The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-08-24

,;,,, AhNou' ana has tho
ouiioihg III course OF construction
Fort Pierre boasts of being tho OIL
town in the United States which Is n.y..
infested every summer with tram.
the town, fortunately, being entira,,,
off their regular route. "eiy
Thus far this season Parker imn,o
ment dealers have sold sixty-one bind
ers and thirty-five mowers. Ioca, doa,
ers have also sold total of 1OS onn
pounds of binding Irvine. wv
The great demand for South DaLo,.
farms still continues. Edward Cot.
helf, a Turner county farmer who lac,
spring purchased farm for 50 2oo
few days ago sold 1t for So, GOO
Wolves have again become so mn.
merous in the region around the forks
OF the White river that the stockman
in the vicinity have organized and
offer bounty of 81 for every grav
wolf killed in that territory.
Tony, the ten-year-old son of A w
Markus, living short distance from
Waverly, CondingtOn county, was dis.
covered dead by the side of a team
partly unhitched, which he had been
told to unhitch and put in the barn
Ben Morrison, who has filed the no.
SitiOn of stock inspector for the West.
ern South Dakota Stock Growers as.
ISOLATION In Pierre for the past year,
dropped dead while overseeing the
loading of special train Of stock.
Sisseton will finally secure the good
hotel 1t has long desired. Mr.. Fair
child, Of the firm of Fairchld & Niche.
gan Of Milbank, has purchased a site
there and will construct a new forty
room hotel. The building will be three
stories high.
Indian Commissioner Jones has re.
ceived request from the chief of the
Crow Greek Sioux in South Dakota for
permission to come to Washington to
talk over some matters with him. He
has asked them to postpone their trip
however, until some time in the fall as
he will be out of town after next week.
The little five-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Sedgwick had miraculous es
cape from instant death near Kimball,
She was run over by a wagon loaded
with two tone of hay. The hind wheels
Of the wagon passed directly over the
center Of her body. She fell on the re-
mains of an old straw stack; had it
been on hard ground she would have
been ms antly crushed. A doctor was
called, but found the little one as sound
as a dollar.
The state board Of equalization and
assessment has completed its work,
ard while no exact figures can yet be
secured. the raise was practically 30
rh. do MILL
on corporation property, which is fixed
solely by the state, and on all other
property the levy for state purposes is
2 mills for the general fund; LILO mills
for bond interest: ITO mills for coEsti-
trtional bonds and sinking fund.
A lone man burglarized four places
In Waubay. In the saloon of j. Flag
stad he secured So, gold watch, a
gold ring and n revolver, and in the
saloon of Paul Roberts he secured So.
Tie next entered Barranger Bros meat
market. but was frightened away. He
then entered the bank of NJ. ReXford,
and passed to the rear. where the fam
lily reside. MIR. Rexford was awake
and fired at the burglar, but missed
him.
The state board of health has refused
certificates to several applicants who
wished to practice oesteopathy in this
state. The applicants were graduates
of schools of os'eopathy located at
Kirksville. Me-. and Minneapolis. The
ground for refusing the certificates was
that the schools mentioned are not reg
ularly conducted schools Of Osteopathy,
according to their own published rules,
and for that reason are not schools or
osteOpathy in good repute. as required
by the statutes Of South Dakota.
The state board of embalmers. at a
meeting held &c Sioux Falls, reorgan-
lied by electing Dr. II. III. Files or
Sioux Falls. president; T.. Martin OF
Armour, vice president; DR.. A. Il.
Clough Of Madison, secretary; DR.. A.
III. Rogers Of Canton. treasurer The
latter is the new member recently ap-
pointed by Gov. Lee to fill the vacancy
caused by the removal of Henry Bill
ion of Sioux Falls for Irregularities.
The board passed a resolution declar-
Ing all acts Of the original board prlol
to Aug. Is, illegal, and that all licenses
issued to embalmers by the original
b. ard were illegal and void. An exam
inatiOn of applicants for licenses I'M
DER the new embalming law Is set 10:
Sept. In Sioux Falls Another exam
ination for the Black Hills district VIII
be held at Lead on the same date. IL
Is believed the above action VIII
straighten out the tangle in which the
board Is involved.
William Dean and Herman Schulke,
residents OF Hamlin county, have Gus
covered, to their sorrow, that the new
South Dakota game law, which is now
one Of the most stringent in the United
States, is not to be trifed with. They
are the first i'm the state to suffer under
the section Of the law. which provides
that anyone seen driving or WALKING
in the country with dog or gun III
their posse ssion shall be presumed 10