The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-04
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South Dakota
n., state News
Photographed.

cnurcn, aged nearly elgnty-Iour years,
is dead. .
Anton Gliech OF Lakeport was ar
rested on the charge Of assaulting a
two-year-old girl.
Victor. the young son of ]. osten-
berg Of Salem. had his leg broken by a
horse falling upon him.
The patrons of eight creameries in
Kingsbury county received for their
milk the past year. $4,000.
John F. Prison, for four years county
auditor of Day county and an Odd Eel
low, Woodman and knight of Pythias,
Is dead
The real estate transfers for Kings.
bury county for the week ending Nov.
II, numbered twenty, with total con.
sideration of 1884.
A boy choir has been organized in
the Congregational church at Faulkton
under the leadership of Mrs. S. ID.
Griffee of Madison, Wis.
Thieves broke into T. Williams jew
elry and drug store at Canova, secur-
ing 500 worth of goods. No trace OF
lODDtlS bSSh IouhN'
John Sawyer Phelps died at Dead
wood, after a short illness, of acute
pneumonia. He was sixty-one years
old and a native of New York.
John LEM. of Agency township, near
Summit, died in the hospital at Web
ster from burns received while fighting
a prairie fire several weeks ago.
Gov. Herreid granted requisition
on the governor of Minnesota for Fred
erick Zoble wanted IA Brown county
on charge of obtaining money underr
false pretenses.
Eugene Reddy, arrested at Sturgis
for attempted assault upon a ten-year-
old girl, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to four years and ten months
in the state penitentiary.
The official count in the Stanley-Ly.
man legislative district shows tie be-
tween Warren Young Democrat, and
Alfred Zoska, Republican. This will
require a special election.
Frank Van Osdell, of Mission Hill
was held up by armed men. He sur
rendered an old pocketbook contain.
ing SO, and avoided being relieved OF
5000 concealed on his person.
Gov. Herreid has returned to Pierre
from the northern woods of Minnesota,
where he began deer-shooting at the
beginning of the season. The govern.
or brought down a deer the first day
he was out.
Norbeck & Nicholson, aretesian we'll
drillers, have completed a we'll at WaS-
ner. 1t is four-inch bore and nearly
600 feet deep. The firm has shipped
its outfit to Springfield, where 1t will
put down another well.
The business men of Spearfish have
begun the organization Of CONNER
cial club. The design is to maintain
good wagon. roads to various mining
camps and tributary regions and in
this way bring as much business to the
town as possible.
Mrs. F. Roop and son Vernal, were
asphyxiated at Salem. Returning to
consciousness, Mrs. Roop realized the
trouble and made great effort to
arouse herself. She managed to open
a door and a window and revived her
self by the fresh air.
p. II. Mcdonald, an old-time resident
of Hanson county was picked up in
dying condition in one OF the streets
of Alexandria. Apoplexy was the cause,
the stroke occurring while he was rid
ing alone in an open buggy. He leaves
a wife and eight children.
w. B. Webb of Redfeld, with Aber-
deem men, has organized the Hub City
Storage and Transfer company, and
bought a twoacre tract adjoining the
Milwaukee right of way at Aberdeen,
on which warehouses will be built.
Ground will be broken at once
The only important case in the cir.
cult court at Woonsocket is one
against a physician named Bair of
Des Moines, for shooting a farmer
near Letcher. Bair caught the farmer,
whose name Is Kingsbury, stealing
corn, and, after some words, shot him
in the leg.
There is a serious shortage Of teach
ers in the northern part of the state,
and wages have advanced consider
ably. About twenty more teachers are
needed in Grant county and nearly as
many in Roberts county. OF those
teaching, about 40 per cent are mex
perienced.
The first issue Of the Normal, a
monthly publication edited by students
of the state normal school at Spear
fish, has been mailed. Gerald A. Tor
renee is editor-in-chief; Miss Winni'
fred A. Packard, business manager;
o. C. Wilson, athletic editor; Miss
Ella ToomIy, exchange editor; Miss
Mollie Mccarthy, society editor. In
addition 90 these each class has q
resentative on the staff.
Great activity is manifested by the
literary societies and debating organ
izations of the state university. The
debating league has plans well under
way for the preliminary debates to
choose the teams which will represent
the university in intercollegiate con-
tests next spring. There will be many
candidates for these places of honor,
/ asst year a board of control had the
choosing of, representatives. but this
did not prove satisfactory The plan
this year will give no opportunity FOR
criticism.
The regular meeting of the Black
Hills Methodist Ministerial associa-
ton was held at Rapid City and large
ly attended. Among other important
matters before the convention was the
proposal to revive the old Black Hills
college at Hot Springs. II is hoped