The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-04-25
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canera, State News
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will establish new Dank at Davis.
The City Hotel and Hotel Commercial
at Beresford have been consolidated.
G.. p. Gilbertson, proprietor Of the
Farmers Home at Vermillion, died
suddenly of heart failure.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has made a
number of important improvements
about her kindergarten in Lead.
Several persons are figuring on build
ing a hotel at Monroe. The present ho-
tel accommodations are Inadequate.
The city of Redfield has made appli-
cation to Andrew Carnegie for $1,000
with which to erect a library building.
Quite q number of immigrants are
coming into Faux county this spring
from Iowa, Wisconsin and other states.
George Lavender, mixed blood In
dian, was fined and sentenced to i'm
prisonment I'm Moody county for selling
liquor to Indians.
DIR. L. M. Bickmore of Sioux Falls
has been rendered the position of sur
geon in the South Dakota Soldiers
home at Hot Springs.
c. A. Fowler, aged seventy-seven.
was found dead in bed at the home of
his son, Fred Fowler OF Huron. He
was native Of Ohio.
Faulkton's smallpox scare was of
short duration. There was but one
case, and the quarantine has been lift
ed from that for some time.
Highmore expects a building boom
this summer, owing to the scarcity OF
houses. At present there is not va
cant dwelling in the place.
During the month of March an ag-
gregate of of 3,7S0 acres of farm lands
were transferred in Marshall county,
for total consideration of $4,000.
Frederick Benedict, who was con-
victed of selling liquor to Indians at
Springfield, was sentenced to pay fine
OF 800 and serve sixty days in Jail. 4
Deputy Sheriff Whiteside of yermill-
Ion has taken Clarence Kinney and
Villain Melrose to the penitentiary for
one and two years, respectively.
There will be a change in the state
board Of charities and corrections. DR..
II. L. Finnerud of Waterfowl will re-
sign, on account Of private business.
Work upon the new waterworks sys-
tenn at Howard, for which the voters
recently authorized the issuance of
$4,000 in bonds, will soon be com-
menced.
Gideon Dashman, an Indian youth.
who was indicted, for raising a money
order. pleaded guilty at Sioux Falls.
and was sentenced to one year and one
day in the penitentiary.
A militia company of seventy mem
bers has been organized at Redfeld.
The officers are: III. f. Jacobson, cap
tain; G. Il. Squire, first lieutenant:
Clay Carpenter, second lieutenant.
Thomas White and Joseph Amrheim,
Hamlin county farmers, had a lawsuit
over a trivial matter-the boundary line
between their farms. The case has
reached the supreme court, and to date
has cost Amrheim $233.35.
Warden Bowler. of the Sioux Falls
penitentiary, has been decapitated by
The state board of charities and corree-
tons, as organized under a recent de-
cisioI of the supreme court, with foui
Republicans and one Fusion member.
Drillers of the artesian well in Pearl
township, Sully county, struck strong
flow OF water at 1,640 feet, but went
several feet deeper. They will at once
start on second well in the same
township.
The militia company has perfected q
temporary organization at Milbank,
with the following officers z. III. Ben.
edict, captain; Berth d. Gamble. frs,
lieutenant; Sherman Nixon, second
lieutenant; A. F. Lindquist, first SER
geant.
Hattie E. Meredith was granted a d.
vorce at Miller from Thomas f. Mere
dith on cross bill. The latter is
Christian minister evangelist and pro-
fessional church singer, well known In
South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska
and Iowa.
Quincy II. Edwards, son of the post.
mistress at Memo, who was recently
Indicted for issuing fraudulent money
orders and forging the name Of his
mother to letters OF advice. will not be
tried during the present term OF the
federal court.
John Harrison, an Indian, had fight
at Woonsocket with Dell Hamilton.
The Indian was an easy winner, al
though Hamilton was an expert boxer
and all-round athlete. Both men were
arrested, but Hamilton broke away and
escaped.
Farmers are busy with their spring
work around Faulkton, seeding having
been in progress for the last two weeks.
The weather. however, is not very fa-
vorable, there being too much moist
ure. The wheat acreage will be some-
what larger than usual.
Miss Emma Maynard, the blind di-
rector of music in the state blind asy-
iu,,, In Cary has heen engaged to play
two organ recitals in the Temple of
Music at the Buffalo exposition. She
will be one of seventy representative
organists to appear during the exposi-
ton months
The fourteenth annual oratorical con-
test OF Redfield college wes held In the