 4 head TO pur-
chase seed graf h.. but it is doubtful if
much of il goes that way. In the gov
ernmcnt school are $50 pupils. taught
by a superintendent and three instruct
ors. The Presbyterian mission school,
near there. has Seventy-fiye pupils, and
the Catholic school also has Il number.
The ndian children are quick To learn
some branches. but slow to comprc-