The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-04-14
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Feet.
=. Il. Powers is soon To start n Re-
pupiicah newspaper in Pukwana
w.. -. Lohr mas been appointed post
master at Estelline.
A school house lust over IN Daual
county from Estelline had n load of
coal stolen from it one night last week.
burglars broke into a house at Demp-
s'er recently and stole SO i'm money
ana other valuables.
The capital stock of the Alexandria
creamery has just been increased from
$4,000 TO $4,000.
The material for the new iron bridge
Ut ollVet mas arrived, and the work has
begun and will be rapidly pushed TO
completion.
School lands sold in Lincoln county
last week as high as S23.l5 per acre
ana leases were made as high as ID
cents per acre.
Immigrants from Iowa and other
states are arriving at BrOoking every
week. Some OF our farmers have done
considerable seeding. but the majority
VIII not begin until after April |.
Thomas ODay, another of the al
legged Belle Fourche robbers, was ac-
quilted at Deadwood of the crime of
bank robbery, but is held for Jail
breaking.
WIN three men at work, the Harris
on mine at Blacktail Gulch is daily
taking out ore valued at $40. The ore
shoot is twelve feet wide and four feet
thlck, and is gradually widening.
The shaft of the Chicago & Two Bit
company, now being sunk to reach
pyrltic blanket of ore at a depth of
from 200 10 go feet has been in n
mlneraliZed sandstone running So TO 81
in gold.
Irof. y. T.. Hansen has RESUMED his
duties at the South Dakota Agriculture
al college, after an absence of about
ten months rs special agent of the ag-
ricultural department in Russia and
Asia.
OllVer Robinson. residing ten miles
east Of Redlicld; was dangerously in
1ured yesterday by being shot by
hunter in corn field. Robinson was
mistaken for game" by another party
who entered the field later.
a deep shaft will be sunk at Ragged
Top, To ascertain if the pyritic ore eX-
lists there on the quartZite. 1t is esti-
mated that depth Of 800 feet may be
necessary. The Dack shaft is already
down 40 feet.
The executive committee Of the Dead
wood ministerial union has resolved
upon strict enforcement of the laws
prohibiting gambling in connection
with saloons. and other restrictive
measures relating TO saloons.
Farmers are getting ready to COM
mence spring work. There will prob
ably not be an increased acreage this
year. owing 10 so many having pur-
chased cattle that have been shipped in
from Eastern points.
The schools We're closed at ST. Law
renee last week owing TO an epidemic
of measles, old and young alike being
confined TO their homes with the dis
ease. Some Of the cases have proved
fatal.
a farmer living west Of Estelline had
SiNty-five bushels of wheat Stolek from
his granary r1celtly. Some time ago n
farmer living northwest of EStelline
had 800 bushels of grain stolen. No
clue to the thief has yet been obtained.
Scarlet fever has broken out again at
Memo. Two families are now Quaran-
tined in town and one near town.
Eight children have died this spring in
Memo, most Of them from the effects
OF the fever.
The f.. Il. Taft ranch of 800 acres.
four miles southwest of Kimball. was
sold last week to parties from Iowa,
who have just arrived with several car
loads Of stock and household goods.
1t is said one of these gentlemen Will
start a livery stable.
The State LumbermenS' association,
in annual session at Sioux Falls, elect
ed the following ofiicers:J. III. Shan
nard of Bridgewater, president: S. G..
Tuthill Of Sioux Falls, vice president;
n. Holt Of Memo, secretary. One
hundred members were in attendance.
A train of fifteen cars of cattle came
into the yards at Pierre recently. Most
of them were Minnesota cattle. This
shipment makes ninety cars received
in the cars here in the last thirty days.
with as many more promised for this
month.
Miss BalSinger of Tulare died re-
Gently of lung fever. At the funeraI
the body showed signs Of life, the
joints becoming Timber and the fea-
lures lifelike. The body was returned
to the house and kept another day, but
was finally buried, as life could not be
restored.
The jury in the case Of States At
torney John II. Wilson for damages If
$1,000 against the city of Deadwood,
alleged TO have been sustained by som.
city property because of the grading of
Il street by the city. returned a verdict
of $500 damages. The case will be ap-
pealed to the supreme court.
A travelling man named 4. Kauppel,
representing Baker IL Co.. overall man