The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-05-03
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| Ca,aro, State News
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city bonds of Deadwood were sold to
Chicago parties at a three and one
/ quarter premium.
The state educational department.
has issued state certificates to Clara
Stella Pfeffer Of parkston and Frank
Boydcn of WATERFOWL.
The state land department had calls
for $3.50 of the permanent school
fund. OF this 5000 went to Sphinx
county and $3.50 to Hyde.
At Tyndall the stone livery barn
owned by L. l. Smith and managed by
Will Smith, was burned. Two tramps
sleeping in the hay were cremated.
The III. Parmlee Library Company
Of Chicago has filed notice Of the APP
pointment Of T.. Il. Rodabaugh OF Gar
retson as state agent for South Da-
kota
Virgil T., Price, president OF the
Rapid City, Missouri River & St Paul
Railway company, filed in the Pierre
land office plats for the right Of way
of their road over government lands in
Stanley county.
At Sioux Falls County Judge Wilkes
denied the petition Of James McClel-
Ian of Little Rock, Ark, who, with his
relatives. are claimants Of the estate
Of John Mcclellan, which has been In
litigation there for several months.
Mother Superior Mathilda Of tho
Benedictine convent at Pierre was
badly injured by falling from high
porch. 1t is feared she has received
internal injuries from which she will
mo A Shr hsrI
at the time was severely injured.
The Burlington roundhouse at Spear
fish burned to the ground recently.
Passenger engine No. 254 was In for
the night and before 1t could be run
out the building was burned, causing
a total loss Of about $4,000. The
origin Of the fire is not known.
Many farmers who have come in
from the range country report the
heaviest calf crop for years, in fact, q
record breaker. The shipments to
Pierre this spring will also be record
breakers, the estimates running from
il, 900 to 10000 head of new stock for
the range from that source.
George G. Fullcnweider, cashier Of
the Standard Savings bank Of Huron,
has completed arrangements for the
establishment of a bank at Hitchcock
In lieu Of the one recently robbed OF
about $4,000, and whose building was
destroyed by fire. The new institution
will have no connection with the old
bank.
! A rich strike was made three and a
half miles southwest from Custer by
the Carr brothers. These are the men
who made the now famous find about
year ago which Is now known as the
Carr strike. The strike goes 800 to
the ton. The ledge is said to be twenty
inches wide. This is the richest strike
made in the southern Hills for years.
| Bishop w. III. Hare of Sioux Falls
f, has received assurances from the East
| that the sum of 49, 500 will be contrib
uted toward the $4,000 addition to All
Saints school in that city. The re-
manning 81 800 will be contributed by
friends Of the school in Sioux Falls
and vicinity. The proposed addition
will be three stories high aEl base
ment.
| 1t is expected that the new stone
barracks which are being erected at
Fort Mead by the government will be
I
building is made Of stone and it's d.
mansions are 10 feet by 81 feet and
| three stories high This is the first OF
n number of similar stone buildings
which are to make the fort perma-
nent affair.
After being out only five minutes the
Jury in the United States court at
Sioux Falls brought In verdict OF
guilty in the case against George MUIR
ply, charged with robbing the post
Office at Dalesburg, Clay county, last
fall. Judge Garland sentenced him to
pay fine Of 500 on each OF the
counts in the Indictment and to serve
two years in the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary.
Incoming settlers are rapidly taking
possession OF government Iand within
the Huron land district. Not few
of the new settlers purchase farms
that have more or less improvements,
and these are mostly those who have
ample means to buy desirable farms
that have fallen into the possession OF
Eastern capitalists who, in early days,
made loans upon them and We're COM
PEELED during the hard times to take
the iaHu III Payment Vi the iodnS.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the Sioux Falls Driving club,
with a capital of $1,000. Incorpora-
tors. o. S. Pender, A. III. Natwick, b.
III. Lien and others. For the Atchison
Mrinig company at Yankton with a
capital of 10000; incorporators, James
A. Aitchcson. Coydon Karr and Titus
u. Price. For the Arcti cCircle Mining
company at Pierre. with capital of
100000; incorporators, Alexander A.
Norton, Frank III. Clark and George
w Sanders.
w. G.. Potter of Sioux Falls. assist
ant United States attorney, has been
advised that the United States circuit
court Of appeals at st. Paul will, on
May 81, listen to arguments on the