The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-07-10
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South Dakota
General State News
- Photographed.

Eastern men haNeIeaSed the old cola
storage plant at Aberdeen, and MIN
shortly establish creamery there thu
third In that city.
II. c. Clark. the retired postmaster a,
Mitchell, was the recipient of a hand.
some gold-headed cane. The emplovas
| of the office made the presentation.
The Methodist church at Mitchell ia
practically closed, on account of re-.
pairs. The seating capacity will be In.
creased and new opera chairs supplied.
Three bids have been entered for tia
building of the 100000 hotel at Dead.
wood, and several other contractors ara
examining the plans and preparing bids,
Unbroken range horses sold at Pierre
for from sos to 81 per head in car lots.
II has been an excellent season for
them. One bunch of broken horses sold
at $50. The highest price for a singls
horse was $155.
The small fruit season has opened in
the Spearfish valley, and home grown
strawberries are on the market 1t has
been an excellent season for them, and
several growers have enormous crops
Of them TO be picked.
According to the present census fig
ures, Minneha ha county has a school
population of 1875; Lawrence, $3.50;
Turner, 4,727; Hutchinson, 4,679 This
Is the list of counties which secures
more than $4,000 of the fund.
William Hymer, a son OF Mrs. ]. 7.
McConaughy Of Spearfish, was recently
sentenced 20 five years in the peniten-
tiary from Sundance, Wyo., for raising
a check from IS to $50. He had made
his home In Spearfish for twenty years.
The two-year- daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. L. F. Walthall. residing near
Hereford, short distance from Rapid
City, died as the result of drinking ma
chine oil. What the oil contained is
not known, and an analysis is to be
made.
The Chicago & Northwestern coal
house, at Centerville, caught fire just
after the recent hurricane The derrick
and building were destroyed, but the
fire was stopped before it got into the
coal bins t. any extent. The cause Of
the fire is not known.a
The farmers of Sanborn county are
progressive lot, as they are just now
phone that connects several towns in
the county with about fifty farmers.
When the work Is completed there will
be aboul severity miles OF wire.
A. c. McCready, who was stationed
at Memo last year as a government
forest reserve ranger, has returned
from New Mexico, where he has been
on another government forest reserve,
and has taken a position In the employ
of the Homestake Mining company.
Fidelity Temple, Rathbone Sisters, Of
Terry. elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Nellie Ortiz NJ. e.
c.: Eva Pelham, L. s.; Marie Brown,
+. j.; Rica Anderson, NJ. OF T.; Ellen
Richards, NJ. of F.: Helen Estes, NJ. OF
r. and c.; Annie Moorish, p. of T.;
Carrie Tate, G. OF o. I.
The body of Sergt. John Peterson was
recently brought to Mitchell from the
Philippines. He died in that country
Nov. 26, 1901, as the result of wound
in the abdomen. He was a member OF
Company /, Eighth infantry. Funeral
services were held over the remains at
the Congregational church.
The poles for The Central City extern
sion of the Belt Electric Light Compa-
ny are arriving at Lead, and Central
will have electric lights by Aug. l. The
company is erecting a new building at
its station in Puma, to contain the new
plant that has Deen purchased.
The city council OF Aberdeen has just
added to the water system of the city
another artesian well. The well has
diameter of six inches, is 1,16j feet deep
and gives a fine flow of good water I'M
der pressure in the mains OF above sew
enty-fve pounds to the square inch IL
IS located in Wolverton, a suburb to the
southeast
Deadwooi people are Erieyed at the
news OF the death of Fred Zipp, Jr'' 10
st. Augustana hospital. Chicago, Oh
Bright's disease. The young man was
horn in Deadwood on Christmas day.
1879. He was a member of the app
Shoe company. His Illness dates oacA
over six months, The remains are on
the way TO Deadwood for interment
Five well known young men of Lead
have started on an overland trip "
Yellowstone Park, intending TO go IRON
there into Idaho, where they will spenu
several months prospecting and huh'-
ing. They are Harry Scholey, DR.. row.
or, DIR. Morton, Joseph Mcneil am =.
Hawley. They will stop in the Dis
Horn basin and look for gold and game
A G.. Smith. one of the pioneer min
ers and mill men of the Black HES, ter
egraphs friends that he is on his way
home from Central America. He mas
been in charge of a mine for larse
company for several years, and recent
ly came out for the purpose of buying a
twenty-stamp mill. His company ha nS
a bonanza, and IL cleaning up $lV'""
with a three-stamp mill.
One of the results Of the recent VIM
storm in Yankton was the upsettins W
the fine George II. Hand monument ~
the Yankton cemetery. The beau'iiu'
column was the gift of the South DaNo
Ia Masonic grand lodge, and was one '"
the finest in the cemetery. IL STOOD %
q base Of solid masonry about two re-
high and was well proportioned a"u
solid in every way. IT was tipped o'
and broken in two pieces.
Yankton college has elected to tn0
OF mathematics and a
tronomy, made vacant by the reslghh
lion Of Prof. George w. Nash, VINO -
the Republican nominee for state su
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