The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-03-13
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South Dakota
C.r.r, State News
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General
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The Salvation Army officers from
Yankton will hold meetings in the NJ.
L. church at Tyndal. this week.
Or. S. J. Hadley is dead at Hot
Springs. He moved there only a few
months ago from Arlington, Nsb-
Mrs. William Mercer died at Spear
fish, aged seventy-two years. She had
son at Lead and daughter at Hulett.
Wyo.
Mrs. Dora f. Richmond. wife of IT.
wing Richmond, end a daughter of w.
M. Blair. died at Rapid City. after a
short illness.
Letters are being received at Sturgis
almost daily from men in the East who
want good farm lands. A boom is ex-
pected in Meade county.
A creamery will be opened at Fred
erick in a short time. The stock is all
subscribed and the machinery will be
on the ground in a few days.
The hearing in the case of DR.. Noble
against DIR. Martin, for failure to re-
port smallpox case, resulted in the
defendant being bound over.
A. c. Nelson was sentenced, at Park
er to five years ard twenty months
imprisonment for forging the name Gf
Theodore Xix to a note for 5000.
The Deadwood police found John
OConnor, railroad grader. lying in
the snow dead of apoplexy. He was
once a member of the Illinois senate.
Several car loads of fine horses are
being picked up in Brown county and
Skinned IN
realizing handsomely from their blood
ed stock.
About April Is the voters of Madison
viii pass on the question of issuing
$4,000 worth of bonds for the erection
| OF large school building or two small
er ones.
John Anderson OF Clark county is
| under arrest at Webster charged with
horse stealing. The horse was found
In livery stable, where Anderson had
traded it.
Sioux Falls Elks are looking forward
with great interest to April 9 and 10.
which have been set as the dates for
the dedication of the new $50 900 lodge
and club building.
E. SuEderlin, an implement dealer at
Tyndall, was bitten on the leg a few
days ago by a dog. Blood poisoning
set in, and he has been a great sufferer.
but is now recovering.
One thousand head of young cattle
| were purchased by the Western
Ranches company, locally known as
| the WV cattle QUIT, at Denver. and
shipped to Belle Fourche.
Some Burlington cars loaded with
coal fell through a trestle at Hot
Springs, and ID. c. Taylor was almost
instantly killed.
The board of health OF Canistota has
ordered the closing of the opera house
there until further notice, on account
OF the prevalence of smallpox. This
action is endorsed by the people,
Amos Allbe of Canton went to Lin
coin county five years ago and bought
quarter-section of land for 49, 500, or
about $22 per lcre. He has recently
sold that farm for $500. or $3.50 per
acre.
Miss Jessie Rhinehart of Elk Point
and Bert Cleland of Vermillion were
married recently. Both were popular
young people in Union and Clay coun-
ties. Their home will be in the latter
county.
One Yankton real estate firm has
purchased 1000 acres of land in Auro-
IA county, 5000 acres in Faulk county
and $500 acres in Hand county within
the last ten days. This land cost about
$4,000.
The towns OF Iona and Condor, In
Lyman county are engaged in a strug-
gle for supremacy. They are only a
few miles apart. Condor is a new
town, and is striving to wipe fits COM
petitor off the map.
In order to quiet title. the sturris
waterworks, one OF the best in the
state, was sold to C. w. Carpenter of
Deadwood for $4,000. No chanre In
the general management or ownership,
however, will occur.
Fairview business men are negotiat-
Ing with an experienced newspaper
man to establish a newspaper at that
place with good prospects of success.
The opening for a good newspaper Is
said to be an excellent one.
Robert McGregor has sold his opera
house and home at Egan, and in a
couple of weeks will leave with his
. AoihAiy Iva ipNiiS HOuItIlt, III the Black
Hills, where he has q lucrative position
and is also interested in the mines.
The Madison council has amended
the billiard and POOL ordinance, allow
ing young men between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-one to play the
games, upon permit OF the parent filed
with the proprietor OF the billiard hall.
The fcur-year-old child of p. ]. Ram
sey OF Lake county is dead. 1t had
been playing in the fire at the stove
when its clothing caught fire, and its
arm and side were so badly burned be-
fore help came to its aid that death re-
suited.
While driving to Aberdeen to preach
the funeral sermon of Mrs. w. II.
Stiles, Rev. George Vetter of Ravinia
township had a runaway and was
thrown out of his buggy, striking the
ground on his head and receiving seri-
Gus injuries.
John McDougal and Ben Holt OF
Mitchell, who have been engaged as
machinist and boilermaker in the Mil
waukee roundhouse there for abou.
twenty years, have bought an extensive
machine shop in Sioux City, and will
leave the employ of the road
J. II. Hanson is closing real estate
transactions involving the transfer of
three Yankton county farms. One of
them is 100 acres in size and the others