The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-12-06
A new Presbyterian church ,,,r
erected at Platte To cost 49, WIZ bt

oOOuy ~ W NM
Inc state land department has ,,..
.urneu over to the treasury s5oo ..
rental of Taylor lands. s0O az
Otto Malmgren, nineteen va,ru
was fatally injured by falling sroa ou,
scanold at Sioux Falls.
The members of the German
FORMED Church society at Tripp are ar-
ranging TO build a new church.
At a meeting of Masons at Northv,r.
arrangements We're completed o..
organization Of a Masonic lodge ,n ~. NY
near future.
ftasmus Larsen. a prominent ,umbor
dealer and an old resident of wehs,"r
dropped dead of heart disease. He lss.
a widow and four children.
AT the annual meeting of the stool.
holders OF the Salem Telephone com
pany a 10 per CEN dividend was a.
clared. The system was established las,
May. "
Lester Cook, the fourteen- vear MA
son or T. N. Cock of WATERFOWL, was
instantly killed by the accidental dis.
charge OF a u in the hands of a com.
panion.
Burglars entered Dwight's general
store at Canistoria and removed ahont
$500 worth of clothing. A vigorous
effort is being made to capture the
thieves.
An athletic club has been organized
at Grafton. Arthur Kraft is president
Paul Hoppy vice president, Leonard
Wagner secretary and Roy wyllie
treasurer.
l.. s. Foster of Hot Springs collected
bounties for twenty-five gray wolves.
eighteen copotes and two black wolves
The latter are especially rare. They
were all killed in the Rec river basin.
twenty miles from Rapid City.
The seventeen-yeac-old son of Jack
Walsh. living five miles south of Brad
ley, accidentally shot himself while
passing through a barb wire fence. He
was found by his brother and brought
home. living only a few hours.
A test case will be brought by the
township boards of Sanborn county to
determine whether the counties or the
townships must pay the cost of regis
tering voters. All the counties In the
state will be interested in the outcome.
At a special election at Mellette the
voters decided by a vote Of 10 TO 1 to
issue bonds in the sum of 5 3 1000, to draw
not to exceed Z per CEN interest, for
the purpose of sinking Al artesian well
to furnish water for domestic and fire
protection purposes.
Two of the toughs who broke Jail at
Flandreau, Lee and Brown, have been
no,nht prAupr xx,a fnnn1 OF N farp,
house neal Madison. Lee was caught
north of Madison, where he has friends
and relatives. These men are wanted
for robberies committed at Egan about
a mont ago
One of the most important matters 10
come before the state legislature this
winter will be the question of setting
aside a sum for the collection OF relics,
documents. etc, bearing on the early
history of the region now embraced
within the state. Doane Robinson will
push this legislation.
Several farmers at Miller have lost
cattle by turning them into the corn
stalks. The veterinary surgeon says
that the poison is in the pith of the
stalk. Several cattlemen are feeding
steers for the Eastern market. Two
good ~artesian wells have been put down
by individuals farmers.
Every stamp in the mills OF the
Homestake Mining company Is now
dropping ore. something that has not
been done for a long time. Every miner
and mill man is getting full time and
a number of extras have been put on.
There are now about 800 miners n
mill men at work and the company Is
paying out monthly about 100000 In
wages.
A Scotland capitalist named Parmen-
ter, who has been granted n franchise
for putting In an electric light plant at
Sioux Falls, has received the plans ana
specifications for the new plant, which
will be first-class In ever yparticular.
1t is his purpose to have a dynamo or
sufficient power to operate printing
presses and other machinery. Work on
the new plant will soon begin.
The great Homestake Mining COM
pany has completed its new water ditch
which is to furnish the stamp mills.
cyanide plants and the cities of Lead
and Deadwood with water. The great
steam Pumps started to work Tor the
first time this week, pumping the water
over a hill 400 feet high. The mpan
now has an everlasting supply OF water
which will mean the doubling OF the
output of the mines within a very short
time.
The Black Hills. according to f. NJ.
Griffith, a field assistant in h forest
reserve division Of the department OF
agriculture, has the best bodies OF pins
timber to be found In any OF the re-
serves in the United States. There are
1,211, $50 acres i'm this reserve, Inc our
ing the past summer $4,000 acres were
carefully examined and every standing
tree was measured in order to give an
idea of the future supply of timber.
Supt. Sherrard of the South DaKota
~chiIdren,s home I'm Sioux Pals, an