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~, has become domestic money oTuer
office.
The South Dakota Horticultural So
ciety will hold it's annual meeting in
Sioux Falls, Jan. 21-25.
Mrs. Mary A. Sloane of Elbowood, N.
D., has been appointed a laundress at
the Pine Ridge India school.
George Leatn has been appointed
postmaster at Earling, Lyman county.
vice Ellen NJ johnson, resigned.
Joseph Hall Of Vermillion committed
suicide in THO Milwaukee station at
Yankton, by drinking carbolic acid.
Bryant is now provided with up-to-
date fire-hghting apparatus, and fires
win not be feared so much as in the
last.
James Smell. Sr., a shift foreman in
the Homastake mine, died Tuesday OF
pneumonia. lie was q native Of Eng
land.
James r. Keelirg of Huron has been
appointed a stenoE rapher and type
writer in the surveyor generals office
at Huron. ... " ....
A piece OF rice lodged in the ear of
Mrs. Gottbot Hoar, a bride of Freeman.
and an operation will be necessary 10
remove It.
The state treasury has called in S25,-
900 of bonds which ere not due for ten
years but which the holders have
agreed to. surrender. .r.,
George Chase, postmaster at White,
has announced his candidacy for APP
pointment for the position of inspector
Of rural delivery routes
The state treasurer has received n
draft for $500 from the general govern
ment FOR United States court room rent
for the quarter ending Sept. 20.
Pensions granted: Increasc-Cyrus II.
Johnson, Pierre, IS; Frank 5. Kittredge.
Hudson. $40; Nile p. Case, Redfeid,
$40; John S. Harp, hot Springs. 81.
The headquarters for the Long Pine
Deadwood division of the railway mail
service will be removed from Long
Pine, Neb., to Deadwood Immediately.
John f. Anderson of Chamberlain
has been awarded the contract to fur
nish building material to the value Of
$4,000 TO the federal authorities at the
lower Brule agency.
Peter Beryl and one of the parties re-
Gently convicted at Oacoma on a charge
of cattle rustling, and who was given a
th.ee-year sentence mas appealed his
case to tho supreme court.
Business men of Lead are agitating
the mater of organizing club. There
has never been any organization of
Lead merchants and it is Intended to
effect one Immediately.
Calls have been made during the past
few days for $4,000 of the permanent
school fund. OF this. Brown county
took $1,000; Codington, $500: Rob
erts, $1,000. and Sully county, $500.
The new $4,000 stone building at st.
Martins academy at Sturgis is COM
pleted and ready for occupancy 1t is
erected by the Sisters of the Benedict
inc order, and is three stories high.
ARA agements are being made for the
erection of a cold storage warehouse
at Howard before spring. The butter
and egg shipments from that point have
reached such proportions as to warrant
the investment.
Rev. II. s. French d. d., president
of Huron college, has returned from
New York state, where he has been for
some weeks in the interest of the col
le,,e His trip will result in financial
aid to the college.
Edwin Farmer father OF Mrs. G. @.
Ware, died at the home of his daughter
In Deadwood. Friday, of acute asth-
ma He was L native of England, and
had made his home with his son-in-
law, Arckdeacon Ware, since 1885.
Adjt. Gen. Conklin, during the last
week of tie year, added three more
companies to the Second regiment or
the s. d. S. G. One at Gary, Deuel.
county; one at Flandreau, Moody coun-
ty: one at Canton, Lincoln county.
F. w. Noll, of the firm of Rahelsen &c
Noll, of Geddes, as the result of a trip
to Verm.llion, purchased a roller mill
at that place, and it is now being re-
moved to Geddes, where 1t will be put
in operation as soon as possible.
Petitions are being circulated and
literally signed at Hudson asking the
town county to call a special election
for some time in January for the pur-
pose of voting upon the question of is
suing bonds for the purchase of con-
structing new water mains.
T. " Matthews OF Spearfish, well
known cattleman, has gone to New
York, where he will undergo a surgical
operation, in the hope Of obtaining re-
lief from sciatica. He has been a suf-
ferer for years, and has been in a crit
ical condition for several months.
Seven Sioux Indians living on the
Crow Creek reservation, viii press a
claim to have the government REIN
burse them for the loss Of ponies which
they are alleged to have sustained
while rescuing two white women, Mrs.
Wright and Mrs. Emma Deely. and six
children, from hostile Santee Sioux In
dams.
Eighteen young women Of Deadwooa
were In a runaway at Lead while out
sleigh riding with four-horse team.
They were all bruised to some extent.
The most severe injuries received were
by Miss Myrtle Grimshaw. deep cut
over the eye; Miss Dorothy Goldbloom.
Iaceration and confusion of the nose;