The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-10-11
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South Dakota
Gepara, State News
Photographed.


John Haarstad has been appointed
postmaster at Revillo.
N. p. Carr of Deadwood has leased
the Bullock hotel in that city.
The Faulkton postoffice has been
raised to the presidential class, to take
effect Oct. 1.
Thieves entered the Omaha depot at
Valley Springs. but found nothing
| worth taking.
The new gas mains at Aberdeen have
been completed and gas has been
turned into them
Joseph Doorak. seventeen years old.
committed suicide at his home, near
Tabor, by hanging.
BY a vote of 1893 to 81 Sisseton has
decided to issue 100000 worth of bonds
for new water works.
| The Neuvitas Hemp Manufacturing
company has been organized at Lead.
with capital of $4,000
The supreme court has admitted a
class to practice in this state on GER
| tificates from other states.
| The notorious window -smasher, Ma
ria Hicks. is now an inmate of the
county hospital at Aberdeen.
| The new $1,000 school house is near
| ing completion. and, when completed.
will add another fine building 70
| Faulkton.
A car load of Russian immigrants.
direct from Russia, spent a day in ABB
erdeen en- route to Eureka, where they
will settle.
The new opera house has been
opened at Faulkton. 1t is an up-to-
date structure, with scenery, boxes and
| the latest improved opera chairs. It
will seat $500.
Word has been received at Aberdeen
of the violent death Of c. N. Cooper. at
Seattle. He was found in the bay with
his head crushed. He formerly lived at
Warner, near Aberdeen.
Jacob Schacher of Webster, IN elder
ly farmer, was seriously injured by
falling from a load of hay upon his
fork, the handle of which penetrated
his body six inches.
| Wolves and coyotes are numerous
along the Missouri river in Charles Mix
county. The Heaton Bros. lost over
5000 worth Of shoats within the past
| two weeks as the result Of raids by
wild animals.
| The recent Episcopal convocation.
conducted by Bishop Hare at Standing
Rock reservation, was attended by
about 800 Indians. They have eighty
five places of worship, and the aggre-
gate contributions made by them for
religious and charitable purposes
reached $S,492.41.
Lieut.. ]. r. Kelley has gone from
Aberdeen to Fort Smelling. where he
will report for duty. He is the young
est commissioned officer in the service.
The fall term of the Indian school at
Rapid City has opened. The building
is too small for the number attending.
and the government has been petit
toned for another
j. F. Geeslin, the Jackson Station
grain buyer, who disappeared a few
weeks ago, has not been heard from.
A thorough investigation of his ac-
counts indicates shortage Of about
$4,500 OF this amount the elevator
company will lose only $1,000. and q
draft for that amount has already been
! turned over to them by the surety
company in which Geeslin was bonded.
/ Seventeen car loads Of cattle were
shipped from Faulkton the other day.
| Very Rev. Thomas A. Flynn Of Mad
| ison has been appointed vicar general
of South Dakota TO succeed Mgr. Law
/ Ter, who died a few weeks ago at Alex
andria, after having been priest for
fifty-five years. AS Bishop O'Gorman
has left the state for trip to Europe,
this makes Father Flynn the acting
bishop.
The Spearfish passenger train on the
Burlington collided with the local
freight at Deadwood. T. HI. Hanson, g.
mining man from Minneapolis, was
badly bruised. The engine and two
cars Of the freight train were derailed.
CLAUS Peterson, ninety-two years old,
died very suddenly at Bookings. He
was attending prayer meeting, and
offered a long prayer. He had just
said amen" when he dropped back
and was dead.
| Mrs. N. M. Herdin was murdered by
an unknown man while sleeping In her
home, in the Garden City mining dis
trict, six miles from Deadwood. The
/ husband of the woman worked as an
engineer at Kicking Horse mine, and
| had accumulated considerable money.
which was stolen. A little son Of the
murdered woman states that an old
man pushed open the door and shot
his mother five times. After the MUIR
der the man stole horse and buggy
from neighbor and made his escape.
The soldiers Of the volunteer regi-
ments from the Black HilIr dedicated
the monument at Spearfish erected to
| their memory by the women OF the
Hills. A large number Of ex-soldfers
were pre- sent Maj. ]. b. Fairbanks de-
| livered the grafton. The monument Is
made Of bronze. being the figure Of an
| American soldier standing on pedes-
tai of white marble. The monument
stands in the center OF ground intend