The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-05-11
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Castlewood has decided to incornor
ate this spring. The town has $50 IN.
habtants.
Parties from Des Moines are in Hin.
ron, looking for large tract of lana
upon which TO establish sheep ranch
The Fort Pierre House, at For
Pierre. burned. The town has no fro
protection. Loss, $500; Insurance.
$1,000.
The man who started the big prairie
fire is now under arrest at Alpena
charged with murder. Two men are
reported dead.
j. \. CranSton. superintendent of the
Cranston schools, will be one of the
assistant conductors Of the summer
school mt St. Cloud.
Fred NJ. Brown has been appointed
referee in bankruptcy for the Black
Hills by Judge Garland, to succeed
y. Ogden, resigned.
Arrangements are now about COM
pleted for properly entertaining the
state g. A. II. encampment at Hot
Springs, June to 10.
A ranchman rode 100 miles to Stur.
gis for medicine fer sick woman and
back again without stopping. He ex.
pected to make the trip in twenty-five
hours.
Hamlin county, one of the most pros.
porous counties i'm the state, offers spe.
cial inducements to new settlers
Farm lands there are cheaper than
they ever will be again.
At the annual election at Elkton
high license carried by Pc majority.
Two years ago there were II votes
AGAINST license, and at the last election
81 votes were east against license
The latest telephone extension pro-
jected is from Scotland to Springfield.
and, possibly, to the Yankton reserya.
ton. The stock has been subscribed
and the line will be stretched this sum
mer.
1t is stated that Erick Olson. who
died near Madison at the age of sixty.
seven years, was the first white set
tier TO locate in the two DakotaS hay.
Ing built n home near Vermilion in
1888.
Farmers are hauling out lumber at
plankinton in every direction to repair
the damage done by the prairie fire Of
last week. Nj buildings destroyed
will undoubtedly be replaced. The
people are not discouraged.
At Canton, the jury sitting over the
rem aims of Charles Mccullough, who
was killed by Mrs. T.. Brown, returned
verdict of jus,iiahle homicide. Mrs.
Brown may die from injuries received
Mt the hands Of Mccullough.
| Deputy Surveyor George FeSsenden
and party OF half a dozen young men,
has gone from Huron to the Turtle
Mountain region to work on govern.
meut surveys and expect TO be in the
field until cold weather drives them
home.
The twenty fifth annual meeting OF
.he aonars'l as>UciatiOn of the COngre.
gational churches Of the state will he
held III Aberdeen. May %, - and %
The state branch Of the womans
board of missions will hold a meeting
at the same time.
Mont. X. Vickcre lived i'm Estelrne.
Hamlin county, and wondered why he
weighed 34S pounds and was six feet
seven inches tall ut the age of twenty
ihe sums of money made by the fam
Gus Wrestlers set him to thinking, and
ne Is now In Minneapolis learning to
WreStlc
A number Of employees of the Chica.
60 d Northwestern Railway company
have left Huron for Escanaba. where
they viii be employed by the same
company during the summerIn the
crowd was Al York. Sanford Schuy-
Ter, l.. 4. Barrett, VIII Ormand and
John felley.
Land Commissioner Eastman has ap
tod e
county, travelling deputy for his office
10 look after depredatiOns on state
lands. The appointment is considered
an excellent one. MIR Prater has been
prominent in state affairs for a num-
Der Of years.
: The four-yearold daughter CT Carl
WalnitZ, residing about four miles
southwest Of South Shore, met horrl-
Die death. While playing around
burning straw pile her clothing caught
lire, and before her father could reach
her she was burned to such an extent
that she lived but few hours.
At the letting Of bids for publishing
supreme court reports by the secretary
or state at Pierre the State Publlsh-
ing company of Pierre secured the con
tract at S199 per volume. Other pa
derS were John Longstaff Of Huron; u
j. Layery of Fort Pierre and the la
kota Publishing company of Pierre
CastlewOOd will experience a great
building boom this year, plans having
been made for erecting about Slo,VW
worth OF new buildings so far. anu
the building season has just begun.
Land has advanced from % to % per
cent in value since last year, ana
large number Of new settlers are loca''
ing there.
The twelveyear-old son Of Nj. keV
ing, living in Oslo township, BROOK
lhgs county, went TO the barn to gatn,
er eggs. The wind blew the barn
door, which fastened on the Ouside,