The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-05-16
South Dakota
r, State News
Photographed.

the recent electlOH dl E<StelliUe.
The firm of Oliver & JOY at Wilmot.
has been dissolved, the latter retiring.
large barn belonging to Lee Michel
of Springfield was burned to the ground.
Vermillion has again unearthed sew
eral we'll developed cases of smallpox.
The new telephone system at Web
ster will be in operation in about three
weeks.
The city council of Springfield has
purchased ground that will be plated
for a park.
A new Odd Fellows lodge has been in
stituted at Canistota, with twenty
charter members.
Citizens of Montrose will strive to Sc
cure donation from Andrew Carnegie
for public library.
The city election at Miller resulted in
the defeat of the refarm ticket, and IL
cense carried by forty-one majority.
A class of forty or more young men
and women from the rural schools were
examined for promotion by Prof. Corey
at Huron.
A special election has been called al
Fairview for the 14th, for the purpose
Of voting upon the question of incorpo-
ration.
The total amount OF cash that will go
into the public treasury from the HUI
ron land office for the month of April is
s1,475.24.
The benefit concert for the Huron Cor
net band netted a little over s16C. II
was given under the direction of the la
dies Of the city.
The family of Jeff Manbeck OF Ar
mour is quarantined with smallpox,
four members of the family being down
with the disease.
Bishop O'Gorman assisted by clergy
men from different parts OF the state,
dedicated the beautiful new Catholic
convent at Elkton.
Programmes are out for the annual
camp meeting of the Dakota conference
OF the Evangelical association, to be
held in Big Stone June 1913.
Prof. j. Z. Todd, geologist of the
South Dakota university, is making a
tour OF the state fer the purpose of as
certaining the number and condition Of
artesian wells.
Coy. Herried has granted a hearing
in the application of James Costello for
a pardon. Costello was sentenced from
Kingsbury county on charge of as
sault with deadly weapon.
The drillers of the new artesian well
at White Lake, which is designed to
furnish water for fire protection and do
nestle purposes. have succeeded in Sc
curing a good flow at a depth of S25 feet.
Wentworth is to have a new bank
with $4,000 capital. 1t will be called the
Wentworth State Bank, and will be
conducted by A. j. Harrington, late or
Dixon, Neb.
Armour is to have some first-class
races this season. H. III. Smith, the
Kentucky horse breeder. who has locat-
ed there is expanding 1000 on new
race track on his ranch joining Armour
on the north.
A band of about twenty Indians, sew
eral Of them broken out with smallpox
and others i'll with the disease, came to
Pierre from the Cheyenne agency. The
board of health took them in charge
and have them In a quarantined camp.
Horace Ross has arrived at Vermil-
lion from johannesburg, South Africa
where he has been for the past two
years. He has seen the effects or the
Boer war, and has little sympathy for
the British soldiers.
Articles Of incorporation for the Cen
trail South Dakota Fair association have
been fled. The incorporators are some
of Huron's prominent citizens, and IL Is
the purpose to fit up the grounds as
driving park and stock show.
For the last quarter the average num-
Der OF inmates at the state soldiers
home at Hot Springs was IA, emitting
the stae TO the sum of $4,S5O from the
national government, as its proportion
of the cost of maintaining the home.
News has ben received that c. II.
Newcombe, formerly of Huron, but
resident of ST. Paul for the past three
years. has made snug fortune out or
Texas oil lands. He is at the head OF
stock company with $1,000 to his creolt,
and more added to it daily.
Lily is to have a first-class bank. The
stockholders are: T. e. Egge, r. E.
Parks, III. H. Payne, James Anderson.
E. J. lie Barron, Peter Coburn, p. p.
Dahl, j. X. Luvass, Frank G. Johnson,
G. O. Husher and Bratvoid, Moen d
Hottie. all prominent business men.
A Jury in the circuit court at Sioux
Falls returned a verdict In favor OF the
defendants in the case Of Smith vs.
Justice Mellen, Constable Stone and Ell
Jones, prominent residents Of valley
Springs. Smith instituted suit Tor
IS, 900 damages for alleged false arrest.
A ]. Odekirk, farmer living north
of Arlington. died very suddenly from
rheumatism. The deceased has been
crippled with rheumatism for several
years. He was about thirty-five years
of age and leaves q widow and three