The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-01-13
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Blunt is now agitated over a N.
dog scare. @
Lead claims the banner cam0
Modern Woodmen, having 173 M
bers.
The Mount Vernon Creamery h,l
les more milk than any other In
state.
About $4,000 have been paid ON
the SissetOn Indians during the \
week. M
Deadwood has an ice rink loon
feet in size, lighted by electricity d
furnished with a brass band.
One hundred and seventeen ella
near the Golden Reward mine h,
been sold TO Chicago parties.
The Mennonite colony at Memo
met with n heavy loss from hog n
era, losing all but eight of its 800 hos ,'
Twenty eight car loads of stock h,
been shipped from DeSmet during
past ninety days, and thirty two IN
The Missouri river is reported 10
rising above Pierre, owing to the M
ing of the snow the past few days.
NJ. $. Sheldon, a member of the
islature. died Dee. %, of consumpt
ut his home near Artesian.
One hundred bushels OF wheat va
stolen from James Tracy. who iii
seven miles east of Elk Point, recena :
The thieves are unknown.
The parsonage of the Method
Episcopal church at Yankton was Il
tered by burglars, who got i,20O
cash.
kOsSuth Beech, q carpenter, fell
distdrce Of forty feet frcm a house Z
which he was working in DeadwOe~
and his neck was broken.
John Durkin. living near Estellen
was riding horseback recently, WIS.
the horse slipped on some ice and fe'
breaking Durkin's leg just above u
ankle.
Tic new government buildings {.
FlaHdrCau are all enclosed and will &
occupied very soon. They are fS
structures and will be great ID.
provement TO the town.
Morris Ellenberg, who made a IucE
strike in the Ragged Top district vi
soon return TO Russia To visit a
scenes Of his childhood and few re-
ativeS who still reside in that cOuntr
A number Of horses affected wild
CHAMBERS have been killed near Va
sey, thirteen miles west of Huron. III
disease made its appearance some tvI
weeks since, and il is feared hi
spread westward.
Rev. c. Il. Clark, pastor of the Met
Odist church at Huron for more tia.
four years, has been transferred
Dcadwood. and will take the pastors
Of a church in that city early in Fe.
ruGry.
Col. Fred Evans. who is one of Ii
pioneers of the state, and who. wear
ago, was n well-knowin freighte
across the reservation, has decided
leave Hot Springs and return to hi
old home in Sioux City.
Articles Of incorporation have bee
filed for the Deadwood Mercantile con
pany with n capital Of $1,000. lnco
porators: James \. Berry, II. V. Oh
ney, 'Dcadwood; w. III. Lancaste
Galville.
The work of organizing betwee
Mound City, Lcola and Eureka, for
new telephone line to connect wi
Aberdeen and the East and South.
progressing favorably. and the Iii
will undoubtedly be built.
J. Il. Taylor and two women, repr
Sented to be his sister and niece, har
been arrested ut Aberdeen. charg
with petty larceny. A quantity
goods were found that had been St0lt
from stores of the city.
The prospects are now that the u
tlonal coursing meet will be held
Fiandreau next year. Some of Il
finest greyhOunds in the United Stat
are owned by Flardreau men. II
coursing meet held at Flandrcau Ia
fall was a great success.
The county commissioners have a
thoriZed the erection of a solid st0I
bridge about 100 feet long and form
TO 30 feet wide. west of Estelline, b
tween Lake POinsett and Dry LAX
There are plenty Of stone within
short distance Of the place, and d
work OF placing them is going on ra
idly.
The state treasurer has made rem
tances OF 1850, which will clean
the total floating Indebtedness of I
state. The bonded debt yet outstan
Ing amounts to $1,OOO,OOO, with SIS
600 In the sinking fund to apply. III
makes a splendid financial showing I
the state. with an assessed yaluati
Of S12O,O00,O0O.
Thomas Sunvold was brought doy
TO Canton from Dell Rapids, whe
his mind became unbalanced VIII
making Il Christmas visit there. T
board Of insanity has declared Ii
crazy. and he will be sent to (
lankton asylum. This is the thi
time he has been thus affected. He
very large and powerful man, a
when violent iS dangerous.