The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-01-03
South Dakota
car.ro, State News
- Photographed.

Prof. Stacy Cochran. institute con-
ductor for the state agricultural col
lege, has arranged for a farmers insti-
tute to be held in Aberdeen Jan. IS and
26.
A chicken was purchased at q meat
market In Lead by j.. b. Scoble. When
its gizzard was opened a gold nugget
worth $3.15 was found. The butcher
has commenced an investigation TO as
certain where the chicken was raised.
The contract for sixty car loads. of
cut stone for the new stone barracks
1T Fort Meade has been let by the con-
tractors, Mullen & Mum of Deadwood.
to ]. l.. Burke of Hot Springs. A saw
ing plant is to be installed at the
quarry.
The Milwaukee bridge building crew
made quick work of replacing the
bridge across Cave creek near Woods
ley that was destroyed by fire. The
bridge was 206 feet long. but was re-
placed with a new structure h a per-
mitted of the passage of trains i'm
twelve hours. Traffic was not seriously
delayed. The origin of the fire is not
known.
The last piece of machinery has ar
rived at Lead for the Ellison hosting
plant, which has been in course of con-
-truction by the Homestake company
for the past three years. The engine
Tor the crushing machinery has arrived
and is now being installed. 1T Is m
Of the largest engines ever brought to
| the Black Hills and has a fly wheel
thirty feet in diameter.
1t will be impossible for the" South
Dakota congressman to get any more
appropriation for the new buildings
to be erected at Fort Meade. There is
an appropriation of $4,000, which will
be used to erect a stone barracks anu
| officers quarters, but it was hoped that
a slice of the blanket appropriation.
could be secured for other buildings.
Congressman Gamble has written that
there can be no further APPROPRIATION
at this session.
Some of Gov. Roosevelt's North Da-
kota friends are going to Washington
to see him inaugurated. There are his
friends of the cattle trail. of early
days, who bunked and rode with
Roosevelt when he was a cowhand on
the ranges, and who learned to admire
the man there. The governors friends
Of the cattle range have had several
letters from him since his election. with
invitations to be present at Washing,
ton on the eventful March A.
The apportionment of the permanent
school fund for December has just been
made by the state land department and
is 40 cents per capita on the Schooi
population, which is the basis of such
apportionment. In securing the basis
t is found that. the school population
IS 120, s07, an increase of 4,634 for the
past year. Notwithstanding this in
crease the per capita amount appor-
toned has increased from 40 to 40
cents.
The first buckwheat raised IN n
considerable quantity in the vicinity of
Aberdeen was brought to that city by
John Dickerson of Putney, who har-
vested 100 bushels of the. grain from
seven acres. Up to this time practically
all the buckwheat -four consumed In
hat part of the state has been shipped
in, but it is probable that quite a num-
Der of farmers will follow Mr.. Dickin-
sons example next yea and raise the
grain for market in quantities sufficient
to supply the home market at least.
DR.. J.. e. Todd, state g~eologist and in
structor of geology and mineralogy al
the state university at Vermillion,
sounds a warning to the OF
state on the artesian well question.
There has been a great deal of discus
sion in time past as to the supply OF
the artesian basin, 1t being contended
by some that it was merely a question
Of time when the great basin would ee
exhausted. DIR. Todd holds this opin-
ion, but he gives three remedies for the
outstanding of the supply. The first Is
to make smaller wells. The second is
to check the flow of water when 1t is
not needed. The third method or ro-
striction is by legislation.
An incident Of the early history of
the Black Hills was recalled to tho
minds of r. III. Evans and c. w. Fet-
tigrew, two old residents. On Dec. IL,
1881, these two men went on a hunting
expedition. Only a short distance out
Of Spearfish they came up with a herd
of buffalo and succeeded In killing
five wagon loads. The weather being
too moist they were unable TO cure inc
meat and Ii was all spoiled. The same
hunters soon afterward killed about
the same number. which they cured
successfully There are a good many
old residents of the Hills who remem-
Der the big herds Of buffalo that
roamed the hills.
C. L. Jensen, who was the republican
candidate for sheriff of Fall River
county, was defeated by 80 majority
upon the face of the returns. entered a
contest in the district court, asking
that two or three precincts he thrown
out because of irregularities in the reg
istration and election. has won ms
point. A change of venue was taken
from this district to the Eighth. ana