The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-05-04
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Iisty dozen quail were received in
Belle Fourche last week and llDerat-
ed.
r. II. Mulligan Of Dell Rapids mas
sold his confectionery and restaurant
business to Fred Phster OF Flandreau'
The cement works at lankton nave
started up with forty employees. Last
wear the product amounted 10 S'D,oVV.
Frank Boyer died at Sioux Fails re
Gently from injuries received by his
taking gasoline for Kerosene ana uslhS
it for kindling fire.
The Bangor Methodist congregation
dedicated their new church at tnat
place Sunday. and raised $4oI, whlch
cleared the debt due on the cnufch.
A Faulkton dealer, in two days, sold
over $500 worth of farm machinery 10
farmers living in the vicinity or that
town.
Mrs. John Conway, mother Of James
Conway, proprietor of the fremont
house at Elk Point, died at her home,
north of that city, of heart failure.
Byrd Jones, of the Pierre National
Bank. and Miss Laura Madsen, daugh-
daughter OF +. Madsen, a prominent
stocSman, were married at Pierre.
A new dry goods store has been
opened at Yankton by Fred A. ki0p-
ping. who is we'll known in state mer-
camille circles.
Wheat seeding in all parts Of South
Dakota has been rushed since its COM
mencement. about the 10th inst, and
is now nearing completion.
Ole Paulson of Dell Rapids has been
awarded the contract TO build a new
store building for Rhine 4 Co., OF that
place, at a cost of $S,619.
George ID. Meikeljohn, assistant sec
rotary of war. owns a whole addition
TO one Of South Dakota's best towns
Groton.
Mrs. Minnie Omeg, who died last
week at Vermllion, came to America
in 1853, locating first at Sioux City,
but has been resident of Vermillion
since 1860.
ID. X. Pearsons Of Chicago has prom
ised Iankton college $4,000 in June,
next year. providing all outstanding
llebts against the college are paid Off
ut that time.
Erick Olson died at Madison, aged
sixty-seven years. He is said 10 have
TO have been the first white settler in
million in 1888.
The graduating class Of the Tyndall
high school will contain eight MEM
bers, Nina Cotton, frankie Davis, Ella
Eads, Fred Eads, Myrtle Forrest. Lyd-
in Ravak, Martha SWEET, John Hahn.
A. G.. Young. one Of Brookings' most
prominent citizens. was stricken with
partial paralysis while loading freight.
He is suffering severely, but his ply
sician has hopes Of his recovery.
The Campbell County Abstract COM
pany, at Mound City, with capital
Of $1,000. has been Incorporated. In
corporators. G.. w. Eckert. Elizabeth
n. Claybourne and Maud A. Stewart.
The Minnehaha Mining company, at
Sioux Falls, with a capital of 5000, 900,
has been Incorporated. Incorporators,
j. T. Hamilton, III. III. Keith and u. &.
Trask.
Jacob Skor, a young man working in
the creamery at Milbank. had his
right arm caught by revolving shaft,
breaking ii in several places. Ampu-
tation will probably be necessary.
New settlers continue to arrive in
all parts of the state The influx this
spring has been very large, and it is
expected that next fall the incoming
Of new settlers will take on the pro-
portions of stampede.
The jury in the case of X. A. Tubbs,
mayor of Alcester charged with send
ing obscene literature through the
mails, returned verdict finding the
accused guilty of seven out Of the eight
counts in the Indictment.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
Carr Mining company, at Pierre, with
a capital Of S1O00,0O0. Incorporators,
Frank MCGEE, X. l.. Squire and Rufus
S. King.
RaSmus Sorensen was drowned In
Vermillion river, near Vermillion. He
fell from a bridge and was drawn I'M
der by an unusually swift current.
His body has not been found, and
probably never will be.
The Parkston creamery, In March.
received 32S.O0O pounds of milk, for
which $4,000 was paid. the farmers
receiving II IL cents per pound for
butter. or 20 cents per 100 lbs for 4
eper cent milk.
A movement is on foot to secure a
pardon for James Pettyman, who was
convicted OF rape in the circuit court
Rt Clear Lake. and sentenced by Judge
Andrews. in June, 1897, to five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Postmasters appointed In South. Da.
k0ta: DeGrey, Deuel. county. Mrs.
Eliza Chandler, vice Henry Jones. re-
moved; Little Bend, Sully county, J.
w. Oswald, vice Joseph b. Binder, r.
signed.
Col. ]. p. Megrew, formerly COM
mandant of the South Dakota Soldiers
home hut mora racaptly q, ol.,.