The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-10-09
South Dakota
c.,.r., state News
1870 Photographed.


P. W. Carr, postmaster at Elan.
dreau, is dead. He had been declin.
ing in health for the past two years.
Frederick Ia becoming great ship.
ping point for cattle and sheep, over
$4,000 worth having passed through
the stock yards there recently.
Neil Bassett was arrested at st.
Onge and taken to Deadwood, on the
charge Of attempting to evade the
liquor license law. He was released
on bonds of $3.50.
Several country schools in Brown
county are closed on account OF the
scarcity OF teachers. From $35 TO $40
per month Ia paid for teachers hold
ing second-grade certificates.
Prairie fires burned over a large
tract of country between Putney and
Houghton. Large quantities or hay
destroyed, and at least one barn. The
town Of Houghton was in danger.
Mrs. Catherine Riley has instituted
suit against the city OF Spearhsh, to
recover damages in the sum of $1,000,
alleging that her property has been In.
jured to that extent by the grading OF
Fifth street across an adjoining lot
Expert teachers instruct at the Sioux
Falls Business College, Sioux Falls, s.
ID. Enter before Oct. ], and get two
months tuition free. Send for cata.
fogue.
The firm of Brown, Morse & Co,
which owns stores at White and Elk.
I'm MI ,pt
Judge Garland. The liabilities are
scheduled at over $1,000. w. II.
Dickinson, credit man for Tibbs,
Hutchins & Co. of st. Paul, has been
appointed receiver. :
Fifteen hundred pounds of giant
powder was consumed by fire at the
Wheeler mine, at Rockford. The fire
was started by a lighted candle. The
powder burned slowly and without ex.
ploding, notwithstanding that box OF
caps exploded and furnished the con.
cussion deemed necessary to set OF
the powder.
One of the quarter-sections east OF
Frederick this year yielded 1000 bush
els Of barley, of prime grade, which
will bring so cents a bushel, or about
$21 per acre. Forty acres of wheat
near by yielded twenty-six and three
fifths bushels per acre, and another
neighbor reports yield of sixty bush
els of wheat per acre.
John McDougald, engineer of a
threshing outfit belonging to Horace
Wheeler, was perhaps fatally scalded
by the explosion of the boiler. The
accident occurred on the farm of one
Stovick, about twenty-five miles north
west of Sioux Falls. Frank Wheeler,
who was in the cab with the engineer,
escaped without serious injury.
The republicans OF Bon Homme
county nominated legislative and
county ticket. There was a sharp
contest over representatives, Vogel
and Youngman defeating Basking and
Vespers. A. J. Abbott for senator
and r. III. Cotton for auditor were
nominated by reclamation; Koehn for
assessor and Robinson for superinten-
dent of schools by ballot.
The Hand county republican con-
vention nominated for the legislature
Frank Saltmarsh and r. l.. Smith;
treasurer, Thomas Trythal sheriff A.
p. Abbott; register OF deeds, Clint
Hoskins; probate Judge, George C..
Briggs clerk of courts, John Costigan;
auditor, Percy Coquillette; attorney,
]. H. Cole; superintendent, G.. H.
Grace; coroner, DR.. Wallace.
The greatly-increased volume Of
traffic along the Milwaukee road in
the vicinity of Vermillion necessi-
N..@N Inr Is T..
of that city, and men are at work put.
ting them down. The new steel is
fifteen pounds heavier per yard than
the old. 1t will be only a short time
before the company will discard the
light engines, now in use, and substi-
tute heavier ones.
Work on the sewer extension at
Watertown, is progressing slowly
owing to the scarcity of laborers, The
sum of 81 day is being paid for com.
mon laborers, but at that wage only
score of men can be found to dig
bitches, Thirty-one blocks of sewer
will be built this year. This with the
three miles of sewer built two years
ago will give WATERFOWL as good a
system as any town in the state.
Neither the Democrats nor Popu-
lists will hold a county convention in
Clay county this year. This was de-
cided at a meeting of the committees
of both parties some time ago, and
since then speculation has been rife
as to their intentions. Recently
call for Citizens" convention was
published. The date is set for Satur.
day, Oct. IL. This is a new deal in the
history Of Clay county politics. The
majority of the signers are either
Democrats or Populists.
The Republican county convention
of Fall River county nominated the
following For representative, e. T.
PIERCE; treasurer, Charles G. Grippen;
sheriff. G.. w. Forney; auditor, Harry
Hallworth; register OF deeds, p. J.
Franzen; clerk of courts, F. q. De-
motherly; states attorney, l.. s. Gull;
county judge, w. III. Wilson; superin.
tendent, Miss May Rich; coroner, II.
G. Cramer; commissioner, First dis.
trict,. w. w. Forney; Third district,
James Hallenbeck.
The Milwaukee railroad has settled
the claims OF farmers who suffered
from the prairie DIRE in Jerrauld coun.
ty on Sept. IS. The railroad gets OF
by total payment of $4,000. The
farmers allege that an engine of the
road started the fire. II burned a strip
mile wide and fourteen miles long.