The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-06-20
South Dakota
cararo, State News
Photographed.

The Maccabees have arranged to erect
q new $1,000 hall and opera house at
Armour.
ton will hold its annual meeting at
Watertown in July.
HI. e. McNutt has handed in his res
ignation as superintendent Of the board
OF health of Brown county.
Bon Homme county farmers suffered
seriously from the lightning Of the re-
cent electrical storm. Over thirty head
of cattle were killed.
Land Commissioner Eastman has APP
pointed j. G. Damn to fill the additional
clerkship in his office, provided for by
the last legislature.
William Mahoney was arrested on the
charge Of passing counterfeit money at
Sioux Falls, and was held to the next
federal grand jury.
Fred Gebhart. the prominent New
Yorker, who took up his residence In
Sioux Falls about two months ago, has
decided to build a $4,000 ersidence.
A uniluqe family reunion was held
at the residence Of o. c. Potter, in West
Sioux Falls. The ages of the six per"
sons who participated In the reunion
aggregate 423 years.
Isaac Tribbits OF Portland township.
fearing, 1t Is said, arrest for incest with
his fifteen-year -old granddaughter, su-
icided by taking rat poison. He was
sixty-eight years old.
The story from the East regarding
the engagement Of a daughter OF ex-
Senator Pettigrew to William La Porte
OF New York, is a great fake. Senator
Pettigrew has no daughter.
wakonda has a gang Of organized
thieves, who have been stealing hogs
from farmers Officers have captured
two men, Sam and Will Montgomery,
one of whom succeeded in escaping.
Jacob Clerk, in a quarrel at Yankton,
inflicted such severe injuries upon Nels
Anderson that fatal results are feared.
The weapon used was a ball bat.
dispute over horse caused the trouble.
The eIeven-year- son Of Andrew
Swenson, who lives nine miles south
east OF Wconsocket, was kicked In the
head by a vicious horse. The boys
skull was fractured, and he died soon
after.
The we'll on the Wadleigh ranch,
twelve miles north of Pierre, has been
completed at depth Of 1900 feet. with
a flow of 200 gallons per mute, and
supply of gas estimated at 10000 feet
per day.
A fire broke out in the brick block at
Yankton belonging TO Architect Valen-
tine. Axel Hjorth's photograph outht
was entirely destroyed. The loss on
~I
about $4,000.
The state board Of charities and cor
rections held short session at RED
field. The work of installing the furni-
ture and fixtures in the asylum for the
feeble minded was found to be pro-
crossing satisfactorily.
The state land department will, In
few days, send out the interest and in-
come fund due to the schools Of the
state at the present time. Calls for the
permanent fund are slow, only an oc-
casional call being made. Roberts
county took out $500 last week.
Business at the government land Of
flee for the Huron district for May was
the heaviest of any single month DUR
ing a period of ten years. The total
amount Of land acquired by final proof
| and homestead entry was 24,l42 acres.
all went to actual settlers.
w. G. Porter. assistant United states
attorney, has filed a suit in the federal
| court at Deadwood against Odo Reder'
a prominent Black Hills man, and the
Black Hills Lumber company, of which
he is president, for the recovery or 3d.
36e 43. the amount claimed to be due the
government for timber unlawfully cut.
After the funeral of Mrs. DR.. Bailor,
at Lead, the audience OF friends gain
cred at the platform outside OF the
Congregational church, to pay their re-
spects to the remains. The support OF
the platform gave way. percipitating
dozen or mere people to the ground
fifteen feet below. A number were Sc
verely injured, but none seriously
OF f{fty-nine candidates who reported
for the entrance examinations las.
week., only twenty-five passed success
fully. Among them are: p. ]. r. Kiehi
of Wisconsin,; J. Lund of Iowa; Z. !.
Peterson of Illinois: j. B. Shouse OK
North Dakota ]. r. Starkey or III
nois: III. L. Wells of Michigan.
Towns which were TOO SLOW 10 Srs
into the organization Of the First regi-
ment are getting In their applications,
and at the present rate there will soon
be enough applications on file to NIL out
another full regiment. But most OF
these will have to walt for another
wear, as there will be no supplies on
hand with which to equip them.
Among these are the towns OF Fairfax,
Gregory county: Salem, McCook coun-
Nv. and several others. Some time In
September the first battalion OF the
Second regiment will be organized, bur
will be composed Of companies from
Rritton. WATERFOWL, Huron and Yank-